Avatar doll

Create an Avatar Doll: Also known as Dollz, Cartoon Dolls or Pixel Dolls, an Avatar Doll is a small bitmap image of people that are used online as avatars, online signatures or just to represent as artwork on personal web pages. Varying from a few pixels to a few hundred pixels, the dolls use human figures as the basic templates on which a wide range of styles are put.

With Dolling becoming a widespread Internet phenomenon and a personal hobby for many, more and more people are turning in to know how to create an Avatar Doll. Learning to use a graphics program such as Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro is the first step towards learning to create one; afterwards, it is added with apparels and other adornments and decorations, sometimes even a background or props. Applets are also used as the other popular tools to impart the drag-n-drop effect; they load both bases and the adornments to combine a base and various accessories.

Avatar Doll: The Doll Maker A doll maker is a term used for any webpage that allows people to create the dollz by combining various doll parts like hair, clothing and accessories on top of a doll base. The most popular dolls created by using the doll makers are Shuni, Unique, Fashion Punk, Sonderbar, Bonita, Designer, Sweet and Silent, that were created when the simple drag-and-drop versions evolved into feature-rich and easy-to-use programs. We enlist below the most popular ones:

· www.pixelbee.com - PixelBee Dollmakers

· www.daintydolls.com - Dainty Dolls

· www.thedollpalace.com - Doll Palace

· www.dolls.virgula.com - Dolls.com.

· www.dollzmania.com - Dollz Mania

· www.dollzmaniacs.com - Dollzmaniacs

· www.elouai.com - eLouai

· www.over-the-moon.org - Josie's Dollz

· www.pixelportal.ru - Pixelportal dollmakers

· www.madamemalkins.com - Madame Malkins

· www.mammasmilk.com - Pregnant Dollz

· www.shiftreload.com.au/users/pixie/">Dollzbliss

· www.the-dollhouse.org - The Dollhouse

Avatar Doll and The Palace: The Palace, originally created by Jim Bumgardner in 1996 included the server software in the package to run on consumer PCs, contrary to the idea of them being housed in a central location. Currently, there are hundreds of palaces out there; the software programs are used to access graphical chat rooms or palaces where users are represented by default spherical emoticons that sometimes wear bitmaps or props. Used by the entire global population to interact with each other and make friends through a virtual world, the palace clients and servers support Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows as the platforms. The Palace also features a flexible avatar system to create a unique looks. The Mansion, Practice Palace, The Welcome Palace and Avatar Palace are a few popular ones.

Online chat and Avatar Doll: The first instances were noticed in 1995; the avatars showed up for use on the visual chat client called The Palace. Simplistic and starting from a generic base, the dolls also comprised 44 by 44-pixel props and were known as little people and then skaters. The modifications on the dollz were called editz, which also attracted contests on a daily basis on the style of outfits, color schemes, music themes and accessories. Now, with their popularity grown more than what it used to be before, the creation of dollz have become more of an art form, the recent incorporation being anime styles.