Late last year, Microsoft launched a new dashboard for the XBox360, called the "New XBox Experience", or NXE.
One of the main features was avatars. The ultimate in console UI personalisation, a customised and animated
mini version of yourself on the NXE itself. Similar to Nintendo's Wii-Miis, but many, many magnitudes better!
My XBox avatar is also my forum avatar on here. Like James has said in the bit he's added to my signature, my
avatar does look quite a lot like me, although not quite 100%, it's as close as I could make possibly make it!
Anyway, there's a feature on the XBox website called
Free Your Avatar. This allows you to create fun images
containing your XBox avatar, complete with custom backgrounds, and in various different sizes suitable not
only for forums like this, but instant messenger, Facebook/MySpace/Bebo type sites, or your own website.
So if you have an XBox360, and an XBox Live account, pop along and get creative with your avatar!