How do you create an animated / cartoonish looking user profile pic

How do you create the cartoonish looking profle pics you see in chat forums etc?

I assume you paste a pic of yourself to a program and then it creates one for you but I have not found it.

Something like these.......

https://stocktwits.com/AnneMarieTrad...sage/123459403

Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) | Twitter


Any suggestions?

Here is another example..

Jake Vig (@Jake_Vig) | Twitter

Or even this one.........

After copyprofile, installs don't initialize - Windows 10 Forums

This is similar to what I am talking about as well........

Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) | Twitter

Search on youtube for tutorial. There is plenty of it.

Vukodlak said:

Search on youtube for tutorial. There is plenty of it.

I did.......but the ones I found taught me how to use msft paint and other common products to select an animated head, select a hair color etc........it was more like a drawing than a realistic representation.

I probably was not clear enough but I am looking for a program where you submit a 'selfie' and insert it into a program and it returns a realistic looking, colorized portrait. I wish I could be more specific but I don't know if there is a name for what I am looking to do.

I have found services online that will do them for $20 +/- , but I would like to do it myself.

It would be a chance to learn something new, a modest sense of accomplishment.

I want something like this:

https://stocktwits.com/AnneMarieTrad...sage/123459403


or this.......

Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) on Twitter


The programs I have found on youtube don't give me the results I am looking for.

Thanks!

Bree said:

Google cartoonizer

Animated avatars for this forum should be an animated gif - you can Google that too, or you could download the Microsoft Gif Animator (circa 1996) that I still use today in Windows 10. A link to an Internet Archive copy of it is in the References section here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_GIF_Animator

With a sequence of separate .gif images, a gif animator stitches them together as one file, each image being displayed for it's own individually controllable time. You can set it as 'play once through' or 'loop forever'.

Thanks, I'll check it out.