We received a great tip about something cool that we just had to check out. The person who submitted the tip did a great job of succinctly describing it so we’ll start off by sharing what the submissions said about the website called Avatara.

The creators of Evolver, the world’s first web based tool for building custom 3D character models, have just launched Avatara™, a new site designed specifically for social media enthusiasts. Avatara enables fast, easy creation and upload of customized, animated 3D avatars for use on Facebook, Myspace and for instant messaging to friends. Check it out!

That description sounded like enough for us to want to check out so we headed over to the Avatara website and here is what we found:

• This is a website where you can easily create an animated avatar of yourself.
• The process is super simple. You can either use an existing avatar or upload your own photo. Your photo does have to be larger than thumbnail size though.
• You can choose a lot of different actions for your Avatar. We like the "peek-a-boo" action shown above.
• You can upload the image to over two dozen different social networking sites to use as your profile avatar.
• It’s fun!

The two drawbacks we could see on the site:

• They’re in the process of upgrading their capacity. Until they do it’s a little bit slow to work with. It does work though.
• You have to either use OpenID or sign up for a free account. It’s not that difficult but it’s one more step in the process.

This is really cool. It seems like it’s the next thing we’re going to see a lot of in terms of profile pictures on social networking sites.

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