13 Customizable Commercials & Animations (SUPER GALLERY)

To create your own cartoons you don’t have to be a graphic artist, or any artist for that matter, thanks to new computer technologies that let you customize your own animations. This is most frequently seen in the form of avatars in virtual worlds, like Second Life for adults or Webkinz for younger generations.

From personalized commercials starring you to animated elves featuring your face, here are the 13 coolest animations you can integrate your personality in!

Animated Virtual Worlds & Interaction

3D Virtual Chat - Vivaty Brings Your Facebook Friends to Life

Brace yourself for another online addiction! Vivaty, a 3D virtual chat system, is a really fun way to enhance your social networking experience. Vivaty works with just about all popular social networking… [More]

3D Social Networks - Google “Lively” (VIDEO)

Google has launched Lively, a 3D social network! At first glance it looks like Second Life, but SL is all virtual. In Lively, everything besides the graphics is real, from the IM’s to the chat rooms and… [More]

Social Network for Kids - Moshi Monsters

London-based gaming agency Mind Candy have developed a new social-networking sites for kids called Moshi Monsters. Instead of creating their own user profiles, kids can adopt their own monster. Users… [More]

Virtual Worlds For Tweens 2 - Club Penguin

Cartoon penguins have been all the rage on TV and in movies, from the mischievous team of four in Madagascar, to the adorable Coca-Cola ads at Christmas, and, most recently, the box office hit, Happy Feet.… [More]

Custom Cartoons & Animations

Personalized Cartoons - Bitstrips Took Over Sixty’s Life (VIDEO)

I am Sixty (((Hi Sixty))) I am addicted to Bitstrip. Yes I have wasted the whole day making comic strips about friends, family and blogging buddies. Bitstrip was launched at SXSW and is an amazing free… [More]

German McDonald’s Viral - Move Your Lederhos’n

If you’ve ever seen a better German viral than this one for McDonald’s then please, send it to us at Trend Hunter! The Huettengaudi is absolutely hilarious. The viral ad, which runs under the tagline… [More]

Viral Marketing for a Cause - Santa Swing

The customizable Santa Swing is Everyclick’s festive, user-generated ad, which has the potential to go viral as Christmas gets closer. It’s similar to the ElfYourself ad we saw a while back, but this time,… [More]

Viral Christmas Cheer - ElfYourself

Why don’t you go ElfYourself? Personalized gifts and greetings like these are just way too much fun! Even if you’re too shy to turn yourself into an elf by putting your own mug on a dancing holiday cartoon,… [More]

Custom Commercials - Your Custom Tattoos Star in Brazilian Beer Ad

I’m just nuts over interactive ads and this is a great one. It for the Brazilian Antarcita beer. You put your name in and somebody else’s name too. The names then appear on live characters - not cartoons.… [More]

Custom Cartoons With Your Kid - Kideo.com Creates Custom DVDs (VIDEO)

Now your child can swing across buildings as Spiderman or sing along with Barney, in Barney! How does this work? It’s pretty simple. Upload a picture of your child to kideo.com and it would be cropped… [More]

Spudtacular Viral Ad - McCain Potato Parade (GALLERY)

Haven’t you always wanted to send a personalized Potato Parade? Well, chances are you’ll want to once you check out McCain’s latest interactive campaign. It was developed by glue London in collaboration… [More]

Star In Your Own Online Cartoon - JibJab.com

We’ve all seen the infamous JibJab ‘This Land Is Your Land’ video. Now, you can star in your own JibJab video and share it online. All you have to do is register, upload a headshot, and choose from one… [More]

Help the Honey Bees - Haagen Dazs Promotes New Cause (VIDEO)

Luxe ice cream manufacturer Haagen Dazs has developed an elaborate public awareness campaign to the help save the honey bees. Alarmingly “more than 25% of the Western honey bee population has disappeared… [More]