Hi Brid,
Anybody is welcome to use my avatars, though none of them is articulated
(unless you count the dog's wagging tail :)
I hope to be building more avatars soon which will be articulated, but I
don't think it will be in time for your project. In the meantime you might
check out:
* some of the HumanoidAnimation working group's avatars and ask the people
involved if you can use their avatars
http://ece.uwaterloo.ca:80/~h-anim/
* check out Blaxxun. There are lots of gesturing avatars there, though I
don't know if they can be used outside Blaxxun's worlds.
http://www.blaxxun.com/
* the best place for avatars that look like normal humans is ActiveWorlds,
however they are not written in VRML so can't be used in VNet. I was told
of a RenderWare to VRML converter but it would be a major undertaking to
convert the actions as well... I am not sure how it could be done.
http://www.activeworlds.com/
* Holodesk uses gesturing VRML avatars. I think the avatars are probably
proprietary, but it wouldn't hurt to ask them. They are a nice bunch of
people at VRTelecom.
http://www.holodesk.com/hd/home/index.html
http://www.vrtelecom.com/
* Cati Laporte has some articulated avatars working in VNet right now. She
may be able to help.
http://catilaporte.com/
Best wishes,
- Miriam
At 04:40 14/04/99 PDT, Brid Barron wrote:
>I'm doing a project using vnet and need some avatars. Does anyone
>know if there are any freely available avatars that I could use. I've
>looked at some sites but I need one to represent a man and another for
>a woman (not a pamela anderson type). The application is quite formal
>so the 'space age' types aren't suitable. What I really need is a
>repesentation of 'ordinary' people but also I would like to be able to
>put in gestures such as nodding, folding arms etc.
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