There are quite a few applications in the app store that allow you to create your own avatar. However, some are just simply a waste of time. WeeMee Avatar Creator is definitely one of the better apps out there. Its simple interface and descent package of items allows the user to quickly create a great looking avatar to save to the photo library or assign to a contact. However, there is certainly room for improvement.
My favorite part about WeeMee is also my biggest criticism. It’s very easy to create an avatar using this application. However, at the same time it may be a bit too easy. You can create plenty of avatars to assign to the contacts in your phone. However, you will quickly run out of combinations, making you hope for more updates to add items and features.
There really are a ton of options available to you when creating your avatar. You start off with a naked WeeMee (with underwear on). You can change the skin tone, head shape, weight, eye color, facial emotion and hairstyle. After that, you’ll spend more of your time adding accessories and a background. You can choose any of these options by simply swiping left or right across the screen. If the color can be changed, a small icon will appear that, when tapped on, will display a drop down list of colors to choose from. The color pallets always show only reasonable colors for that selection. For example, you won’t see orange when choosing a color for skin. So, unfortunately, you can’t make your WeeMee look like the blue characters from the movie, Avatar.
One negative in the WeeMee creation process is the fact that every feature you select is automatically placed where the app thinks it should be placed. So, you can’t move the eyes around to make them closer together or wider apart. When selecting an accessory item, you can’t move it around to where you’d like it to be and there are no zoom or resize capabilities. Everything has an exact spot and a predefined size and orientation. These restrictions are fine if you want to quickly create an avatar, but are frustrating if you’d like to spend some time to really make the WeeMee look exactly the way you want it to look.
After you’ve created your avatar, you can save it to your WeeMee gallery. From there, you can further edit it, save it to your photo library or assign it to a contact, so when they call your phone, you’ll see the avatar pop up.
WeeMee Avatar Creator is a great application that provides a good amount of options for most of your needs. The app is simple to use and the avatars look great when finished. However, there should be many more options available to the user for creation. There should be more items and more freedom to resize and reposition facial features and accessories. Additionally, there should be an option to share your WeeMee to Facebook and Twitter. Sharing to these social networking sites is becoming an application standard and this one should be no exception. Overall, WeeMee is a fun and solid app for fulfilling your avatar creating urges. Go get it.
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