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This is mostly for the clueless, and users new to making avatars.


Yes, there was a point to all those simple animal avatars.

Anyway, this is to encourage people to make or to have a go at making their own avatar. The simple animal avatars and other possible future templates are mostly to be used as a starting point. The avatars can be used as is however, but where is the fun in that?


Yes, I know there's grammar mistakes, and the wording, which I tried to keep as simple as possible, could be better. But I pretty much rushed to get it finished before I move out.


Those of you whom don't have a program to do this with.

Try Gimp. It's a completely free painting program. There's an extension for saving animated .gifs. Remember to find & download that too, or you won't be able to do this.

There are free 30 day trials of the more known programs on their official websites if you don't trust that. Although Gimp is entirely safe, I use it myself.


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All avatars available. Remember: not all avatars are up editing, just those linked to in this deviation. Thank you and have fun creating your own avatar!
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Comments: 49

Mad-Bites [2014-05-09 13:17:42 +0000 UTC]

Gah i give it >w< its hard

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PinkPinkyPinkishPink [2012-09-09 02:35:48 +0000 UTC]

Thaaaaanksss!

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Lucinhae [2012-02-12 01:05:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the cute tutorial!!!
I used here: [link]

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SilentLoneWolf [2012-01-23 06:05:06 +0000 UTC]

could you give me the link for the animation software?

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Sinyabun [2011-09-12 06:39:36 +0000 UTC]

verry usefull can i add bow to mine (i love bows x3)

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Skuldier [2011-07-11 18:33:31 +0000 UTC]

I'm clueless! Nice tutorial! I'll try and figure out this whole animated avatar thing...

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DPA-avatars In reply to Skuldier [2011-07-11 18:41:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Good luck, although it's easy once you figure it out

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ponypassion [2011-05-22 01:51:13 +0000 UTC]

Doe sit work the same with HyperCam 2?

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DPA-avatars In reply to ponypassion [2011-05-22 11:48:42 +0000 UTC]

Avatars are all pretty much made the same when you get right down into the very basics. If the program you mentioned can make, edit and save a 50x50 image, then yes.

Also, remember your created avatar needs to be under 15kb in filesize or it'll be too large to upload.

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ponypassion In reply to DPA-avatars [2011-05-22 13:43:46 +0000 UTC]

Hmmmmm.. Okay well first, how do I make it 15kb?

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DPA-avatars In reply to ponypassion [2011-05-22 17:40:21 +0000 UTC]

Saving as a .gif normally gets it below 15kb but if not, most image editing programs have an optimising tool.

I'm sorry but I can't really help much with a program I don't know anything about. There should be someone here who will be able to help you: http:/forum.deviantart.com/software/general

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ponypassion In reply to DPA-avatars [2011-05-22 17:44:20 +0000 UTC]

Oh ty that did actually help and um what program did u use to make this?

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DPA-avatars In reply to ponypassion [2011-05-22 20:09:15 +0000 UTC]

I used Paintshop Pro 8 and Animation Shop 3

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ponypassion In reply to DPA-avatars [2011-05-23 01:21:59 +0000 UTC]

Ty I will try that ^^

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Bitter-Corn [2011-05-10 02:22:49 +0000 UTC]

The Animation Shop 3, i had one for trial, now its over so I can't make things move. haha, hopefully I might download another one!

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DPA-avatars In reply to Bitter-Corn [2011-05-10 06:41:11 +0000 UTC]

There are free animation programs you can download from the web

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Bitter-Corn In reply to DPA-avatars [2011-05-11 22:51:46 +0000 UTC]

thanks. Do most of them need administrators passwords?

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DPA-avatars In reply to Bitter-Corn [2011-05-12 11:40:33 +0000 UTC]

Admin passwords?

I'm not sure; but to me that sounds like you're using a shared computer, it'd be best to ask whoever the computer belongs to about it

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Bitter-Corn In reply to DPA-avatars [2011-05-13 01:09:43 +0000 UTC]

yep!!

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FantasyStock [2011-04-26 06:10:01 +0000 UTC]

This deviation has been featured in my journal: [link]

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Aeternal-Anon [2010-10-18 09:28:40 +0000 UTC]

I've downloaded Gimp but does anyone know how to change the brush colour?

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pixiepot [2010-09-12 09:29:43 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful!

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Shadowhedge1001 [2010-08-13 03:55:22 +0000 UTC]

How do I make other kinds?

