Exporting Avatars

Is it possible to export an avatar in a file which I could import into Maya? This would be to work on sculpties directly onto avatars. I want this for commercial but also personal projects so if it were able to export a clients avatar to make a scul;pty that would work best with their shape this would be of great help.

If this is possible can someone explain how. This would be mucha ppreciated.

No.

Hmm strange, I saw this program for animating that would export someone's avatar if the program was given their login details. So I was wondering if this were possible somehow with maybe some other program.

I could be wrong. But that sounds fishy.

People have done extractions like that with OGLE. http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/

Also possibly of use: http://www.ccccybernetics.com/avatar_databank/

It did to me and I am not willing to try it because of that, however if it were possible to extract avatars using either a different client or maybe running a program while you are logged in by extracting it from the video card that should be possible so I was looking for possible ways to do this.

ogle works well for getting an obj file of the av you need to set it up correctly and its best to find and empty sim like a water sim for easier filtering and lag.
the mesh would need new UV maps to be sculptys

You could start with the avatar mesh files.. Get 'em at http://secondlife.com/community/avatar.php. You'd have to then tweak them to fit the particular avatar you were making stuff for.

/me has imported these into Blender - I'm sure Maya can do similar tricks.