Zepeto—3D avatar creation social media

Recently, a Korean 3D avatar creation app has been popular on major social media. This is another technique by South Korea’s Naver Corporation following the Snow Camera app. This app is mainly a combination of 3D characters and online chat. 3D avatars are often used in video games, virtual communities and the fashion industry. Microsoft Kinect’s 3D body avatar creation is one of the first products (Berdic et al. 2017, p.29). The first virtual community game “The Sims” created with 3D avatars. However this is just a stand-alone game. Zepeto allows you to create your own 3D avatar that can be used almost anywhere. In short, Zepeto is an app that allows you to create 3D versions yourself. You can design styles and make your own emoji. It is like the combination of Snapchat’s Bitmoji, Samsung’s AR Emoji and Apple’s Memoji.

How to use ZEPETO

ZEPETO uses portrait capture technology to create faces that look like your own avatar. You can also create models based on your own preferences through data mediation. You can choose your favorite clothes, hair color and skin tone according to your preferences. You can also make up and choose accessories such as glasses and headwear. This belongs to your avatar is made. In addition to designing 3D avatar, you can also design a warm home for your virtual avatar. You can also customize your Zepeto space by adding furniture, plants and artwork to use when friends or other players want to visit. This design is a bit like Tencent’s LIMI Show and QQ Show. QQ show is an avatar application in Chinese social app. It is a feature in the QQ chat app. It can be displayed on social media through a personalized virtual avatar. After designing the avatar and setting up the Zepeto space, you can share it with your friends. You can create photos and make emoticons with your friends’ avatars. You can also chat with your friends. 

The app’s personalized design has attracted many young people, and it has become the number one app in terms of downloads almost immediately. Not only can you create photos and emoticons, but you can also share them with friends on WeChat, Instagram, Facebook, twitter, and almost all social media. This app seamlessly interfaces with other social media. This is a good way to help communicate, perhaps the most popular way of communication this year.

Of course, this app is not boring, you can buy your favorite clothes and accessories by using gold coins, and you can unlock new actions by completing tasks. So how do you earn gold coins? You can earn gold coins through daily tasks and taking photos. Logging in the system every day will also send some gold coins. There are three “daily tasks”, two of which only need to wait 5 minutes and 10 minutes to get gold coins. The other one needs to watch AD to get it. Ads are usually 30-second promotional ads. This is why this app does not require customers to spend money on operations. The app maintains normal operations by placing ads. But users can still get coins quickly by top up money to unlock more clothes, expressions and movements. In addition to these ways of getting coins, users can also get it through the game “Flying Ghost”, which is based on “Flappy Bird”.

Like other social media app, Zepeto has a six-digit code for each user. They are made up of letters and numbers.  This is proof of identity on this app. Users can add friends with real-life friends through this code. In addition to this, there is also a feature called “Photo Booth”, which is the main reason you see Zepeto on social media. It allows you to take photos of 3D characters yourself or with a group of friends. You can even customize it by adding a realistic background. If you want to meet people online, you can head to the “Zepeto City street” and meet other “Zepetos”.

This app was just launched in December this year, and many features are still being developed. I hope it can lead the trend of social media and make this platform better. Download this app quickly, add me as a friend, let’s make an emoticon! Code : 5R4V6A

Reference list

 BERDIC,N, DRAGAN, D, MIHIC, S & ANISIC, Z 2017, ‘Creation and Usage of 3D FullBody Avatars’, Annals of the Faculty of Engineering Hunedoara – InternationalJournal of Engineering, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 29–34, retrieved 10 December 2018,<http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=121771746&site=eds-live&scope=site&gt;.