Wavatar artwork
For now, I’ll just put the alternate Wavatar artwork here. To use it, replace the wavatars/parts directory from the original plugin with the directory in that zip file. (Or if you feel so inclined, rename the old one and make parts a symbolic link to parts-funky.)
You’ll also need to edit the plugin; in wavatars.php, change the avatar size to 100:
define("AVATAR_SIZE", '100');
And if you’ve had Wavatars running already, you’ll need to clear your cache.
If the moons are aligned correctly, an easier way to do this will be in all our futures.
UPDATE: I’ve made one or two minor changes to the art since yesterday. The latest version is here. In general, this link will always be to the latest version. Might still be some little tweaks as I notice what eyes don’t line up with what; if I ever get around to releasing it in an easy-to-plug-in way I’ll try to make sure it’s final first.
And one other thing; I’ve changed the Wavatar plugin slightly to draw eyebrows on top of eyes. It makes things more expressive with the new art because the eyes are bigger and overlap the eyebrows reasonably often. The relevant change is to find and swap these two lines:
wavatar_apply_image ($avatar, "brow$brow");
wavatar_apply_image ($avatar, "eyes$eyes");
The one that comes last will appear on top.
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Thanks!
Now… when exactly do I get my flying car?
Oh here they are, awesome, thank you!
Thanks a lot for your work!!!
We just use your new watars design in our blog!!!
so we have, finally, dynamic avatars created by someone with taste. so good. we do not have a way to integrate these with WordPress 2.6’s built-in Wavatar ability. so suddenly sad.
from my amateur sleuthing, I believe WordPress is pulling these in from the Gravatar site. we’d need to request an upload & parameter update from Gravatar.
just checking out my wavatar
Very nice, I love the randomly-generated avatar idea, but the old ones were… well, not very good.
Yours are excellent, however, and kudos for releasing them. 
Very nice these have some kick to them.
Are you leaving a thing line of white space between the face and the face gradient?
when I generate wavatars using your parts, there is always a sliver of white space between the black face boarder and the face gradient.
I followed your instructions to increase size to 100 and flip browse and eyes
Thx.