Comments on: Does Your Avatar Look Like You?

By: RiverCreek

RiverCreek — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:45:29 +0000

I am alway changing my avatar around but for the most part I try to stay within’ the limits. If they had longer hair for the women and had more details in the facial aging, perhaps some of us older folks would look more like our age.

BTW, great pic Burbie…lol.

By: UnknownAnon

UnknownAnon — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:23:49 +0000

Indeed, my avi is pretty much my alter-ego.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:10:37 +0000

Yes, at least a resemblance and that’s the best we can do. Well done.

By: Terra_Cide

Terra_Cide — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:41:08 +0000

Do I look like my avatar? Hrmm...

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:55:59 +0000

I spent ages on mine! Used photos and even a mirror lol! I found the advanced settings within the facial reconstructions of the Home characters detailed enough to recreate my slightly squint nose, eyes and ears just fine, though it did take me nearly forever. The problem I found though, was that regardless of the effort put into making your avatar exactly like you, this only ever shows when zoomed in within the wardrobe. Zoomed out and in public, the face seems to become simplified somehow. Except my wrinkle lines, there’s some tragic lighting in Home that makes my face look like a melted welly at times lol.

As for the body well, I guess I’m lucky; I’ve not much changed since my school days. I’ve been waiting on middle-age-spread to come along and start giggling as it expands my waistline etc but, it’s just not happened… yet.

So yeah, generally what you see of me in Home is what you get. I mostly wear clothes that I would in RL too, unless I’m having a silly day, then you might find me running around in a giant baby-grow clutching an axe or something but for the most part, I am me in Home.

Loved this article BTW Burbie

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:41:15 +0000

My avi and I share a few similarities. Grayish hair,a deep brow, but my male avi also represents a me that I am not. Slender for one. My avi is a noble jedi, as i don’t use the ways of the force. I like my avi and did spend huge amounts of time creating both my male and female avis. I believe that it is fine to make an avi look like yourself, remembering that yes the tools are limited and one will never really make an accurate representation of one’s self. With that limitation I choose to allow some freedom and latitude in how I make my avis. I make one master face and run wild with the clothes. This is one of those places where really there is no wrong (unless the intentionn is to dupe folk)and we should all have fun just being who we are, however we represent ourselves. Good write Burbie, and that party was a blast.

By: Dlyrius

Dlyrius — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:58:31 +0000

Simple answer to the initial question is NO! LOL, while my avatar does resemble my real height at 6’1″ as well as my facial features including hair and eye colors, her figure in no way resembles the one I am currently living in. Simply put, she isn’t fat and I am.. so she resembles what I look like on the inside She embodies all I currently am, everything I wish I was, as well as all I hope to be if I can ever afford plastic surgery. In my case, beauty is beyond skin deep, it is displayed in 3 dimensional pixelation for all the world to see and I think it is totally awesome!

By: SealWyf_

SealWyf_ — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:07:39 +0000

I keep one self-portrait avatar saved, in case I need to show people exactly who they are messing with. But my usual avatar looks like the alter ego I used in my adolescent fantasies — a petite, dark-haired young woman who looks a bit like Dora the Explorer all grown up.

And then there are my Homeling selves, the “White Seal” in Echochrome and John Lennon glasses, wielding a giant Cotton Swab, and the “Black Seal” in scary General’s Black, with glowing green eyes. They’re all me. I see no reason to make my avatar match the person in the mirror.

By: keara22hi

keara22hi — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:05:57 +0000

I choose to be the ‘me’ that I was at the age of 45. And I managed to do that with the DarthGranny avatar. Ironically, in real life, I looked better at 45 than I did at 25! And, throughout eternity, I hope to look that way -- although with a halo and wings, of course.

