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Article: Make your own avatar.(End Note)(Book Review)
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- Strategic Finance
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Institute of Management Accountants. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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They're called avatars ("an animated, articulated representation of a human which represents you"), or embodied agents, virtual humans, or synthespians. You might have talked to one when you called customer support, or maybe you recognized them in the mob scenes in Titanic or Forrest Gump.
With Peter Plantec's new book, Virtual Humans, from AMACOM, you can make a modest avatar of your own. The book has step-by-step instructions and references to programs, free and commercial, to help you. There are demos and programs included on a CD that comes with the book. The author assures you that "you can create an impressive example in a week's time."
Commercial ...