What's an avatar?

Well if you have read everything in the DOCU$$anonymous$$ENTATION, you should understand what you are working with, what it is. Why would I troll so I can lose reputation here, is that a serious question? Learn to show some appreciation for someone taking even a second to answer such a vague question.

The definition I posted reads "Representing a particular person in computer games". Unity - Game Engine. $$anonymous$$ecanim uses avatars to REPRESENT your character so you are able to rig and animate that particular "person" in your CO$$anonymous$$PUTER GA$$anonymous$$$$anonymous$$

No worries man. I really don't take things personally here, I just don't want people to start thinking that I come here to pick on questions, to make fun of them, because I come here to troubleshoot, and to give the best answer I can give by what research I can do from the available resources. I can't find a direct definition on Avatar for Unity, but the definition is what it is, a representation, or shell of your character that allows you to piece together a "skeleton" that manipulates the verts of your model in order to animate it. This is the best explanation I can come up with, since the actual "definition" isn't documented very well in Unity resources, maybe this in intentional, maybe they gave it the name "Avatar" and assumed the name itself would be definition enough. I agree they maybe need to do some better documenting on specific things.