Instagram Filters + Spark AR
Everything you need to create your own augmented reality filters for Instagram and Facebook Camera using Spark AR.
Purchase this course for $149 $89.40
with 40% off, last chance!
Or... get a discount by building a bundle with our learning paths!
SuperHi has collaborated with some of the world's best creatives to produce 13 different filters which we'll show you not only exactly how they were made but how to add many different variations to them.
In this course, you'll learn everything you need to create your own augmented reality filters for Instagram and Facebook Camera using Spark AR from scratch.
From working with textures and materials, to adding your own interactions to trackers within the Patch Editor, to testing and launch, we'll give you everything you need to create your own filters.
What you’ll learn
How to work with Spark AR to make filters for Instagram and Facebook Camera.
Working with textures, materials and animation sequences to create your own augmented reality experiences.
Using the Patch Editor to add interactive elements and triggers to face and plane trackers.
Working within a 3D environment and how to add 3D-rendered models to your project.
How to extract and draw textures to create your own samplers and color shaders.
How to test, submit and launch your own filters to Instagram and Facebook
7+ hours of video lessons – Practical, go-at-your-own pace learning
Access the community – Join our Slack and connect with thousands of SuperHi students and alumni
Continued help – Help from our expert teachers and educators with years of experience in the industry
Real world projects – Projects and code that you can alter and remix to add to your own sites and portfolio
Resources – Resources to get you started and going post-course
This course is aimed at creative people who are interested in learning how to make augmented reality filters for Instagram or Facebook Camera.
While there are a few concepts that may be familiar to designers or coders during this course, this is a beginner course so you don't need any previous experience of AR (augmented reality), 3D, design or coding to join this. All you need is a creative mind!
Want to try our teaching before signing up? Join our free 'Plan, Design + Code Your First Website' course!
Syllabus
New romantic
In the first project simulating a bold and romantic makeup look, we explore Spark AR and Figma, the two programs we'll be using together to make filter effects!
Color Splitter
In the final project, we will take everything we've learned to make our own reusable patch assets to split out the red, green and blue color channels to remix them into a new color effect.
Super LUT
Who needs VSCO? Look Up Tables are the perfect way to add our own color grading and tones to our filters. In this project, we'll talk about how to use a 3D look up table (or LUT) to map our camera pixels to a reference texture.
Warhol
Time for soup! Just like Andy, we dig repetition so in the Warhol filter we repeat ourselves over and over and over again by taking our camera texture and multiplying it!
Cone Head
Ever wanted to look like a cutie with a cone on their head? Now's your chance. In Cone Head, we add an ice cream cone to our heads, add facial distortion and pitch-shift our input audio.
Popout
In Popout, we layer up several masks with alpha textures and an extracted face texture, then hook them all up to the Patch Editor to pop out when we're surprised!
Metal Mask
In this lesson, we talk about metal materials and how we make them reflective. We also add a loop animation so we can spin our lighting to show off our 3d metal mask.
Happy vs Chill
We discover the Patch Editor for the first time to make our 2d text change from Happy to Chill whenever we smile!
Gradient Sampler
A common technique in filter effects is to use a reference texture when it comes to changing our color schemes. In this project, we'll add a gradient texture so as to sample colors based on their real-world lightness.
Duotone
How do we play with color when it comes to our camera? In this lesson, we'll take our camera texture, take every pixel and change its color to something brand new!
Bingo
We don't always want to look at our face. We may want to look into the real world. In this project, we'll talk about the alternative trackers, plane and fixed target, and add particle systems to them both!
Which Coding Language Are You?
The SuperHi spin on a popular filter... find out exactly how the What X Are You filters are actually made using a combination of pulses and switches!
Eggs Is Eggs
In our effects, we may want to cut out our users from the camera, and add them to an eggy background. In this project, we'll talk about camera segmentation, animation sequence and how to change backgrounds on tap.
Your instructors
Our instructors have decades of professional experience, have spoken at international conferences and have won countless web design awards.
Rik Lomas
Rik (he/him) is a Mancunian coder, teacher and CEO of SuperHi. He was the co-founder of Steer (a code school in London) and has taught several thousand people to code. He is a bit too old to be posting memes on our social media and recently featured as a Sour Patch Kid in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
You might also like...
Free resources to get you started
View our growing collection of guides for creatives, featuring practical insights and advice on careers, making, and working.
FAQs
If you're comfortable working with a computer, then yes!
Learning new and improving your existing skills is about being patient with yourself, building up your knowledge, developing confidence through practice, and with time. We've seen our students around the world do it, and so can you.
Our beginner courses are designed for people new to the subjects. They grow your understanding so you grasp everything you need to start applying your new skills and will also give you a path to dig deeper if you want.
Our teaching style is practical and straightforward and you'll have support from our expert instructors and community for as long as you need.
Still not sure if learning to code is right for you? Take our free Plan, Design + Code Your First Website course or dive into our First Steps to Code guide.
We have quite a lot of students that join us and have done some coding before but want to build up confidence and techniques.
In order to help get you where you'd like to be, have a look at the sites below to see which course you can make from scratch, without any help at all.
Baker & Brown – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, don't worry! We recommend you start off with our Foundation, HTML, CSS + Javascript course.
Jenna Buchholz – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, it's all good! We recommend you start off with our Javascript for Designers course.
Super Shapes – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, have no fear! We recommend you start off with our Advanced CSS + Javascript course.
All of our courses are unlocked and available for students to start their learning and go at their own pace. We do have a suggested weekly structure for some courses, which helps some students stay on track. However, you're definitely free to jump ahead or take as long as you need!
As soon as you checkout and pay, you'll have all the courses you paid for, in your student dashboard available to you immediately. If you're busy and can't start right away - no worries, you can pick it back up later.
At SuperHi, we provide online courses designed for creatives and made for everyone. Take a course on Code, Design, or Project Management 😊
The proof is in the pudding! Our students go on to make their own beautiful sites and some of their stunning work have won digital design awards. Take a look at our Hall of Fame to see some of the sites our students have built, many of which had only taken our Foundation course!
If you're a SuperHi student or alumni and would like to submit your project to be included in our Hall of Fame, please feel free to submit it here.
Yes, we do! All you'd need to do is send the links to your completed projects over to hi@superhi.com at the end of your course. We will review them, provide feedback if necessary, and then issue your certificate!
All our course videos are taught using the SuperHi Editor, but you'll be able to apply everything you'll learn to a code editor of your choice. Many students go on to use other code editors, for example, if their workplace has an existing standard.
Our SuperHi Editor is designed with many smart features to help avoid wasted time looking for things like a typo or missing bracket (which is why we made it!), but the same code concepts apply to any editor.
Yes! You can use your own custom third-party domains and connect them to your sites built with our SuperHi Editor. Additionally, all SuperHi sites come with free SSL Certificates for added protection.
Here's more information on how to connect a third-party domain