Posts Tagged ‘avatar’

Letteri, a five-time Oscar winner, and Lemmon will provide a look into WETA’s process as a worldwide social media presentation. Visitors to the livestream event will hear from other filmmakers, including director Rupert Wyatt, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the work of actor Andy Serkis, whose nuanced performance is playing a key role in WETA’s rendering of Caesar, the film’s principal ape character.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

The earthquake in Japan and the flood of tsunami devastate some of the most major areas. As a warm and caring gesture for the country and its survivors, Weeworld.com and its WeeMee Avatar Creator app are offering items for sale with 100% of the proceeds going to Japan Earthquake relief. Kibou the Shibu Inu pup [...]

Viewers can submit questions to James Cameron via Twitter using the hashtag #virginmobilelive. This live event and its archive will be available exclusively from the Virgin Mobile LIVE Facebook page.

500 million of us have a Facebook profile, but what if the socializing there could be expanded to the entire web? The creators of Googlin, a social web surfing application, are hoping that an immersive social web experience – from CNN’s homepage to your Google searches – is the next generation.

I have seen some cool profile pics for some of my friends over Facebook and Twitter and I always wanted to create my own. As it turns out there are plenty of free online tools to have fun with and cartoon yourself.

Below you can find some of the best tools including South Park and Simpsons character generators. Of course that’s not all – you can find many more apps for this online. Feel free to share your findings in comments!

Simpson Avatar Generator

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