How to make an Animated Avatar
Hey! Welcome to the land of Animated Avatars. Or gifs. Or animated anything. Or whatever.
When I first created my first tutorial explaing how to make an animated avatar, I had no idea that it would get as many hits as it did. I also had no idea that I'd have so many people emailing me with questions or problems resulting from using my tutorial (I SAID I couldn't explain things very well!). And I also didn't expect that my knowledge of Photoshop would increase so much as to make my instructions old, obsolete, and useless. While I haven't made making an animated avatar completely hassle-free and time-effecient, I have streamlined it to the point where, if you know what you're doing, you can complete the process without nearly as many tears and frustrations.
So have fun! If I still haven't gotten it right this time around and you're still lost, send me an email and I'll see what I can do.
Enjoy!
Note: All my tutorials are explained using Adobe Photoshop CS and Imageready, although there are a varity of other programs that can do the same thing. Some of the tutorials may also require a seperate video edting program, such as Windows Movie Maker.
Getting the movie clip into Photoshop:
There are several ways to get a movie clip prepared for editing, and these are listed by difficulty level.
Animating the clip:
The nitty-gritty stuff!
Adding Effects:
All the little things that really can make or break an avatar.
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