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DAZ Productions Announces Call for 'Virtual Beauty Queens'

DAZ Productions is teaming up with the Miss Digital World Contest to invite 3D artists from around the world -- professional and amateur alike -- to create and submit their perfect digital woman to the second annual Miss Digital World Contest.

"It has never been easier to design the 'ideal' digital woman," said Dan Farr, president and co-founder of DAZ Productions. DAZ has created two kits especially for Miss Digital World entrants featuring the company's 3D model, Victoria 3.0. These kits allow users to create the pixel-based woman of their imagination. "With the spin of a dial, users can easily change facial features, body shape or proportions. You do not have to be a modeler to create beautiful digital women."

The two kits can be downloaded from http://missdigitalworld.daz3d.com. The Miss Digital World Standard Design Kit, priced at $99.95, includes the Victoria 3.0 base model, head and body morphs, a clothing pack and a hair style. The Miss Digital World V3 Professional Design Kit, priced at $149.95, includes similar features as well as additional hair styles, five skin types and numerous morphs to design virtually any ethnicity on the earth.

Contestants will go face-to-face with their competitors until December 2005. Winners will be crowned in two categories: original models and Victoria-based models. Last year, Chilean Katty Ko was named Miss Digital World from the many entries.

Source: press release

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