How to do avatar design for virtual theater and video.
A tutorial summarized
Avatar design for virtual theater is aimed primarily toward expressiveness. It's also important that our actors be able to change avatars and costumes quickly, attach props and use them easily, and move their avatars appropriately.
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Another important consideration is server and viewer resources. Every vertex and pixel on an avatar, and every movement, must load into that actor's computer and graphics card, then up into the server hardware and software, then back down into audience computers and graphics cards. Too much data takes too long, so we have to build efficiently – as few vertices and pixels as possible.
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Before figuring out how we want our avatars to look, it's first important to know how we make our avatars move. Our actors move their avatars while saying their lines, so that you are hearing and seeing our avatars speaking and moving live. Yes, that takes some practice!
A tutorial summarized
In virtual world theater and video, avatars are the people. Avatar design takes the place of casting for appearance, costuming, and makeup. This article, published in full on the New Media Arts blog, explains in detail how we do that.
- Avatar Design for Virtual World Theater
- by Ada Radius
- Invited article
- Summarized from:
- The New Media Arts blog
- (More after the break)
- Where is Arcadia?
Metaverse events, current and upcoming
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Avatar design for virtual theater is aimed primarily toward expressiveness. It's also important that our actors be able to change avatars and costumes quickly, attach props and use them easily, and move their avatars appropriately.
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Another important consideration is server and viewer resources. Every vertex and pixel on an avatar, and every movement, must load into that actor's computer and graphics card, then up into the server hardware and software, then back down into audience computers and graphics cards. Too much data takes too long, so we have to build efficiently – as few vertices and pixels as possible.
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Before figuring out how we want our avatars to look, it's first important to know how we make our avatars move. Our actors move their avatars while saying their lines, so that you are hearing and seeing our avatars speaking and moving live. Yes, that takes some practice!
The technical part
Not for the casual reader.
- How a virtual theater actor moves
- Avatar shape
- Texturing the default avatar pieces
- Default avatar clothes
- Attachment points
- Mesh attachments
News and Notes
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The Hypergrid WIP Show
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Next WIP show
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- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- world.narasnook.com:8900
- Put the line above in your World Map next to Find. Click Find. TP
- At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora
- Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
- HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
- Next WIP show: Sun. Mar. 27, Noon SLT
- Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
- HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- world.narasnook.com:8900
- Put the line above in your World Map next to Find. Click Find. TP
- At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora
- Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
- HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
Previous Articles from the WIP show
- WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
- WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
- WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
- The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
- WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
- WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
- Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid
- WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
- WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
- WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
- The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
- WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
- WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
- Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid
Entertainment on the Hypergrid
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Hypergrid Destinations
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Hypergrid Destinations
HG links-- depending on your interests
- Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
- HOW TO HYPERGRID
- Sign of the Kite
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
- Best metaverse communities
- Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
- Arcadia Asylum All Around
- G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
- G+ community: Metaverse Tours
- Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
- Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
- HOW TO HYPERGRID
- Sign of the Kite
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
- Best metaverse communities
- Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
- Arcadia Asylum All Around
- G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
- G+ community: Metaverse Tours
- Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
Metaverse beginner help
- How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
- Metaverse 101 Info
+ Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
- Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers
- A Dimension Beyond
- Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
- Newcomer help in virtual worlds
- Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
- Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time
- Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
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