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How To Create Custom AR Filters With TikTok’s Effect House

... Effect House offers a series of tutorials with asset kits to help users get started with creating each of the types of AR effects the app supports. From there, users can swap out original 2D and 3D assets, and various interactions can be programmed with visual scripting—no coding required. The effects available include hand tracking, body tracking, head tracking, face masking and morphing, action-driven character animation, facial animations inset within a virtual scene and randomizer 2D selection effects. ...

The hand tracking functionality allows users to map objects onto each finger and add interactions such as animations and toggling visibility based on gestures. Body tracking supports things like virtual clothing mapped onto the user's body. Similarly, head tracking allows items such as animated virtual hats to appear on the user's head with occlusion. The face mask effect is tracked onto the user's facial features, while the face morphing effect can distort each facial feature. These head and face tracking effects also support gesture control, such as open and closed mouth as an interaction trigger. The remaining AR effects for TikTokare somewhat different, including the character driver, which allows the user to control an animated virtual character based on their movements. The facial inset effect composites the user's face into an entirely virtual animated scene. Finally, the 2D randomizer quickly rotates through a selection of 2D images so that the user can select one at random. ...

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