An Idea Whose Time Has Come

One
year ago, the Dowbrigade
proposed a virtual Miss Universe contest.  Well,
somebody was listening…

Kaya (below) is ravishing. She has full lips,
long lashes, and a slightly upturned
nose.
Her expression
radiates
confidence
and
power,
and her
smooth skin
is well scrubbed and dotted with freckles. But she doesn’t have much
of a body. At all. In fact, she exists only from the neck up. Kaya
is a CG model, a 48,200-polygon beauty created by an artist in S?o Paulo,
Brazil. And she’s sure to be a finalist in the Miss Digital World beauty
pageant.

Miss Digital World will be chosen in classic reality-TV
fashion – people can vote for their favorite contender until December
at missdigitalworld.com or
via SMS. The winning creator gets five grand and a deal with Cerami’s
agency to receive a cut of the proceeds from
placement or licensing of the model. Alas, no tiara. Lets take a closer
look at a couple of the prime candidates.

Mamegal (above)

HEIGHT: 5’4"
WEIGHT: 102 pounds
POLYGON COUNT: 36,000
BORN: Tokyo, Japan
WARE SHE CAME FROM: 3D Studio Max 5.1, Character Studio, Brazil Rendering
System
MANAGER: Koji Yamagami
CLAIM TO FAME: Poster girl for Discreet’s 3D Studio Max Software
PERSONALITY PLUS: Driven, extroverted
WORKING ASSET: Roppongi-ready muscle tone

Kaya (right)

HEIGHT: 5’5"
WEIGHT: 121 pounds
POLYGON COUNT: 48,200
BORN: S?o Paulo, Brazil
WARE SHE CAME FROM: Maya 4.0, Photoshop; Dual AMD Athlon 1.7-GHz processor,
1 GByte of RAM
MANAGER: Alceu Baptistao
CLAIM TO FAME: Best Character award at Animago Festival in Germany now
appearing: In the Future Face Exhibition at the London Science Museum
PERSONALITY PLUS: Clumsily funny, sometimes cocky
WORKING ASSET: "Her mouth is sexy, although big."

Who
does the Dowbrigade endorse? We
declared last year, and are not about
to change now.

from Wired