Paper Critters lets you create printable, embeddable characters - Time Waster

Paper Critters is an online Flash application/gallery that lets you create printable cartoonish "people." The critters are all the same shape -- a big headed, blocky type of "person."

However, what you can print on this shape is only limited by your imagination. The site provides a comprehensive editor with lots of "stamps" (like the eyes in the image above) and also allows for freehand drawing, which you can see in the body of the character shown above.

That's not my character, by the way. It's called Mina and was created by "Maggie." So, as you can see, each character gets a permalink.

Since the characters are meant to be printed out and folded into shape, the application lets you design their sides and back as well; you don't just paint the front.

Another neat feature is that each character also gets a Flash embed code that links to a spinning 3D model of the character. You can view Mina (and spin her around) in glorious 3D right after the jump.

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