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:heart: How To Make Avatars: :heart:
Thanks to Matto For Posting this a while ago
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Originally posted by Matto
First, you'll probably need to download a program called PowerDVD.. this plays the video, and allows you to pause and take captures of it. If you do get this, then here's the steps to make your animation...
First, open the video up. Once you have it playing, find a part of the video that you want to make an animation of. Once you get to this point, pause the video. Open up your Animation Shop 3 at this point, or whenever. Take a capture by pressing the little camera button seen here:
Once you do this, go to your Animation shop and paste it in there. Then go back to your video. To move the video one frame at a time, click this button:
Click that twice or three times, and then take the next capture. Then paste it again in the same animation frame as the previous one. Keep repeating this over and over until you have about 20 or so frames. The size depends on how long the animation is and how big you resize it to afterwards.
Once you have your full animation, you have to resize it. I usually resize the width to about 35 or 40, and then the height should automatically change. If your animation is long, then you should try to resize it smaller so that the file size won't be too big. Once you have it resized, you'll probably want borders...
What I do for borders is I'll look at the animation size (say it's 40x40), and open up a new document that is completely black, and 4 more than the length and height of the animation, so in this case 44x44. Then you open up another document that is 2 more than the height and length of the animation, and make the color white. In this case, the size would be 42x42. Save the black and white documents so that you'll be able to drag them. First drag the white onto the black, so that it forms a nice border. Then duplicate the frames by right-clicking "Duplicate Selected". If you have 20 animation frames, then duplicate the white/black document to 20 frames also. Highlight the entire white/black document by clicking the first animation, press the shift key, and click the last frame. Do the same to animation frames. Now, drag the animations frames onto the white/black frames, and you'll have your border.
Now you want a background picture. I just usually find any random picture that looks good in the video.
Matt post this a while ago and i found it so props to him man.
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