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The Character Creator

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About the Character Creator

The Character Creator aims to provide a fun and easy way to help you find a look for your characters. Just like the japanese kisekae (electronic paper dolls), you pick and choose items from a list to ornate your character with. It is free to use and will always remain free to use. For storytellers looking for spritesheets of their characters, we offer those services on demand.

The website was launched on January 11th 2014 with only basic functionality. Since then, new features and content have been added with every update, see details on our facebook page.

If you have any questions or comments, or if you want to get involved, either as a programmer or an artist, email your request.

copyright © 2014-2023 Studio Chacre

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can I use the characters I've created on this site in my game?

A: The art is licensed cc-by-nc. You are free to use for non-commercial products as long as you credit the site. If you want to use characters in a commercial product, you can obtain a license by visiting our Patreon page and pledging $5 a month or more.

Q: How can I download my new character?

A: Once you've chosen a sex and skin color for your character, the download button in the top-right menu will be enabled. Clicking 'Download' will prompt you to save the file to disk.

Q: How do I get a jpg or png version of my character?

A: Once you've downloaded the vector file from the site (.svg) you can open it and export to the format of your choice in your favorite graphics program.

Q: What application can I use to open the vector file?

A: Any graphics program that supports SVG will do. Popular programs like Photoshop and Illustrator will do, personally I use Inkscape, it's free and works very well.

Q: Where can I learn more about the origin of the Character Creator?

A: You can read here all about how the idea came about in this IndieHacker Interview

Q: Where can I learn more about how the site works under the hood?

A: Watch this presentation at the Libre Graphics Meeting

Congrats on Creating your Character.

You can view, edit and export to other formats with vector graphics programs such as Inkscape. Characters are free to use under the cc-by-nc license. Get a commercial license, more angles and positions, supplemental art when you join our Patreon.

I love getting email from creatives. If you have a minute, please let me know what you use The Character Creator for, and what features or items you'd like to see.

frederic@charactercreator.org

The Character Creator dot org

Created by

Frédéric Guimont

Patreon.com/CharacterCreator

This project is made possible thanks our distinguished patrons. We salute you!

Creators

  1. James P Often
  2. Kevin Jenkins (k-town)
  3. Rich Lonely
  4. Patrick L Ball
  5. Vener Garayev

Supporting Actors

  1. Ralph Cole
  2. Mohamad nazarnezhad

Participants

  1. Maxim St-Hilaire
  2. Cappa Ribou
  3. Jared Pearson
  4. Klavdij Voncina
  5. Simon Prest
  6. David Robinson
  7. Lindsay Linamen
  8. Javier Acosta
  9. POPaPOTEMUS
  10. Susanne Carlsson
  11. Ankita Gautam
  12. Bharath
  13. Atixi
  14. IdrilKalean
  15. Tony Hook
  16. Rissa Chelly
  17. Mark Frederickson
  18. Michael Carr

Contributors

  1. Eric Sperano
  2. Pablo Saxtron
  3. Martin Caspers
  4. Danfe IMpex
  5. Frederik Houde
  6. Zebulon
  7. Dominique Dehareng
  8. Loran Thomas
  9. Alex
  10. Jason Hill
  11. Maxwell Somto Nwabunike
  12. Sylvia Barnes
  13. Norin
  14. Arielle Danos
  15. Deven Shanner
  16. Melissa Vassar
  17. Story Storm
  18. Jesús Portugal Xespe
  19. Roman Ondrus
  20. EbiRa
  21. Gwendolyn Shinault
  22. Julian Grant
  23. Alexandra Engelhardt

Studio Chacre

CEO Frédéric Guimont
SEO Maxim St-Hilaire
Developper Robin Millette
Operations Pablo Saxtron

The Character Creator was built on the shoulders of giants:

Free Software used in this project:

HTML5 Javascript/Ecmascript
Inkscape Scalable Vector Graphics
VI Improved Atom
Caddy CouchDB
Certbot Bourne Again SHell
Ubuntu Debian
Github GNU-Linux

© copyright 2014-2022 Frédéric Guimont

Non-Fungible Tokens

Immortalize your Character as a Non-Fungible Token on the Ethereum Blockchain today. Simply copy the URL (The address bar contains all the information needed to recreate your character) and paste it in an email with the subject line "NFT" and address it to:

frederic@charactercreator.org

Price: 0.1 ETH per character

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1) Choose the sex of your character.

2) Select your character's skin tone.

3) Pick a category and click on an option from the list to open a selection of items for your character to try on. You can also click on your character to open up relevant items to choose from.

4) Choose an item to try it on.

5) You can change the colors here.

6) You can always request a random character here.

7) Download your character and register an account to save your character for later use.