Inzoi looks good, not something I have time for right now but the avatars are pretty, based on all the stuff folks are sharing. WRT “why can’t SL avatars look like that?” I wonder if they can, and what is compelling with Inzoi is they are curated and well proportioned and lit a certain way. That there’s art direction behind it.
I wanted to test this theory - can I get something something that kind of feels like the Inzoi avatar in SL? So I started with some screenshots of the avatar creator that I found. The silver bikini is
✴Sparkling✴
and her avatar looks awesome. The other two I found online.
First off, SL skins are way too shiny for this look. When we get PBR mesh avs we'll get closer to realism through materials rather than baked on highlights. I tried a few higher resolution/higher def skins but they all looked too glossy compared to Inzoi.
The face, too, doesn't have the strong baked-in shading that most SL skins have.
The shape is very well proportioned. It looks like you have some flexibility here but I kind of liked Sparkling's young, slender look. The clothes are realistic and really well textured and offer COVERAGE. They're not prudish, but they're far some SL's ubiquitous clubwear.
The hair is really detailed with lots of strands. Here I had an easier time in SL because we've evolved past big chunky mesh blobs and there's some great stuff out there with beautifully alpha'd textures.
I tried to go for something at least felt similar. There are a lot of silver bikinis in SL but they were all pretty skimpy. I already had the outfit in my inventory.
She's a pretty avatar. But getting the skin and lighting to look like Inzoi isn't easy. And of course I think folks are also reacting to how easy it is to customize and create your look. Just finding stuff in my inventory and Marketplace took most of an hour.
Alaska
: SL goes hard into cartoony anatomy. it does not have to, but it's what people have decided they want and will do with it. inzoi also benefits from not letting people have as much control over lighting.
(that's part of why inzoi type skins are not popular in SL. they have existed, but they are NOT the type of things people wear. same with the way clothing is made. the lighting system being on the user, as well as its historic limitations, makes all of that a lot more problematic so baked in became key)
The face, too, doesn't have the strong baked-in shading that most SL skins have.
I tried to go for something at least felt similar. There are a lot of silver bikinis in SL but they were all pretty skimpy. I already had the outfit in my inventory.