Life.2, documentary ****
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUwD7u7wwcY
Movie Info
Every day, across all corners of the globe, millions of users log
onto Second Life, a virtual online world not entirely unlike our own.
They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assume alternate personas in
the form of avatars - digital alter egos that can be sculpted and
manipulated to the heart's desire, representing reality, fantasy, or a
healthy mix of both. Within this alternate landscape, escapism abounds,
relationships are formed, and a real-world economy thrives effectively
blurring
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- Official Site
The
Amie avatar lady looks v beautiful, healthy woman at the beginning, and
at the end, she looks more interestingly beautiful. Like someone with
more layers to her personality. A v gd documentary and from mulitple
angles, from different lives, including Philip Rosedales thoughts. I
enjoy Secondlife, but I could never see it beyond electronic puppetry
stage. But what wonderful electronic puppetry. Great platform - its a
very easy to access 3d building platform w possibilities of social
events. Too bad, that the platform seem to be less and less artistic,
or, a lot of the more interesting creators have left. Actually i prefer
Prim system not the mesh system. Becasue in Prim building, you
actually simulate the building process but the mesh system is more like
an "animation production".
And for the man who had a child avatar, it was quite a break through I
think. Its good, a positive point for SL. The bad thing about SL is
that people stay seated infront of a computer all the time. It was the
thing that I dont like at the beginning and still the thing that I dont
like now.
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http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Building-and-Texturing-Forum/build-an-avatar-from-scratch-ground-up-DIY-tutorial/td-p/1124543
You do need to have something in mind laid out or a general idea of where to find the resources you might need. You also need to look into studying various skills in SL such as Animation, Sculpties (mesh too), basic and advanced prim manipulation and their limits, texturing how textures are mapped on objects and base avatars, scripting. Object permissions, Inventory managemnt ( you're going to be creating alot of backups as you build on your idea).
Experiment with what most appeals to you and fascinates you, and that you think my intrigue others.
Thats just a basic summary I can think of offhand atm for custom or personal avatar creation.
freebie tool -> custom animation files : http://qavimator.org
http://alphatribe.tumblr.com/page/2
Designed by Grapho Fullstop. Keywords: Dark, Op-Art, Modernist, playful.
wooden
Dragon
http://npirl.blogspot.fr/2007/09/tooter-claxton-his-avatars-and-first.html
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
http://www.sluniverse.com/snapzilla_snapshots/Torley_Linden_This_avatar_by_Tooter_Claxton_is_a_work_of_genius_268056.jpg
Tooter Claxton, his avatars, and the first buzz on his upcoming Le Salon des Clochards Riches
On his blog, NPIRL'er, builder and avatar creator Tooter Claxton introduces himself as a graphics designer from the Netherlands who has been playing in punk rock bands for 30 years.
Lest you think this makes him sound a bit too "street," think again. This warm-hearted and very witty eccentric is dripping in kulture, and his texturing is... sublime. I would go so far as to call it elegantly sloppy.
Consider Brunnhilde, one of his deranged avatars. She's a bug-eyed Viking warrior...
...and every time she types, she waves her shield around rather dangerously.
You can acquire this hazardous female avatar at several in-world locations and on SLEX, but a peek at his main store is worth the trip alone. Tooter's approach to merchandising is as refreshing as it is zany. He has condensed the presentation of his wares to a 3D pseudo magazine trailer shop, and each magazine showcases one of his wacky creatures.
Slurl: Main store
Seeing as the scale of the store is so thrifty in both its foot print and prim count, Tooter used the surplus to create Le Salon des Clochards Riches (Salon for Rich Hobos), which he describes as "a shabby-luxe gathering place for digital bohemians and great loonies with a penchant for the absurd, a taste for pointless things, and a even a parlor game or two."
Chatting with Toot makes me realize how removed I am from what is hip and happening in real life. The Salon - slated to officially open its doors in about a month - will be loosely modeled after the Pecha Kucha style evenings that launched the SuperDeluxe club in Tokyo two years ago and then spread like peanut butter under the summer sun... all over the friggin globe.
Presenters are allowed 6 minutes and 40 seconds in which to expound on whatever topic they please, such as: forgotten disco queens, how to conceal and travel with your pet in a briefcase, or the benefits of chewing each mouthful at least 40 times. The real life format for these soires involves Power Point presentations of 20 slides each, but Toot thinks "that's just anal."
Tooter's in-world profile states that his ambition in Second Life is to win a beauty pagaent. How could he not, considering the enticement of his "Eyes?":
The "Your Aunt" avatar rezzes an ironing board whilst the wearer types:
And his latest creation, "Herr Doktor Gehirnschneider," shown standing here with her majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands...
...holds brains in one hand and a surgical knife in the other.
Tooter uses PhotoShop 7 to make his textures, and like all good Second Life Hobos, he subscribes to the school of freebies, which you can find at his main store and his Avatar Factory.
We'll just have to revisit Tooter Claxton's world again.
Lest you think this makes him sound a bit too "street," think again. This warm-hearted and very witty eccentric is dripping in kulture, and his texturing is... sublime. I would go so far as to call it elegantly sloppy.
Consider Brunnhilde, one of his deranged avatars. She's a bug-eyed Viking warrior...
...and every time she types, she waves her shield around rather dangerously.
You can acquire this hazardous female avatar at several in-world locations and on SLEX, but a peek at his main store is worth the trip alone. Tooter's approach to merchandising is as refreshing as it is zany. He has condensed the presentation of his wares to a 3D pseudo magazine trailer shop, and each magazine showcases one of his wacky creatures.
Slurl: Main store
Seeing as the scale of the store is so thrifty in both its foot print and prim count, Tooter used the surplus to create Le Salon des Clochards Riches (Salon for Rich Hobos), which he describes as "a shabby-luxe gathering place for digital bohemians and great loonies with a penchant for the absurd, a taste for pointless things, and a even a parlor game or two."
Chatting with Toot makes me realize how removed I am from what is hip and happening in real life. The Salon - slated to officially open its doors in about a month - will be loosely modeled after the Pecha Kucha style evenings that launched the SuperDeluxe club in Tokyo two years ago and then spread like peanut butter under the summer sun... all over the friggin globe.
Presenters are allowed 6 minutes and 40 seconds in which to expound on whatever topic they please, such as: forgotten disco queens, how to conceal and travel with your pet in a briefcase, or the benefits of chewing each mouthful at least 40 times. The real life format for these soires involves Power Point presentations of 20 slides each, but Toot thinks "that's just anal."
Tooter's in-world profile states that his ambition in Second Life is to win a beauty pagaent. How could he not, considering the enticement of his "Eyes?":
The "Your Aunt" avatar rezzes an ironing board whilst the wearer types:
And his latest creation, "Herr Doktor Gehirnschneider," shown standing here with her majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands...
...holds brains in one hand and a surgical knife in the other.
Tooter uses PhotoShop 7 to make his textures, and like all good Second Life Hobos, he subscribes to the school of freebies, which you can find at his main store and his Avatar Factory.
We'll just have to revisit Tooter Claxton's world again.
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And I like 'elegantly sloppy', I'll use that as a trademark :)
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