Submission: Ice cream company filter

Now you’ve explored a range of different features you can add to an AR filter app, you’re ready to create your own app in response to a project brief. A project brief is a document that summarizes a project and outlines its core requirements.

As an AR creator, clients will often provide you with a project brief. Then it is up to you and your team to build what has been requested. If you’re a hobbyist creator, briefs can still be very useful — they’re a great way to summarize the goals and requirements of your project.

In this challenge, you’ll create an AR face filter experience for an imaginary ice cream company.

A project brief operates as a single source of truth for everyone working on a project. Without one, you’re almost certain to have misunderstandings, inefficiencies, and frustrations during development.

This learning project is designed to simulate the experience of working with a project brief.

Before you explore the project brief for this challenge, learn from our established creators about the role project briefs play in the industry:

A local ice cream company is creating an app to advertise its grand opening. You’ve been tasked with creating a fun AR filter that can be included in the app.

You’ve been given the following brief:

“We’d like the filter to be fun for all ages to use. Our company offers practically every popular ice cream flavor and topping, and we hope to become well known for our large waffle cones. Our only requirement is that we’d like the filter to fit within the company color palette. We’re located next to a beach that is well known for paddle boarding and snorkeling. Our founder has a pet tortoise that will have an enclosure at the shop so people can visit with them!”

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The company color palette

The hexadecimal (hex) codes for these colors are as follows:

• Pink: #ffaebc
• Blue: #a0e7e4
• Green: #b3f8c8
• Yellow: #fbe7c6

Below is an example of the type of project you might make to fulfill these requirements, though yours could be completely different.

To successfully complete this challenge, you must meet the following requirements:

1. Design a face filter that matches the mood of the ice cream shop. The company has given you a lot of creative freedom, but remember the following two key requirements:

• The filter must use the company color palette.
• The filter must be appropriate for all ages.

2. The filter can look however you like, but must include at least two of the following features:

• A 3D mesh component
• An animation
• A face texture
• A particle effect
• A post-processing effect

3. The filter assets can be created by you, found on the Unity Asset Store, or be modified assets from earlier projects.

After you’ve fulfilled the requirements, please submit and share your project! Before you do, though, make sure you’ve thoroughly tested it — or even better, ask a friend or family member to test it too.

Follow these instructions to submit your project:

1. Take a screenshot of your project or take a screen-recording of the filter.

2. Add a submission title and description. Make sure to include the video recording. If you have additional details to share about your process or the project that you have created, you can share them in the description too.

3. Set who can view your submission:

• Public: Anyone who views this tutorial.
• Private: Just you.

Note: If you aren’t comfortable recording your own face for the submission, you can point the camera at this illustrated face instead. AR Foundation registers this illustration as a valid face and will display your filters.

4. Select Save and preview submission.

5. Check your submission preview and then complete the CAPTCHA test and select Submit and continue.

We highly recommend that you comment on at least one other creator's submission. Did they successfully complete the challenge? What do you like about the project? What would be a cool new feature they might consider adding?