Padoru Maker

When the holiday season comes around, lots of people on the internet want to bring about a more festive look to their profiles. We've all seen it: Santa hats on everyone's avatar is a common, unspoken tradition on the internet during holidays.

More recently, Padoru avatars have started taking the scene after everyone saw them in the Fate/Extra anime game, making lots of people fall in love with their style and aesthetic. Ever wanted to create one? Padoru Maker is here to help: make your own avatar through this fun tool and customize it to your heart's content.

The Winter holiday provides many opportunities to spot Padorus in the wild: lots of designers come out with their designs and their own take on the aesthetic, and it's often that you find your favorite characters adapted to that form. Padoru Maker allows people to make their version with ease by allowing for thorough customization.

It's as easy as cycling through the options for each part of the outfit, choosing the one that best fits what you're going for, then adjusting the colors. Pick a gender and a skin color, then proceed to play around some more. Change your character's eyes, mouth, and ears — we made ours look elf-like.

Users can change the look of their Santa hat, and there's also the option to add in a tie, glasses, as well as earrings. Each of them can be customized to fit your preferences: there are many models to pick from.

You can also adjust the object your Padoru is carrying: want them to carry a Christmas tree, a sleigh, or a bloody bag? The choice is yours. When you're done, you can save the file as a .PNG image, or if you want to adjust some more at a later date, you can export the canvas and reopen it whenever you need.

Padoru Maker is a lot of fun to use. It's silly, but in a very endearing and cute way, and that's the best thing about it. The music is great, too.