that anime avatar meme...

[ratcreature]

All day yesterday there appeared these avatars on my f-list which were made with this generator, and frankly I think they look kind of crappy, and I don't even like manga-style. Yet in a fairly irrational response I started to feel like I missed some fun, so I checked out the generator, but I actually didn't have much fun playing, because really the choices don't fit at all with my virtual self-image. For one, the noses offered are all far too small. :D

When I tried whether my cartoon might lend itself towards a maga-style adaption however, the results were fairly horrible and slightly scary. You can judge for yourself:



(I can't draw worth crap in manga style, so I only did the head, no clothes or anything elaborate.)

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[ratcreature]

Heh. I have to admit that I just couldn't resist poking fun at these avatars a little bit, because I was seeing them all day, and despite the clothes they all looked the same to me. And while some of these generators produce okay looking things (like the one at dookyweb that produces these floating cartoonheads? at least that one has a lot of options, so that the avatars all look noticeably different), a lot really make crappy looking images. It always boggles me when I see one of those things used in actual icon images.

I get that there's some fun with wasting time with the virtual equivalent of paper dolls, but I thought that one was rather boring. You know, talking about such paper dolls, now I totally want a generator to create your personal superhero slash OTP picture, like you'd get the basic form of two typical superhero guys in a (semi-) explicit position, and then you can change skin color, hair etc, and then add costume items, like tights, masks and such... So it would be like a crack OTP generator, only with pictures. :D

[thete1.livejournal.com]

Oh God, that would be... the end of all my productivity in all forms. AHAHAHAA.

THE TIME I WOULD SPEND MAKING THE COSTUMES -- and parts of costumes, heh -- JUST RIGHT. *hee*