Difference between revisions of "Talk:Jacky Fontaine"

Latest revision as of 06:27, 7 December 2011

I too have always been interested in the counter-culture movements of the 1960s. I’m a musician and I’ve always found inspiration in the music of that time. Your red, white, blue and snakeskin clad tiger hippy scared me at first, but after reading through your reasoning for creating said creature, I applaud your creativity.

I thought the descriptions of the issues you encountered throughout your many attempts at creating a self-portrait avatar were thorough and well explained. I also found the molding of two parent avatars to be insufficient during the self-portrait avatar creation process. Like you, I used the cloning tool to create a self-portrait avatar that I found resembled myself decently enough, but was still slightly unsatisfactory in the end.

Your use of the Sims game as an outside resource to anchor your reflection in information outside your own opinion was a solid choice and you referenced it well throughout your fantasy avatar reflection. However, you didn’t include a formal citation for the Sims game at the end of your work. This was a requirement in the assignment prompt.

I found a few minor grammar errors, but none of them were a detriment to the idea you were expressing. The organization of your content is good and your writing style is natural.

-J Watts

The first thing that jumped out at me about Jacky's work was her experience in discovering, step by step, that the options provided in EvolverPro come nowhere near capturing the full range of human shape. I thought that the repetition of listing out each feature and why the options presented didn't work for her individually was really effective stylistically. She also has a few interesting statements about the depictions of ethnicity throughout; I think it would be interesting to explore those ideas a little more to get a sort of social science perspective about the relationship these types of avatars have with society. There's a stark contrast between Jacky's experiences making the self-portrait vs. fantasy avatars. I thought it would have been interesting to hear more about why the fantasy avatar experience was so much easier, or why she identifies with the 1960s counterculture movements; to know more about her personal interest in the period. Overall it seems like Jacky spent a lot of time getting to know the EvolverPro software and taking advantage of its numerous features. It was also a nice move to incorporate previous experiences with avatar building to compare and contrast with the EvolverPro.

-M Colon