Make a hott Avatar
Everyone has different views of beauty, and everyone should be themselves. When someone comes to us for a studio interview all we ask is for them to pick the look they like the best, the look that represents them! But let’s face it we may not like that look at all, but that doesn’t mean another director wouldn’t love it.
So really the most important thing is to look your best and let them decide if that is what they want.
With that said, keep in mind your trying to be a porn star and it’s your job to be desirable and wanted by all. No one wants to see pictures or watch a movie with a bunch of gross avatars in it. Don’t be insulted if everyone wants sex from you, that is the whole idea of being a porn star (looking desirable). If you’re going to be insulted don’t be one. No one says you have to have sex with anyone that wants you!
I had to update a bunch of this from it's original writing in 2012 (before mesh). And want to add; We as porn stars are the trendsetters of fashion and beauty in SL, don't believe me go to a club with "normal" people in it then go to a porn star party!! I have had so many IM me saying they are ready for porn and then change their tune when they come to a porn star party and see what to competition looks like!!
Ok about your avatar:
DON'T BE CHEAP; you either want to do this or you don't!! Looking great isn't free!!
You don't have to a mesh body, but if the ones your competing with for shoots all have mesh bodies and you don't, then you are at a disadvantage!!!
MESH BODIES, Seems there is a new one coming out each week, I'm not going to tell you which to buy from a directors prospective it doesn't matter a lot to me when your naked!! But I do suggest you get one that you can buy cloths for, wardrobe is like gift wrapping in porn!!
MESH HEADS, They are more a preference than a need, as of yet I don't see a need for them.
As a director that looks for quality over Banging, I wish we could animate a face 100 different ways, but with the facial emoters we have now (made in like 2011) 10 is about all the good ones we get for the normal head. As I write this mesh heads have less than that! #1 your mouth has to open for a moan look or a cock in it (everyone should moan). Blank stares of emotionless sex is only ok if your role is a robot. Don't get a head that can't open it's mouth!!
HAIR, you can have the most beautiful hair on SL, and wear it in normal situations all you want. Flexi hair that goes through bodies or body parts is out and just dates your Avi. Mesh hair is best as of now and make sure it doesn't go through your breast and remember you're a porn star so don't cover your breast like a nun
SHAPE, I’m 5’-4” in RL, when I first joined I made my Avatar that height. The problem is most everything in SL, especially sex animations are made for females to be between 6’-0” and 6’-6”, Males (only guessing) 6’-6” to 7’-0”. You have no control over it, it’s just the way it is. So if you make an avatar shorter or taller then that the director will have to adjust the pose for body parts to match up.
A director can adjust poses if they own the animated furniture, but if they are on location somewhere, using someone else’s furniture they can’t adjust the pose. Also while the director adjust the pose, everyone is waiting. UPDATE Since I first wrote this in 2012 I decreased my height to 6'-2" to 6'-4" depending on foot and viewer, and I now adjust 95% of the poses for perfection, again I can only do this because I own all the animations I use. If your director uses someone else animations they can't adjust the pose.
BREAST, Classic body; if you look at your shape and your breast are over 80, they start getting drastically square corners in them. The part between 80 and 100 is so minimal it not worth the square boobs and no skin can smooth out the corners. I wouldn’t go over 79 for boob size.
Size; the larger the breast the more they get in the way; they can swallow up hands and whole arms. What might look great standing up, can completely ruin animations and poses. With pictures you snap one frame of an animation, in movies you capture the whole cycle of the animation. If someone’s body part disappears in your boob for 1/2 a movie animation it makes it VERY hard to work around and makes you undesirable to work with.
GENITALS: Color them right and position them where they belong. The viewer, graphic level and wind lighting affect the coloring, do your best to make them match your skin.
Size: Ok guys we know you’re all hung like your avatar in real life, but come on!! Sure we all like big cocks, but when they go from eyes to chin in a blow job pose it just looks stupid, it’s suppose to fit in a mouth not drill a tunnel through a girls head!! Also if it’s punching through the back of her head it doesn’t look good either. Let’s try to be a little bit realistic, it doesn’t have to be the size of your arm!!
SKIN: you can add make-up without changing your skin, but if you change your skin you will need to recolor ALL your add-ons (boobs, genitals & feet)
PHYSICS: can be really nice, but are easier to go terribly wrong!! You want a nice jiggle, even sway as you get thrust into, not Stretch Armstrong boobs with a mind of their own, that look like they want to wrap around your body when you move. Better to start with low settings and move up then start with wild boobs and try to go down.
Remember as a porn star you want to look your best, as a construction worker is doesn’t matter!
