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MSN Cartoon Beta (cool way to create smiley's from photos)

Recently I stumbled upon a discussion on facial recognition and creating models from them. Came to know that MSN China had lunched a service called "MSN Cartoon Beta".

Chinese is like French to me; I know neither :)

 

But I thought it would be an awesome feature to have for all Windows Live Services so tried my predict & clicking skills to get it working!

The following video demonstrates how to use the web based page to create MSN Cartoon without learning Chinese :)

 

Before beginning with the application there is a small web based install which pops-up but you know which buttons to click if you have used Windows for long enough!

The last button click on the page gives you a zip file containing the newly created smiley's for all  your cool expressions... Now stop reading and check the video and the site ;)

 

URL => http://cartoon.msn.com.cn/ 

If there is enough demand for audio commentary I will add voice to explain the different buttons and it's options.

Published Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:55 AM by sukeshak
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:30 AM by Jeelz

# re: MSN Cartoon Beta (cool way to create smiley's from photos)

Way too cool - thanks for sharing!! :)

Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:41 AM by vasudev

# re: MSN Cartoon Beta (cool way to create smiley's from photos)

Thanks sukesh for it. Its cool, though, I am yet to try it out.

btw have you seen cartoons characters of Popfly team, where the Popfly team had used their Cartoon or caricatures in Popfly.

Was that made in this way or some other apps was used?

can anybody tell how it was made?

Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:46 AM by xinz

# re: MSN Cartoon Beta (cool way to create smiley's from photos)

thanks for promoting our technology!

btw, the website uses a previous version of our cartoon sdk, now we have a much improved version.  it will be demo'ed at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) web site: www.msra.cn soon, please check it out!

Monday, July 16, 2007 5:01 PM by Bah, Humbug!

# הפכו את עצמכם לדמות מצויירת (אמוטיקונים למסנג'ר)

באתר MSN בסין נותנים שירות חדש לגולשים - ייצור סט אמוטיקונים לשימוש אישי, מתמונה שהועלתה לאתר. האתר בסינית,

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:58 AM by Microsoft News and Technology

# MSN Cartoon Beta: Create smileys & animation cartoons from pictures & photos using facial recognition

It looks like Microsoft’s China development is more active than anyone else. Earlier, there was a version

Friday, August 03, 2007 1:50 PM by LiveSide - News blog

# Creating Custom Avatars: A Microsoft tool, and others

First, thanks for all the input on our recent upgrade. We really appreciate it. Nick has done a great

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:15 PM by Jason

# re: MSN Cartoon Beta (cool way to create smiley's from photos)

Nice. I'd also recommend you <a href="http://www.make-a-cartoon.com">Make A Cartoon</a> at <a href="http://www.make-a-cartoon.com">Make-A-Cartoon.com</a>, but a photo generator is very different from that site!

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