Day 51: Black Knit Skirt (High Waist)

This day I made up another of the outfits I drew yesterday in art class; a high waisted skirt, meaning that I would need to create a skirt in part on the skirt template and in part on the shirt template.

As far as technical details go, I will skim the details here, and cover things more fully in my technical blog.

Obviously there was the issue with the skirt crossing templates, which turned out to be quite easy, given the texture and color I chose - matching across this seam must be a nightmare, one which I sidestepped. Then I learned about making the waistband - not by following the contours on the template, as it happens. The next task was making the neck band; I first of all just wanted to make it a nice even shape, but then thought how much more polished it might look if I added a band at the neck.
You can see here that I managed to make the seams match up reasonably well :)









The buttons were ones that Tateru helped me make, as I had no idea how to construct them myself. Not quite what I had envisaged, but it gives me a good idea as to how to proceed next time.


The make up and perhaps even the skin are a little pale for this hair, but I was in a hurry to take the photos and run; as it is, it has already rolled into day 52 for me before I have finished this post! The skin is juicy by BettiePage Voyager. The shoes are paradise by X3D. The hair is mariah in seashell by Sirena Designs.

Day 50: Plywood Aniversary

I don't even know why; day 50 seems significant somehow. A nice round number, I guess :)

I spent a little time today in art class sketching out plans for things to make in Second Life, trying to imagine how I might accomplish things technically. Fortunately my skills for drawing have improved; once I'd have looked back over those sketches and wondered just what I was driving at.

I'm rather proud of this skirt - I created the texture myself in the Gimp, worked out the rotations and repeats required to make everything look right, and learned a bit about seams and matching. Additionally, this skirt has double the number of prims it started with to close the gaps that were opening up during walking - shift-drag the original skirt to create a duplicate, then press ctrl-z to move the two to the same place in space; next, press ctrl to rotate one set so that the two sets are interleaved.

I also tried a couple of skirt experiments, which resulted in failure, but which taught valuable lessons. I tried various methods to shorten the skirt created by ged's LoopRez Deluxe but to no avail - I must simply learn to make my own panel shape now, which is necessary in any case if I want to make skirts with fewer panels (and I do).



This is the shirt I refer to as the "Alien Nipples" shirt. Yes, I have a fairly retarded sense of humour. So sue me. The texture is another deviant-art special that obviously screamed,"I'm a nipple!!" to me. Of course, in my world, that sort of thing happens all the time :)






On a more sober note, I present this blue flower shirt; this garment had much to teach me about correct placement of texture over the template.









At long last, I've decided to return all Sladen's stuff to him/her and branch out on my own as regards a space in which to build, photograph, interview people, and so on and so forth through all the things I demand of a space. This time I've returned to my roots as a crap builder and therefore am not relying on a prefab house but on my own talents and creativity to create the foundations of a living and working area. (Oh, dear. Oh, dear. What am I thinking?) At any rate, here's some images of how the process has begun. The basic idea is to have an organic sort of backdrop, a level for all my dross, a level for inviting people to sit down on that also looks inviting, a little lit hutch for doing a bit of photography in, and lots of lovely empty space for building in. When I feel the need to be contained, I think I shall erect a quick temporary shelter. Or something. Hmm.


































Ok, so, what do we have here? The first stage of building, with walls, platforms and stairs. All textured and guff. The photo box. Bits and pieces of rock surrounding the photo box.
Come visit if you like :) Come check out the lack of wonder!!