Avatar

Draft

Formal and informal standards

• The SO/IEC FCD 19774 — Humanoid animation (H-Anim) standard “specifies the structure and manipulation of H-Anim figures. H-Anim figures are articulated 3D representations that depict animated characters. While H-Anim figures are intended to represent human-like characters, they are a general concept that is not limited to the same number of limbs, heads, and other pieces body parts that are typical of human beings.”

• The i3p group is working on a standard for SMIL

Links

General

• Avatar (computing) (Wikipedia). Non-technical overview of avatars
• Computer facial animation (Wikipedia)

Standards

• H-Anim Human animation working group] published the SO/IEC FCD 19774 — Humanoid animation (H-Anim) standard.

Tutorials

• Designing Isometric Avatars. Several well written articles by Herber Glarner. But the focus is on small animated GIFs.

Avatar design - artistic

• My Virtual World. This is a blog of a second life designer who owns the Metromodels virtual agency. Good reading about avatar design. The most useful article for avatar design is actually quite old:
  • Proportion and Second Life models (2006).

Examples

• Avatars United (Wikipedia). This website lets people show off their avatars from various virtual environments...