Questions about custom avatars

[Taramafor]

1: My owner is going to get the lindens. Save up or buy with real money or whatever. Long story short she wants a warframe avatar known as Valkyr.

2: We're not too sure about the prices of this kind of thing. Let's say we're getting a perfect one done to perfection with items and huds along with the more mature adult things in place, along with animations and glowing effects and such. Assuming we nitpick every detail and that this is done "when it's ready" (meaning no pressure to get it done ASAP) how much might this cost, roughly? This would include items as well as animations.

3: What groups are there that can make avatars like this? Basically I'm talking about a sort of "robot" avatar yet with human like movement. Think "I robot". But with smoother "skin". I imagine some groups are more "flesh" focused and others "different species" focused. I'm unsure what to search for in this regard.

4: Are there sims that do custom avatars? I guess I could try asking around some that sell avatars but they might not specialise in this kind of thing. Then again I doubt anywhere does. Worth asking around I guess.

[Rhonda Huntress]

Regarding #2.  How much would it cost to contract a technical consultant for 6 to 10 weeks of full time work?  I'm not going to set anyone's prices but if you can get it done for under 10,000 US dollars (roughly  two and half million lindens) you will be lucky.

 

#3 https://www.upwork.com/hire/3d-modelers/

 

#4 Sims are regions.  Pieces of land.  They don't do anything.  Also, all 3D modeling is done outside of Second Life and then imported digitally so there are no places where people do this.

Edited April 20, 2018 by Rhonda Huntress

[So Whimsy]

A custom avatar requires a 3D Mesh Artist.
A Hud requires a scripter as well as a graphic artist.
Animations require an Animator.

You will be hard pressed to find someone who is great at all 3 and if you do find that someone the cost will be far above 10.000 USD. If you want exclusive rights to it all then we're talking double or triple the price and that is lowballing it to boot. I'd also like to point out those prices are USD, not Linden.

The mesh avatars you see on the Marketplace going between 500L-3000L are cheap because they're sold to a wide amount of users, netting the creator a much higher income than the 10.000 and 20.000 USD I've mentioned. The Maitreya body, and that is only the body, hands and feet, not even a head, no animations, no clothing, has probably netted the creator far more than I will earn in an entire life time. Her VIP group is just shy of 100.000 members and not all those who bought the body joined it. Now multiply 100.000 x 2.750L = 275 MILLION Linden.

So, unless you make your offer really good no one with that skill set will make you a custom avatar for peanuts when they can make a killing selling what a wide audience wants instead.....

Edited April 20, 2018 by Syn Anatine

[Jameson2001]

A custom avatar requires a 3D Mesh Artist.

So a follow up question would be, how much would it cost to make an avatar look like my RL self?  Lately I have bumped into many avatars who look very real people like and when I ask them they say that they had their avatar made to look like themselves in RL.   I am wondering how much something like that would cost?

 

[So Whimsy]

2 minutes ago, Jameson2001 said:

A custom avatar requires a 3D Mesh Artist.

So a follow up question would be, how much would it cost to make an avatar look like my RL self?  Lately I have bumped into many avatars who look very real people like and when I ask them they say that they had their avatar made to look like themselves in RL.   I am wondering how much something like that would cost?

 

It would cost exactly the same as what Rhonda and I stated. Maybe knock off a couple thousand USD because you don't want a HUD/Animations.

What I think these people meant is that they bought premade components and adjusted their shape/face to look like their RL self. I highly doubt we have 'many' RL millionares who don't mind splurging tens of thousands of real dollars on a custom second life avatar...

[Jameson2001]

18 minutes ago, Syn Anatine said:

It would cost exactly the same as what Rhonda and I stated. Maybe knock off a couple thousand USD because you don't want a HUD/Animations.

What I think these people meant is that they bought premade components and adjusted their shape/face to look like their RL self. I highly doubt we have 'many' RL millionares who don't mind splurging tens of thousands of real dollars on a custom second life avatar...

Wow ok that makes sense and i know that they have put work into making the premade components adjust to look like RL self.   Thanks for the information and education!

[So Whimsy]

39 minutes ago, Jameson2001 said:

Wow ok that makes sense and i know that they have put work into making the premade components adjust to look like RL self.   Thanks for the information and education!

You're very welcone. With bento heads it's become much easier to adjust the look so there's less cookie cutter people walking about and there's a wide variety of mesh bodies nowadays, too. If you tinker around I'm sure you'll eventually come close to your RL self without having to spend a literal fortune