Avatar Creation

This exercise is a fun way for the team to do little portraits of each other, even if you have 0 artistic talent! There are a ton of Japanese avatar builders that artists make where you can pick from different hair, eyes, expressions, and outfits to build a quick illustrated avatar. These end up as great profile photos for Slack or social media too!

Agenda

• 5 min - Intro explainer of the exercise and maybe a demo of one avatar maker since many are in Japanese

• 30 min

  • Option 1: Assign everyone a partner and have them create as many avatars for their partner as possible within the time limit

  • Option 2: Depending on the size of the team, split up the time into speed rounds and do a partner rotation

• 5 min - Paste your creations into Figma and group portraits either by artist or subject

• 20 min - Presentations OR another fun option is a guessing game of who the portrait is of!

Resources

Avatar makers that I like because they’re more customizable and inclusive for a diverse team 🙂:

• https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/94097

• https://picrew.me/image_maker/296093

• https://picrew.me/image_maker/136066

• https://picrew.me/image_maker/114808

• https://picrew.me/image_maker/262676

• https://meiker.io/play/11341/online.html

• https://picrew.me/image_maker/257476

• https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/171084