How to make moving avatars!

[Flying Panda]

HOW TO: MAKE YOUR OWN MOVING AVATARS

Hey everybody.
Ever wondered how to make a moving avatar?Well I did,so I read a couple of online guides and finally made one myself,and suprisingly it is not hard.[COLOR=DarkGreen]
First of all,you need to download Ulead GIF Animator.You can download it http://www.download.com/3001-2186-5422267.html. ]hereOnce you have downloaded and installed the animator, it's time to get started. If you've never worked with an animator before, it's probably a good idea to start out with the basics; simply flashing a few pictures. Here is how to go about doing this.

1) Double-click the Ulead GIF Animator icon on your desktop.

2) From the window that pops up, choose your dimensions to be 100 x 100, which is the standard avatar size.

3) Now it's time to add your images. Go to "File," hit "Add image" and choose from your computer the image you wish to use. When it shows up on the box in the middle of the screen, it probably won't fit perfectly in the square. Right click on the picture, hit "properties" and fiddle around with the dimensions and position until it more or less fits inside the square.

4) Add another picture! Hit the "insert frame" button near the bottom of the screen, which looks like a little square. Click on the empty frame (you should see a whitish box in the middle of the screen again), go to "File" and "Add image" again. Repeat this sequence until you have all the pictures you want.

*The frame that you are editing is the one in the middle of the screen. All the others are lined up along the bottom of the screen in the order in which they will flash*

5) Set your animation times. The default is set for each image to flash for 1/10 a second, which is way too fast. To slow it down, double click a frame at the bottom of the screen. In the window that pops up, choose the length of time you want the picture to flash for. 80 is generally a good number. Repeat for all your frames. To add different transformations between pictures, go to the transformation menu at the top of the screen and choose the transformation you want. I usually don’t use these because I don’t like them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t!

6) Save your animation as a gif file, upload to an image storage site (if you don't have one, Walagata.com - Free File Hosting, Free Image Hosting, Free Picture Hosting (Image Host) and Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket are two popular ones), put the link in your profile.

When you’re comfortable with making an avatar that just has pictures, try adding text, objects, whatever!
Enjoy making moving avatars!
This guide is NOT mine.

[Tracky]

Wow. Actually nice guide even when it's not yours ?
Where did you get it from by the way ? Does they have some other useful stuff ?!
for posting
Will give it a try.

[killerwave7]

thanks but can you link where its originally from

[Flying Panda]

Actually,it was just from another forum like this,so I do not know really,nothing else useful :p If I find anything esle useful I'll post it.

[Bat]

How To Create Your Own Animated Avatar Freema Agyeman Forums
This site ?

[Flying Panda]

No,actually this one :p
Discussion: How to Make an Animated Avatar

[MaRcDk]

Easiest way imo is to make a video, then convert it to a GIF file... Jobs done (you can do it with Total Video Converter)

[Flying Panda]

Yeah it is Marc,but If U want some things that are not in a video,or u cant make it,or even if u made your image yourself,u cant do it with TVC

[MaRcDk]

Originally Posted by Flying Panda

Yeah it is Marc,but If U want some things that are not in a video,or u cant make it,or even if u made your image yourself,u cant do it with TVC

Throw it into windows movie maker and make your own xD hehe

[Flying Panda]

Lol good one :p