How to Create Animations in "World of Warcraft"

"World of Warcraft" includes many animations that your character can display as part of the social and role-playing experience. These animations are most commonly known as "Emotes." Using these emotes is a great way to bring life to your character. Different races also have different emotes and animations, the most notable being the "dance" emotes.

Instructions

1. Start up the game and log into your account. Load your character.

2. Press the "/" (forward slash) key on your keyboard and type in the name of the emote, without the space. For example, type "/dance" to make your character do the dance animation.

3. Find a list of emotes with animations on WoWWiki and many other websites. Alternatively, to find a specific emote, click on the chat-bubble icon beside the chat box in the bottom-left corner of the screen and navigate to "emotes". Here you will be able to see a list of available emotes.

4. Place macros for most commonly used animated emotes onto one of your action bars. To do this, create a new macro, choose an icon and name the macro and type "/" followed by the emote name into the text box at the bottom. The macro will be automatically saved and you can drag the button onto the action bar.

5. Make a custom emote by typing "/me" followed by a space and the text of your choice. This will be accompanied by a default 'chat' animation. Note that characters from the opposing faction will not be able to understand custom emotes. Instead, they will only see "{Player} makes some strange gestures."

Tips & Warnings

• There are many emotes, although only a selection of them are accompanied by animations. These animations differ depending on the race of your character.

References

• WoWWiki: Emotes