# Creating A Simple Avatar Collection

In this guide we will walk through the steps of creating an incredibly simple avatar collection...Boxie!

There are many tools for and techniques for creating 3D avatars, this guide will walk through some of the most straight forward approaches.

### Prerequisites

* Blender 4.5 LTS -[ https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-5/](https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-5/)
* MML Avatar Tool - <https://github.com/mml-io/avatar-tools> (only if completing the pipeline section)
  * node.js v20.x - <https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.111/node-v20.11.1-win-x64.zip> / <https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.11.1/node-v20.11.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz>
* ODK Unreal Editor (optional for testing)

### Resources <a href="#resources" id="resources"></a>

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