{"id":268,"date":"2009-03-23T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-03-23T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:41:05","slug":"how-to-create-3d-avatars-of-yourself-for-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/how-to-create-3d-avatars-of-yourself-for-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Create 3D Avatars of Yourself For The Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, I get asked\u00a0frequently about how to create avatars or animated avatars for web sites.\u00a0 While these aren&#8217;t exactly in the realm of web video, I get asked nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>And one of the new (and free) offerings in the world of personal, 3D avatars is <strong>Big Stage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With Big Stage, you simply sign-up for a free account, upload anywhere from one to three headshots of yourself (they need to be JPG files, 640&#215;480 or higher resolution)&#8230;and just like that, Big Stage will turn your photos into a personal, 3D avatar.<\/p>\n<p>From there, you can use &#8220;Sims-Like&#8221; tools to modify yourself however you&#8217;d like.\u00a0 You can also add your avatar to still photos or videos that Big Stage provides.<\/p>\n<p>I took the photo of myself that appears in the &#8220;About The Author&#8221; section of this blog, uploaded it to Big Stage and spent a few minutes playing around.\u00a0 The results are below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me morphed into a baby bear:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blog_dave_bear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me with a fireman&#8217;s shirt, tropical background\u00a0and cornrows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/widgets.clearspring.com\/o\/492fde664b7bd63f\/49c7ad665d255097\/492fde6620b9d2ff\/1d7591cc\/-cpid\/2e1db17f19eb2bcd\/widget.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve got some time to kill&#8230;and happen to be looking for a fast and free way to create an avatar of yourself, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstage.com\" target=\"_blank\">you can check out Big Stage here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, I get asked\u00a0frequently about how to create avatars or animated avatars for web sites.\u00a0 While these aren&#8217;t exactly in the realm of web video, I get asked nonetheless. And one of the new (and free) offerings in the world of personal, 3D avatars is Big Stage. With Big Stage, you simply sign-up for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[198,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}