Photorealistic Avs

I have a need for someone who is skilled at creating photorealistic avatars. I have RL clients who want their avatars to look like they do, including not only their faces, but their body shapes as possibly their way of walking and standing too.

Please contact me if you have some or all of these skills or know someone who does!

Klaatu

I would contact Chip Midnight so that he may email you a packaged pdf on the process and it's costs, he is a talented artist and you can also get alot of useful tutorials off the stickied threads under content creation in the forums, sorry I didn't have time to insert the links because I am at work. Good Luck

I have this service available. I can also give a price quote on anything not covered under the service.

I just checked out your site and you seem very professional but their are others offering the same for WAYYYYYY cheaper, sorry dude

Namssor WOW!! That is totally amazing work and so detailed, you are very talented

Namssor; awesome stuff. You're top of my list of candidates!

Kepster, dude, so who are all these cheaper people?!?

I am also looking custom avatar based on RL-photo and i have been looking service provider. Second Skin work seems to be really good and if he has time he is now top number in my list but i am also interested to hear if any other people are doing same and expecially where to find them.

Let's see... you're buying a service that requires hours of a skilled graphics professional's time. You're getting a one-of-a-kind product; something that the professional will not be able to resell to anybody else. US$395 sounds quite reasonable to me for what you are receiving, and Namssor's work is very high quality. (No, I won't be in the market for one any time soon; it's way out of my budget. $395 is more than my total annual expenses for Second Life. But if I had the money to spend and having an avatar that looked like my RL self were important to me, I'd consider it a reasonable price.)

As with many products in Second Life, you can probably find a less expensive provider. But as is so often the case, you get what you pay for. You can buy bargain-priced clothing, hair, and skins in-world, but the quality of craftsmanship is rarely the equal of the higher-priced products.

Exactly.

Keep in mind that the buyer has the option to sell derivative works. Read my TOS. One could easily make a profit off of combining my texture(s) with others and selling a full body skin.

This service is really for two types of customers:

1. An individual looking to have thier own RL head reproduced at the highest quality my skills and SL's texturing restrictions will allow for personal use inside SL.

2. An individual or business that is interested in enhancing thier own product by combining my texture(s) with it.

I originally calculated my rates matching those I use in RL jobs for similar work and came out at US$750. I chose US$395 as an introductory price for this new service to test it's feasability inside SL. If it becomes popular, and not just a side business, then I will be increasing the cost to balance the demand. It will have to compete with my RL work, which for obvious reasons (I make better $ for my hours) takes priority. Even if I was producing 2 jobs per month with this service, my skinning business is still more lucrative (for the hours I put in on it) than this service would be at the $750 cost.

If you're talking about Chip Midnight, then by all means, people should go get the work done from him. He's as skilled and as talented as they come. I'm still not going to lower my price.

Nam

I have sent you a Notecard in world.
May be of interest to you. May not

Cheers!

LB

LillyBeth, I got your note and PM'd you. If you don't get it, email me.

Hehe, fear not Namssor. I'm not nearly "way cheaper." The way you let people use the work is considerably more permissive than what I allow (right to use as a skin only, no raw textures, no resale) and it most definitely justifies the price difference between us. I also add rush fees. (for the curious - $250 to $400 for very quick turnaround). I'm sure if there isn't already people doing stuff much cheaper than both of there will be soon.

For some of us who do professional graphics work outside of SL it's simply not worth the effort if we can't get something close to a real world rate for the work. Greed has nothing to do with it. Mortgage payments do.

How to have fun with people that don't know what SL is:

Curious person in RL: What do you do for a living?

Namssor: I skin heads.

CP in RL: What!?

Namssor: I skin heads, and bodies too .

CP in RL: ...And you get paid for this!?

Namssor: In a manner of speaking, yes.

CP in RL: This pays your bills?

Namssor: Yes.

CP in RL: Let me guess, you're a taxidermist?

Namssor: No.

CP in RL: - starts backing away - picks up cell phone and dials 911.

Klaatu,

I am curious if these people you say are cheaper are in fact offering you the skin, shape and poses you mentioned. You are asking for a totally custom job that would require tons of work and skill. Not just that but more than 1 package.

When considering asking prices, think of this. Most graphic designers will not work for less than minimum wage and imo the price that Namssor has for that type of work is still very cheap. Ask her how many hours it takes to do one skin that way and then break that price down by the hour. Not to mention that she is allowing you resell rights so you can always make your $ back.

Good luck with this, sounds like a lucrative business if you can find the right people to help out.

Hello ,
i'm artist doing paints in RL and SL , have my own gallery in world, im me to tp you to checkout my gallery. and i do photography in RL and SL also to surve SL avatars.

Let me know how could it work for us

P.S: you may checkout my website www.lifeheartbeat.com

Best Regards

*laughs* I like to tell people that I work in the skin trade, but only as a sideline.

This discussion brought up a number of questions for me. What would people think of a one button (read automatic) tool that converts a photograph (like a passport picture) into a correctly mapped avatar head?

You would have all the rights to the texturemap and can hand edit at will, but the bulk of the hard (time consuming) work would al be done for you. What would this toold be worth?

Would you prefer to see this tool offered as an in-world service or as a stand alone, utility?

Im sure it would be popular amoung many people. It doesnt seem like it would be of the same quality as an artist customizing it to the mish though. (plus they use more, specific pictures of course)

Still good luck with your idea. Im sure there is a market. The sticker shock alone of hiring a n artist like Chip or Nam would ensure that.

Hello everybody!

I'm interested in the same thing. Prices looks rather high, so I'd like to explore this field.

Hello Klaatu! Have you got what you looked for? Does your alter ego looks like a twin?)

Hello Namssor and Spider! Could you please show me some more examples of your artwork?

Hello Kepster! Do you know where Chip's pdf can be found? Don't want to bother him, guess I'm not the first..)

well chryogenic's is a real store in SL . some of the best skins actually.. they do photogenic skins... their a bit costly i think , but they do them, and do them well o,o

I have tried to find them in-world and in Google, but hadn't succeeded... Could you give me a link please?