Gareth Jones

I’ve just finished developing Quak Avatar Creator. This little application allows webmasters to provide their users with a great way to create high quality avatars with a consistent look and feel.

The screenshots below show the app with some example graphics supplied by Andy Quick, but the point of the app is that it allows website owners to quickly and easily replace those graphics with their own so that the avatars that users create match their website’s look and feel, whether that be cartoon graphics, photo-realistic graphics or whatever.

Here are some key points:

• The avatar can be exported both to an image and to a database.
• For image exports, both the crop area and scale of the resulting image can easily be configured to generate images of any size and shape – ideal whether used for full-screen profile pages, forum icons or anything else.
• Webmasters can easily add new categories i.e pets, make-up etc.
• Webmasters can also pass settings to the app to force it to default to either gender (for instance in cases where the gender of a logged in user is already known) or they can let the user select their gender before getting started.
• If no previous avatar is found in the database or if database saving has been disabled, the app will randomly generate an avatar for the user to edit as a starting point.

To play with the app please click here.

Please note that for demonstration purposes the app has been set to offer your avatar for download. This setting can easily be disabled when the app is deployed on your website.

If you’d like to buy the app or would like to discuss the provision of new avatar graphics to match your website, please get in touch.