Italy seeks world beauty queen, in pixels

Jazzee · #1 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 06:15 AM

Miss Digital World is the first ever virtual beauty contest, strictly for the most beautiful and intriguing virtual models made using the most advanced 3D graphics tools.

Miss Digital World

Story on CNN

edbarton · #2 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 06:28 AM

Very good

fairyjo · #3 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 06:48 AM

Wow !!

How can people invent new faces or bodies like that. They are beautiful, pretty women in fact.I cannot imagine the hard work they must put on these remakable images.

Joanie

Atom · #4 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by fairyjo

Wow !!

How can people invent new faces or bodies like that. They are beautiful, pretty women in fact.I cannot imagine the hard work they must put on these remakable images.

Joanie

It can be done with a program called "Poser4", it's an amazing program. I have it, but havent used it lately, it's a rather complex program, but alot of fun to use.

PhilC · #5 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 07:10 AM

Unless Atom or somebody else tells me differently, I don't believe that that picture was totally created. My guess is that the basis of it is a photograph of a person, and then the whole photograph was treated so that there's nothing of the original left on show - except the shape, where the features are, etc.

Atom · #6 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 07:34 AM

They were both definitely created by a computer program, probably Poser, but there may be better ones out since Poser, I don't know.... one who might know more about this is Leon, his sites, i.e. "Leon2ky's Personal Site" etc..., have images in them that look like they were created using Poser. I do know that Poser4 is an awsome program and is probably used by law enforcement agencies and maybe surgeons as well. You'd have to see it to believe it, it's great fun to fool with.... It was given to me by a friend, I heard it cost several thousand dollars, and I definitely believe it.

Leader of Men · #7 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 11:22 AM

Hey that's pretty cool!

gecko · #8 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 11:40 AM

god i dont like the sound of this all the maers i know in the poserpros forum are gonna creme themselves trying to out do each other

SubKamran · #9 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 11:46 AM

The chick on the front page of the official website is hot

Her eyes, however, have a glaze that shouldn't be there (look right below her eyelids)

Atom · #10 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by SubKamran

The chick on the front page of the official website is hot

Her eyes, however, have a glaze that shouldn't be there (look right below her eyelids)

All the human images that are created with poser seem to have that "wax dummy" look, and that characteristic of the program , to my knowledge, has never been overcome. The one below comes damn close though, it's amazing...

Pimpen 2010 · #11 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 02:41 PM

Man those are amazing

burgi82 · #12 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:00 PM

this stuff is pretty cool. It's amazing what we can already do with technology.

gecko · #13 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:17 PM

well poser CAN create amazing stuff but (1) you need ot renderr it in a better engine like 3dsmax or bryce, (2) no one ever poses the eyes, they all have that dead stare cause most of the geeks using poser dont know what real people look like on account of being indoors all the time

Atom · #14 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:19 PM

it's not easy to get an image looking as real as the one above .. I'm wondering if it had to be worked on in Photoshop also, to get it as perfect as possible... there are a handful of basic faces to choose from in poser and, you choose one and just start working on it, making adjustments, all kinds of adjustments and distortions are possible... remember that Michael Jackson video, Black or White I think was the name of it, where the peoples faces changed into other people's faces gradually? Well that can be done with Poser. It's a really neet program ... and that is a "really neet" video ...

gecko · #15 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:22 PM

trust me i know, ive dabbled in 3d myself but i know go for realism, after all whats the point? http://graphicsurge.com/3d.html

gecko · #16 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:22 PM

Atom · #17 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:24 PM

I like that one .... very nice

gecko · #18 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:26 PM

yeah my poser days are pretty much over, i didnt give enough attention to photoshop

and besides im serious when i say the type of people in poser forums.. well they are wankers pure and simple, they all make two kinds of pics;
faeries and pixies and stuff
and gothic crap

they all talk about how wicca changed their life, and how because their cat died they wont be posting for 2 weeks

utter wankerie

Atom · #19 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:27 PM

ok so ... the 3D thing .... right .... I am not familiar with that at all .... so I'm missing an important aspect of this ....

gecko · #20 (**permalink**) 11-09-2003, 03:28 PM

no u arent

3d graphics are overrated, you can go years without ever touchiung 3d and still be at the top of the graphics world