avatar?

[sweetbgirl]

im not sure if im allowed to ask this but im going to anyways.. can anyone make an avatar very similar to me in my face I would really appreciate that. message me on sl if u want

[valerie Inshan]

Of course you are allowed to ask that. :smileyhappy: You may increase your chances posting this in the "Wanted" section of these forums. Be prepared to spend quite a few L$ though: custom avatars can be costly. Another option is to browse the marketplace for a skin that ressembles you, then edit your appearance to get it as close as possible to you "real" self. Good luck sweetbgirl! :smileyhappy:

[Orca Flotta]

Wow, sweetb, you must be the most beautiful top model in RL then. Congratz. Else, why would anyone wanna look like their RL self in SL. Imagine all the fat, flab, crooked noses, stompy short legs, wrinkles, bad haircuts, bad clothes ... oy vey.

Also the avatar build system in SL is much too restricted to even coming close to something realistic. "Professional" avie creators are trying and failing time and time again. Have you seen the likenesses of Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and others? Terrible. And please stay away from the photosourcers and morphers. Creepy is too nice a word to describe the results.

[Perrie Juran]

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Orca Flotta wrote:

Wow, sweetb, you must be the most beautiful top model in RL then. Congratz. Else, why would anyone wanna look like their RL self in SL. Imagine all the fat, flab, crooked noses, stompy short legs, wrinkles, bad haircuts, bad clothes ... oy vey.

Also the avatar build system in SL is much too restricted to even coming close to something realistic. "Professional" avie creators are trying and failing time and time again. Have you seen the likenesses of Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and others? Terrible. And please stay away from the photosourcers and morphers. Creepy is too nice a word to describe the results.

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WTF?

What is wrong with someone being comfortable with their body complete with warts and all?

 

p.s.....she did not say "IDENTICAL," she said "SIMILAR IN FACE."

[Marianne Little]

Here you go... https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Your-own-mesh-head-based-on-real-look/3808405

Notice that they don't clean up the image in any way. If you send them an image with red eyes, you get a mesh head with red eyes back. So clean up your image as best as you can first.

You will not be able to have any facial expressions or move your eyes here. It is possible to get a mesh head with moving eyes and facial expressions, but I can't imagine what that would cost. Or if anyone would accept such a custom job.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Orca Flotta wrote:

Wow, sweetb, you must be the most beautiful top model in RL then. Congratz. Else, why would anyone wanna look like their RL self in SL. Imagine all the fat, flab, crooked noses, stompy short legs, wrinkles, bad haircuts, bad clothes ... oy vey.

Also the avatar build system in SL is much too restricted to even coming close to something realistic. "Professional" avie creators are trying and failing time and time again. Have you seen the likenesses of Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and others? Terrible. And please stay away from the photosourcers and morphers. Creepy is too nice a word to describe the results.

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Orca, If you had taken a second or two to look at SweetB's forum badge, which shows her RL face, you'd have seen that she is indeed beautiful (and cute as a button ;-). That you were unable or unwilling to expend that modest effort to understand this situation before commenting sarcastically on it speaks volumes.

I have vitiligo and have considered making my own custom skin to approximate the "Guernsey Cow" look I sport by the end of summer. Would it offend you to see uneven pigmentation on my arms, chest and face?

SweetB (may I call you SweetB? ;-), Marianne Little (who is a walking encylopedia of SL fashion knowledge) has given you a Marketplace link to a creator who will attempt to map an RL photo of your face onto a SL mesh head. Temper your expectations, this is a difficult thing to do at all, much less do well. If you try it and are happy with the results, there are folks out here in the forum that would love to see a picture.

Good luck!

Maddy

[Syo Emerald]

I looked at her profile. You are right she is pretty and also looks very young to me*. That should make it easy to find something fitting, if everything fails in getting a custom-build avatar, because skins and clothing is mostly designed to fit young-looking avatars.

*I hope she knows what shes doing :catindifferent:

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Syo Emerald wrote:

*I hope she knows what shes doing :catindifferent:

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I don't know what I'm doing and I'm doing fine!!!

;-)

[Perrie Juran]

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Syo Emerald wrote:

I looked at her profile. You are right she is pretty..................................

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Yes, she is very pretty.

 

SweetB, have you ever considered dating a Martian........................?

[Syo Emerald]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

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Syo Emerald wrote:

*I hope she knows what shes doing :catindifferent:

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I don't know what I'm doing and I'm doing fine!!!

;-)

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I know, you are a big girl and you always do fine...just feeling kind of protective at the moment.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Syo Emerald wrote:

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

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Syo Emerald wrote:

*I hope she knows what shes doing :catindifferent:

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I don't know what I'm doing and I'm doing fine!!!

;-)

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I know, you are a big girl and you always do fine...just feeling kind of protective at the moment.

