How Do You Make Animated Avatars Free?
If you want to make sure your avatar stands out in the crowd, animate it. You don’t need to be a professional or know a lot about graphic animation to edit and set an avatar into motion as a .GIF file. There are simple ways to animate an avatar, such as making it blink with alternating colors. Use a free animation program or download a free trial to get the job done. Download a free animating program, unless you already have one. A good open source freebie is GIMP, or you can download the free trial of Jasc Animation Shop (see Resources). Download one of these programs, open the folder for it and follow the installation instructions. Open your animation program and open the avatar that you want to animate. Edit this first layer if you need it to be different for the beginning frame of the animation. Use the drawing tools (“Pencil”, “Paint Brush” or “Color Fill”) to add or change things in the image. Copy and paste this first frame into the next frame (if you are working with Animation
