Raw shots from SL – I just cropped them together.
One thing I love about Second Life is that you can be whatever shape you want to be. But I do have my days where I look at my shape and think hmmmmmm… are my hands massive? Are my arms too short? Is my head gibungus? Should I make myself taller? I suck at making shapes myself cuz I don’t think I’m very good with proportions (Mr. Revolution made these beauties for me) so I thought I would give you guys my digits and see how I compare and what everyone thinks is the “norm” (if there is such a thing?) I’m not talking about skinny, fat, big-boobed, big-assed, or even height for that matter. I’m actually just talking about proportions and if mine actually work.
A few things I do like about my shape: I seem to fit well into many different poses, I never have to adjust any Truth hair for my head and all prim nails usually fit me perfectly. So I’m not sure if I actually want to change my shape at all, I’m pretty happy with it. I just want to compare numbers and see what the average is and what people normally lean towards. So if you are willing to share your digits, please do. Leave them in the comments or do your own post about it. I would love to see all the varying avs.
I’m doing it for both of my avs because I always feel like my male av’s hands are really big and I actually recently made them a lot smaller but you guys tell me what you think. I’m just going to share a few of the digits, not everything! :P Here goes…
ManBerry’s digits:
Height – 82 (6’4″ using the Avatar Height Measure)
Head size – 70
Arm length – 54
Hand size – 30
Torso length – 60
Leg length – 54
Foot size – 0
Berry’s digits:
Height – 66 (5’10″ using the Avatar Height Measure)
Head size – 58
Arm length – 75
Hand size – 20
Torso length – 55
Leg length – 56
Foot size – 0
EDIT: A few people also added their T&A digits so I thought I would share those as well.
T&A digits for Berry:
Body fat – 5
Breast size – 54
Hip width – 58
Butt size – 44
(If you share your digits on flickr, feel free to add it to the digits flickr group.)
I know it’s kinda silly of me to stress about my proportions in a virtual world, but it’s also kinda fun to see all the variations we can play with. BTW, if you’re wondering what started all this, I was just looking at the image I did for yesterday’s blog post and felt that my hands just looked MASSIVE in it. So I plurked about it here and the plurkers gave me some great insight into proportions. Thanks guys!
Mr. Hart Larsson shared a few things in my plurk so I really wanted to add them here cuz I thought they were very neat to look at.
Ideal proportion – Male
Ideal proportion – Female
Tutorial – Anatomy & Proportions
EDIT: Vaki Zenovka took all the numbers people shared and found the average and is now giving away the average sized shapes for free FULL PERM. Read her post about it here.
Credits:
ManBerry:
*Skin: Belleza
*Boxers: Zaara
*Pose: Diesel Works
Berry:
*Skin: Dutch Touch
*Hair: Truth
*Lingerie: Zaara
*Pose: Status
*Promotional copies
WindLight Setting: StrawberrySingh.com – Original
Strawberry Singh has been a resident of the virtual world Second Life™ since May 2007. She is a blogger, photographer and a social media enthusiast.
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Sharing a few numbers is not giving away the whole shape so the whole thing can not be fully copied. The most unique part of a shape should be the face and that is not being posted.
With the number of people in SL and the fact that shapes are limited by numbers there most likely are already people out there walking around with very similar shapes with out ever having seen the actual numbers. I also bet shapes out there for sell are also very similar to other shapes already out there and they weren’t even copied. (Also just so you know i too make and sell shapes in SL.)
http://images.plurk.com/47155e91f53f1d8aef36de981757ea5e.jpg
BOOYAH.
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I definitely think we have an unrealistic grasp on feet. Foot size 0 looks kinda weird, and I find LOTS of shoes look really small on me, but it’s just what we’re used to. I haven’t tried my feet bigger, though, so it might look weird!
@Ava
Most SL avatars have arms that are far too short for their bodies, even the starter avatars that LL provides have arms that are a full half a foot too short. Basically, your arms, outstretched and measured from fingertip to fingertip, should be as long as you are tall. Give or take 2-3 inches at most.
@Chantelle
Very true, too. Ironically, the larger your avatar the more “weird” size 0 feet look, and most avatars are about 7′ or taller. Basically, your feet should be as long as your forearm when measured from elbow to wrist. Of course your legs should only make up 1/2 your overall height (give or take a couple inches) but most SL avatars have legs that make up 2/3 their height, skewing that measurement.
Tanaquil, thank you! Sorry I’m responding so late to your comment, it was stuck in my spam. I have tried to go through all my spam and bring up any other comments missed, sorry about that for those whose comments are not showing up right away! Not sure why that’s happening but I’m looking into it.