By: Bayern_1867

Bayern_1867 — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:37:43 +0000

At first, I tried to make copy myself. Between my lack of skill and Home’s limitations, I couldn’t. Now I make my avatar wild, or elegant or whatever the mood of the day is. Often I pick clothes and build an avatar to display them. Just as in RL, no avatar looks good in all colors and styles. I have 1 male avatar always tucked handily away: my troll bane. I have run a male avatar from time to time to help out Friends in machinima or foto shoots but mostly I run a female. One reason I’m in Home is to stretch my zone of comfort: wearing clothes I’d never put on in real life and occasionally running a male avatar is part of that. For me (not all my Friends agree with this) my avatar isn’t “me” any more than a chess piece is. It does represent me, meaning my “actions” and “interactions with others” are me, even though the avatar-of-the-moment’s appearance also says something about driver, or the
mood of the moment.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:20:53 +0000

You are a cutie in real life and on Home Cheeks, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! I am glad you are my friend, looks can be deceiving, and people rely on them way too much I think. In real life and on Home it is what is inside of us that counts, but sadly many people won’t allow themselves to get past the outside rough exterior to get to the sweet interior that is truly who we are. Love Ya!

By: CheekyGuy

CheekyGuy — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:14:31 +0000

My avatar looks ‘nothing’ like my real self, lol, in fact my avatar is much more handsome and taller and maybe easier on the eye. In the real world I don’t look attractive, I have gained weight, I am one of those people that are ‘invisible’ in the real world, people really do not notice me at all. I’m the guy that really doesn’t get the girl, (I’m usually pushed to the side) but I make up for it when it comes to opportunities. When I arrive on Home, I’m popular, I’m needed and people really want to talk to me. Sometimes I come into home as a female avatar, I find that fun, an opportunity to explore the ‘other’ side of the coin. But I’m mostly found on Home in my male form.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:11:17 +0000

LOL. There is no prize but if there was Kid would have it, it is indeed Sophia Loren. I don’t know why I picked her to emulate for our celebrity look alike event, except maybe that she was extremely beautiful and has an interesting face to try for. I couldn’t get the nose quite right because of the limitations we have but I had fun trying.
As to how you would cheat on guessing this I haven’t a clue Kid, unless you looked at pics of her and that still wouldn’t be cheating as you would have to kind of know who you were looking for. I used Google images to do this as it has several poses and closeups there. Like I said, avatars can be very fun to play with if you take the time.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:52:47 +0000

Sophia Loren, eyes and lips. She did wear short hair.
So what if I cheated a little. I still might be wrong

By: MsLiZa

MsLiZa — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:51:46 +0000

I think “she” is Julia Roberts. Did I win the prize?

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:33:22 +0000

Yes and no as to does my avatar look like me. But that’s subjective.

I did try to make my face and body as realistic as I could however while I wouldn’t wear a hairpiece in real life I do wear different hairstyles and beards on Home.

Also I wear a pirates outfit which I only did once in real life as a child on Halloween. Nor do I wear some of the “outrageous” clothes nor do I look like a robot in real life.

I once posted a real life picture of myself and of my avatar and was told they were similar.

I have an Eye for the PS3 which I’ve only used so far for Fight Night 4 and it is capable of creating a reasonable look alike of out facial looks. For better or worse, it doesn’t work on avatars. Too bad.

Sometimes I put out avatars with clothes that look as close as me as I can do and if people don’t like the way I look no matter what I wear, too bad.

By: KLCgame

KLCgame — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:11:57 +0000

I agree completely, I made my avatar similar but honestly a little thinner and stuff like that. But really here on Home, To each their own.

By: LUTORCORP

LUTORCORP — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:56:39 +0000

I myself have tried to make and keep my avatar close to how I look myself. When i first came onto PsHome i kinda thought that was what were was all suppose to do. Of course now I know thats far from the truth in most cases. Still I try to have my avi look how I do, and treat ppl how I do in my real life. To each his or her own. Good read!

By: eternalwingsmiv

eternalwingsmiv — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:06:59 +0000

great article. I Completely agree with you. =] and so true about the “noobs”.I feel that some of them are shun out because of the way there avatar looks. its sad.