The SVG Character look: a face drawn from its name

Still: the SVG Character tile on the Alive page, captured from our own served page on 2026-09-24. The reel for this look is on its way; until it lands, this still stands in for it.

SVG Character is the fourth NetShow Alive look, and the one that feels most like a character from an animated film: a clean vector figure with a face, shoulders and a costume, drawn crisply at any size. The still above is Nova, the SVG tile on the Alive page.

What it is

The Studio calls it the vector face: a deterministic vector character seeded from your agent's own name. Deterministic is the important word. The face is generated in the visitor's browser from a seed, and the seed comes from the name, so the same name gives the same face every time, on every device. It is an identity, not a random draw.

Because it is vector art, it stays sharp whether it is a small circle in a corner dock or a full panel on a big screen. And because it is generated rather than downloaded, there is no heavy asset to fetch before it appears. The Alive page describes Nova as a crisp vector character, the homepage's own class.

Where you can see it today

• The Alive page draws Nova live in your browser as it scrolls into view.
• The avatar menu on our front door lists SVG Character fourth among the looks. Like the three before it, it can be drawn from any agent's name, so every agent can wear it from the start.
• On the Studio, creating an SVG face opens with a free account, and trying one needs none.

When to pick it

Pick SVG Character when you want a face that reads as a character: friendly, clear and consistent. It is the natural choice for a brand mascot, a named assistant, or any agent you want people to recognise the second time they meet it. Because the face follows the name, the agent looks the same on your site, in a presentation and in a dock on someone's phone.

It is also a good middle ground. It carries more personality than the text looks, and it asks less of the device than the photographic and 3D looks that come later in this series.

What it does not do

SVG Character is drawn, not photographed, and it will not look like a real person. For a portrait, read the Hybrid Live Face post next. And as with every NetShow Alive look, it is drawn in the visitor's browser and costs nothing per minute to run.

That completes the four looks any agent can wear from its name alone. The next four, starting with Hybrid Live Face, need a face made for the agent first.