Creating an Avatar

When I first looked over the extra credit assignments and saw the Avatar tab I was nervous.  How do I, the not so computer savvy guy, create an avatar?  I was dreading the thoughts I had of a laborous event.  I held off on starting this project until a few weeks into the semester.

Today I saw that a fellow student in the class had done their blog on creating an avatar and saw how easy it actually was.  I went to the site they had recommended, IMVU, and began the intial creation of my avatar.  After about 30 minutes I realized I was struggling a bit to get my changes to take on my avatar.   I thought  that this avatar looked more life like, but maybe there is a more user friendly site. 

After searching through the recommended sites I came across http://www.meez.com/ .  This site was easy to set up a new account and get started.  All I had to do was create an account, enter my personal information, and finally give my email address. 

Click Join Now

Select Your Avatar

Enter Personal Information

Logged In and Ready to Adapt Avatar to My Image

Once logged in I was able to adapt my avatar to look like me.  It was very simple and only took 15 minutes to change my hairstyle to bald, change my shirt to something that matches my style, and then click save to ensure all my work was properly updated.  The five tabs across the top appropriately labeled for what they do are a simple click and update to make changes.  The search block is also helpful on this site.

Here is my self image on my avatar, Philfe1.  I will definitely refer others trying to do an avatar to this simple website.

Me in Avatar Form