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Cory-West [2009-12-14 20:08:51 +0000 UTC]

That is very cool, But i still dont know how to make hip hop zero as an avatar! lol

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Cory-West [2009-12-14 20:08:45 +0000 UTC]

That is very cool, But i still dont know how to make hip hop zero as an avatar! lol

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Dreamstarcows [2009-11-07 01:34:32 +0000 UTC]

i wish i had the animation to do that and paint shop...

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FreeMapleIcons [2009-05-30 21:12:01 +0000 UTC]

i see you put "GIMP" as one of the safe animating operaters. thats true, and here are some more that are useful- paint.net, and photoshop cs3 (both are downloadable without a trail!)

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Ninjahound [2009-03-24 05:20:43 +0000 UTC]

Nice tut, definately helped me ^^

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FantasyStock [2009-03-12 12:11:17 +0000 UTC]

Hello! I featured this fabulous deviation in my journal this week.

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B00kworm101 [2009-02-26 06:15:12 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! thanks! Faved it so I can come back if I need to see it again. Cool thx again!

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sorcerersapprentice [2008-12-17 11:06:32 +0000 UTC]

Many thanks for this!

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SpiritOfTheWild [2007-11-15 03:29:27 +0000 UTC]

that's cool... thankyou. That'll be really helpfull... IF I CAN EVER FIND THE ANIMATION THINGO I NEED TO DOWNLOAD!! i just downloaded The Gimp, but can't find the other bit i need to download...

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Lunar-Sun [2007-09-08 03:16:20 +0000 UTC]

I have a lil question.

How do you make the background transparent? I'm confused.

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tailartz [2007-08-05 11:12:54 +0000 UTC]

what kinda "program that can save and edit animated gif.s" can i use, and where can i buy/download them?

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DeeK-MantooF [2007-05-05 16:27:42 +0000 UTC]

mmmm
i have a Q if u dont mind,,

i did my animated pixel but didnt know how 2 lock it, so no one can edit, modify the file

thanx for readin my Question and sorry for bothering >_<

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DPA-avatars In reply to DeeK-MantooF [2007-05-05 17:31:28 +0000 UTC]

I'm not sure if you can lock a file, but you can save your information on it E.g. your name etc.

I think it does make the file size bigger (depending on how much information you add)

Paint Shop Pro and Anim. Shop both have a means of saving information to images but in case you don't have those, go to [link] , there's a link to a free program that will allow you to add information.

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DeeK-MantooF In reply to DPA-avatars [2007-05-05 17:36:03 +0000 UTC]

ah thank you so much for the replay
i'll try 2 read the journal as soon as i can, since i'm kinda tired and seeleph

thanx again X)

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DPA-avatars In reply to DeeK-MantooF [2007-05-05 18:04:06 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome

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J4zzeh [2007-04-06 17:44:51 +0000 UTC]

Useful! Thanks.

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lilgangstagyal [2007-03-30 02:39:48 +0000 UTC]

Cool 8D

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truevampiress [2007-03-28 17:38:54 +0000 UTC]

i may use this thanks so much!

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DPA-avatars In reply to truevampiress [2007-03-29 19:38:26 +0000 UTC]

I hope it's useful to you

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livius [2007-02-13 17:00:40 +0000 UTC]

This is extremely valuable information. Thank you very much for putting it together.

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DPA-avatars In reply to livius [2007-02-13 17:47:01 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you think so

Thank you very much for the and for both comments, I really appreciate it

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NT-121784 [2007-01-25 15:59:06 +0000 UTC]

i know that program!,

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DPA-avatars In reply to NT-121784 [2007-01-25 19:28:26 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it's name seems to get around alot and it's usually the first thing people recommend to those who don't have a program to work with.
I'm assuming you're referring to The Gimp.

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NT-121784 In reply to DPA-avatars [2007-01-25 21:24:23 +0000 UTC]

no, i was refering to PSP7...i must have seen part of the screen wrong.
:/

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DPA-avatars In reply to NT-121784 [2007-01-25 21:32:12 +0000 UTC]

Ah, I wasn't sure which one you were talking about so I guessed at you talking about the program I mentioned in artists comments. My mistake

It was paint shop pro 7. And 8 for one image, I forgot to edit it so they're all the same.

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NT-121784 In reply to DPA-avatars [2007-01-25 21:42:05 +0000 UTC]

ah, i see,

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