Strange Faces
As a bit of "time wasting" I decided to try and make a realistic face in Second Life. I read about a place in-world where this can be done automatically and thought I'd try a manual version. The avatar I use for socialising - Elsie Broek - normally looks like the image at right.
I just wondered if I could make her face look a bit more like mine. That might have been a mistake. I took the following photo as a source yesterday (just a bit after a previous photo). However, at the time I was feeling ill, and the heat was making my skin break out, the lighting less than perfect, and I was less than happy.
From that I got the following face map (actually used for tattoos). It looks terrible weathered doesn't it? Looks like it's owner just fought off a swarm of locusts trying to get at her crop. Anyway:
but here's the thing - look what it looks like when it's worn:
My avatar looks like something out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre! About the only thing that looks right is the nose. Maybe I should just let Elsie look her (nominally) happy self.
I might experiment with this further when I'm more relaxed, not sick and put on a bit of make-up first. Not a total loss though - at the same time I make a version of a T-Shirt I printed a while ago, and a pair of pants that look like the ones I wear in the garden (neither in the best repair):
One of the good things about Second Life is that you can add to your cup size, while making yourself a lot thinner!
