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 => https://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.
Comments
Anonymous
July 14, 2007
Way too cool - thanks for sharing!! :)Anonymous
July 15, 2007
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?Anonymous
July 15, 2007
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!Anonymous
July 16, 2007
באתר MSN בסין נותנים שירות חדש לגולשים - ייצור סט אמוטיקונים לשימוש אישי, מתמונה שהועלתה לאתר. האתר בסינית,Anonymous
July 17, 2007
It looks like Microsoft’s China development is more active than anyone else. Earlier, there was a versionAnonymous
August 03, 2007
First, thanks for all the input on our recent upgrade. We really appreciate it. Nick has done a greatAnonymous
August 12, 2008
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!Anonymous
February 17, 2010
Hi Sukesh, I am from Dubai. I tried to open this page http://cartoon.msn.com.cn/ but the message is this page you are trying to open is not found. Do you know why this happens? Any solution? Regards,Anonymous
July 06, 2010
I think this feature was discontinued due to whatever reason... Not sure what the plans are for re-use of that feature.