Instagram & Facebook AR Filters
Collection of augmented reality filters for Instagram and Facebook developed with Spark AR. From educational experiences for children to physics simulations and custom shaders.
🏆 Tales for the Future — Facebook Developer Circles Winner
Regional Winner – 3rd Place at the 2019 Developer Circles from Facebook Community Challenge.
"Think about the first time you heard an audio story while you were a kid… or watched a cartoon on an old time slide projector… that childhood feeling will be experienced on a different level by today's kids. They will get to watch as suddenly animated characters pop out of their books."
🇲🇽 Contigo en la Distancia — Gobierno de México
Filter selected as part of the Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México's 'Contigo en la Distancia' cultural programme.
Published filters — Features implemented
• Texture animation (Mp4 → GIF → optimized spritesheet)
• Head/neck occluder
• LUTs (Photoshop .cube → PNG)
• 2D Emitters
• Face paint & retouching
• Facial deformation with blendshapes
• Body segmentation
• Lighting and animations
• Native UI Picker
Unpublished filters — Features implemented
• Multi-layer 2D occluder
• Device motion
• Plane tracking (pinch, drag) — Mexico City subway map
• Shader scripting (symmetric filter)
• Shader patches (chromatic aberration)
• Parallax effect
• HSV/LUTs without PNG files
• SDF & 3D emitters
In exploration
• Mobile face tracker with animations
• Custom 3D objects with blendshapes
• 2D physics with Matter.js
• 3D physics with Cannon.js
• Kaleidoscope shaders