Guide to getting Animal Pictures

[toastia]

1.) Giving them rare fish/bugs or perfect fruit:
If you give them a rare fish/bug or a perfect fruit it will greatly increase your friendship with them. If they are waving when you blow the megaphone(see below) and you give them either the rare fish/bug or perfect fruit, they might give you their picture. If not, use the reset trick. If you already have the Reset Survelliance Center built it might get annoying.

2.) Petition Signatures:
If they ask for a petition to be signed, help them out.
It greatly improves friendship, and they will probably give you a picture.

3.) Megaphone trick:
You are able to get their picture if you say their name on the megaphone and they wave or bow at you. That means you are friends. Don't say their name when they are really close because that will make them mad. Basically, say it when they are on screen but not really close to them.

4.) Sending Letters:
Sending letters is another great way to increase friendship. You don't have to send them a letter to get their picture but it helps. If they send you a random letter that means you are able to get their pic. Like Jingle, Katie, and other special people you can get their pic in the mail as a 'thank you for hanging out' letter or a goodbye letter when they move out.

5.) Reset Trick:
If you are about to give them a perfect fruit, signatures or something rare like a golden stag, you can save and continue before you give it to them and if you don't get their picture, reset.



You can get a villager's picture more than once.
Another good way is April Fools Day, but everybody doesn't TT that's why I wrote this!


Talking to a villager to raise friendships takes almost 3 weeks or more if you talk every single day.
Also, I think that spotlight items in previous games are the same in this game. Appearently a lovely dresser is a spotlight item.
I know the throne is worth a lot, and a moon too. SO I probably won't use the reset trick until I get one of those furniture items. I think I've built enough friendships with villagers I don't want, so I might get their picture in the mail when they move.

dukevesper from Gamefaqs had most of these tips!

 

[Ras]

I guess that explains why Erik only looked around when I called him on the megaphone today. It's day one of him being outside in my village.

 

[Gummysaur]

Yeah, if they look around when you call them it means you aren't good friends with them. If they bow and hum a small tune it means they're friends with you. If they smile and wave and make a loud hum noise it means you're good friends with them.

Funny, I got all my pictures from doing tiny chores like giving them a standard useless piece of furniture xD

 

[woody]

basically you have to kiss ass... something which i don't do

 

[teanigami]

Hmm.. I've been doing all kinds of chores, favors and visits as well as sending them letters with presents and all of them look around when I call them.

 

[Ras]

The lazies and normals will bow either way, right? Or do they wave when called on the megaphone? I didn't know there were two levels of positive responses, so now I need to wander around and do the megaphone thing again. I know Mallary gave me the highest level response just now.

 

[Lovely]

Thanks! I didn't know the megaphone helped. Trying to get Marina's picture

 

[edsett]

Lazies and Normals bow. Stitches bowed right after he gave me his picture.

 

[juneau]

Most of them wave/bow when I use the megaphone, but only one of them have given me their picture. Biskit randomly sent it to me in the mail once. c:

Aside from that, do villagers ever just hand you their picture, or do they always send it through mail or something? I only have the one, so I don't really know what to expect yet.

 

[edsett]

Aside from that, do villagers ever just hand you their picture, or do they always send it through mail or something? I only have the one, so I don't really know what to expect yet.

All of the pictures I've gotten were handed to me. I had no idea they could mail it you excluding the letter they send when they move out.

 

[Grishiu]

A great way to get a villager's pic is also on their birthday. Give them the present they are looking for (there are helpful guides for this) and they will reward you This is how I got Bianca's picture :3

 

[juneau]

All of the pictures I've gotten were handed to me. I had no idea they could mail it you excluding the letter they send when they move out.

Ah, I see. Yeah, I thought it was strange too, I remembered in ACWW they were handed to me. It was an unprompted letter too, he just sent it out of the blue.

 

[Jellieyz]

The megaphone trick is so tedious though, there are villagers whose names is so hard to pronounce. I have Ch?vre and Blanche in my town making it hard to say.

 

[ceribells]

Your friendship level is pretty high when they barge into your house while you're in your dresser/moving furniture. Annoying, but sweet. Also how they react when you sit on a bench with them; high friendships will look and you and smile (and keep smiling), lower friendships will just look at you and look away.

I'm not sure if getting random letters indicates they're at max friendship? I get random letters all the time, from everyone. Most relevant, Freya, my 2nd most recent move-in (besides Bianca who put her plot down today): she doesn't smile when I sit on a bench with her, and she looks around when I megaphone her, but she sends me letters like twice a week.

- - - Post Merge - - -

The megaphone trick is so tedious though, there are villagers whose names is so hard to pronounce. I have Ch?vre and Blanche in my town making it hard to say.

I'm almost certain it's pronounced like "bland," but with a "ch" sound as in "chomp" instead of the "d" sound. It's a real name that I've hear before. Also chevre is the french word for goat, "shev" as is "Chevrolet" (like the car company) plus "ruh." "Shev-ruh." Hope that helps

 

[Siren137]

Both Poppy and Rod gave me their pictures after doing jobs for them, then both also posted me them! Poppy out of the blue and Rod when he moved out! Still trying with the others though, will try the megaphone when I get home from work. Thanks for the tips!

 

[VioletsTown]

I have done so many petitons and they never give me their picture! Always sowm furniture... Grr, so frustraiting

 

[Gizmodo]

I do the reset trick after about 8/9 goes of giving them great gifts
have everyones pic bar bluebears

 

[toastia]

I have done so many petitons and they never give me their picture! Always sowm furniture... Grr, so frustraiting

Yea, it is kind of frustrating when they ask for furniture.

 

[nacy]

i've always just gotten them when they moved out, they never give me pics as a reward for a job and i know i'm at max friendship lol :x

 

[Candy83]

April Fool's Day, I've come across, is a giveaway day. You have to play that day perfectly.