AVATARS '99 WINNERS

Winning avatars receive select prizes such as software packages like Canoma and high profile coverage in the media, on the web, on the Consortium home page and elsewhere.

A wonderful prize, Canoma: make photorealistic 3D worlds for ordinary scanned images! Thanks goes to Robert Seidl of Metacreations.

 

Another wonderful prize, Life forms 3.5, a premier character animation and authoring tool, returns for the third year to the Avvys, brought to you by credo interactive, the character motion company.

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PLEASE RESPECT THE ARTIST'S RIGHTS AND CONTACT THE APPROPRIATE ARTIST BEFORE USING IMAGES OR LINKING TO THEIR WORK.

FOR INFORMATION ON THIS CONTEST, PLEASE SEE http://www.ccon.org/

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GRAND PRIZE WINNER
ALSO WINS AS
BEST HUMANOID

Bill Davidson - peep

PEEP

RWX FORMAT
view using ActiveWorlds

You can view peep in av99avvy

http://www.credo-interactive.com/

Peep is not the most mature avatar you'll ever meet. In fact, peep tends to be a bit rude. We are currently trying to teach Peep how to behave properly and, well, like I said, we're trying! Peep consists of 790 polygons(plus 2!). Peep was modelled in 3dmax and animated in Lifeforms.

Bill has graciously donated his Grand Prize of Life Forms to the Grand Prize Runner-Up :)

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GRAND PRIZE RUNNER-UP

Andy Best & Merja Puustinen - Einstein

EINSTEIN

Einstein 32,1K 670 12K

BLAXXUN (VRML-Based)
view using blaxxun

Albert if he'd lived in the 60's
maybe he hung out with Timothy Leary...or maybe they are now!
See "Einstein" Here

http://meetfactory.com/

As far as design goes, we prefer an aesthetic which is more visual than hyper real, if you know what I mean! So the Einstein avatar is more of a characature than a pure realistic figure, for example. The styles, colours, movements are exaggerated to create a more exciting and visual experience in the virtual world, where usually the avatar size is quite small on the screen real estate.

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WEIRDEST
(YOU MEAN THAT IS AN AVATAR?)
BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK
(elegant & efficient use of polygons/texture mapping)

Imagine - Thing

THING

RWX FORMAT
view using ActiveWorlds

Imagine - Seahorse

SEAHORSE

RWX FORMAT
view using ActiveWorlds

See "Seahorse" Here

http://www.homestead.com/if/memim1.html

I made thing one day just to see if i could >:o) He should go to the weird category. he is rwx file format and can be viewed in AW D'Magia

http://www.homestead.com/if/memim1.html

This seahorse is very low vert and very low poly as far as avs go. so it should go in the Best bang for the buck category. It can be viewed in AW world D'Magia.

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BEST TECHNICAL INTERFACE/PERFORMANCE
(Episodic)

no entries

 

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BEST ANIMATION
(Best Gesture Set)
BEST CONCEPTUAL ADVANCEMENT

Andy Best & Merja Puustinen
SOULMAN

SOULMAN

BLAXXUN (VRML-Based)
view using blaxxun

Soulman 30,9K 784 35K


Steve Guynup / Thomas Tulis
AVATAR AS CONTENT

CONTENT

VNET (VRML-Based)
view using CosmoPlayer

See " Avatar As Content" Here

Animations are meant to express something about the character of the avatar and/or person using it! We like to make more expressive gestures, not the usual 'wave' , 'shake head', etc, so they tend to be more 'lively' than the usual. In the Avatar Builder users can select which animation pack they like best, this is not fixed, but here I've put the most appropriate for each avatar, ie: Soulman - Dance - he's the singer with a Funk band :-)

Note this is 100% Macintosh created and designed for VNet environments.

This work centers on the idea that Avatars are not character representations. When we strip away the preconceived notions of gestural expression and human forms we find that Avatars are four dimensional points used to exchange data.

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MOST REALISTIC HUMANOID
BEST NON-HUMANOID

Nickita Kashirin - Muzik

MUZIK

RWX FORMAT
view using ActiveWorlds

Muzik 1758 mixed polygons

See " Muzik" Here

Imagine - Daisy

DAISY

RWX FORMAT
view using ActiveWorlds

See " Daisy" Here

Copyright:  Nickita Kashirin and Christina Amtower

Catagory: Most Realistic Humanoid, Best Bang for the Buck

Can be viewed in Zuzu World, by downloading the Active Worlds browser at www.activeworlds.com

http://www.homestead.com/if/memim1.html

(Active Worlds RWX format )  D'Magia world

I made Daisy for the green house in the haunted castle in OCT31 world.  He should be in the non-humanoid category. he is rwx file format and can be viewed in AW D'Magia world

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Honorable Mention

Transitions

Honorable Mention

Visual Effectiveness

kiwano of Geometrek - Nemisis

NEMISIS

See "Nemisis" Here

Pam Dahl - Gandalf

GANDALF

See "Gandalf" Here

http://home.t-online.de/home/kiwano4/

Nemisis is a female avatar who can handle herself very well in cyberspace. She is VRML, h-anim 1.0 compliant and looks her best/worst in Cosmo 1.2.

Use the HUD controlls to see the animations:- walking, smoking and turning into a vampire and back to a human again.  She is eager to meet the oversexed jerks one tents to meet in 3D chat areas from time to time - just for a quick drink you understand :)

http://www.infinite-d.com

Gandalf is an example of character creation using a variety of multimedia. I used a new vrml animation tool from parallel graphics that I would recommend to anyone! Gandalf was placed into his own scene to show example of a dream-like effect achieved by distorting the field of view. I feel that vrml characters have more impact when their environment is considered

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ALL IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS.
PLEASE RESPECT THE ARTIST'S RIGHTS AND CONTACT THE APPROPRIATE ARTIST BEFORE USING IMAGES OR LINKING TO THEIR WORK.

FOR INFORMATION ON THIS CONTEST, PLEASE SEE http://www.ccon.org/

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PAGE, PLEASE CONTACT mytwokeys@mindspring.com