michiel | a year ago | 5 comments | 6 likes | 522 views

Ilja, Tintin, liuyongcai and 3 others like this!

Here's why BixPack 46 does not use a photo realistic avatar.

Despite all the 3D scanners, 3D scan services, 3D scanner phone apps and AI tools it's still very expensive and/or very time consuming to make an avatar of your family, friends and colleagues.

The GLB 3D model format is great, but it does not define a standard avatar format. The Toby model uses the Mixamo joint names and orientations but this is not enough to make changing an avatar as easy as changing a text or a picture.

We've considered making a BixPack with a photo realistic avatar. That would have looked very nice, but at the same time would have produced useless templates because of the practically impossibility to replace the avatar by your loved ones.

As a compromise, we've made a robot model using a photo of a face. In combination with an easy to edit texture, this gives you the opportunity to personalize the result!

When you want to play around with a photo realistic head, here's the one used in the screenshot.

Note that he looks creepy because he doesn't blink his eyes. And I can tell you it's even more creepier when you see an avatar of someone you know (or yourself!) looking like a zombie. It's subtle details like this that make it so difficult to produce realistic avatars... and so easy to produce robots 🤖😉

michiel, a year ago

Maybe play with big head mode.

shoji M, a year ago

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