[_] How do I get there?
Tim Beadle
tim.beadle at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 17:11:13 BST 2008
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Ben Reed <benreed83 at yahoo.com> wrote: > One more thing to add that I forgot to mention first time aroudn is that 2D avatars offer all that a 3D avatar can, and are much easier to produce / edit for the average person. I have just finished a degree course and my dissertation was on 3D for the Web and why it hasnt taken off, its because 2D (eg a 128 x 128 image) can get across 95% of the message that a highly detailed 3D model (3D human avatar for example) could, even though the former takes a tiny fraction of the time to create. > > Horses for courses my friend. Not to mention the Uncanny Valley; the more realistic, the more unnerving: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley Tim