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Creating and Designing with Spark AR (edX)

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Creating and Designing with Spark AR (edX)

This course is designed for creative professionals eager to learn fundamental AR design principles and AR creation skills using Spark AR Studio. Welcome to this Spark AR Studio introductory course. In this course, you will learn all the fundamentals to get you going on your very own Spark AR journey!

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Whether you are looking to create effects for yourself or decide to take your new learned skill into the professional space, this course will give you the tools to create face effects, world effects, and target tracking effects and we will also teach more advanced techniques to customize your effects using the patch editor. By the end of the course, you will have the basic skills to create and publish effects to your own or your client's Facebook or Instagram accounts. Your instructor is Kym Fiala, a professional AR content developer with years of real-world experience in the field of graphic design and AR who will help you to take your skills to the next level.
This course is part of the Spark AR for Beginners Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

  • Use plane and target tracking to augment the world around you.
  • Apply interaction patches to speed up development.
  • Extend your AR effects with scripting.

Prerequisites:
Course 1 completion, Getting Started with Spark AR, highly recommended.

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