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Nicola Escher - Journal: Creating a Complete Avatar (Part 1) Creating a Complete Avatar (Part 1) 08 February 2007 I was approached a couple months ago by someone asking me to develop an avatar based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and Victorian gentleman. This came at a great time because I was in the process of doing research on Late Victorian/Edwardian fashions — which would hopefully assist me in creating my line of Steampunk fashions.
I decided to record the process with screenshots as I went along with the thought that people might find it helpful and maybe even interesting. Shaping the Body Mesh I started the process by finding as many source photos of Conan Doyle as possible. I started off using a new alt and one of the default bodies, so the process began from a completely vanilla state. I used a separate reference photo for for fleshing out the body. Finally I had a completed avatar shape in Second Life. Skinning Sir Arthur Moving to Photoshop I started designing the head skin. Voila! SURFnet start pilot met virtuele wereld Active Worlds. The Ogoglio Project. TV3 > Home > Video > 60 Minutes. Blog. Second Life | Community: Videos.