DAZ Productions Announces Call for 'Virtual Beauty Queens'; Entries for the Second Annual Miss Digital World Will Be Accepted for Six Months Beginning Jan. 1, 2005.SALT LAKE CITY and NAPLES Naples, city, Italy Naples, Ital. Napoli, city (1991 pop. 1,067,365), capital of Campania and of Naples prov., S central Italy, on the Bay of Naples, an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea. , Italy -- Move over Naomi Campbell Naomi Campbell (born May 22 1970) is an English supermodel, actress, singer, and author of Jamaican descent. Biography Campbell was born in London, England. Her mother, Valerie, was a ballet dancer of Jamaican heritage, who told Arena , digital beauty divas are here to stay. DAZ Productions, a technology leader in high-quality digital 3D models is teaming up with the Miss Digital World Contest to invite 3D artists from around the world -- professional and amateur alike -- to create and submit their perfect digital woman to the second annual Miss Digital World Contest. Entries and information about the contest can be found at http://www.missdigitalworld.com. "It has never been easier to design the 'ideal' digital woman," said Dan Farr, president and co-founder of DAZ Productions. DAZ has created two kits especially for Miss Digital World entrants featuring the company's 3D model, Victoria 3.0. These kits allow users to create the pixel-based woman of their imagination. "With the spin of a dial, users can easily change facial features Facial Features See also anatomy; beards; body, human; eyes. gnathism the condition of having an upper jaw that protrudes beyond the plane of the face. — gnathic, adj. , body shape or proportions. You do not have to be a modeler to create beautiful digital women." The two kits can be downloaded from http://missdigitalworld.daz3d.com. The Miss Digital World Standard Design Kit, priced at $99.95, includes the Victoria 3.0 base model, head and body morphs, a clothing pack and a hair style. The Miss Digital World V3 Professional Design Kit, priced at $149.95, includes similar features as well as additional hair styles, five skin types and numerous morphs to design virtually any ethnicity ethnicity Vox populi Racial status–ie, African American, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic on the earth. "Every age has its ideal of beauty, and every age produces its visual incarnation incarnation, the assumption of human form by a god, an idea common in religion. In early times the idea was expressed in the belief that certain living men, often kings or priests, were divine incarnations. of that ideal from the Venus de Milo Venus de Milo armless statue of pulchritudinous goddess. [Gk. Art: Brewer Dictionary, 1126] See : Beauty, Feminine Venus de Milo classic sculpture, discovered in 1820 with arms missing. [Gk. in ancient Greece The term ancient Greece refers to the periods of Greek history in Classical Antiquity, lasting ca. 750 BC[1] (the archaic period) to 146 BC (the Roman conquest). It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western Civilization. to Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s; Miss Digital World is the search for a contemporary ideal of beauty, seen through virtual reality," said Franz Cerami, the creator of the competition. Contestants will go face-to-face with their competitors until December 2005. Winners will be crowned in two categories: original models and Victoria-based models. Last year, Chilean Katty Ko was named Miss Digital World from the many entries. About DAZ Productions DAZ Productions Inc. is a market leader in 3D digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. . DAZ is known for providing high-quality 3D models at the industry's most competitive prices. DAZ develops software applications that support its content, including DAZ|Studio, a free 3D character art application; Mimic, a lip-synching application; and Bryce, a 3D environment package. About Miss Digital World This contest, absolutely the first of a kind, is open to digital artists, advertising agencies and videogame programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists from around the world that want to create their 3D representation of the perfect woman. Miss Digital World aims to do the following: --Promote and raise awareness and use of virtual characters. --Be an information source for the development of 3D characters. --Be a portal for licensing of virtual characters for advertising and publicity. |
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