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axxxr
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Flawless skin. Perfect hair. Ready to work anywhere and everywhere, anytime you want. Meet five top contestants vying for the title of most beautiful virtual woman in the world.
Sophie Winters
Webbie
Mamegal
Kaya
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| [Kaya is ravishing. She has full lips, long lashes, and a slightly upturned nose. Her expression radiates confidence and power, and her smooth skin is well scrubbed and dotted with freckles. But she doesn't have much of a body. At all. In fact, she exists only from the neck up. Kaya is a CG model, a 48,200-polygon beauty created by an artist in São Paulo, Brazil. And she's sure to be a finalist in the Miss Digital World beauty pageant.
The man behind the event is Franz Cerami, an Italian promoter who's trying to start the world's first CG talent agency. His dream is to manage a bevy of virtual beauties, posing and costuming them for pinup calendars, videogames, ads, and movies. The benefits of digital models are obvious - they never age, never have bad hair days, and can be on location in Tokyo, Paris, and Hollywood simultaneously.
But there are downsides. For example, all of the talent that Cerami first auditioned looked creepy and waxen. CG artists call this the "uncanny valley," the point at which a near-human model looks so real that every flaw and shortcoming is thrown into high relief. (Ever seen a child terrified of mannequins? Blame the uncanny valley.)
Cerami doesn't give up easily. (When contacted for this story, he kept inquiring if Vogue, one of Wired's sister publications, needed any CG talent for its next cover.) He's betting that if he casts his net wider, he can find virtual women who leap across the uncanny valley. Last January, Cerami announced his digital beauty pageant, and now the finest 3-D artists in the world are sending him glamour shots of hi-res divas that make Lara Croft look like Ms. Pac-Man.
Cerami thinks of the models as people - artists are asked to provide personality profiles, even birth dates, for their creations. To avoid scandals à la Vanessa Williams, models who have appeared in pornographic works, "even as extras or cameos," are disqualified, according to the agency's guidelines.
Miss Digital World will be chosen in classic reality-TV fashion - people can vote for their favorite contender until December at missdigitalworld.com or via SMS. The winning creator gets five grand and a deal with Cerami's agency to receive a cut of the proceeds from placement or licensing of the model. Alas, no tiara.
Have digital models finally crossed the uncanny valley? Are they ready to go head-to-head with Tyra and Giselle? Here's a look at the latest developments in virtual beauty. |
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Sophie Winters
HEIGHT: 5'8"
WEIGHT: 115 pounds
POLYGON COUNT: 20,000 (plus 1 million subdivisions for full body, fully clothed)
BORN: Hannover, Germany
WARE SHE CAME FROM: 3D Studio Max, V-Ray; Dual Pentium 4, 3-GHz Xeon server chip, 1.5 Gbytes of RAM
MANAGER: Frank Sennholz
CLAIM TO FAME: Acting in the animated film Soulfire
PERSONALITY PLUS: Outgoing, athletic
WORKING ASSET: "We take much time for the eyes, they are really the windows to the soul of a character."
Webbie
HEIGHT: 5'9"
WEIGHT: 110 pounds
POLYGON COUNT: 92,000
BORN: Montreal, Canada
WARE SHE CAME FROM: Maya, Photoshop; Pentium 4 3.0-GHz processor, 2 Gbytes of RAM, Nvidia Quadro 4 videocard
MANAGER: Rene Morel
CLAIM TO FAME: Spokesmodel for Brazil Telecom
PERSONALITY PLUS: "A tad of smart, virtual charm."
WORKING ASSET: Hair (courtesy the Maya Fur plug-in)
Mamegal
HEIGHT: 5'4"
WEIGHT: 102 pounds
POLYGON COUNT: 36,000
BORN: Tokyo, Japan
WARE SHE CAME FROM: 3D Studio Max 5.1, Character Studio, Brazil Rendering System
MANAGER: Koji Yamagami
CLAIM TO FAME: Poster girl for Discreet's 3D Studio Max Software
PERSONALITY PLUS: Driven, extroverted
WORKING ASSET: Roppongi-ready muscle tone
Kaya
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 121 pounds
POLYGON COUNT: 48,200
BORN: São Paulo, Brazil
WARE SHE CAME FROM: Maya 4.0, Photoshop; Dual AMD Athlon 1.7-GHz processor, 1 GByte of RAM
MANAGER: Alceu Baptistão
CLAIM TO FAME: Best Character award at Animago Festival in Germany now appearing: In the Future Face Exhibition at the London Science Museum
PERSONALITY PLUS: Clumsily funny, sometimes cocky
WORKING ASSET: "Her mouth is sexy, although big."
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batesie
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Kaya looks like my girlfriend!!!
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axxxr
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Your a lucky guy then in that case!!...Most of us fantasise about cyber babes! 
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apart from the eye colour. she has brown eyes and not as many freckles....
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This is my all time favourite cyber babe...You know the name!
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Sophie Winters is scarry 
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methylated_spirit
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Why do people waste valuable time and talent on this crap...get a girlfriend. You never se cyber men being made for cometitions such as this, geeks with no girlfriends or hope of getting one...
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axxxt Lara is my! 
I saw the man who can change my destiny... He stood in the mirror. |
axxxr
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On 2004-11-04 14:53:56, methylated_spirit wrote:
Why do people waste valuable time and talent on this crap...get a girlfriend. You never se cyber men being made for cometitions such as this, geeks with no girlfriends or hope of getting one...
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Mate as my thread title says: "Don't Hate Me Because I'm Digital"
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Hmm a cyber vote out for Meme, for being one of the few that doesn't look like a computer generated 12 year old in make up. (Though does look like she was in a head on car accident with a truck load of imacs)
Heh you can hate the idea though you have to imo appreciate the work gone into the peoples work. Has anyone else seen the AMD rendering where you are taken past a car, bike then to a front door the the whole scene is shown to be digital? The scene is VERY realistic looking.
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blackspot
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is Mamegal really digital? Looks very real. Impressive!
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fatreg
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Why cant paint make things like this? LOL
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On 2004-11-04 14:53:56, methylated_spirit wrote:
Why do people waste valuable time and talent on this crap...get a girlfriend. You never se cyber men being made for cometitions such as this, geeks with no girlfriends or hope of getting one...
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It's just to demonstrate what they can do and how good they can re-create a human body, now do you really want to spend weeks of hard works on a male body ?
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Caveman
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I'm surprised nobody has suggested the idea of these girls being like computers and going down |
axxxr
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On 2004-11-06 03:54:10, Caveman wrote:
I'm surprised nobody has suggested the idea of these girls being like computers and going down
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