Animated Webcam Overlays & Webcam Templates

Of course, you don't have to stream with a webcam. If you feel more comfortable without a camera, then stream without it. But be aware streaming without a camera means you can only transmit your emotions through your voice. These emotions are often essential to a stream. If a streamer is focused on the game and doesn't notice a new alert immediately, you will see the streamer's focus on the webcam. Therefore, a viewer can sometimes overlook it if you do not immediately respond to the follower, subscriber, or others.

If you still want to give your stream a face, you can, for example, also become a virtual streamer (short Vstreamer). Some programs and tools already provide you with virtual and well-functioning characters. On YouTube, you can find numerous tutorials on how to create your virtual character for streaming. Even as a Vstreamer, you can use webcam overlays.

However, creating virtual characters often comes at a cost. You still need to activate a camera so that facial expressions and gestures are transferred to the virtual character via the camera. Professional Vtubers and Vstreamers go even further with special tracking devices to perfectly capture every emotion. If you want to read more about one of the most famous Vstreamer and what it can look like,click here.

It's up to you where you want to place your camera and webcam overlay in the stream. It often makes sense to adapt the webcam to the game, not to cover any essential stats or the like. 

However, there is one design subtlety you can pay attention to. Try to align your camera, so you're looking at the game in the stream, not away from it. This works better. Otherwise, you're figuratively turning your back on the game/content. Either position the camera on the monitor or table in the right direction or (if the angle doesn't allow it) mirror the camera source in OBS Studio. This can be done by right-clicking horizontally on the camera source -> Transform -> Flip.

Another Twitch tip we can give you is the placement in the Twitch preview image or your stream. If you scroll through the Twitch previews, you'll notice the following: On the bottom left, you'll see the viewer count. On the top left, you'll see a live icon, and on the top right, you'll see the time for how long you've been streaming. To avoid being covered by all these elements, you can place your camera with the webcam overlay in the center left/right or in the bottom right corner. This way, you ensure that your face is always visible in the preview and that the camera does not cover the rest of the content.

Are you looking for a webcam overlay for your webcam? Then you've come to the right place! You will find a huge selection of animated and static webcam overlays for OBS Studio, Twitch Studio, XSplit, and Streamlabs, suitable for any streaming platform like Twitch, YouTube, Trovo, or Facebook here at OWN3D!

We wouldn't be OWN3D if we didn't have something for that: Our streaming tool for OBS Studio offers you five free overlays, in which you will also find numerous free animated webcam overlays. The overlays are installed with just a single click. That means you can start streaming for free within minutes! You must sign up with Twitch, install the OWN3D Pro plugin for OBS Studio, and log in there. You can choose between five free overlays and download any of them. All free animated webcam overlays are in the usual OWN3D quality and offer different design variations for greenscreen or without greenscreen. With OWN3D Pro, labels are automatically integrated if you choose a webcam overlay with labels. So all you have to do is integrate your webcam and game into OBS Studio, and you're ready to go!

You can stream without a webcam overlay if you want the focus to be on the content rather than on you. However, some of your emotions might get lost in the overall picture. With a webcam overlay, you make the webcam stand out from the rest of the content. This way, the game, and the webcam are directly separated.