| − | Carmen did a pretty good job in describing how he created his avatars. While creating his self-avatar, he described the process as not only tedious, but also frustrating at times. I agree with him on both aspects. Creating your self-avatar is a pretty hard process at times because the software, i.e., evolver.com, does not have everybody's features in it. I had the same problem in creating my avatar, except I did not get very frustrated. Carmen also did a profound work and gave detailed description of how he created his body features on his self-avatar. For example, while he was trying to find his apparels for his avatars that he wears on a daily basis, he found blue and gray sweats, blue and gray sweatshirts, and tennis shoes. After picking out the clothing, he said it was a relatively easy process because the clothes he found resembled him quite a bit in real life. Other features like finding the right eyebrows and hair were a more tedious process because Carmen could not find the exact hair and eyebrows that matched him after playing around with the features on evovler.com. I liked how he described in detail why finding the exact hair and eyebrows that matched him were hard. In this context, I also agree with him that evolver.com needs more features, such as a more customizable feature to adjust eyebrows. Now, with his fantasy avatar, I liked how he used his outside source with "Dance Central" on xBOX Kinect. He admires how avatars are able to dance in the game very well, so he tried to make his fantasy avatar look like an avatar in the game. A few things I think he could improve on from this project is that describe "Dance Central" in a little more detail. Give us more insight on the different characters, the features they possess, and what made him want to design a character like Eva, etc. Moreover, he could also relate the game with the creation and use of avatars in virtual environments in a little more detail. Overall, however, this project was well done and the summary were explained in a clear and detailed manner.
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