The Struggle Against Being a Giraffe-necked T-Rex is Real

[Ajay McDowwll]

Lordy.

Okay, I've been tweaking my proportions ever since I noticed my avatar's arms were short, even considering my own are short (I have a very long torso but short arms and legs -- my fingertips come down to more the middle of my upper thigh than mid-thigh), and I think I've finally got everything fixed.  Even measured over and over with one of those proportional measuring thingies.  Arms longer, hands larger, neck shorter, neck longer (because there are limits), general height shorter (I do NOT clear 6'), etc.

So... I did it?  Maybe?  More or less, at any rate.

[Waiomao]

Beautiful!

[Rhonda Huntress]

Awww, what a cute teddy bear!

You look good too.

 

[Pussycat Catnap]

It drives me nuts that the arms at 100 are still often shorter than those of a real life person... and that at 50 they're way off.

It's more severe in the female skeleton than the male one, but both have it.

Curiously, I have noticed a similar but less extreme flaw in the 'CBBE' mod-made body of Skyrim...

It makes me wonder what the source of that anatomy flaw is.

 

But nothing is as glaringly bad as the SL female skeleton. Make a shape with every dial at 50... it's... wrong...

 

That your RL arms come to upper mid thigh, might not be 'short' as you suspect. Compare yourself against some 'external to the SL community' guides on proportion and anatomy. Check your posture when you do so.

- The difference might be a matter of how terminology is getting described rather than the actual measurement.

 

Shorter limbs in RL do occur. I think most often in legs of people on traditional lower protein or calcium or something diets (I'm not sure here... the cause is known by doctors, but not by me). From what I've heard; a century ago, the height common among modern day westerners was mostly seen among the Native Americans of the Great Plains. To the rest of the world, they were giants. Now that height is basically what first world nations call 'average', almost a foot taller than people were at the dawn of the 1800s.

- there's a stereotype of Asians having shorter legs. Go to an advanced Asian country, like Korea or Japan - where they are 5-10+ years ahead of the 'west' in technology, infrastructure, health/medicine, and diet; and you won't find that among the people under 30.

 

 

[Ajay McDowwll]

5 hours ago, Pussycat Catnap said:

Shorter limbs in RL do occur. I think most often in legs of people on traditional lower protein or calcium or something diets (I'm not sure here... the cause is known by doctors, but not by me). From what I've heard; a century ago, the height common among modern day westerners was mostly seen among the Native Americans of the Great Plains. To the rest of the world, they were giants. Now that height is basically what first world nations call 'average', almost a foot taller than people were at the dawn of the 1800s.

- there's a stereotype of Asians having shorter legs. Go to an advanced Asian country, like Korea or Japan - where they are 5-10+ years ahead of the 'west' in technology, infrastructure, health/medicine, and diet; and you won't find that among the people under 30.

 

 

Mine's just a case of genetics.  My father has the same body -- long torso, shorter arms and legs.  My torso belongs to a woman who's 5'10"; my legs belong to someone who's 5'-4".  We used to have those things in P.E. class where you'd sit on the ground, palm it, and try to lift yourself off the ground.  My butt went nowhere, LOL

My ex-husband was 6'6" to my 5'7".  When we sat down we were nearly the same height -- his height was all in his legs, mine was in my torso.

Proportions are weird.

[Ajay McDowwll]

13 hours ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

Awww, what a cute teddy bear!

You look good too.

 

I needed a teddy bear   The vanity looked weird empty, and since I still have stuffed animals from my childhood, I figured one small one fit

And thanks!

[Ajay McDowwll]

13 hours ago, Waiomao said:

Beautiful!

Thank you as well -- it's pixels, but it's fun to play with them

[MrsSeren]

I am 5ft 9 in life like in SL however long all over in life but can't be bothered to do same here yet but may dabble after work.