Talk:Nisha Dwivedi

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The author did a great job of describing how she created her avatar, as well as the difficulties she faced while creating them. To her the Evolver didn’t have as many advanced features as some other avatar creating sites, like the Sims and Mii for Wii. She talked about the entire process about how she created her avatar, but towards the end realized the lack of options on the Evolver, and ended up settling for choices that didn’t make her the happiest. For example, the author began by describing how because of her Indian decent, picking a skin color was difficult since the Evolver didn’t have enough shades of tan. However, when the author picks her hairstyle, it is obvious that she settled for a haircut just at first glance. While you can hear the frustration in the authors voice about the lack of options for ethnic people, she still manages to deal with with the choices she had. She has a reason for each pick she made. She also mentions how there were a lot of non-normal avatar choices to pick from. For example, there was a lot of orange and pink hair as well as blue and green skin.

Overall, I think the author did a great job speaking to audience her choices in creating her avatar. You can basically hear the author talking to us and the frustrated, yet calm tone she has in her paper.

-Lucas Norton




The author did an excellent job of smoothly incorporating creative outside sources into her commentary. Her choices of anchoring were effective and elegant; since much of her reflection on the process addressed the difficulties she encountered modeling herself using the Evolver software, the illustration of her experiences with two separate but similar pieces of software - in Mii Creator and the Sims – helped convince myself that she was not simply just being picky, and that she had had success with the process already, simply in a different environment.

Additionally, she did a good job of describing the issues that she faced when creating the avatars in detail. She explains that almost immediately, she had trouble with mirroring her exact face shape, nose, cheeks, eyes, and chin, along with her hair style and eye color. She also describes a “gaping hole” in the software in that when one attempts to introduce variation in the skin tone, the software simply adds more makeup to the avatar’s face. The author goes even further by explaining how she remedied the difficulties; she mixed two existing avatars’ features until they were as close to as possible, but not exactly the same as her own.


-Nettie Shields