Most of you probably saw the Create Your Own Simpsons avatar activity on The Simpsons Movie website. The site allowed you to create a Simpsons character that supposedly looked like you. I came close, but it was never quite right.
Today my co-worker Margaret sent me a link to Simpsonizeme.com, which allows you to do essentially the same, but with a picture of yourself, thereby offering a more lifelike depiction of yourself as…er, a cartoon.
I ended up with this:
Seriously, how much does that look like me? The eyebrows aren’t quite right, and my normally lantern-jawed chin is given short shrift, but otherwise: damn. You probably have a picture of me (drunk) making that exact face.
And if you’re saying to yourself “Say, I don’t remember you looking quite that way,” then perhaps you ought to show up here:
It’ll be fun, I promise. If not, you’ll get a beer for your trouble.*
* Offer good only for Old Style
i don’t know if it will make you happy or sad, but that’s totally you! simpsonsified, that is.
Grr…the link didn’t work the first time. Let’s try this again.I do agree that it looks pretty bang-on.On an unrelated note, I got an interesting popup when cruising here today, seems to be related to “peekaboo posts” or “recent comments” – here’s a < HREF="http://picasaweb.google.com/matt.stratton/Misc/photo#5088530756343949474" REL="nofollow">screenshot<>.
Yeah, the hack keeps putting the jump link in a post even when there isn’t a jump. I experimented with putting the -30- text in there to let people (or, I guess, crusty old journos) know that it was the end but that was lame, too. Been meaning to track down a fix. Thanks for the heads up, Matt!
And in more on-topic land, I haven’t been able to get a single photo to work with Simpsonizeme.com.I tried high res, low res, close ups of my face, close ups of someone else’s face…no matter what, I just get the “an error occurred” error. Oh well.