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Web Developer.com Guide to 3D Avatars

Name: Web Developer.com Guide to 3D Avatars
Author: Sue Ki Wilcox
ISBN: 9780471242161

by Sue Ki Wilcox

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In this complete how-to guide, expert Sue Ki Wilcox takes a hands-on approach to teaching you how to use and get the most out of the avatar tools currently on the market. For each tool covered, she walks you through all the steps involved in using that tool to create a CyberAndroid. She also uses numerous examples taken from sites around the world to give you an idea of the various ingenious ways avatars are being used in business and entertainment, and to acquaint you with the crucial issues surrounding the creation and use of avatars. From a talking head to a fantasy heroine, or even a photorealistic representation of yourself, equipped with naturalistic body movements and emotional responses, the options for how you represent yourself or your organization on the internet are limited only by your imagination.

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Library Journal

Wilcox reveals a future where you can actually do something useful with virtual reality 3D on the net--you can't at the moment because of copper wiring and slow bandwidth, but this will change. At the heart of her vision are avatars, the virtual representatives of our login names. Wilcox mixes her discussion of how to create virtual worlds and 3D avatars with ample examples. This is an advanced beginner's guide to 3D and virtual reality, and it is not easy reading.

Booknews

A guide to creating 3-dimensional avatars--electronic representations of people in cyberspace--for the Internet. Topics include body geometry and texture mapping, techniques for making photographic replicas of faces and bodies for avatars, motion-capture, browser compatibility, file formats, multi-user servers, and interfaces. The CD-ROM contains 3D viewers, demonstration avatar creation tool software, and conversations with professional design artists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.