Talk:Aaron Miller
I thought the author did a nice job of incorporating details of various issues he had while designing his avatar. Personally, I faced similar issues when it came to ensuring that my avatar was an accurate reflection of myself. The author noted how it was difficult to separate his personal bias towards certain features from the features on his avatar. I thought the most interesting aspect of his reflection was seeing how he constructed somewhat of a rough outline for the avatar and then proceeded to add more detailed characteristics to it later on. This was a unique approach that allowed the author to generate a more realistic and accurate version of himself. In terms of his fantasy avatar, the author seemed to face less difficulties in this area. He generated an avatar that was an opposite of himself and took this part of the assignment to be creative. The author did not seem to reference an outside source that affected how his avatars were generated. Although he did mention his fantasy avatar was influenced by Michael Clarke Duncan's character in A Night at the Roxbury, this seems to be the only reference to an outside source that effected the construction of his avatar. Thus it seems as if an outside source did not really effect the construction of his personal avatar.
--Elijah Thompson
I felt the author did an excellent job describing his thought process when creating his Avatar by detailing in a step by step method. This level of detail shows me that he followed directions and took pains to make his avatar and write notes on what he was doing. Next, in his reflection about his own avatar his major point is that creating avatar was difficult because he felt his bias of what he wants to look like would be reflected which countered for by consistently referring to pictures of himself. Similarly in his fantasy reflection the author was very detailed in his summary of the avatar creation process, and was inspired to create an avatar which was completely opposite of his current self. In addition, the author's main point in his reflection was to explain the technical issues when modeling the body and used outside sources specifically a film called A Night at the Roxbury to explain why and how he created his avatar. However, I felt the description very superficial and not analyzed enough to properly explain the reasons how the film applies problems when modelling the body online. Based on the way it the author used the film and character who is a bouncer can potentially be used which causes be doubt how useful the outside source is. Still, the piece was an informative and well organized reflection of how the author created his avatars.
--Dorothy Bridges
