TUTORIAL : How tomake an animated GIF into an Avatar

Right so this is my first ever tutorial bub

so if I make any mistakes I am sorry and will fix them later TUTORIAL : How tomake an animated GIF into an Avatar 670481599

A few people asked for this so here I go sonic

As I said its my first time so please be gentle lol!

First you need image manipulation software like photoshop I use gimp2 because its free mario

Then you need 3 key ingredients

1. An animated gif (you can find them all over the web)
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2. A frame (get that from predators avatar frame thread in graphic arts section)
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3. A logo (There are all sorts of font sites out there this one is from dafont)
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Got your ingredients ?

Good lets start pacman

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open up your frame twice and your logo once using gimp
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select your logo and scale to about 130 width
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select one of your frames (we will call it frame01) and use the area selection tool click ont the middle of the frame and cut
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select your logo and copy, select frame01 and paste then move the logo to where you want it
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now open your gif and scale it to 196 height
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and crop it to 146 width
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It should look like this
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now comes the boring bit

select the bottom layer in the gif animation, then cut
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select frame02 and paste
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copy frame01
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and paste it on frame 02
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then export it to a png and name it with a number (this one is dead01)
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Repeat this for every animation layer remembering to always export each layer as you go (this one had 17 layers)
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now close all gimp windows until you get an empty gimp window then open up dead01
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select open as layers and open dead02 repeat all the way to dead17
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export remembering to change png to gif
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remember to tick this box and speed is usually around a hundred but not always so you may need to change it later
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well thats it hope it helps those who asked for it sonic

and anyone who wants to make animated avatars mario

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This is a great job ... clap

Thank you very much for the tutorial ... TUTORIAL : How tomake an animated GIF into an Avatar 670481599

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thanks for making this, this is really helpful. cheers

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Thank you for sharing this tutorial. Very Happy

That is a really cool way to make animated avatars. TUTORIAL : How tomake an animated GIF into an Avatar 670481599

Posts : 5691 Join date : 2014-08-11

I am speechless... silent

....how could you come up with such an interesting idea and putting it into a do-able experiment that gives so much rich personality to MMV avatars!? Exclamation

Just soooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome man! bounce

Thank you very much for this of your great MMV birthday gift! TUTORIAL : How tomake an animated GIF into an Avatar 670481599

Once I have more free time I will try to make my own animated MMV avatar!!! TUTORIAL : How tomake an animated GIF into an Avatar 978788824