From Japan to SL

Japanese faceless monster, Nopperabou. “Should be looking from somewhere.” “Shall I draw something…” From the “Monster Trainer” by Shincho, the comedian.




Fifteen years in SL, I have been taking many snapshots. There are more than 40,000 photos saved in my computer. The most popular shot could be avatars. I had issued an article about evolution of avater, now this is to see the progress of parts with mesh. The following is vatiation of eyes that was issued in 2010. At that time I was following guidelines for RL photo, which avoided to take direct eyeline.




These are pictures taken recently. I lost my shyness and received eye lines directly. The biggest change could be the texture of eyeballs. The old ones had all appearances of avatar, but the recent ones have a feel of real expression. Also. the big change was to be able to close eyes. Sometime I worried how to do my eyes when someone is kissing me….




The change through the mesh avatar could be the nose shape. These are all my Japanese friends but most of them are round and soft shape. As I have a complex of a rather large and squabby nose, I had dreamt of the Nordic, sharp and sculpturesque one.




With the mesh, it became possible to shape it beautiful, especially the nostril expressin was largely improved. Unfortunately, the following variations cannot be edited freely but it is necessary to buy the shape and skin accordingly. It is said that no woman is satisfied with her own nose, so it might be a destiny to suffer from the nose. A comic story said to a female monster with no face feature, “It is OK to have nothing on your face. There are many girls having a hard time since there is something.”