After reading about Evolver on Rock Viscara's blog, Chapter & Metaverse I could not resist taking a look and I was thrilled to find I could create an avatar for free and bring gifs images here to my blog to show off.
I could have used a life pic of myself to which the software can model a likeness of me if I wanted but I was happy to have a quick play and create the animated avatar you see above. Evolver can be used free or you can buy the software to do much more and export it to a format that will be used in your prefered 3D world.