CARTOON creator

If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles and avatars, why notcreate a cartoon characters of yourself? It’ll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in any online profiles and avatars, anywhere from Gravatar to MyBlogLog, blog profiles, Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, etc.

Thanks to many free web services, you don’t have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. All you have to do is upload your photo, or perform some mix and match. Here’s 11 websites that allows you to create a cartoon character of yourself.

1. Portrait Illustration Maker

   Portrait Illustration Maker is a service which provides character icons completely free of charge! They are available for your blog site or SNS. If you’d like to save the completed avatar, right-click on the icon. And then select "Save Picture As… " from the menu.
   

2. WeeWorld

   Create an cartoon character to represent yourself in WeeWord games (WeeMee) or just export it for anywhere else.
   

3. Meez

   Social entertainment website that allows users to create their own animated avatars, or "3D I.D." graphics, for the Web, to play casual games with their avatars, and to use them in customizable Rooms on social networks like Facebook.
   

4. Simpsonize Me

   Turn yourself into a simpson character.
   

5. Yahoo! Avatars

   

6. BeFunky

   

7. Buscar Messenger

   

8. Cartoon Me

   Cartoonize yourself as simple as uploading your photo, Cartoon Me will do the rest.
   

9. Joystiq Mii Characters

   Think of it as creating Mii characters, but online so you can use it anywhere.
   

10. MyPlay

    By far, one of the most sophisticated cartoon character creating free service. However this Taiwanese site is only for those who are able to interpret chinese words.
    

11. South Park Studio

    For south park fans, now you can become one of them.
    

12. Moonjee

    Virtual makeover and Make a face.