Second Life

Creating my avatar in second life was a challenge. I began by assuming that the skin only needed to be stretched around the template by expanding the cheeks and basically leaving the nose, mouth, and eyes sections alone. However, I later found out that it was crucial to the proper look of your avatar to manipulate all these sections to properly fit the grid. After my skin had been posted I also wondered why it did not look like me at all - until I found the head shape manipulation tool which sorting those issues out. My original self comes fully equipped with my own color hair and eyes as well as my "nerd-glasses" that I believe are inseparable from myself. My alternative or imaginary avatar I composed keeping in mind my future desires and, at the risk of sounding overly materialistic, I wished to define my imagined self as a rich 1920 steel tycoon. I think the connotation associated with this personality does accurately express particular aspects of my own character traits, however this is keeping in mind the good traits as well. All the objects on my imaginary avatar are from my own creation as I could not find suitable replicas I wished to adorn myself with that were to my liking of both aesthetic and cost.