Omni Avatar

The open identity layer for multi-game worlds. One avatar. Infinite worlds.

Role

Founder & CEO

Status

MVP shipped

Funding

Seed (two milestones)

Runtime

~1 year (paused)

Visit omniavatar.one

The problem

Digital identity is fragmented across platforms. Every game has its own avatar system. Nothing persists across engines. No shared inventory or progress, no way for players to take their identity from one game to the next.

Players lose their identity every time they switch games. Communities lose value the moment people leave the closed ecosystem they were assembled in.

The model we flipped

Omni Avatar is a single avatar identity layer that works across engines and across games. Identity lives in a neutral JSON profile owned by the user. Games request the profile and rebuild the avatar natively in their engine. No external runtime dependencies inside the game. Drop-in for any supported engine.

Modular avatar architecture: heads, torsos, arms, legs and costumes that recombine
Unified data format: JSON identity profile + avatar assembly
External identity companion web app
Cross-game achievements + reward layer

How it worked end-to-end

User logs in to the Omni Avatar web app and unlocks modular avatar parts tied to supported community IP partnerships.
User customizes their avatar; configuration saved as a neutral JSON identity profile.
Player joins a supported game — Roblox first, then UEFN, Unreal, Unity. Game requests JSON. Avatar is rebuilt natively inside the engine.
Achievements earned in the game are sent as generic events, signed by Omni Avatar, forwarded to the user. The user can claim them privately.

Real-time MVP overview

The walkthrough below is the actual MVP, captured from the live Omni Avatar site. Identity profile, modular avatar configuration, and the cross-engine bridge in motion.

AI character pipeline

The AI character production layer originally built inside Omni Avatar: a live face turns into a game-ready 3D head with rig-ready topology. It now lives as its own standalone micro-project so the technique can travel beyond the Omni Avatar context.

See the AI Face Generation micro-project

By the numbers

IP integrations live

External community IPs bound to modular avatar parts

Unique avatar combinations

15,000+

From the modular system, before texture variants

First integration target

Roblox

Live via Smashline; UEFN/Unreal/Unity on roadmap

The four key product features

Modular Avatar System

Game-ready asset pipeline producing heads, torsos, arms, legs, backpacks, helmets and costumes that recombine across universes.

External IP indexing + modular part binding

Supported community IPs can be mapped to avatar parts without locking the system to a single platform.

Drop-in engine integration

Games only talk to JSON identity profiles. No external runtime dependencies inside the engine.

Cross-Game Achievement & Reward Layer

Gameplay in any integrated game can unlock items in the broader Omni Avatar ecosystem.

Funding history

Initial seed funding covered the first six months of development. After hitting milestones and showing traction, we secured a second six months on top. Roughly a year of runway in total.

When we went after expansion funding to launch a production-ready MVP, we put two proposals through the funding committee. The first was a feeler to pull community feedback and check direction. It was declined, but the feedback was useful. The second one folded that feedback in, sharpened the pitch, and answered the objections head-on. It was also declined — by then the ecosystem had moved off cross-game identity as a priority.

Both rejections told us something real. We rebranded after the second one and put Omni Avatar on hold rather than burn what runway we had left against a thesis the ecosystem was no longer voting for.

My role

Founder and CEO. I set product vision, closed the seed funding round, and hired the team. I drove the modular 3D avatar pipeline myself — the same pipeline thinking I bring to game-studio work. Ran partnership conversations with external IP communities and the technical integration with Roblox as the first supported engine. When the expansion-funding path closed, I made the call to rebrand and pause rather than chase momentum that wasn’t there.

Why it paused, honestly

We reached MVP, delivered on two milestones, and built real technical traction. By the time we needed expansion capital to launch the production MVP, the broader market had already turned away from cross-game identity as a priority. Two expansion submissions confirmed it.

The technical work is sound. The pipeline I built for it is the same one I use across other 3D production work today. And the founder/operator experience (raising, delivering, building partnerships, taking rejections in stride, and choosing to pause cleanly instead of burning through goodwill) is what I bring into any team I join next.

Modular asset gallery

A selection of modular avatar assemblies produced through the Omni Avatar pipeline. Heads, torsos, arms, hands, legs and back-mounted accessories. Each is its own mesh, swappable independently, with shared UV space across the kit so retexturing scales linearly, not multiplicatively.