Snapchat’s zany features, just keep getting zanier.
After the terribly weird and slightly addictive face swapping feature, Snapchat’s latest is pinning emojis into your videos and pictures. You can scale the emojis up or down to size and the clincher – have them even move with the subject.
You might not be able to make stuff like this just yet:
But you can put together hilarious GIFs like this:
And this:
The feature called “3D Stickers” by Snapchat was launched last week, but until today was available only to android users, TechCrunch reported.
While inserting the emojis into the pictures isn’t hard, getting them to move is.
So for starters make sure your snapchat is updated. Then record your video, make sure the moving object you want to pin the emoji on, is in frame at some point and isn’t moving too fast.
Once that’s done, click on the folded paper icon at the top of your screen and choose an emoji. You can pinch and zoom to increase the size.
Tap and hold the emoji you just added, if you do this right, the video will pause at the current frame, now just drag and drop it on top of whatever you want to track.
Once that’s done, move your finger away and you should see a spinning circle indicating that Snapchat is calculating the tracking. If the circle doesn’t show up it means something went wrong.
You can use as many emojis as you want, just drag and drop them on the other things in your video. Your subject also doesn't need to be in frame at all times, when whatever you are tracking leaves the frame so does its attached emoji.
The possibilities are endless.
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