Share "How to make Avatar image" by yourself

[rarityraider]

Hi All, just try to tell you how to make something animated to be your avatar image by few steps:

First of all, find an image/character that you want to do. and scan it for your work by computer.

The original image of Hikaru I find from a book.

[rarityraider]

And then crop and reduce the image to 64 x 64 pixels size like this.

[rarityraider]

Trace the image to dot matrix art and fill some colors, I use Photoshop for the tracing work first and then copy and paste to a software that for making icons or animated files. e.g. "Pro Motion"

[rarityraider]

The last step is create an animation file as you want frame by frame. You can make some simple for first try then add more to be cool.

Save as the file to animated gif is the most important for uploading.

This is a sample and final work of my.

Try to do some cool by yourself.

Cheers,

[the white drew carey]

Nice, but why did you trace it into dot matrix? It looks so pixelated!

[the white drew carey]

p.s.- Which photshop do you have? I'm not sure which ones do, but the one I have came with ImageReady, Adobe's little .gif animation program that works wonder with Photoshop, as you can see by my avatar.

[rarityraider]

Hi there,

Just because if I do the way like yours, I need to create the little movie by another software e.g. After effect. (Actually, I'm a dot matrix game designer always working on dot image) and if I reduce the original image to 64 x 64, the out comes will have a low resolution edge mixed with the background... Anyway, now I know there Adobe ImageReady can handle this job more easy. Thanks for your opinion and I've saw your home page with your drawings, they're very nice. I also love to draw illustration very much, maybe next time I show you something on the board.

Cheers,