Click and drag the pieces above to create your own toon portrait.

So I’ve been working on this little flash app for a week or so.  I just wanted to make one of those little avatar makers I keep seeing, like faceyourmanga.com and wii’s mii maker.  Only I wanted to be able to click and drag the pieces around and change colors without being limited by the app’s preselected positions and colors.  This is what I have so far.

Let me know if you spot any major issues.  Currently you have to be careful because there’s no undo.  (Lock your pieces so you don’t accidently move them while you’re working on other stuff).  I just cloned existing pieces and got creative for backgrounds and stuff.  Also, there’s no save yet, so you’ll have to take a screen shot to saver your work (printscreen and then "paste" into a paint program like ms paint or photoshop).

Feel free to post your results online, etc (and leave a link so I can see it out on your facebook / deviantart / flickr / etc account! :)

Here’s a couple I did this morning.  They’re random.  My goal for this project is to make toon portraits of all my friends on facebook (these 2 don’t fit that theme).

I had to custom create those little selection sqaures that let you change the size, rotation, layer depth, etc.  It was a little tricky –remember that big long post I made about having to work around AS3 not having a MovieClip.clone() function?  Either way, I think it’s a good starting point.  I was hoping to avoid having all the buttons and sliders like faceyour manga has and I think it worked out pretty well so far.  Hopefully I’ll find some more time to add a selection of reusable parts like hairdooes and faces and stuff.

BTW, if you rotate something and then try to resize it, it’s a little funky.  I’m hoping to fix that in the next release.

Enjoy,
~Danny

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1. 

   Okay, while proof reading, I ended up playing around some more and making a really crappy mouse :)

   

   Comment by Danny — January 26, 2009 @ 12:16 am

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