Always wanted a digital mini-me that walks, talks, and flirts just like you do? Unleash your creativity with Gizmoz new service, the totally 3-D talking avatar. You can create your own personal avatar in a matter of minutes, just upload a photo and Gizmos with render the image in digital form, then add body types, accessories, hair, clothes, etc. Alternatively, you can also choose a picture from their gallery and create your own avatar this way. Once you add in your voice, Gizmoz replicates how you might actually look speaking by adding facial movements, breathing, and gestures. From there, you can represent yourself by embedding your avatar in your social networking site, blog, website, or send it through email.

In their own words:
“Founded in 2003, Gizmoz offers consumers a new generation of
character-based visual expression for use across their digital lives.
The Gizmoz service makes it easy and fun to create, customize, animate
and share lifelike, 3D talking characters that enable consumers to put
a unique face and voice to their digital communications. Gizmoz
characters can be fashioned either as a self-portrait starting from a
single personal photo, or created using images from the Gizmoz
library, all in just a matter of minutes. The result is a customized
digital character that consumers can use to deliver personalized,
lip-synched messages in video clips and other forms of original
content. Gizmoz characters provide consumers with a unique and
engaging way to represent themselves, unleash their creativity,
communicate, and have fun on social networking and video sharing
sites, blogs, via email and more”

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