References

Resources and References –an ongoing collection

Prior Art and Related Projects

• Sondra Perry
• Ivana Basic
• Hermione Flynn
• Facebook’s Codec Avatars

Essays

Portraiture

• Imaging Identity: Media, Memory, and Portraiture in the Digital Age (editor: Melinda Hinkson)
• The Portraits Dispersal: Concepts of Representation and Subjectivity on Contemporary Portraiture (Ernst van Alphen)

Avatars

• It Girls : Marketing entities like Miquela undermine the radical potential of avatarsIt Girls (Kerry Doran)

The Uncanny

• Goodbye Uncanny Valley (Alan Warburton)
• The Uncanny Valley (Masahiro Mori)

Technical Glossary

Structure Sensor

• 3D Scanning peripheral much like a Kinect that attaches to iPad.

ItSeez3D

• App Software that allows for 3D scanning w/ Structure Sensor.

Wrap3

• Software that allows you to morph the topology of a 3D object to fit the shape of a different 3D object.

DAZ Studio

• Robust avatar creation tool. Comes with pre-built generic avatars that contain body and facial riggings (skeletons).

Genesis 8

• DAZ Studio’s latest generic avatar. Can be morphed to fit 3D Scan topology while retaining access to rigging, animations, etc.

.obj

• File type for 3D objects without color/texture information.

.fbx

• File type for 3D objects that contain textures, rigging, animations, and 3D information.

Texture

• 2D image that contains color/skin information that is wrapped around 3D object.