A fun way to generate character portraits!

[Bree]

I was working on making some character concept sketches, and I came across an awesome online tool you can use to combine features from various faces and make new ones.

This is great for those of us who CAN'T draw.  :p

http://www.morphases.com/editor/

You can select a nose, eyes, chin etc from the pictures, then resize/move them around until you got what you like.

Some of the ladies on my blog lists were making trading cards for their characters, so I used the editor to make two faces and put them into trading cards for some of mine:

 


Fun, huh?  Go make your own!

[Jane]

:: sighs :: I can't get it to do anything.  Apparently 'some assembly required'.

[Bree]

To make it work, you have to click to start with a random image.  Then you click on something--eyes, chin, forehead so it's lit up, and then you search the images and find a face you want to take those features from.  

It took me a half our to get going, but then it was awesome!

[Kaysea]

I managed to play around with it a little, but still can't figure out some.  It's addictive though.  I ended up messing aorund with it untli after midnight last night. LOL

[Jane]

I got a little further along but all I got was ugly pictures of blokes with awful noses and funny lips.  I shall work on it some more. :laughing5:

[Kaysea]

I was trying to clone the hot guy from the gym. ^_^

[Amanda N]

Ok, so I was just fiddling around on the forums and found this posting.  I can't get it to work.  Anyone willing to help me?

[Cali]

That's pretty cool, I played with it for a bit, all you've really got to do is flip between the two screens for every option.  I made a pretty close B'vin.  The only thing I couldn't figure out was how to merge the skin tones.  I had a really tan forehead but a white chin *lol*

[Amanda N]

It's still not working for me.  I wonder if it doesn't like Firefox.

[Jane]

Did you start with random face?

[Amanda N]

Yes.  I'm using Firefox, so I'm wondering if it doesn't like Firefox.

[PastMember]

I tried using that program, but it did not work for me. I think I'll stick to paper and pencil for my character portraits.

[Kastaka]

I loaded up IE to try it out, but there doesn't appear to be anything which will do 'wide-eyed and happy, with a round face' without looking like 'scary possessed demon child'...

[Jane]

I use Firefox and it works for me.  What's the next problem after you've started with random face?

I got a whole face out of it, but like Cali couldn't seem to deal with the skin tone problem.  Once I have it done, I suppose I could email it to myself and fix it up in photoshop.

[Jane]

What it really lacks, though, is curly hair!