kedder / drawmcskin

Draw a Minecraft character on paper and convert it to a working skin

Draw Minecraft Skin

This is a simple weekend project to help kids create their own minecraft skins. Use this tool to generate the template, print it out and draw the character on it. Then take a photo of the drawing and feed it to the program. You'll get the skin file that you can import into Minecraft.

Installation

Clone the repo and then run:

$ make
$ ve/bin/activate

After this you should be able to run drawmcskin program:

$ drawmcskin --help
Draw Minecraft Skin!
usage: drawmcskin [-h] {template,scan} ...

Tool to convert a drawing to a Minecraft skin.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit

action:
  {template,scan}
    template       Generate a skin template
    scan           Scan image

Usage

First, you need to generate and print the template:

$ drawmcskin template template.png

Print the resulting template.png, paint it and take a photo (or scan it). Make sure all markers are clearly visible on the image. Once you have the image, run:

$ drawmcskin scan template.png <your-picture.jpg> skin.png

The output file - skin.png is a minecraft skin you can upload to Minecraft. Enjoy!