Avatars

Avatars

It seems that some people try to look good, some don't want to show their face, and some look kind of scary. I'm wondering, how do you choose your profile picture? Were you concerned about who might see you? Did you care?

If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles, you can create a cartoon character of yourself.  It’ll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in any online profiles.

An avatar is a digital cartoon-like representation of a real person. Thanks to many free web services, you do not have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. All you have to do is upload your photo, or perform some mix and match.

You can create avatars to use with your logins in VoiceThread, Google Apps, and other web tools. You can also incorporate your avatar into a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.  If you have a wiki, a blog, a website or participate on a Social Networking site, chat, you can create an avatar to represent yourself.  Below you will find a few websites that I have collected where you can create an avatar.

Click on the links below to explore Avatar websites.  You can search for other avatar sites as well.  If you find another avatar site, please make a comment on this post so that Mrs. James can add it to our list.

ASSIGNMENT

Create a post showing the different avatars that you created!  Take a screen shot or download the picture and add it to your post.  You should have several examples.

Add the link to each avatar site on your post.

Describe each website.

  AVATAR WEBSITES - CREATE YOUR OWN!

Avatars

 Build Yourself Wild - Avatars are created using a variety of animal body parts.

DoppelMe 

With DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web.

 

 

 DoppelMe

 South Park Studio

For South Park fans, now you can become one of them.

South Park Studio

 

BeFunky

OSOQ

OSOQ Avatar Creator

Zui

Resolution

Shrink Pictures

Wednesday, April 3rd -- Stykz

Frame-based Animating Done Right

• Stykz is frame-based, letting you work on individual frames of your animation to make it just right. Onionskins let you see what was in the previous frame so you can make adjustments to your current frame easily. 
• Stykz is completely free to download and use to create animations that you can show off to others or import into other applications.
• New frames can be created by clicking on the "Next Frame" button in the Frames palette, or by simply hitting the Enter key... in fact, you can use the Enter key while you're manipulating a figure! It's kind of like taking snapshots of the current frame while you're moving or pivoting segments... this feature makes it very easy to get smooth animation.  Click here to see what animations others have made!

Activity:

• Create a frame-based animation using Stykz. Be creative! Export your final animation to be posted on your blog!

Claymation

Create a Claymation Avatar to represent yourself in today's post!

Monday April, 1st

Today you will visit at least 5 of your classmates blogs and play their game(s).

Leave a comment for each game that you played.

When told to do so, you will create a post about the games that you played and your thoughts, as well as the game(s) that you created - include a link, etc.  

NEW TOPICS

•  Claymation - you will create an avatar