Archive for August, 2006
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006Update 2: Karina’s name has been fixed. Also, she gave approximately L$7,000 to Zyrra. Zyrra says she will be putting it to good use — probably on money trees for newbies.
Update: Zyrra tells me that the hairs have been removed from the store and the creator admitted she stole the textures. Also, I hope [...]
Iki halters
Friday, August 25th, 2006When I saw these new halters from Iki show up on Nephilaine Protagonist’s blog I was so excited. Stylistically, visually, these halters carry all of the hallmarks of the other Iki casuals: unpretentious, simple, but extravagantly lavished with technical attention, detail and construction expertise.
The fabric textures that were chosen, the color saturation, the highlighting, [...]
Miriel’s Fairy Tale
Friday, August 25th, 2006Miriel Enfield’s Fairy Tale release is a medieval inspired gown and circlet. While I really like the gown — all hand drawn, which makes the tapestry embroidery all the more impressive — the item which has kept me in a state of hyper detailed shock is the incredible circlets that accessorize this outfit so [...]
Classifieds at Second Man
Friday, August 25th, 2006Nick Shaftoe, the Second Man, created a site dubbed Classifieds.
If you’re a designer who’d like a low maintenance, low hassle way to announce new products and you don’t want to get a blog at Blogger, maybe this is for you.
More merchandise ad creation guidelines
Friday, August 25th, 2006Alaska Metropolitan has written several more design guidelines for merchandise ads, including some great examples of what not to do — like the ad shown left. (Auugh! My eyes. My eyes!)
Where Kala Bijoux’s post was a little more off-the-cuff, Alaska’s put a lot of thought and careful consideration into her post. There’s a lot [...]
Be a Starlet
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Ginny Talamasca knocked my virtual socks off last night when she dropped the shimmery, satiny, and very sexy Starlet gown on me last night.
I put it on, did a RL version of the :O expression, and then basically everyone who was standing around in world with me asked, “Who made that???!” Dazzle [...]
My Other Self is an Ass-kicking Supermodel
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Lisa Galarneau writing at Terra Nova, a blog that follows MMOs from a research/academic perspective has been thinking about female gamer’s attitudes toward their avatars. The title of her blog post is the same one I used here — just because it tickled me. She adds the aside, “I swear, I need this bumper sticker.” [...]
Ad design tips
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Kala Bijoux of Material Squirrel posted a set of graphic design guidelines for people creating merchandise ads in Second Life while waiting for the 1.12 update to finish. Here’s a sampler of the mistakes she covers:
Images from SL that aren’t scaled correctly
Too much going on in the ad
Text (in the ad itself and the announcement [...]
The Lindens did a release, and all I got was this lousy viewer…
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Another week, another release. I must admit that I’m actually looking forward to this one, despite the inevitable hiccups, because of the significantly improved in world group functionality. (Seriously, that last link is “Everything you ever wanted to know about groups post 1.12 release.”)
I can now — finally — belong to up to [...]
Electric Venus
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Wanda Rich is on indefinite design hiatus, but she’s been building a new online fashion magazine site called Electric Venus. Electric Venus aims to offer longer, less “new release” type coverage and more in depth news, commentary and reviews. It also features a lot of cool fashion/content creation tips and how to articles, [...]
Kimberly’s Ladybugs
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006A chance encounter early Monday morning let me see these beautiful shoes in world before the ad was shot for them. I’m talking about Kimberly Casanova’s Ladybug shoes.
I was taking a look around Garbage Prototype’s brand new store (see the all the new denim at Garbage’s store — it looks like Kimberly’s wearing [...]
Tete a Pied Deux
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006Roslin Petion (a Second Style staff writer) writes on her blog:
Skins are a lot of work. A lot. We’ve been working really hard on creating a skin that improves upon our weak points while still retaining the character that our customers love and say sets us apart. I’m really looking forward to sharing more in [...]
