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Looking at the assignment I was interested because I’ve never tried “creating” myself with software like this. I have drawn myself before and picked premade avatars that looked like me but never sat down and tried creating myself. To begin, I turned on my webcam on my laptop and took a picture of myself and saved it on my desktop. I started with my hair first because I thought it would help me see myself better in the avatar. I clicked the hair tab and in my mind said “which one of these look the most Asian.” I settled with a middle length sort of straight black hair, similar to mine. Next I went on to shaping my face. I played around with various faces, trying to match my head type. I just settled with a pretty generic head type and not combining faces. I then continued with the rest of the facial features and found that I used “Sean” the most. He was my cheek, chin, mouth, ears, and eyes. The nose was the only different feature that I used. | Looking at the assignment I was interested because I’ve never tried “creating” myself with software like this. I have drawn myself before and picked premade avatars that looked like me but never sat down and tried creating myself. To begin, I turned on my webcam on my laptop and took a picture of myself and saved it on my desktop. I started with my hair first because I thought it would help me see myself better in the avatar. I clicked the hair tab and in my mind said “which one of these look the most Asian.” I settled with a middle length sort of straight black hair, similar to mine. Next I went on to shaping my face. I played around with various faces, trying to match my head type. I just settled with a pretty generic head type and not combining faces. I then continued with the rest of the facial features and found that I used “Sean” the most. He was my cheek, chin, mouth, ears, and eyes. The nose was the only different feature that I used. | ||
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Self Portrait
Creating Myself
Looking at the assignment I was interested because I’ve never tried “creating” myself with software like this. I have drawn myself before and picked premade avatars that looked like me but never sat down and tried creating myself. To begin, I turned on my webcam on my laptop and took a picture of myself and saved it on my desktop. I started with my hair first because I thought it would help me see myself better in the avatar. I clicked the hair tab and in my mind said “which one of these look the most Asian.” I settled with a middle length sort of straight black hair, similar to mine. Next I went on to shaping my face. I played around with various faces, trying to match my head type. I just settled with a pretty generic head type and not combining faces. I then continued with the rest of the facial features and found that I used “Sean” the most. He was my cheek, chin, mouth, ears, and eyes. The nose was the only different feature that I used.
Reflecting Back
I found this exercise a bit frustrating because my ability to customize myself was very limited. Only allowing selection from a small pool made it hard for me to represent myself the way I wanted to be represented. My first attempt at making myself was choosing hair that looked like mine. Being Asian, I know that Asian hair typically only comes in one flavor, straight and black. After looking at the selections they have available, I settled on one that looked sort of like my hair and changed the color to black. I found however that after I changed it to black, it resembled my hair much more and I was satisfied with my choice. The color had really made a difference in the envisioning process. Before I thought, “I’ll just settle with this one…” However after I changed the hair color I found myself thinking, “Not bad actually…” Next were the eyes. Again, being Asian I know that Asian eyes are typically smaller so I already had an idea of what I needed to look for. Browsing through the eyes I was very easily able to decide which ones looked like mine. I think however for non Asian people, they would have had to look a bit harder because their eyes don’t have this sort distinguishable trait. That may be an overgeneralization though. There turned out to only be three Asian looking eye sets that I was able to choose from and I ended up picking “Sean” again. This continued on throughout the rest of my selection except for the nose. This where I chose to mix a wider set nose with a thinner nose bridge to create my nose. As for the body I decided to just pick and medium build to represent myself. This choice process wasn’t very difficult or frustrating. I didn’t find it as important as my facial features. An interesting thought that popped into my head as I was creating myself was that I found myself asking “What looks most Asian” when I was choosing facial features. Before going in and picking what looked the most like me, I already had a preconceived idea based on the fact that I am Asian.
Fantasy Character
This is how the idea of creating a disco retro 70’s looking Buddha came into my head. I had no idea what I was going to create so I decided to browse the head. The first thing I saw was a face named “Anthony” that was round looking. With that in mind I decided “I’m going to create Buddha.” After deciding that I went on to make the face look as round and as happy as possible because well… he was going to be Buddha. When it came to eyes, I again already has this idea that the eyes had to be “Asian” looking so I already knew which set of eyes I had to choose from. I ended up choosing “Minh.” The rest of the features went on to be the roundest and “fattest” features I could find. I was pleased with the end result. As for the body, I again set out to create a round looking avatar to resemble the idea that Buddha wasn’t the dieting type. I chose the rounded looking features again. Next came what my DiscoBuddha was going to wear. I started off with pants for some reason and found some swanky looking white pants that instantly reminded me of “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," a video game about drug lords, guns, and disco pants. Boom. In my mine I swore that he would “be the Buddha with the most style and swag that anyone else has ever laid eyes on.” DiscoBuddha was born.
