Ok, Snapchat's new brand partnership is pretty cute: Bitmoji will wear Ralph Lauren You can shop the look IRL too.

That said, Elite Daily reached out to a Snap Inc. spokesperson who gave us a quick rundown on how to animate your 3-D Bitmoji with Snapchat World Lenses. Here's a step-by-step guide 3-D newbies!

Snapchat has refreshed its user profiles to now include 3D Bitmoji avatars, marking the latest development in the company’s experiments with 3D technology. The new avatars, which begin rolling ...

Give it a second to populate and your 3D Bitmoji should appear. Move it around, make it bigger or smaller, and watch it do all sorts of things. You can send to your friends or post it to your story.

You can also adjust the sizing and placement of your animated Bitmoji character. (Although in the example above, I was pretty happy with the positioning Snapchat defaulted to.) ...

Last year, Google released a new sticker pack on Allo that allowed users to create Bitmoji-like avatars for themselves by simply snapping a selfie. Now, Google is bringing this feature to Gboard.

But Bitmoji’s lean staff designs at breakneck speed, releasing at least six fresh Bitmoji every week, with each new set hitting a variety of emotional notes. But fans are always hungry for more.

Pretty much everything about it/them. The one thing that’s good about Bitmoji is that the user really can easily customize a representative avatar, which is good for inclusion, even if the ...

But under Snap, they’ve become a pretty fun way to communicate, either within Snap or using the Bitmoji keyboard in Messages on iOS or G Board on Android.

Earlier in August, Bitmoji released a Chrome extension that lets you insert the avatars pretty much anywhere across the web. The extension is compatible with Twitter, Facebook, Slack, and most ...

The company plans to integrate Bitmoji across games on PC, consoles, and mobile, though, so this will be pretty far-reaching. Whether they'll be popular remains to be seen, of course.