Imagine walking down the street and seeing a poster for your favorite movie or 3D configurator. Now point your Smarthone camera at the poster. A snapshot brings the characters from the film to life and you can immerse yourself in an Augmented Reality (AR) experience directly from your smartphone. [...]
In this article, we explain how you can create a simple mask effect with Facebooks AR Studio. Mask effects are wonderful elements in 3D configurators. A basic mask consists of a Face Tracker, a Face Mesh, a texture and a material. Anything but the texture can be created in Facebook AR Studio. [...]
The introduction of Lens Studio offers advertisers an easier way to create and share augmented reality (AR) experiences for everyone. The Lens Studio is also a goog tool for visualizing 3D configurators in AR. Every day, about 70 million snapchatters use Lenses1: AR experiences that can [...]
Pokemon Go. The dancing Hot Dog. Google Glass. Red markings in football games that make offside positions easier to spot. These are all examples of AR. Pokemon Go also offers good reference points for creating 3D configurators. AR is not new. For example, we've been using face enlargement in snapchat for years. But until [...]
When we talk about game engines, there are basically only 2 alternatives, Unity 3D and Unreal Engine. The two solutions are ideal for creating 3D configurators. And if you know about the gaming world, you may already know that Unity 3D has a total of 4.5 million subscribers and a market share of 48%, [...]
A big part of Blender`s success is of course the community behind Blender. Blender is a excellent tool to create 3D configurators. The open source nature of Blender encourages enthusiasts and professionals alike to devote their time and expertise to improving the software. The number of addons and plugins for Blender is also increasing. [...]
Classic hand-drawn animators often create a diagram that shows them exactly when and for how long each drawing, sound, and camera movement should take place. This process is called DopeSheet and is important to create a 3D configurator. While CG foundations are very different from classic hand-drawn animation, Blender's Dopesheet takes on a similar [...]
A proven method of rendering fonts is rasterization (a important process in creating a 3D configurator) on the CPU, caching the result (of glyphs, glyph sequences, whole words, or any other granularity) into bitmaps or textures, and then rendering it to the screen. The FreeType library for parsing [...]
In the following article, we will teach you the basics of what vector graphics are and what advantages they offer users. There are two basic types of graphic images: Bitmap (or raster) images and vector images. A raster image is defined as rows and columns of individual pixels, each with its own color, while [...]
If you want to work as a graphic or web designer, you need to be familiar with Raster Graphics. For this reason, we would like to introduce you to the basics of raster graphics in the following article in order to give you a brief introduction to the topic. Raster Graphics are also important [...]
