How to Create My New Avatar Characters
Because an avatar character represents you in email, social websites and chat, you can start with a simple picture of yourself. However, you may want preserve your anonymity and highlight a personality quirk or passion by developing a special image appropriate to its use. For example, you may want to use a clown to express humor in a gaming website or an elegant fashion model for a dating chat room. Fortunately, you have several options for creating your own avatar.
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Browse a chat room like Moove.com, which lets you create an avatar easily by choosing from face, hair, body and movement palettes. You can then use your creation to wander three-dimensional spaces where you can chat with other avatars. Though the site is basically free, adding cash increases your options, for example, in clothing.
Because your avatar is a permanent character, you can put together an entire wardrobe for her. Additionally, you can create her own room and decorate it to your specifications, so you have a place to hang out with other virtual people. The site does not even require a graphics card, making it suitable for low-level computers and dial-up connections.
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Visit a virtual world like SecondLife.com if you want more control over your character's appearance and functions. (You will need to download a client program, although the site works primarily online.) Your creation is confined only to this virtual world. If you want to use the image on other sites, you will need to do a screen capture and crop what you need with an outside art program like Photoshop.
Such aspects as hair color and length, height, and chest width are under your total control. You can also choose from preset clothing, accessories and furniture, which you can change when the need arises. You can also create your objects by importing them from outside programs or by developing them with the built-in programming language. If you do not feel like designing anything from scratch, then buy them from users who sell their creations through online stores.
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Run a commercial application like Poser (see link in Resources). This program offers the greatest flexibility but requires the most graphics and technical expertise since you can adjust individual points, contours and textures to define your character.
Transform built-in humans, animals and creatures characters through morphing dials. You can then further refine your avatar by adding clothes, sets, lighting and poses. If the preset options are not enough, you can buy nearly countless add-ons from several outside stores and user communities. You can also export your creation to many 2D and 3D formats like OBJ (Lightwave Object), which can be imported into many game and graphics applications.
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