You need to be aware of one crucial thing in your life: Not everyone has fantastic design skills like me to create a super cute cartoon avatar that looks like ponies. In this article, I will show you how to create a cartoon avatar from photo for free
Anyway, not everyone has mastered Gimp, Illustrator or Photoshop to make their avatar from scratch. Moreover, recently, I published articles on this subject which interested you quite a bit (those on the Funko Pop and Avataaars avatars, to be more precise).
But two options are a bit light. Here is a list of other tools that will allow you to create your avatars in a few clicks and that for no money.
Mangatar
This site allows you to design manga-type avatars and offers a series of satellite sites centred on different universes. Zombie, Star Treck, Cthulhu, Vampire, Super Heroes, Avatar and many others are available from the "More Avatars" menu. This one alone should appeal to quite a few people! The site has been around since 2009 and does not go out of fashion too much.
Cartoonify
It allows you to play on more than 300 different criteria. This goes from the hairstyle through the shape of the face, the colour of the clothes, the eyes, the background ... Among the possibilities that we do not often find, there is, for example, the fact of being able to move each element in the desired position, tilt the head, etc.
No idea? One-click on the random generation of avatar and voila. You can get your image in 3 different formats: 2 PNG (200 × 200 and 600 × 600) and SVG's last one. Or share your creation directly on Twitter and Pinterest.
Portrait Illustration Maker
The site is Japanese, so I gave you the direct link to the approximate French version, which will be sufficient. All you have to do is choose the options in the image blocks at the top of the page and modify them according to your wishes. The settings wheel allows you to add text, repositioning certain elements and choose its output format (PNG, GIF or JPG). Significant defect the final image is really small (96 pixels per side). And then it's not very beautiful.
Face Your Manga
This one is also very well known. It has been around for almost ten years, I believe, but is still as effective as ever. On the other hand, a small problem uses Adobe Flash to function, which will therefore have to be activated in your browser.
The operation is similar to the previous ones, you have several dozen/hundreds of choices to create your cartoon avatar or use the "random" button to go randomly.
One of the strengths of the site is the level of detail. You can add scars, marks on the face, tattoos, accessories or quite varied clothes. To retrieve your Mangatar, you will still need to leave an email address.
Cartoon.Photo
Here the principle is a little different. You will start from a "realistic" photo to transform it. Therefore, it is not reserved only for avatars, but starting from an image of your face, you will be able to give it a half-realistic, half-caricature side or perform animated morphing (or not). There's even the option to create some pretty creepy faces. Well, the result is not always great, but it's still fun.
South Park Studio
It's all in the name. Here is an avatar with South Park sauce waiting for you! If you select an illustration in the background, adding the same & co, you can go beyond the simple avatar and create a complete image. There are no tons of options, but the choices for each are different enough that you get quite a variety of avatars.
Avachara
Another site for manga type avatars. Girl or boy, you will have fun modifying the face, the mouth, the accessories, the clothes and a lot of other options. Quite fast, no-frills and quite diverse so it should suit a lot of you. To retrieve your creation, you must click on the camera button under the image. 2 formats are available: 200px by 400 and 480 by 480.
Kawaii Avatar
If you are on a Japanese pop culture trip, you will create your personalized appearance with this generator. You will have to fumble a little to see each option because they are not displayed by default. You have to click on the numbers. Not much choice in the end, but faces that are really in the Pokémon spirit and that sort of thing.
Hexatar
Have you already understood the peculiarity of this one? Well, yes, it is to create hexagonal avatars (well, more or less what). Level options we are in the average, on the other hand, the final results can differ from each other as you can see on this page, do not hesitate to be inspired! Another nice little thing the retrieved image will be quite large (512 pixels aside).
Kartunix
What is immediately striking here is the variety of choices. Whether it's a Lego, Angry Birds, manga, superhero, logo, creatures or even cartoon-style avatar, anything is possible. About fifty avatars all from different universes. There aren't necessarily dozens of options to change for each style, though. For some, it will be limited to the female / male gender and to 1 or 2 options.
Family Guy Yourself
This generator is based on an idea similar to the one on the South Park cartoon above, but this time dedicated to Family Guy (or Les Griffins in French).
The Bouletmaton
You probably already know Boulet's blog, the designer who runs the bouletcorp site. Well, be aware that it also offers a premium avatar generator. Yes, my good lady: superior. The design is recognizable between 1000, and you will be able to get an avatar that looks like your head if Boulet himself had drawn it.
Any resemblance to a confined person of your acquaintance would be fortuitous. Thank you, Vincent, for the reminder
Pit crew
Second generator mentioned by the community: Picrew (thank you, Renan!). If you speak Japanese, it will help, but you should be fine even if you don't. Rather, the site is a compilation of different generators, over 5,000 in total. There is a choice in the avatar style to create (humans, animals, objects, calligraphy, pixel…), less in the number of options for each character. It's very manga, cartoon, kawaii & co.
Dicebear
Dicebear avatars will please you because they are not necessarily very widespread. You can create a character that has not already been seen 36 times (which is a bit of a problem with services like Face Your Manga & co).
Here the choice will be between pixelated faces, robots, QR codes, etc. Use the wheel at the top left to customize colours, size, and other options. The generator also offers an HTTP API and allows you to retrieve the SVG file.
RoboHash
Robohash is centred on the themes of robots, cats and monsters. Ideal, for example, if you create an identity on a game of this kind. A small feature of the site is to create an avatar based on a text that you provide. You don't choose the shape of the head, the eyes or anything else. You just add any text (name, IP address, article paragraph…). For "Korben", it generates me this robot, for example:
That will already make a few more. I won't repeat every time what you can change or how it works. All are more or less based on the same principle. But if the ones I just told you aren't enough, here are a few more. I'll let you play with it. Note that some of them will require Adobe Flash.
- Doppel Me
- UI Avatars
- Dude Factory
- avatars generator
- Micro Giochi
- Pocoyize
- Divine Doll
- Vonvon Mini
- Chart
- Rinmaru Games
Note: I didn't mention apps on phones because otherwise, I had them until the end of the year
