March 27, 2004
Virtual bignoseduglyguy
Having accidentally stumbled upon the link, I spent a little time this morning over at My Virtual Model rustling up a fairly decent facsimilie of myself. It was not quite as easy as it first appeared. Firstly, one has to work within the obvious limitations of the software and 'boilerplate' face/hair/body-type options available though there are enough of these to get quite close to a decent approximation. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, one then has to wrestle with the thorny question of the 'honesty' of the model. Do you trim a little here and touch up a little there or do you bare your soul with a 'warts and all' portrait? I have erred towards that latter, though if I am honest the model is probably a few pounds under my real weight (12½ stone).
This makes me wonder if any regular readers would care to reciprocate and add a link to their Virtual Model in a comment? It doesn't have to be like the near-nek-ed one above, which was gratuitously added to show lady readers what I look like in my 'George at ASDA' skivvies.
Posted by bignoseduglyguy at March 27, 2004 01:47 PM | TrackBackUm... do you want me to point out you look a tad more like David Beckham in your v-model dude!! heehe, it still looks pretty much like you though.
Posted by: Emmathesysad at March 27, 2004 02:56 PM:) What a scream!!!! This is me without my glasses and not so far of.
http://www.mvm.com/mvmhome/jsp/quest_id_create.jsp?
I can get the body shape okay, but there's no hope for the head. The need middle-age-baldness options.
http://www.ismckenzie.com/archives/002656.html