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Photographic Likeness Avies
Goyan Luchador
Carbon Based Humanoid
Join date: 23 May 2004
Posts: 218
12-17-2004 19:01
Would you like your avatar to depict photographically your true facial features?
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Sezmra Svarog
Pointy-Eared Geek
Join date: 8 Jul 2004
Posts: 446
12-17-2004 19:06
No. ;)

I gotta put up with me enough already in RL! :D
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
12-17-2004 19:19
No... out of respect for my fellow citizens.
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Moleculor Satyr
Fireflies!
Join date: 5 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,650
12-17-2004 19:20
Hell yes. I'm gorgeous. :D (Ok, no clue if I really am or not, but I can't be THAT bad looking.)
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
12-17-2004 19:44
Heck no, not mine...

Blech >_<
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Lo Jacobs
Awesome Possum
Join date: 28 May 2004
Posts: 2,734
12-17-2004 20:31
Not sure .... I kinda like bein' someone else ... or at least looking like someone else.
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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
12-17-2004 22:20
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think I'll ever understand why when someone asks, "Can you help make my av look like me?". To me, the whole point of SL is to be able to do things I can't do in RL. I already look like me in RL. The last thing I'd want to do is look like me in SL as well.
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Aimee Weber
The one on the right
Join date: 30 Jan 2004
Posts: 4,286
12-17-2004 22:55
From: Chosen Few
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think I'll ever understand why when someone asks, "Can you help make my av look like me?". To me, the whole point of SL is to be able to do things I can't do in RL. I already look like me in RL. The last thing I'd want to do is look like me in SL as well.


I was thinking about this Chosen...and i think for some people (*coughmecough*) having an element of our RL selves in SL makes the suspention of disbelif a little better.

For example, being able to fly around a nearly arbitrary fantasy world may seem too distant and virtual to be fun...but if you build a model of your RL backyard...flying around it can give you a liberating feeling you may have craved all your life.

Making our models looks like ourselves helps some people feel like it's THEM experiencing the SL world rather than some avatar.

-aimee
Tanaquil Karuna
Aoi aoi kono hoshi ni
Join date: 19 Aug 2004
Posts: 279
12-17-2004 23:53
Ehe, no. There are too many opportunities of doing something different with your av... why should I try to recreate something I see everyday?
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Adam Cooper
Just call me Uncle Adam..
Join date: 10 Oct 2004
Posts: 380
12-18-2004 00:03
Ummmmm Nope............

Don't think SL can handle that much horror ya know........


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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
12-18-2004 01:19
From: Aimee Weber
I was thinking about this Chosen...and i think for some people (*coughmecough*) having an element of our RL selves in SL makes the suspention of disbelif a little better.

For example, being able to fly around a nearly arbitrary fantasy world may seem too distant and virtual to be fun...but if you build a model of your RL backyard...flying around it can give you a liberating feeling you may have craved all your life.

Making our models looks like ourselves helps some people feel like it's THEM experiencing the SL world rather than some avatar.

-aimee

You bring up a good point, Aimee. I hadn't really considered that complete fantasy may be too distant for some people. As I'm not one of those people I can't really understand it, but I can at least accept it. Thanks for the great counterpoint, Aimee, as always.
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Ursula Madison
Chewbacca is my co-pilot
Join date: 31 Jul 2004
Posts: 713
12-18-2004 01:36
My avie looks exactly like me already! :D
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Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
12-18-2004 02:34
Maybe ... but to be honest, I'm more than happy with the way my avie looks now, and I doubt that making her look like me would improve that much... apart from the few staircases I can't climb now cos I'm way too tall...
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
12-18-2004 03:03
I would love to have a realistic av. I'm a hottie :D
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Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
12-18-2004 03:21
Not everyone's as hot as you though Eggy. Some of us have to work on our appearance. :)
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Postmark Jensen
is not a jerk.
Join date: 23 May 2004
Posts: 281
12-18-2004 05:13
My av looks pretty much the way I do in RL, and I've wanted to go photorealistic but my one attempt was TERRIFYING! Oh. My. God. I felt like leatherface!

Siobhan: When will stairbuilders learn! I'm 6'5" in RL so I just brought that over to SL with me, and now I'm punished for it. /me cry

On an unrelated note, I turn 34 today. YOU! GIVE ME PRESENTS! AND YOU TOO! ;)
Urusula Zapata
I love my Pugs!
Join date: 20 Mar 2004
Posts: 1,340
12-18-2004 05:21
Happy birthday, Postmark!

My av looks like I think I look when I have been drinking :)
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Lecktor Hannibal
YOUR MOM
Join date: 1 Jul 2004
Posts: 6,734
12-18-2004 05:24
From: Postmark Jensen
My av looks pretty much the way I do in RL, and I've wanted to go photorealistic but my one attempt was TERRIFYING! Oh. My. God. I felt like leatherface!

Siobhan: When will stairbuilders learn! I'm 6'5" in RL so I just brought that over to SL with me, and now I'm punished for it. /me cry

On an unrelated note, I turn 34 today. YOU! GIVE ME PRESENTS! AND YOU TOO! ;)

Happy birthday Postmark!! One shiny pickle coming up ! :D
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Nemar Byrne
Registered User
Join date: 25 Jul 2004
Posts: 17
12-18-2004 23:06
Can this really be done?
Postmark Jensen
is not a jerk.
Join date: 23 May 2004
Posts: 281
12-19-2004 04:41
Yes, Nemar, it can. You just have to properly stretch a picture of your face over the face skin texture. Check out Ryen Jade in world for an incredibly good example. Also, the picture on this guy's blog certainly looks like a photorealistic av:
http://secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/my_second_life_part_1/