How to make avatar(3D avatar) from your photo free

Do you want to make avatar, a free 3D avatar or an animated avatar of yourselves? Then head over to Evolver and create great animated avatars and have fun sharing it on platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Blogger and more.

If you have the time, Evolver is definitely a cool platform to spend time time making animated avatars or 3D avatars. All you need is a passport size photo of yourselves that fulfills a few requirements. The part of the photo that will be used to extract the 3D shape and texture is limited to the face from the top of the forehead to the chin. Your photo’s image background can be anything as it is completely ignored.however ensure the following image requirements.

• The photo should show a clear front view with your nose pointing at the camera.
• Mouth must be closed and in a relaxed expression.
• Eyes must be wide open and looking straight ahead.
• The entire face must be in the photo.
• Flash lighting is preferred, but should not be overly bright.
• Images must be in color.
• Glasses must be removed.
• Hair should not cover the forehead.
• Avoid shadows on the face.

The photo should be a JPEG, with minimum height of 600PX ( > 400px between eyes and chin recommended) and of 100kb minimum size ( > 500kb recommended).Once you ensure that you have the appropriate passport size photo, you are all set to create a clone of yourselves which can be then be used to create a 3D avatar of your photo!

How to make avatar (3D avatar or animated avatar or funny avatar) of yourself free?

To create a clone simply register yourselves at evolver.com and upload your photo by browsing and selecting it from your PC.Choose the gender of the clone (Male or Female), confirm that you own the digital rights to the photograph and clicking Upload Photo button.

After uploading your photo (ensure that it satisfies the above requirements), you will be asked to place guide points over your photo as accurately as possible.You should be placing 11 guide points satisfying the following.

• The eye points should be in the center of the eyes.
• The outer cheekbone points should be inside of any side burn hair.
• The nose flap points should be on the outermost edges of the nose flaps.
• The outer jaw points should be horizontally in line with the mouth corner points. It does NOT matter where the neck profile intersects the face profile.
• The chin point should be at the bottom center of the chin.

Then click Clone button and Evolver will start processing your photo to create a clone. This may take some time and You can in the meantime proceed to avatar builder by clicking “Go to Avatar” button to create your own avatar or choose a pre-made avatar to which you can apply your photo clone.

Once your clone is ready, you will be notified by an alert on the platform and by email. for this tutorial I chose to use a pre-made avatar.i had the option to further customize the pre-made avatar, if I wanted. Evolver lets you customize the face, skin, eyes, Hair, Body and clothing of the pre-made avatar. You can use a slider to blend the features between two ancestors, or simply remove one of the ancestors to use a single shape.After customizing the parts, click Save to save the customized avatar.You can save it by giving an appropriate name.

Next, go to your clone tab and click on Use against the clone you want to use. You will receive a pop up as shown below.

You can use your Clones’ face, skin and eyes to create a brand new avatar or use with your used avatar or a saved avatar. I chose to use a saved avatar and then applied the slider to get the avatar that I wanted.On clicking transport your avatar will be saved and you can choose to do several things with your avatar.

You can create a Still image, animated image (animated gif), or Video and take it to your favorite online destinations like facebook, myspace, twitter etc. You have the following options to choose from to make your avatar come alive!

• Four Different sizes.
• 20 Scenes to choose from.
• Still JPG Image.
• Animated GIF Image.
• High quality FLV video.

Once your avatar is ready (it takes time to process your avatar), go to your dashboard to find your free avatar in the Avatars tab.you can download it (by clicking download link) and use it as you like.Note that it takes quite some time for your download link to be available. But I was impressed with the options available on Evolver, which is still in beta, to create cool free avatars. Enjoy making free avatar at Evolver.