Turn The Image of a 2D Character Sideways

[City]

I am working with a character maker that only makes flat, 2D characters. I want to use Paint.Net to turn the character slightly sideways, so that they are not directly facing the camera. I have used Grid Warp by pyrochild to try to achieve this goal. The results are passible, but not ideal. Is there a better way to do this, wether that be a better technique with Grid Warp or another plugin all together.

Original Image:

 

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Edited with Grid Warp:

 

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[Tactilis]

Obviously, you can't really "turn the character slightly sideways, so that they are not directly facing the camera" since doing that correctly would require making visible part of the character's side - but you don't have those pixels available.

 

To do it correctly, you would need a 3D model of the character that you can rotate as desired and then render as 2D.

 

You may be able to achieve a small improvement on your use of Grid Warp by the subtle use of one of these plugins:
 

 

 

[lynxster4]

Hi @City.  You may be able to use these steps to achieve something close to what you want:

 

Expand your canvas to 350px wide.

Apply (2) AA's Assistant to get rid of the faint black outline (especially on the yellow arms)

Layers-->Rotate/Zoom at 0,0,45,0,-0.01,1,8  (I used 45 just to show example)

Object-->Trail at 8,1,150 (or something close)

Apply 1 more AA's Assistant and possibly do a little touch-up with the smudge tool. Maybe this will fit the bill.

 

            

 

 

[Tactilis]

That's excellent @lynxster4.  Very creative. I'd never have thought to use Object --> Trail.

[Pixey]

@City there is a way to 'swivel' by using the Rotate/Zoom, as @lynxster4 shows.

 

You may want to look at this post, just out of interest:  https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/31665-make-an-animated-gif-with-midoras-plugin/?do=findComment&comment=429235