Head Morph Generation

Head Morph is a powerful tool for generating and customizing 3D heads for creating Lenses. It uses AI to generate a 3D head, which can then be driven by facial expressions, similar to Face Morph.

This guide will walk you through all the features and provide tips and hacks for getting the most out of your 3D head creations.

Getting Started

Launching Head Morph

1. Navigate to the GenAI Suite in the top right corner of Lens Studio.
2. In the panel, select Head Morph.

User Interface Overview

• Create new Model Toolbar: Contains tools for creating and editing models.
• Gallery: Displays all Head Morphs you created and their statuses.
• Search: Search through the created assets.

Creating a Head Morph

Prompt

• Input your own prompt: Provide a text description of the asset that you’re looking to create.
• Use the ‘Surprise me’ feature: Tap Surprise me to use a random prompt.

Intensity settings

• Intensity settings regulate the level of deformation of your Head Morph.

Generation

• Press Generate when you are ready.
• Check the Status bar for info.

Head Morph Preview and Editing

Change Geometry and Texture

• You can adjust the Asset by changing Geometry or Texture. Add more details to the prompt field and adjust intensity.
• Press Update Asset and wait for the result. The new effect will be created and displayed in the Gallery view.

Delete Head Morph

• You can also delete the Asset.

Create a Lens

Import to Project

• Press Import to Project Button to start creating a Lens with your Head Morph.

Preview the Result

You can see a preview of the Lens your are building in the preview panel. Once satisfied with the result save your project and push the Lens for testing on Snapchat. Take a look at the Pairing to Snapchat guide to test your Lens on device, and the Publishing guide to learn more about sharing your creation.

Prompt Tips and Hacks

Words and Phrases

• Context Words and Phrases: It is best to divide long sentence descriptions into context phrases of 2-3 words separated by a comma symbol.
  • Works best: 1 human head, big sunglasses, red curly hair, realistic portrait, green lizard skin, good quality, highres, hipoly model, snake teeth, opened mouth
  • Works worse: Human that have green lizard skin and red curly hair wears big sunglasses he also has white snake teeth his mouth is opened also make it high quality 3D hipoly model

Descriptors

• Character: Mention the character you want to create.
  • Example: rhino, medieval king, clown, alien, samurai, robot, baby penguin
• Features: Mention face and head features that you want to emphasize.
  • Example: horn, fur, spiky hair, huge nose, big eyes, elf ears, facial tattoo, snake teeth, opened mouth
• Details: Add descriptors for accessories and special details.
  • Example: wig, crown, plague mask, wizard hat, pilot helmet, glasses
• Emotions: Mention emotions if needed.
  • Example: smiling, angry, cute, excited, sad, scared
• Style: Mention style if needed.
  • Example: realistic, cartoon, steampunk, anime, retro, minimalistic
• Color: While using color words can provide more control, too many color phrases can cause visual dismiss issues.
  • Examples:
    • Two colors are interpreted correctly: Prompt: 1 human head, big sunglasses, red curly hair, realistic portrait, green lizard skin, good quality, highres, hi poly model, snake teeth, opened mouth

      Front View	3/4 View

    • Too many color words can be mixed: Prompt: 1 orange human head, big yellow sunglasses, red curly hair, realistic portrait, violet eyes, green lizard skin, good quality, highres, hi poly model, white snake teeth, opened mouth

      Front View	3/4 View

Advanced prompting

• You can use the weight and the importance of words to strengthen their meaning. To do this, you can put a word or a phrase in oval brackets and set a weight between 1 and 1.5 inside: “(phrase:weight)”. Omitting the weight will automatically set it to 1.1
  • Examples:
    • Basic model with all parameters to value 1 (optionally hide): Prompt: 1 human head, big sunglasses, red curly hair, realistic portrait, green lizard skin, good quality, highres, hi poly model, snake teeth, opened mouth

      Front View	3/4 View

    • More red color at top of the head and higher lizard skin details with weights: Prompt: 1 human head, big sunglasses, ((red curly hair)), realistic portrait, (green lizard skin:1.2), good quality, highres, hi poly model, snake teeth, opened mouth

      Front View	3/4 View

Special words

• High-poly: To increase the level of detail.

  Base	Modified

• 3D printed: For geometric models with minimal overhangs.

  Base	Modified

• Anatomy: For detailed human or animal models.

  Base	Modified

• Hyper-realistic: To increase the realistic natural effect.

  Base	Modified

• Biomorphic: To create smooth abstract shapes.

  Base	Modified

Order of Words

• Weight of words: The words at the start of your prompt have the most influence and should fully reflect the concept.
  • Works best: 1 human head, big sunglasses, red curly hair, realistic portrait, green lizard skin, good quality, highres, hi poly model, snake teeth, opened mouth
  • Doesn’t work as well: highres, hi-poly, good quality 3d model, snake teeth, green lizard skin, curls, red hair, human head