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Your struggles in creating your self-portrait and how you dealt with these seem to be well described here. Your 3 photo concept is an excellent way to help capture all of the features of your face. Dealing with the pre-made avatar parents is a difficult process and your struggles with creating your self from the available selections is well described. In creating your Fantasy Avatar it is interesting that your strategy was to create almost what the creators of evolver would look like. I would have liked to hear more about how creating the ideal venture capitalist or silicon valley man came to be the focus of your fantasy avatar and more about how the struggles you faced in creating this avatar were more or less difficult then your self portrait. Overall good work. | Your struggles in creating your self-portrait and how you dealt with these seem to be well described here. Your 3 photo concept is an excellent way to help capture all of the features of your face. Dealing with the pre-made avatar parents is a difficult process and your struggles with creating your self from the available selections is well described. In creating your Fantasy Avatar it is interesting that your strategy was to create almost what the creators of evolver would look like. I would have liked to hear more about how creating the ideal venture capitalist or silicon valley man came to be the focus of your fantasy avatar and more about how the struggles you faced in creating this avatar were more or less difficult then your self portrait. Overall good work. | ||
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| + | First off, I really liked the idea of comparing this avatar building process to the 2k sports process. The point that you made about the evolver software not being able to take into account your personality by picking the playing style or something of that nature was interesting. I think it showed how important your personality and playing style are to your identity. I think that your reflection could have improved by continuing to use comparisons to the 2k sports process in your construction section and fantasy section, instead of the 2k sports resource being an anchor to your reflection, I thought it was more of an afterthought and it seemed like you could have went more in depth with your relation between the two processes and how you felt about them. However, I did like how you described the in depth process of how you take three pictures of yourself to help you reference as you create your avatar. It gave me the feeling that you were really try to capture your entire physical image, even parts you don't like, as you mentioned in your reflection. Also, I did like your idea for your fantasy avatar and how you incorporated your future goals for your real life along with the creativity of the different physical features of your fantasy avatar. I think you could have described more why you wanted to be a venture capitalist or the difficulties of how to make your fantasy character look like a young venture capitalist. I really liked your ideas and your avatars but I would have liked to see more details and in depth ideas but good effort, I enjoyed reading. | ||
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| + | -Ericka Mosley | ||
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| + | I liked that you related this experience to other experiences you had. I have never worked with other programs to create an avatar, and I was frustrated using the evolver program, so it was interested to see what someone who was more experienced had to say. Taking pictures of yourself helped you create an avatar more similar to your characteristics, rather than glorifying yourself. This is something that I talked about in my essay. There is a discrepancy formed between your ideal self and your actual self. You did a very good job reviewing yourself representation, however you did not cover much about your fantasy avatar. | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:06, 15 November 2011
Comment 1
Good work on creating and reflecting upon your avatars. Your use of NBA 2k sports is an excellent example that mirrors this process. The contrast between the features the 2k gives you and the evolver software's options defiantly helps illustrate your point concerning the limitations of the evolver program. Especially your concerns about things specific to your avatar other then outward appearances. I like how you state that in 2k you can give your avatar personality like their "playing style" It is interesting that Evolver is based purely on looks and one does not have the ability to truly create a digital representation of themselves concerning personality and I like your creative use of 2k that draws on that. Your struggles in creating your self-portrait and how you dealt with these seem to be well described here. Your 3 photo concept is an excellent way to help capture all of the features of your face. Dealing with the pre-made avatar parents is a difficult process and your struggles with creating your self from the available selections is well described. In creating your Fantasy Avatar it is interesting that your strategy was to create almost what the creators of evolver would look like. I would have liked to hear more about how creating the ideal venture capitalist or silicon valley man came to be the focus of your fantasy avatar and more about how the struggles you faced in creating this avatar were more or less difficult then your self portrait. Overall good work. -T Arnold
Comment 2
First off, I really liked the idea of comparing this avatar building process to the 2k sports process. The point that you made about the evolver software not being able to take into account your personality by picking the playing style or something of that nature was interesting. I think it showed how important your personality and playing style are to your identity. I think that your reflection could have improved by continuing to use comparisons to the 2k sports process in your construction section and fantasy section, instead of the 2k sports resource being an anchor to your reflection, I thought it was more of an afterthought and it seemed like you could have went more in depth with your relation between the two processes and how you felt about them. However, I did like how you described the in depth process of how you take three pictures of yourself to help you reference as you create your avatar. It gave me the feeling that you were really try to capture your entire physical image, even parts you don't like, as you mentioned in your reflection. Also, I did like your idea for your fantasy avatar and how you incorporated your future goals for your real life along with the creativity of the different physical features of your fantasy avatar. I think you could have described more why you wanted to be a venture capitalist or the difficulties of how to make your fantasy character look like a young venture capitalist. I really liked your ideas and your avatars but I would have liked to see more details and in depth ideas but good effort, I enjoyed reading.
-Ericka Mosley
Comment 3
I liked that you related this experience to other experiences you had. I have never worked with other programs to create an avatar, and I was frustrated using the evolver program, so it was interested to see what someone who was more experienced had to say. Taking pictures of yourself helped you create an avatar more similar to your characteristics, rather than glorifying yourself. This is something that I talked about in my essay. There is a discrepancy formed between your ideal self and your actual self. You did a very good job reviewing yourself representation, however you did not cover much about your fantasy avatar.
V Greene
