Snapchat Cameo edits your face into videos
Reported today on TechCrunch
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Snapchat Cameo edits your face into videos
Snapchat is preparing to launch a big new feature that uses your selfies to replace the faces of people in videos you can then share. It's essentially a simplified way to Deepfake you into GIFs. Cameos are an alternative to Bitmoji for quickly conveying an emotion, reaction, or silly situation in Snapchat messages.
Some French users received a test version of the feature today, as spotted by Snap enthusiast @Mtatsis.
Snapchat Cameo makes you the star of videos
TechCrunch reached out to Snap, which confirmed Cameo's existence, and that it's currently testing in limited availability in some international markets. The company provided this statement: "Cameos aren't ready to take the stage yet, but stay tuned for their global debut soon!"
@snapologie Cette fonctionnalité viens d'apparaître sur mon Snap ça s'appelle Caméos pic.twitter.com/F8bIrhbptb
- Arthur 🎈 (@gartr268) December 6, 2019
Vous avez Cameo sur snap ou je suis la seule? Je pleure de rire pic.twitter.com/G7E3ZKAilz
- Aca (•‿•) (@toddflanderrs) December 7, 2019
C'est la meilleure invention que snap est jamais faite #cameo #snapchat pic.twitter.com/EcRQmGoFsV
- FiLiPpinHo 🏴☠️⚪️⚫️QLF (@gregv_) December 7, 2019
With Cameo, you'll take a selfie to teach Snapchat what you look like. Then you choose if you want a vaguely male or female body type (no purposefully androgenous option).
Cameo then lives inside the Bitmoji button in the Snapchat messaging keyboard. Snapchat has made a bunch of short looping video clips with sound that you can choose from. Snapchat will then stretch and move your selfie to create different facial reactions that Cameo can apply to actors' heads in the videos. You just pick one of these videos that now s