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Avatar makers and dress-up games, which are really just character creators liberated from the games they were trapped in. A whole subculture.
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A cheerful cartoon avatar generator in one fixed illustration style, endlessly recombined and free to use anywhere.
A straightforward cartoon portrait builder with vector output, useful for when a real profile photo is genuinely not an option.
The sister site, strong on anime and historical portrait makers, with an unreasonable and very welcome number of hair options.
Anime avatar makers with genuinely good line art, including versions that output something usable as a profile picture.
An avatar library where you can dial through a dozen illustration styles and copy the result straight out as an image.
Hundreds of dress-up games covering mythology, history and fandoms, drawn by actual artists rather than an asset pipeline.
A directory that has been curating this genre since 2004, including a great many games nobody else bothered to archive.
A superhero character creator with a costume parts library deep enough to have outlasted three separate web technologies.
A platform where creators publish their own dress-up games, which is largely how the genre survived the death of Flash.
A hand-drawn library of mix-and-match people, free for anything, and quietly the source of half the internet's illustrations.
A hand-drawn character builder in the Open Peeps style, producing an avatar that does not look machine-generated.
A Japanese platform hosting tens of thousands of illustrator-made avatar makers, each one in a completely different style.
A pastel multiplayer world whose real draw is the character creator, where people spend far longer than in the game itself.
The South Park character maker that has been running since 1999 and still gets updated with props from new episodes.
Millions of uploaded Minecraft skins plus an editor, which is the closest thing that game has ever had to a fashion scene.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.