Thanks to this blog we got in touch with comrades from Oddcast, and in a middle of January, with no fear about -26 C’ (-14 F’) weather here, they flew from NY to meet us in person and to exchange some thoughts.

Oddcast is in virtual Flash-avatars business and they are very successful.

2 days past in a long conversations about technology, virtual worlds, avatars, markets and distribution. We also paid some attention to local places — ice town on a big square, russian restaurant with some good vodka, and so on.

As an experiment we just tried to visualize an avatar using latest magically developed features (parallax-effect and bump).

Controls:

• Mouse move — move light source
• Mouse click — change light color
• Mouse wheel or +/- — change highlight curve