Just an update

Just posting an update of my mech avatar, which is suprisingly going very well. Once done ill add more details and material to the finished avatar.

Change of design

After having some trouble designing my first mech avatar (after trying and trying) Ive come to a conclusion that I am going to redesign my mech and its apperance.

So here is just an hand which I have created and in my opinion dosent look quite bad (still more to do to it though)

Example of avatar work

I have started to create my mech avatar on 3DS Max and Ive started to create the armored pads and other stuff, but they arent worth showing at the moment. Anyway here are the pads (which arent finished yet i.e. no detail has been added yet)

Identities Avatar

So I have had some idea's for my avatar and Ive come to a conclusion that my avatar is not going to represent me but rather represent the things I like i.e. mech's (human controlled robots)

Here are some examples of what mech's are and what im working towards to.

Some examples

Here are some quick examples of what my logo might look like. Ive chosen these type of logo's (tribal) because I have always been into the whole tribal marking's and art and by doing my logo as a tribal marking, I think that this will show my personal identity very well.

Examples

Just a test

Here is an example of the things that I like and what I do in my life. This work is for identities and im showing a test of a virtual cabinet and what it may look like at the end (obviously alot more better though)

I have used second life and other online communities for awhile now and here are a few things that I find interesting in the area of self identity and things that just aren’t in the category of self identity.

Second life

Although these aren’t my avatars, I came across them on second life and thought it was interesting to see how creative people can be in creating an avatar not based on their own self identity but rather on their alter ego and creative minds.














Whilst I was on second life I thought I would show how good its self identity features can be for someone that is basing their avatar on themselves. Here you can see how you can customize your avatars height, torso, eyes and what type of clothing you can wear, which in my opinion is a really good feature for people creating avatars based on themselves and based on their alter egos.


















Whilst strolling around town I came across three girls (that were just chatting away) and thought how unique their avatars looked i.e. their skin colour, clothing and hair colour. Also I noticed how well designed the town was, from the music store where you can actually listen to the latest songs and the supermarket (at the back on the right) were you can buy clothes, shoes, posters and other fun and funny looking objects.














Here I came across a private party (which somehow I got invited to) which was pretty fun, different aged people talking about things that everyone could join in on i.e. the latest movies which they have seen.













While I am at it I might as well show my current avatar, nothing special really just based my avatar on what kind of clothing I like, the hair style that I thought looked pretty cool and the beard... well that’s just a little added feature.


















I don’t get the whole flying thing though; it is a strange feature to have on a community website. Although I guess it beats walking everywhere.














I found this interesting on a person’s profile; basically it’s what they look like in real life and also their avatar in second life. In my opinion this is a really good example of how you can show yourself identity onto an avatar.













This is a really good feature in second life, which is to watch movies on anything that is being shown in the cinema theatre. I find this a good feature because it will keep second life users occuoied and will prevent them from getting bored.

SSP seminar

Tuesday's seminar we did alot of talking about our assignments and what we should and shouldnt be doing. But a major point that came up was how to better yourself in the area of study you will be choosing and here are my thoughts.

My area of study I want to do virtual enviroments (3D modelling) because I enjoy designing models in my own time and therefore I would like to take this even further. To better myself in this I will carry on designing 3D models in my spare time and also try to use new design software such as Zbrush.

I have thought about the other two areas of study, but they just dont seem like the things I would enjoy doing.