CSC 630
GRAPHIC SYSTEMS
Project 1
WEB ANIMATED AVATAR

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class projects

A computer avatar is a 3D image of a person in virtual reality.
It is a movable image that can be used to represent someone in cyberspace.

Using Macromedia Flash, create a 2-dimensional avatar of yourself.
This avatar should appear on top of your webpage and introduce the site.

At a minimum, one could take your picture, remove the background using Photoshop, put a background image
of your web site behind it, and have the picture do some animation while talking, welcoming a user to one's web site.
Publish this as a Flash animation and have it appear when you open your webpage.
Making your avatar talk realistically (in your own voice) will be a challenge.

If you have access to a video camera, make a video of yourself talking and then put the video in Flash.
You could also take a series of photos of yourself doing the basic phonemes,
then use Flash to juxtapose the pictures one after the other.

Another way to make your avatars speak is to put your head atop a body
If you have any art talent, cartoon sketches may be easier to animate and create facial expressions.

Don’t waste user’s time and take up valuable broadband.  Have the avatar do something useful or amusing.  For example, your avatar could point out the newest or most interesting features of your page.
 

Submit this project by email, sending stu4@sfsu.edu the following files:

• An informal discussion. Discuss what you did and what you thought of the project.
• The fla code with needed resources
• The URL to the avatar which will link to your webpage.
  
  Link your animation from your webpage, and include the URL of the link page for us to view.