Snapchat’s Bitmoji avatars are now three-dimensional and animated

Snapchat’s quirky Bitmoji avatars now come with their own three-dimensional animations.

By tapping on your phone’s screen, you can now project a 3D cartoon of yourself into the real world, where you can then have it ride a skateboard, drink a cup of coffee, or do yoga, among other actions. After creating an animation, you can then send it to a friend or post it to your story. The move reflects Snapchat’s continued investment in both Bitmoji and what it calls “world lenses,” features where its rivals have made inroads but not quite caught up. (Snap says that about a third of its daily users play with lenses.) Bitmoji, whose parent company Snap bought last year, let users reimagine themselves as personalized emojis, which can be used both within Snapchat and in traditional text messages. World lenses, which project 3D animations onto the real world, became a minor phenomenon this year when Snapchat’s animated hot dog lens went viral.                                                                                                                  https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16303504/snapchat-bitmoji-world-lenses-animation-gabsee