Augmented Reality Development
Through both my career and personal exploration, I have fallen in love with social AR development, which combines my passions for social media and design into a new and innovative format taking the creative (and business) world by storm. Since publishing my first AR effect in February 2023, I’ve garnered more than 4 million views across my work. Below you’ll find a selection of my favorite pieces.
Artist’s note: I create my AR Lenses under the username “World Wide Deb 2.0.” I developed this digital drag persona to explore ideas of AR-enhanced performance, digital identity, and gender expression online. This is an ongoing art piece and will continue to take shape as my development capabilities expand.
This Lens was my first foray into the world of augmented reality development, and I’ve been in 💖 with the craft ever since. I shakily extruded a 3D heart mesh in Blender and animated the Lens using a tween script that reacts when the user raises their eyebrows.
💞 Try the Lens on Snapchat here. XOXO, Gossip Girl
Putting my own spin on a roulette Lens, I wanted to create a paper fortune teller in AR that brought out the nostalgia of creating your own paper fortune teller to pass the time with friends in school. This Lens was the first time I used texture painting to create a handmade visual effect. It also uses a complex system of multiple tween scripts that allow for multiple selection points within the Lens experience.
🔮 Forget Miss Cleo — get your fortune read here instead.
Inspired by the iconic best friends forever ring from SpongeBob SquarePants, I created a 3D hand-tracking Lens that enables users to try on the ring themselves. Then, using behavior scripts, I was able to trigger the ring’s motion when a user starts recording to encourage content capture and sharing.
This Lens was featured in Lenslist’s July 2023 Lens Selections, a curated list of innovative AR on Snapchat.
💍 Try the BFF Ring here, and don’t forget to share it with your besties.
Who doesn’t love a good Lizzie McGuire Movie headset microphone moment? This is first Lens I developed to track multiple faces so that you can belt out the perfect duet with your bestie.
🎤 Why not take a crazy chance and try the Lens here?
It’s giving Mike Wazowski — if he slayed. As you can see 👁, my 3D mesh sculpting has improved compared to the hearts at the top of this page. I sculpted the eyeball and lashes, added blend shapes, and hooked up my 3D creation to an expression script so that it blinks in real time with the user’s blinks… er, winks?
👁 Eye think you would like trying the Lens here.
Who said disco was dead?! Using geometry nodes in Blender (major shoutout to this tutorial!) I created this disco ball Lens to encourage users to add their favorite music to their videos and dance their hearts out.
🪩 Get your boogie on here.