Today I played around on trying to create an avatar. I did so at a site recomended by an IT friend. The site is www.voki.com. It's a site that allows you to add voice to your avatar and then import them to other places. You can pick certain pictures and then manipulate certain aspects of how they look. I played around with hair styles (although didn't find one quite like mine), hair color, eye color, width of face, length of face, skin tone and even the size of your nose. You can also change the clothing, the accessories and the amount of makeup your avatar wears. The avatar is animated and its eyes will move around and follow your cursor.
The neat part about this is that it allows you to record your own message and synchs your avator to the audio. I didn't have a microphone home (will have to add that to my wish list). The site however has a text to voice function that allows you to type in a short message that can be "read" by several pre-set voices with either American or Brittish accents. I left it on English, but there's probably several other types of accents available as well. It's hard trying to figure out how you look as a character. I wonder if it would be easier to design someone else than design yourself. Could be a fun exercise for class!
Press the play button below to get my first sample of how this all works.
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