Snap camera is disappearing on January 25th, so what alternatives are
there to replace it?
I'll show you a free option today and tell you if I think it's a
worthy replacement.
Hello, my YouTube friends.
The app I wanna show you today is called Animaze.
It's totally free to use and there is a link in the description if you
want to check it out for yourself.
So let's install it.
All right.
Here we are on the animaze install page and there is a link down below
in the description so you can check it out for yourself.
Of course, it does say try animaze free over here on the left, and all
you have to do is click on that button right there and you'll see it
downloading down in the bottom left hand corner.
Once it's finished downloading, we just have to go to our downloads
folder and double click on it and we'll get the license agreement.
We just have to click, I agree.
And then next to select the folder you want to install it to.
Then we click install, and after a few seconds it's done installing,
we can check the box that adds the shortcut to our desktop and just
click finish and it's all installed sort of.
We double click it on our desktop.
It's gonna bring this up right here, and obviously we have to install
animaze.
You can also install the animaze editor if you like.
For this video, I'm just gonna install animaze, so I just click on
install animaze and it takes a couple of moments, but once it's
finished, it's just gonna pop right up.
And all you have to do is click Start.
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Now we have it installed.
Let me show you how simple it is to set up and use.
Once you click on the start button, it's gonna bring this up.
You can just click okay, and then, okay, starts out with the little
doggy here on the right hand side, you can see that my face is there
and it has a bunch of little dots on it.
Probably the first thing you're gonna want to do is go ahead and click
that little calibrate button under your camera.
I didn't actually do that, and they do function slightly better when
you actually calibrate it, but for now I'm just kind of looking
through the avatars.
So I'm gonna go ahead and click on the avatar and it takes a moment or
so for it to load.
And you can scroll through these and there are quite a few.
All you have to do is click on one, it will load it up, and of course
it comes up with tips and stuff all the time to let you know how to do
different things.
You can actually adjust the skin color on these, ear size.
There's all kinds of little things that you can do to adjust these and
we'll scroll through and take a look at another one.
This one's kind of interesting and we've got some anime ones, a whole
bunch of different anime ones.
So let's start out trying to mess around with this.
We can go into props and add different props to it just by clicking on
the prop.
And who wouldn't want an axe hat once in a while?
And you can get rid of the prop just by clicking on that little circle
with the line through it.
Or you can just click back and don't save, and it will go back to just
the regular character.
There are also lots of backgrounds that you can select put behind your
character, and when you finally have the character selected that you
want, all you have to do is click the little button down here.
We'll actually bring up a tutorial if you wanna watch it, but setting
this up in obs is fairly simple and straightforward, so all you have
to do is click on here and this little countdown box comes up above
it.
So we'll pop open obs real quick, and all we have to do is under our
scenes click the plus and we're gonna go ahead and add a video
captured device and we'll just call this animazw.
We drop this down and we select the animaze camera, and there we go.
Drops right in.
It doesn't have any background right now, so what we're gonna do is go
back in here, we'll go to our backgrounds and I'm just gonna scroll
down and select the green screen background.
Go back over into obs and right click on our animaze camera and go to
filters.
Then I'm gonna click the plus and we're going to select the chroma key
right here under effect filters.
And that will remove the background and we can move this obviously
around anywhere we want.
We can make it bigger or smaller.
It's very simple to manipulate this.
Now I'm gonna flip back over, and what I'm gonna do is go ahead and
click Start Calibration.
We'll calibrate it up and see if that gives us a little better
movement, and it kind of does, but it's still pretty deadpan.
And let's look at a couple of other ones here.
This one here is totally deadpan, even after calibrating it, there's
this one here, it's kind of cute.
And what I can actually do is go ahead and click on the plus and add a
background image and we can put her in my regular background and they
look pretty nice, but they're, even with the calibration, they just
don't have very much life to them.
Now I'm absolutely sure you can hot key these to change them around
while you're streaming and all that stuff, but that was as far as I
went with it.
I can explore it further and do a full video on using it if you guys
want, just let me know in the comments.
I personally won't be using it though, which is why I just stopped
there.
So why won't I be using it?
For me, it's pretty simple.
Keep in mind, this channel is about live streaming, not having fun on
Zoom calls.
With Snap Camera when I put on a mask, it's me in a mask.
It shows my emotion, my expression, and it adds to my personality.
When I put on a mask in Animaze, it's not me.
It's a stiff, lifeless character that completely replaces me.
Now, maybe that's adequate for folks looking to do VR avatar
streaming, but in my opinion, it's not.
It's just a lifeless face with barely any movement or expression.
The novelty of the character wears off really quickly.
Now, maybe it gets better in the future, but for now, for me, it's not
a replacement for Snap Camera.
I want something that enhances my stream and my personality.
Animaze just removes all that with a deadpan lifeless character.
Now, of course, this is just my opinion, so let me know what you think
in the comments down below.
But in the meantime, I'm gonna continue to search for a suitable Snap
camera replacement.
Now, nutty did a video on a way to keep your Snap camera around for a
bit longer, and I'm gonna link that in a description below if you want
to check it out.
And if you want to see how to create awesome Stinger transitions for
your live stream using free software, you should check this video out.
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My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.