My avatar so far

So far the hardest part about recreating myself as an avatar is getting the curves right but all was fixed after hours of frustration. I ended up recreating all of the hoody as there was too much geography within the jacket. I created the boobs the same way I created the hoody. I used the polygon and extrude tool and gradually altered the direction of the polygons to create a subtle curve.
The pink hoody is teh original that I am going to get rid of.

3D Max Avatar Up Date

My main goal when it comes to the avatar is to make it look as spot on as possible so I have found a tutorial that uses photographs of my face to create the structure. I created a plane to place the photos on and changed the dimension to suit the bitmap.

The planes were put in place to start creating the structure.

I began by creating the mouth with a cylinder and deleted the edges so one face was left.

To begin making the lips I made the cylinder into a doughnut shape and added in extra geography where the corners of the lips will be.
I have started to alter the vertexes to start making the lips. The most important part of the face to express my identity is my eyes. I plan to emphasis them to connect with the audience and get them thinking about who I am. So far this method has been a bit arkward when I have been trying to reshape the doughnut shape. I have found a better tuitorial that uses polygons instead.

http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/3d/3d_modeling_a_mouth_in_3ds_max.html

Avatar developments

So far so good with my avatar although it is taking a lot longer than I originally thought the shape and form of my avatar is going well. I have been concentrating on the female figure, which has been difficult to make realistic because I have had to get rid of a lot of geography so the breasts don't look lumpy. They still need a little work but they are on their way.  I found the clothes quite easy to model. I'm just looking forward to adding texture/ colour etc to bring her to life.

3D Max Experimentation

I found recreating the figure a lot easier this time but I have been working on making it a lot more detailed. I want the figure to look feminine and resemble my figure. My first go above looks rubbish. I thought it might be easier to extrude the area and then bevel it but it looked more like another shape slapped on top of it rather than natural curves. so I tried....

Altering the vertexes to make a breast but they didn't look much better. They just look like little lumps.

I ended up moving onto the shape of the bum. It looked a lot better but it was too curved and in your face. It doesn't look right because my avatar will be wearing a hoody that will cover some of that detail.

Plus there was little lumps that I am going to have to even out. I have made the thigh area slightly more curvy as well to make it feminine.

I am going to spend a lot of time making it look feminine because I think it is an important part of my individuality and it will look even more striking because the avatar will be wearing a black/ green hoody and jeans so that a lot of people can identity with the avatar. Also the plain clothes will make the eyes, hair etc stand out more to send people a subtle message.