Avatar Creation Software?

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A colleague of mine is looking to create an avatar of himself for an online course he is teaching. As I’ve never created an avatar before, I was wondering if anybody reading this had any good avatar software suggestions for this purpose. I look forward to the avatar creation software feedback.

I would hope that there is software available that would allow me to make a fairly detailed avatar without it being too difficult to model or be contained in a file that was so large as to be unwieldy. Having said that, I’m betting that there will be huge demand for software that helps you to create realistic online avatars in the near future as more and more of us choose to represent ourselves in various arenas online for one reason or another.

Free FLV Encoder

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The Riva FLV Encoder is a free tool that will transode your existing videofiles to the FLV format which can then be used in Flash. The AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, WMV video formats are supported. If you have ever been frustrated or hit a dead end after you shoot video and then have a difficult time actually watching it in the format of your choice–which for many people today is Flash–this is a very handy tool to facilitate doing that.

Video file conversion, in addition to video compression are huge hurdles for many people who are now getting into video for the web. Unfortunately handling video files is often not as straightforward as simply uploading a JPEG or gif picture file.

 

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