Avatars for Web Services

SeeStorm Synthetic Video with avatars created from users' photo and voice is a fine example of User-Generated Content (UGC) ideally fitting Web 2.0 trend.

Avatar is a great tool for self-expression and creativity. It enables fun, roleplay and look control which are just impossible in plain video. And synthetic video is much easier to create, with no need to for the equipment and software required to produce real video.

SeeStorm avatars bring new fun and personalization into online services, helping to develop user community and monetize it:

Avatar Service at Entertainment Portals

Users create and manage their personal avatars, record voice messages and make own synthetic video movies, as well as comment and rate other community members' avatar content. These avatars can be used in other online services, published in the Internet, or exported to mobile phones.

Avatar Greeting Cards

Greetings with personalized talking avatars have an unmatched emotional touch. User just chooses an avatar from the service collection or creates an avatar from own photo, and records a voice message. Video greeting is generated automatically, and can be sent to web or mobile recipient.

Blogs, Forums and Social Networks

SeeStorm avatar technologies provide Web 2.0 users with a next-generation means of visual self-expression: emotional userpic. This is an animated image of a human face displaying various emotions; it is easily created from one neutral portrait photo. Emotional userpics enable community members to convey their moods and attitudes - to make their life online more vivid and engaging.

Additionally, avatar can visualize user's voice messages in a blog, e.g. a greeting on userinfo page, podcasts, invitations, etc. Avatar video is funny, expressive and easy to create like no plain video is.

Dating services

Creating and sending video messages with funny avatars is another form of a compliment, to draw the addressee's attention. For a dating service owners, it is another way to monetize the user community.

Business services

Avatars' expressiveness and efficiency in their creation cost make them valuable business helpers. Just animate a brand personage and place it on your web site to tell visitors about your products and services – and they will remember your offer for long. Avatar looks exactly what you want it to look, and never gets tired, so it is a brilliant support agent, call center operator and virtual trainer.

SeeStorm avatar services provide additional ways to monetize user communities, for example:

• Recording user voice message via IVR
• Exporting avatar movies to mobile phones
• Sending avatar messages as a complementary paid option (in a dating service)