Features Publié le 28 avril 2011 - Mots-clés :jeux video,photographe
Robbie Cooper, est un photographe américain. Il y a quelques années, il commença un voyage à travers la Corée, la Chine, la France et l’Allemagne afin de photographier des « Gamers » jouant à des MMORPG. Il s’est intéressé à leur alter ego dans ces mondes virtuels. Un travail intéressant montrant la grande différence (ou pas) entre le physique de la personne et leur avatar incarné dans le jeu.
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28/12/2011 at 21:39
comme quoi, quand l’avatar est une jolie elfette c’est souvent un coréen tout moche derrière
10/05/2011 at 07:45
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10/05/2011 at 01:06
I don’t get it:/
but good…
09/05/2011 at 23:23
Interesting)
09/05/2011 at 18:54
So in other words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_2LpLhOsc4
09/05/2011 at 17:54
LOL I WOULD TOTALLY BANG THAT CHICK IN THE BLUE
09/05/2011 at 16:59
Wow, no way man is that like cool or what? Wow.
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09/05/2011 at 16:59
A little unrealistic when almost all of these are MMOs almost nobody plays.
09/05/2011 at 16:51
That’s a really cool idea, I like seeing how some people matched their MMO avatars and others were completely different
09/05/2011 at 14:18
amazing pics, btw go diggers!
09/05/2011 at 13:16
It’s interesting how some of them are so similar (see: dude in business suit) while others are so different (see: fat guy). I wonder if there’s a higher frequency of avatars that look like their users.
10/05/2011 at 00:29
Firstly, most games don’t REALLY give you the choice to be a fat guy (at least none that I’ve played).
But mostly I think it’s all down to personal taste. As far as mimicking my actual looks, I’m mixed race and find it extremely hard to customise a character to look the way I do. I’m not ugly (or so the girls tell me!) so it’s isn’t about « escaping » from my physical look. I guess it’s partially the « uncanny valley » syndrome. I don’t want to go around a game world with something that looks me with a blocky face or rubbish hair. So I’d rather create a new character that has no reference to the real world. The only game that I’ve attempted to immitate my outward look is Little Big Planet, probably because it is a characterized carricatured verison.
I’s rather not create a virtual version of me in a game because I don’t feel I’m that far removed from reality that I want to see myself in a virtual world. Or, if I fail to create a virtual version of me, does that mean that I have low self-esteem and « wish » I looked different?
Subsequently, if I enter a virtual world, surely I might as well be a virtual person that is completely different from myself? I like to tell stories, so when I play a game, I want the protagonist to be a new character, not myself. Would you want to see yourself in a film you like for example? Or would you rather go into someone else’s world/story?
I think we can’t really categorise. Everyone creats their own avatars for their OWN reasons. Don’t even presume it could be generaised…