Dollify

Instagram fills up (and empties) with fashion quickly. So you better be attentive to what is coming so as not to lose momentum. The last? Caricature yourself and create an avatar that could very well be a drawing of a doll based on you and your features. We will not deny it: it is adorable, cute and looks hipster enough to be shared on Instagram or Instagram Stories. Hence his fame. Here we tell you how to get hold of Dollify and create your own avatar in case you want to join this trend

This is a free application available for both Android and iPhone phones. You just have to go through the Google Play Store or the App Store to get hold of it. In this way we will have all the tools, elements, traits and clothes to create this virtual doll-style double. Of course, although it is a free application, it has purchases included. And it is that there are many payment elements inside, although they have nothing to do with appearance or features. So don't worry, you can create your own avatar

Creating an avatar in Dollify

The first thing is to enter the application and grant permissions to store content. After all, what we want is to create an image with this avatar, so this permission is logical and justified.Then we will go on to create a new avatar with the button +, after which we must choose the gender of the character.

From here the fun begins. And it is that there are many options beyond the binary genre on which this avatar is based. Specifically there are 16 aspects that can be modified in this doll, ranging from skin tone, to hairstyle, through the shape of the eyes and eyebrows , and including Snapchat and Instagram Stories-style Augmented Reality skins. So there is everything, and with a good variety of elements to achieve the greatest possible resemblance. As long as this is what you're looking for.

Just use the tabs to switch between the different traits. Within each of them there are several elements that we can choose to adjust the image to what we want.Keep in mind that elements such as hair or facial hair not only allow you to choose the style or shape, but also choose the color of it thanks to a color wheel . Everything you need to give freedom to creativity or bring the available options closer to reality.

Once we have chosen clothes, hairstyles and even masks and accessories, all we have to do is click on the tick in the upper right corner. In this way we save the created doll or doll. Don't forget to customize the background of the image, which is also part of the set. With this, we will have our Dollify created

Remember that there are payment elements in the application. They are marked with a yellow diamond. They cannot be used unless you pay the 7 euros (single payment) which unlocks all these options.Most of them have to do with accessories and clothes to decorate your avatar.

Share Dollify on Instagram and WhatsApp

But there remains another important step, of course: sharing our creation. Whether it's the perfect Doppelgänger or a completely different doll, we can easily output it Once we've created a Dollify it's visible in the main menu. If we click on it we can see the created thumbnail and the share button.

From here all that remains is to choose the path, be it Instagram to continue with fashion, or any conversation WhatsApp. It can even be sent by email, if necessary.

The application behind the controversy

You may not know @ Dave.xp, but he became very famous a few months ago on Instagram.Rather, who achieved fame was his work, with doll-like portraits of real people. Something really colorful and accommodated by the hand of the graphic artist, and not from a generic application. Well, it caught so much attention thatsome savvy Instagram user used it to his advantage

To do this, this third person raised a contest on the photography social network. really simple. All you had to do was take a screenshot of his (fake) Instagram account, which he had filled with @Dave.xp designs without permission, mentioning the same account (the fake one). In this way free personalized portraits were offered to a good number of people who carried out this task.

The conclusion was a fake account infinitely republished in the Instagram Stories of a large number of users who wanted the portrait.The reality is that it was a ploy to get into a fake account and, presumably, later sell it to the highest bidder.

After the initial avalanche of posts, many users realized this and deleted their stories. In exchange, they published what was really happening, and invited them not to share or give the fake account free. And it is that was taking unfair advantage of the work of @Dave.xp.

Now comes the real version. An application with which each user can make their own avatar with this style of drawing. Of course, the results are not as close to reality as the portraits that the artist has published on his original Instagram of real people. But it is agood way to bring his art closer to the reality of each userAnd all this without having to resort to scams and marketing strategies of dubious morality, such as they did with his account.