Penny thank you so much for the informative advice. I never thought to measure it like that. I did see something on marketplace that is like a scaled height bar that you use to calculate your actual height which I think is what you are talking about but I might be mistaken here: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Scaled-Height-Bar-Round/2094519
Alex, Sara and Lucie, I sincerely apologize to you three as I can see this little post of mine may have upset you guys. I had no intention of enabling people to copy other people’s shapes. I just thought sharing a few numbers wouldn’t really matter. In any case, I do apologize and I hope nothing bad results in this. And Lucie especially, I am very sorry and I do hope that no one that has bought your shapes has given out their numbers as I see that this has upset you. It was just something fun I thought I’d ask about, I didn’t think about the consequences.
In any case, I am happy that people are having fun with this and I hope it all stays positive. Thanks everyone for participating, it has really helped me a lot in figuring stuff out for both my shapes.
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This is such a fab idea! Even as a shape creator, proportions have, and probably always will bug me! It’s interesting to see each person’s ‘ideal’ – I think this will be a new trend in SL!
Here’s mine for y’all to have a gander at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryonychenaux/5618717755/in/photostream
-A. x
This is such a fab idea! Even as a shape creator, proportions have, and probably always will bug me! It’s interesting to see each person’s ‘ideal’ – I think this will be a new trend in SL!
Here’s mine for y’all to have a gander at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryonychenaux/5618717755/in/photostream
-A. x
This one was fun! It’s amazing to see what everyone’s avatar is like. I’m one of the few giants lol. I added this to the flickr group as well.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5306/5618974971_6b11d6d59f_z.jpg
Wow its really interesting to see how such small changes in numbers can give such variety in shapes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crowleylectar/5619134251/
Berry, would you be interested in some graphs / charts coming out of this? Seeing all this data pouring out, it might be interesting to start looking at what the average stats for contributors are, for male and female AVs. I’m not statistician, but I’d be willing to give it a go for fun…
Vaki please do! I would LOVE to see that. Thank you for the offer.
This was really interesting to see all my measurements together and compare them to all the other stunning girlies in SL… xxx
Here’s me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41862973@N03/5619932288/in/photostream
I must admit I was skeptical at first but it’s such an interesting idea, I had to do it as well, so here’s mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anjuna/5619213051/
Nice idea! :D Here’s my lil digits :]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelisek/5620131814/
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Posted my measures… well, some of them. ;-)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raulcrimson/5620386868/
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I loved this ”challenge”. I guess most of us wonder if we are ”normal” compared to other SL residents. :)
Here’s my digits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/steffyghost/5620566606/in/photostream
Berry: just to give you an idea of how wildly this has taken off, so far I have 100 measurements in my spreadsheet (88 women and 12 men) (I promise there are more men farther in, I just haven’t gotten to them yet) and I’m basically exactly halfway…but they’re coming in fast. I’ll try to finish typing them all up tonight, and then start making some charts!
Brilliant idea! I do hope that sooner or later we’ll start seeing more proportionate avatars, especially in the fashion industry!
and there, take a little piece of me:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolatauber/5620187369/
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Such a great idea!! Here are my numbers…
http://viviyardley.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/can-i-get-your-digits/
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I decided to do my current favorite shape in 3 different furry avatars. Just to show how skins and attachments can change the way the same shape looks!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sergalinapartyfrock/5621052165/
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I had so much fun with this <3
Love seeing all the different shapes and sizes people are in SL. So diverse!
Berry:
I know there are still pictures being added to the Flickr group, but after just over 250, I had to stop for my own sanity. I’ve got all the digits submitted compiled in two spreadsheets (one for male AVs, one for female), and have come up with an “average” shape for each. Now that’s done, I’m starting to put together some interesting statistics.
https://insertfunnyname.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/so-whats-average/
Vaki
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Here are mines. Better late than never :)
http://dunessl.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/digits-of-the-day/
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Berry…just wanted to say this was an AWESOME challenge! To see others dimensions and try them on for size was really interesting as well. I can say my hands look much better at 20 than 10. I see the difference in pictures. I might even go up more! Thank you!! =) Xo
I looked up the digits on mine, I’ve made it from scratch and tweaks it at least once a week ^^
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blairsilvercloud/5624701477/
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I’m a little late to the party, but I finally got my digits done:
http://gridbounce.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/so-you-want-my-digits/
Adding mine to the fun http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettenoire/5629879837/in/photostream
Here’s mine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lissote/5630203275
People in SL are so skinny!