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:-)

I try to suppress that instinct. It just gets me into trouble.

[Malanya]

Wow, how insulting to say. Believe it or not, some of us are happy with our RL selves and are not fat and flabby and all the other things you said, we actually like the way we look and make are avatars as close to how we look in RL, something wrong with that? As other posters mentioned, the OP is very pretty and I don't see where your comments came from reading her post.

[Loralinda]

She is cute as a button.  In the past I chose a complete avatar from Razzanova which I compared to the pictures you have in your albumn.  They somewhat approximate your face, better than other prefab faces, and are sure to be less expensive than custom made.  The main difference I notice is that your eyes are set somewhat higher in your face than these avatar's faces and the lips may be a bit fuller.  You can tinker around on them a bit.  However, I wouldn't do it without first making a copy of the original so you can go back to that.  I've tinkered with some finished avatars and occasionally improved on them, and sometimes made a hash of them, so it's a toss up. You can find them under the "Avatar Components" category on the SL marketplace.

The thing is, in graphic pictures the eye is always more pleased with symetry.  So that's what the finished avatars go for and why they look so good.  Going for realism is good, but imo it doesn't always measure up to what we assume it will look like.  Try taking a photo of yourself straight on with no hair over your forehead looking straight at the camera.  Now draw a perfect five pointed star over your face.  The top point of the star should meet the center of your forehead right where your hair line starts.  The sides of the star stretch out to the temples and the bottom points come down past the corners of your mouth and end at either side of your chin.  If your features fit perfectly along the lines of that star: the brows lining up with the horizontal line from temple to temple and the vertical lines from the top point meeting the outside of your brows while the crossing lines through the middle of the star touch each of the corners of your lips and intersect at the point of your nose and you still have a  perfect star, then your face is symetrical and will be seen as beautiful by the human eye. 

Otoh, if you draw a star to accomodate those points to your features and the star does not come out symetrical, the less symetrical it is the less attractive it will appear as a piece of graphic art, as in cartoon form.  My dad was an artist and he used this method over and over to assess pictures of models and movie stars he painted portraits from.  The closer the star he sketched on their face was to perfect the more beautiful they were considered to be.  I guess my point is that using a prefab avatar isn't a bad way to get your look and save some money at the same time without making yourself look totally like someone else.  At the saame time, you will still still resemble yourself, but won't appear oddly too realistic.

[Malanya]

Loralinda wrote:

She is cute as a button.  In the past I chose a complete avatar from Razzanova which I compared to the pictures you have in your albumn.  They somewhat approximate your face, better than other prefab faces, and are sure to be less expensive than custom made.  The main difference I notice is that your eyes are set somewhat higher in your face than these avatar's faces and the lips may be a bit fuller.  You can tinker around on them a bit.  However, I wouldn't do it without first making a copy of the original so you can go back to that. 

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Hi, I am not sure if you meant to reply to me, but I don't have any RL pictures in an album on here so maybe you meant to reply to someone else, unless you were generally speaking and used the word "you" not pertaining to anyone specific 

My reply was that many of us do try to make our avatars look as close to the way we do in RL but I just tweak the avatar I have with sliders I don't get heavy into a real match up, seems like a lot of work. The OP is the one who wants to be more exact to her avatar. Thanks for your reply.

 

 

 

 

[sweetbgirl]

I think they are talking about my avatar picture since i am the OP

[Malanya]

Probably so, but her first sentence was agreeing with me that you were a pretty girl and the message she posted was to me, so it can cause some confusion. Sometimes people accidentally respond to a poster they did not intend and sometimes people are not so clear in their repy, either way no harm done I was just clarifying because if you read the message it seems she was telling me and I as I said don't have any online albums of RL pics Good luck with your avatar, hope you can get great results whichever route you choose.

[Dresden Ceriano]

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sweetbgirl wrote:

im not sure if im allowed to ask this but im going to anyways.. can anyone make an avatar very similar to me in my face I would really appreciate that. message me on sl if u want

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Hey sweety, if I were you, I'd stay away from seeking out someone to create a custom avatar.  What you need to do is go out and look at tons of skin makers, buy a whole bunch of demos that look similar to your coloring from them, then go out and look at tons of shape makers and do the same, with head shapes that resemble your own... then keep trying on different combinations until you find something that blows your mind.  Take my word for it, if you try long enough, you'll find something that does just that.  It wouldn't hurt if you found some hair similar to yours beforehand.  Also, play with the shape of your eyebrows, because that can make a world of difference.

Good luck ...Dres

[Loralinda]

Sorry Malanya, I was replying to Sweetbgirl.  Clicked on your reply button instead of OP's.

[Malanya]

Oh no need to be sorry, I just wanted to make sure the person you were replying to got your message because I knew it wasn't me