request for male/female avatars of different ethnicities! :)

[LINGresearch]

Hello everyone,

I am a PhD student in linguistics, and I am trying to collect male and female avatars of different ethnicities to use for my research on ethnicity-based linguistic stereotyping. I first wanted to make the avatars myself from scratch, but seeing the amount of time, skill, and talent it requires to make the avatars look realistic, I thought I could just as well ask the experts (i.e. you!) if they have made any avatars that they would be willing to share! Even having a basis to then play around with is already so much better than building it up from nothing!
I know this is a long shot, but since I figured there are bound to be many great-looking avatars out there, why reinvent the wheel?

Oh, and I would only make use of the heads/faces; different clothing would be an extra variable that I do not want to factor in.

I hope some of you are willing to help me, or at least point me in the right direction!

Cheers!

[brkurt]

Hello everyone,

I am a PhD student in linguistics, and I am trying to collect male and female avatars of different ethnicities to use for my research on ethnicity-based linguistic stereotyping. I first wanted to make the avatars myself from scratch, but seeing the amount of time, skill, and talent it requires to make the avatars look realistic, I thought I could just as well ask the experts (i.e. you!) if they have made any avatars that they would be willing to share! Even having a basis to then play around with is already so much better than building it up from nothing!
I know this is a long shot, but since I figured there are bound to be many great-looking avatars out there, why reinvent the wheel?

Oh, and I would only make use of the heads/faces; different clothing would be an extra variable that I do not want to factor in.

I hope some of you are willing to help me, or at least point me in the right direction!

Cheers!

I'm willing to help you create the custom visemes that you will need.
You can see my tutorial here: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10750