
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.
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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.
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WeeWorld
Create an cartoon character to represent yourself in WeeWord games (WeeMee) or just export it for anywhere else.
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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.
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Simpsonize Me
Turn yourself into a simpson character.
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Yahoo! Avatars
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BeFunky
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Buscar Messenger
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Cartoon Me
Cartoonize yourself as simple as uploading your photo, Cartoon Me will do the rest.
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Joystiq Mii characters
Think of it as creating Mii characters, but online so you can use it anywhere.
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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.
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South Park Studio
For south park fans, now you can become one of them.
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Posted by hongkiat in Web 2.0 , at 02.28.08
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Comments
Jusdy J. February 28th, 2008
nice entry…i’ll link back to your post….
Replyvickie February 28th, 2008
erm I’m interested on CartoonMe that vector a real phone of myself
ReplygaTO February 28th, 2008
hey hong kiat..nice blog here la..i’ll support u man..really cool to get updates about tech stuff..
ReplyEdward 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
ReplyCarbono February 29th, 2008
Very nice… i’ll test.
ReplyReza.R February 29th, 2008
hi,
Replyvery nice post
i will translate it to Persian for my blog.
tnx again !!!!
Josh February 29th, 2008
Cool links! Thankx
ReplySteve Yu February 29th, 2008
Wow, love it so much.
ReplyCraig 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!
Reply-Craig (from toonlet)
摩摩诘 March 2nd, 2008
another site: MSN cartooner
http://cartoon.msn.com.cn/
ReplyKrika March 3rd, 2008
Very nice, cool links.Thanks.
ReplySyahid A. March 3rd, 2008
Cool list HK. I am going to try one of those.
ReplyWeLovePenang 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….
Replypetnos March 11th, 2008
thanks…
ReplyMandi 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!
Replyjohannz March 18th, 2008
Is cartoonme free ?Isurfed the site it seems they charge us forthe service. Something around 3.5 euros
ReplyJust 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…
ReplyRim March 25th, 2008
Nice list, thanks for making me discover the Simpsonize me. :)
ReplyKatie March 26th, 2008
…or….you learn to draw :/
Replyhttp://katie.blogsite.org
Free Buttons by Bill March 27th, 2008
Funny and cool post! Clever idea for an article.
Replywebtutes March 28th, 2008
Very nice stuff here ! Thank you !
ReplyMaura 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.
ReplyPenang Tua Pui April 5th, 2008
thanks for the sharing and we had made our own avatar for our web… thanks…
ReplyJason Bates - Lushable.com April 8th, 2008
Awesome post, i love online avatars!
ReplyShreemani May 18th, 2008
I will definitely try these websites for myself as well. :)
ReplySong May 24th, 2008
Very interesting. But the characters are not very well drawned.
ReplyAnother 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 .
ReplyWing Loon June 2nd, 2008
I am finding a site that allows to create a caricature. Anybody know it?
Replyhongkiat June 2nd, 2008
@Wing Loon Maybe you have to try offline, Central Market perhaps. Haha.
ReplyAshfame June 15th, 2008
Good post again.
ReplyWill 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
ReplySamardeep July 9th, 2008
Very cool information you have given. I’ll try many of them. Thanks a lot.
http://funmania.awardspace.com
ReplyKate July 9th, 2008
cartoon me is not free!
ReplyAndy August 7th, 2008
ty for the links
ReplyJust Saying August 7th, 2008
This is awesome!
Replylie fung August 9th, 2008
Nice post…:)
That’s very informative and helpful
http://liefung.callrid.com
ReplyOoty Tour August 13th, 2008
Let me Tryout.
http://www.ootytour.com
ReplyKiqlo August 16th, 2008
If you want a place to store, download and sell your cartoon you can try http://www.kiqlo.com
ReplyWe 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.
ReplyAnggaRifandi 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.
ReplyKazelrjb September 21st, 2008
Hi webmaster!
ReplyKazelvsu September 21st, 2008
Hi webmaster!
ReplyKazelwxf September 21st, 2008
Hi webmaster!
Replyjnm September 22nd, 2008
this is the most dumbest website ever
Replyman October 1st, 2008
who can make classic cartoons characters?
Replyambien October 8th, 2008
Hi webmaster!
Replyshafar October 8th, 2008
Nice post..
Replycialis October 9th, 2008
Hi webmaster!
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