Create Your Own Avatar

You can create your own avatar without an advanced degree and have fun doing so. Creating your own avatar is fun and let’s you explore your creativity while enjoying a virtual world full of excitement. Try to create an avatar with an interesting look and personality, be original and unique.

The First Step

To create your own avatar you must first become a member of a virtual community such as Second Life. Inside the virtual world your avatar will represent you as a virtual person and can do everything a person does in the real world and more. It will talk to other avatars, go on dates, go to work, attend classes, play games and own land. Your self-created avatar can be as realistic or as wild and wacky as you like and that is all part of the great fun to be found in this virtual world.

After becoming a member in a virtual world you will be directed to create your own avatar and that’s where the fun really begins. In Second Life you choose your avatar starting look during the registration process. Once in-world you can customize your avatar through easy step by step modules. Each module uses Adobe Photo Shop to help you make a fabulous creation that takes advantage of your personal creativity.

Beginning with a basic body form, you will choose eye and hair color, body shape, clothing, eyes, and many other features for your avatar. As soon as your avatar has been customized, you will be ready to enjoy the virtual realm.

Using Your Avatar

Maneuvering through virtual environments with you avatar is an amazing and easy experience if you master the art of controlling your avatar. All virtual worlds have different means by which to control avatars but Second Life offers one of the best.

Using your keyboard as a control panel you can send your avatar off on all sorts of adventures. Use the arrow keys and mouse for basic navigation. Your avatars can basically walk, run, jump, fly, swim, drive and teleport but you can also use all kind of animations to give them “life”. You can make your avatar chat with anyone you happen to meet and have a cup of Joe with the virtual avatars you really like. Many Second Lifers use their avatars to attend virtual schools, network or create virtual clothing.

The Next Step

Loads of users choose to create their own avatar without using the provided templates. These advanced avatars can be anything you can imagine. They are more complicated to create but well worth the time spent if you plan to spend a lot of time in the virtual realm. If you want to have a real unique avatar, you need to go beyond the second life default avatars and make one by yourself or ask a professional designer to make it for you.

To make an advanced avatar you can visit areas in Second Life that explain the process and give you great hints. If you see an avatar you like you can have a short chat with the creator and get help. If you prefer, you can purchase an avatar and use the modules and templates available to personalize it and get your own look.

To create your own avatar, whether the simple ones or advanced masterpieces, you will need to use your imagination. Have you always wanted to be a blue haired lady? Did you ever imagine yourself as having a buff beach body? Do you like to decorate your body with fancy tattoos? You can make your wildest dreams come true in the virtual world.