11 Sites To Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself

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If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles and avatars, why not create a cartoon characters of yourself? It’ll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartonized way in any online profiles and avatars, anywhere from Gravatar to MyBlogLog, blog profiles, Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, etc.

Thanks to many free web services, you don’t have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. All you have to do is upload your photo, or perform some mix and match. Here’s 11 websites that allows you to create a cartoon character of yourself.

Portrait Illustration Maker

Portrait Illustration Maker is a service which provides character icons completely free of charge! They are available for your blog site or SNS. If you’d like to save the completed avatar, right-click on the icon. And then select "Save Picture As… " from the menu.
WeeWorld

Create an cartoon character to represent yourself in WeeWord games (WeeMee) or just export it for anywhere else.
Meez

Social entertainment website that allows users to create their own animated avatars, or "3D I.D." graphics, for the Web, to play casual games with their avatars, and to use them in customizable Rooms on social networks like Facebook.

Simpsonize Me

Turn yourself into a simpson character.
Yahoo! Avatars
BeFunky
Buscar Messenger
Cartoon Me

Cartoonize yourself as simple as uploading your photo, Cartoon Me will do the rest.
Joystiq Mii characters

Think of it as creating Mii characters, but online so you can use it anywhere.
MyPlay

By far, one of the most sophisticated cartoon character creating free service. However this Taiwanese site is only for those who are able to interpret chinese words.
South Park Studio

For south park fans, now you can become one of them.

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Comments

Jusdy J. February 28th, 2008

nice entry…i’ll link back to your post….
vickie February 28th, 2008

erm I’m interested on CartoonMe that vector a real phone of myself
gaTO February 28th, 2008

hey hong kiat..nice blog here la..i’ll support u man..really cool to get updates about tech stuff..
Edward February 29th, 2008

Been playing with Simpsonize Me for some time, hehe kinda hilarious when u see yourself transform, feels like you are one of the character in Simpson :P
Carbono February 29th, 2008

Very nice… i’ll test.
Reza.R February 29th, 2008

hi,
very nice post
i will translate it to Persian for my blog.
tnx again !!!!
Josh February 29th, 2008

Cool links! Thankx
Steve Yu February 29th, 2008

Wow, love it so much.
Craig March 1st, 2008

Hi!
You might also like to try http://www.toonlet.com.
Toonlet places the emphasis squarely on character creation, and features a powerful avatar tool so you can make characters that look authentically hand-drawn.

From there, it’s easy to build out a library of moods for your characters to use in their comic strips.

Swing on by and check out the site, or take the toonlet tour:
http://www.toonlet.com/tour

Let us know what you think!

Thanks!
-Craig (from toonlet)
摩摩诘 March 2nd, 2008

another site: MSN cartooner

http://cartoon.msn.com.cn/
Krika March 3rd, 2008

Very nice, cool links.Thanks.
Syahid A. March 3rd, 2008

Cool list HK. I am going to try one of those.
WeLovePenang March 6th, 2008

thanks a lot for the sharing.. among the 12.. i like the WeeWorld.. the best among all…

for cartoon me also good.. but need to pay…. wat to do.. everyone is looking for freelunch….
petnos March 11th, 2008

thanks…
Mandi March 11th, 2008

I love this post - I use the Southpark studios all the time, but you had a few one’s I’ve never seen. Thanks for sharing!
johannz March 18th, 2008

Is cartoonme free ?Isurfed the site it seems they charge us forthe service. Something around 3.5 euros
Just for addiitonl info I hav made my cartoony photo on Cartoonized (link: http://cartoonized.net/cartoonme.php) prviusly. I luv the look.
anonymous March 25th, 2008

some of the want to charge costs. maybe you cold add a $-symbol where it costs money…
Rim March 25th, 2008

Nice list, thanks for making me discover the Simpsonize me. :)
Katie March 26th, 2008

…or….you learn to draw :/
http://katie.blogsite.org
Free Buttons by Bill March 27th, 2008

Funny and cool post! Clever idea for an article.
webtutes March 28th, 2008

Very nice stuff here ! Thank you !
Maura Welch March 31st, 2008

Great post - and thanks for adding WeeMees.

At WeeWorld WeeMees download millions of FREE items from WeeWorld every week - cool clothes, great gear, pets, food, accessories - you even get your very own room.
Penang Tua Pui April 5th, 2008

thanks for the sharing and we had made our own avatar for our web… thanks…
Jason Bates - Lushable.com April 8th, 2008

Awesome post, i love online avatars!
Shreemani May 18th, 2008

I will definitely try these websites for myself as well. :)
Song May 24th, 2008

Very interesting. But the characters are not very well drawned.
Another site like : http://www.imvu.com
eddi May 27th, 2008

Interesting post.definitely useful stuff. You can also try out quicktoons.com or read about this here .
Wing Loon June 2nd, 2008

I am finding a site that allows to create a caricature. Anybody know it?
hongkiat June 2nd, 2008

@Wing Loon Maybe you have to try offline, Central Market perhaps. Haha.
Ashfame June 15th, 2008

Good post again.
Will try it.
Stumbled again.
Luni June 20th, 2008

Very very cool of you to postthis!I’ve been searching for free cartoonizer since 4 ever!I realy just want to create a avatar based on my pic…the myplay seem very interesting..i realy hope there will be an english version very soon!Or if someone can help me with it pls let me know:-D
Samardeep July 9th, 2008

Very cool information you have given. I’ll try many of them. Thanks a lot.

http://funmania.awardspace.com
Kate July 9th, 2008

cartoon me is not free!
Andy August 7th, 2008

ty for the links
Just Saying August 7th, 2008

This is awesome!
lie fung August 9th, 2008

Nice post…:)

That’s very informative and helpful

http://liefung.callrid.com
Ooty Tour August 13th, 2008

Let me Tryout.

http://www.ootytour.com
Kiqlo August 16th, 2008

If you want a place to store, download and sell your cartoon you can try http://www.kiqlo.com
We just started but we are day by day populating it with content.
owel September 4th, 2008

http://www.faceyourmanga.com

really popular avatar maker here.

nice post btw.
AnggaRifandi September 14th, 2008

wow, great site. thanks for your info. from your list, site that I’ve visited is yahoo avatar. by the way, nice post.
Kazelrjb September 21st, 2008

Hi webmaster!
Kazelvsu September 21st, 2008

Hi webmaster!
Kazelwxf September 21st, 2008

Hi webmaster!
jnm September 22nd, 2008

this is the most dumbest website ever
man October 1st, 2008

who can make classic cartoons characters?
ambien October 8th, 2008

Hi webmaster!
shafar October 8th, 2008

Nice post..
cialis October 9th, 2008

Hi webmaster!