Avatars aren’t merely meant to be a photographic replication of who you are in real life. Just as an abstract painting depicts a mood or emotion in line and color, an avatar depicts a personality–the inner you. Or if you use virtual to inspire or contribute to storytelling it gives you tools to think about your characters at a deep level. You build an avatar from a shape, skin, eye color, hair style, clothing style that tell you as much about who a character is as those elements tell you about a person in real life. Or maybe the better way to think of it is they tell you about…