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Alpoy: Create and Animate Avatars

May 7th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Design, Tips N Tricks

Creating a good avatar is an essential part of creating an online identity. For some, any image that they got online will do. It can be a cartoon image or something that they feel attached to. The ones that are more serious with their avatars use their own logo or personal photos. Alpoy is an avatar creator and animator that will easily help you create your avatar whether you are serious about It or not.

If you want to have a bit of fun with your avatar, you might want to check this tool out. The tool works fine even if it’s on beta. It may not replace the power of desktop editors for manipulating images but it will do fine if you want to add a little something to your photo or image. The design panel in Alpoy is pretty basic and straightforward. You get to use a pencil tool, line tool, some shapes, text tools and a few more editing features like transparency adjustment. What makes it more fun is that you can animate your avatar. You can add texts, draw on your images and set the timeline so that it will appear like those funny banner ads.

Tags: Alpoy, Animate, avatar, Create Avatar, Design

RateMyAnimations: Draw, Animate, Share

February 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Cool Sites

RateMyAnimations is a community powered site where you can create animations and share them anywhere. If you’re familiar with Rate My Drawings, a really cool drawing community with a great online drawing tool and a rocking share widget that displays an animation of the drawing being created right from where the artist made the first stroke. RateMyAnimations is a sister site of RateMyDrawings as you might already have guessed.

Additional features for video editing are added to the RateMyAnimation’s editor. The animation tool is basically a tweaked version of the drawing tool found in RateMyDrawings. Since the site is a community for artists, the animation editor does not let you upload pre existing images. You must create your animation from scratch by drawing. It would be nice though if they would allow you to upload or integrate your work from RateMyDrawings. This will give RMD artists to experiment with animation using their previous creations without having to draw them all over again. Anyway, the animation editor is still on beta so there should be more features coming soon.

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