Search for Miss Digital World

pvt_medic writes "MSNBC is reporting that there soon will be a Miss Digital World Competition. "'MISS DIGITAL WORLD' is the first beauty contest for the likes of videogame heroine Lara Croft and computer-cloned actresses from the "Matrix" films and new beauties tweaked to perfection with 3D graphics." The website for the competition is still under construction at MissDigitalWorld.Com"

Okay

[Quasar1999]

Most geeks can't get a date with the pimply faced, slightly overweight girl in his English class... What the hell are we doing holding a competition for them where they get to design the 'perfect' woman... They don't even know what the perfect woman should be... Totally Hypocritical Contest...

The Screen Actor's Guild is on it's way out...

[pegr]

I've long held the opinion that virtual actors are the future of Hollywood. Why pay for a high-priced actor when we can whip them up online?

And the stunts will get crazier and crazier, for sure! (And I didn't even mention pr0n...)

Sad? Maybe

[Aneurysm]

Ok, it may seem a little sad and geeky, but I can see it pushing the realism of digital human models. It'll be a place where people can show off their amazing new techniques for realistic hair, or natural movement animation etc.

Pixeleen, does it count if only in song?

[shoppa]

Pixeleen, on the latest Steely Dan album [steelydan.com]:

Pixeleen

Dream deep my three-times perfect ultrateen

Pixeleen

Rave on my sleek and soulful cyberqueen

Pixeleen

Penned by a hack in the Palisades

Backed by some guys from Columbia

Shot all in digital video

For a million and change

I nominate the babe from Final Fantasy!

[andy666]

The movie sucked, but she was amazing to look at.

Re:The Screen Actor's Guild is on it's way out...

[fredmosby]

Designing a virtual actor takes quite a bit of time and money. Using virtual actors just means hiring a team of graphic artists instead of hiring an actor. Although it would give a director absolute control over the movie.

Re:Just another step towards geek alienation...

[Lehk228]

well, YOU may have lost the desire for real world women. Personally i think the whole thing is far less Stupid than the Real Life equivilant, with each entry actually requiring talent and artistic skill rather than just genetic good luck.

Re:Is it just me...

[TrippTDF]

It's not like women in porn are all that real these days anyway, between injections, implants, airbrushing, lighting, posing...

This already exists

[signe]

So this is a competition for women who:

• have bodies which are artificially created or altered
• require excessive amounts of money to support
• are of fairly low intelligence
• have no connection with reality

We already have one of those. It's called "Miss America". Silicon, silicone. It's only off by one letter.

-Todd

Only When Digital Actors Have Q-factors

[RobotRunAmok]

Studios do not pay actors like Jim Carrey $20M a movie because they are "good actors." They make that kind of dough because the public will pay to see a "Jim Carrey Movie" regardless of what the flick is about. How many people will pay to see "The Cat in the Hat" this winter, hoping against hope that Mike Myers will find a way to roast some gold out of that chestnut? How many would go see the same flick if a no-name actor had the lead? Now, how many (non-geeks) would go if the lead was CGI?

Entertainers' "Q-Factors" are polled and tabulated quarterly (I think). These are the numbers that are ascribed to a celebrity's "popularity." The higher your Q, the higher fee your agent can negotiate.

Will there someday be persistent Idoru-esque CGI AI's with their own waxing and waning Q-Factors? Maybe. Just think of the Intellectual Property battles when studios try to copyright hairstyles, quirky smiles, and "attitudes!"

Re:My Nomination

[evilandi]

Cool pic.

I don't get anti-GM. I just end up in sarcasm mode, nodding, yeah, like "naturally" bred farm animals and crops are so normal.

Because "natural" cows would "normally" need to produce 10-20 litres of milk every single day in the "wild", what with them having enormous litters of, erm, one or two calves every, erm, one year. Maybe, in the "wild", cows bathe their young in milk every day or something. Can't think of anything else they need that much milk for.

Or maybe, just maybe, COWS AREN'T NATURAL ANY MORE THAN POODLES OR MASSIVE FIELDS OF CORN OR ANY OTHER OF THE 99% OF FLORA AND FAUNA AROUND US WHICH HAS BEEN DELIBERATELY BRED FOR PURPOSE.

Selective breeding, genetic modification... it's just a question of historical perspective.

You can mod me down for ranting now. It's just that picture struck home- a real, live cow is no more "natural" than the photoshopped woman with four breasts in your picture!

Re:Is it just me...

[glesga_kiss]

It's not like women in porn are all that real these days anyway, between injections, implants, airbrushing, lighting, posing...

Hey, NO women in media are real anymore. Just search for pictures of your favourate stars without makeup and/or airbrushing. They literally look like the girl next door, nothing special at all.

When I first saw the article, that's what I thought it was anyway. All babes in the media are digital already!! God bless Photoshop!!

Re:Umm, why?

[decipher_saint]

There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones.

You know I said the same thing to Halle Berry the other day after a night of hot sex...

Ok, seriously though, I think this is more about art than spankey-spankey. Just 'cause you can't have sex with the Mona Lisa or the Venus De Milo doesen't devalue them as artistic expression (of beauty).