Bioware have announced they are releasing the character creator for the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins as a separate application for PC on October 13. Best of all, it's free.
"The Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator will allow you to create numerous different characters before launch and experiment with the different classes, races, and create multiple faces for the 6 Origin stories and save them to your hard drive for safe keeping until the game is released."
You'll also be able to upload images of your characters to the game's social network which is also set to launch on the same day.
For more information you can check out the official announcement over on the Bioware forums here.
