15. A communications device for generating image data associated with a user comprising: at least one processor; an interface to a base image repository being operable to provide to the base image repository a selection of a graphical rendition corresponding to a user that obscures a visual identity of the user; a selection interface being operable to permit selection of a progressed image that is more revealing of the visual identity of the user than the graphical rendition; an extractor operable to receive an indication of active movements applicable to the selected graphical rendition and to the selected progressed image; an animator operable to render the graphical rendition in each frame of a first series of image frames as a rendered image depicting the active movements, and being further operable to be responsive to an initiator signal provided by the user to generate the progressed image depicting the active movements in each frame of a second series of image frames concurrently with the first series of image frames; and a morpher operable to be responsive to the user-provided initiator signal to generate a third series of image frames depicting the active movements, each frame in the third series of image frames being generated by combining a frame from the first series of image frames depicting the active movements with a corresponding frame from the second series of image frames depicting the active movements, where the combining is performed by progressive interpolation to cause the third series of image frames to progress from the rendered image to the progressed image while maintaining the active movements.
16. The device of claim 15 wherein the extractor is further operable to: capture expressive input via an input stream; the animator being responsive to the extractor and operable to display the graphical rendition and animate the rendered image with the first series of image frames using the expressive input, the expressive input corresponding to facial features of spoken verbiage.