SL Avatar Photography Veteran Plays With Black Desert

After posting about Black Desert's free character creator, longtime avatar photographer Connie Arida whipped this above pic up in about 30 minutes. Pretty impressive in such short a time, though IMO Black Desert's hair modeling is not ideal. And while I like the emotional expressiveness here, the smile seems a bit off -- not engaging all the facial muscles we'd associate with a genuine smile. Connie created another version that works a bit better in my view:

With the smiling eyes and the playful tongue we're starting to leap over the Uncanny Valley. (Though again, Black Desert's hair seems to be plastered on in layers.) Still, nice experiments in a new avatar modeling system. To compare and contrast, here's a recent avatar profile Connie created in Second Life:

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[Issa Heckroth]

creepy mono-teeth iz creepy.

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

The first one actually resembles SL Connie.