What about Christmas?

It's Black Friday, and I decided to release this cute little Santa's Helper outfit along with having a half-price sale in the main store.

I tried a couple of new tricks with this outfit. First, I added fur onto the end of a flexi skirt. Not a big deal, you say? Well, if you want it to move the right way, it's a big deal. Trust me on this. So, I'm really happy with the way the skirt turned out.

Second, the boots: I noticed a glitch in the latest Stiletto Moody's shoes, when the avatar's ankle moves, the shoe material disappears inside. It got me to thinking, and I realized that some boots don't have separate bits for the lower leg and the foot. So these boots are the first I've made with combined lower leg/foot. the foot just wears an invisiprim. It ends up looking really cool, all the time!

Believe it or not, I decide to offer this as my item for the Twisted Krissmuss non-hunt shopping event by the sponsors of the Twisted Hunt. That means, it'll be L$100 until 12/31/09. After that, I'll put it in the attic and give it a more realistic price of L$399.

I loaded this outfit on Apez and XStreet both, since I was curious how Apez stacks up. I think XStreet may be driving all us merchants away with their new pricing policy, which has me thinking I should list products anywhere else. Unfortunately, XStreet seems to be the most popular web-based marketplace. I used to have products on Onrez, which was the main competition to XStreet, but then XStreet bought out Onrez to kill the competition. Apez and Slapt.me are newer fledgling systems, and I decided to set up on Apez.

I've kinda given up on the FF Ashe for the time being... it's not coming out as sexy as I had thought it might; and there's a lot of sculpts... and... I think there might only be 2 or 3 people in SL that actually want it... :)

If you're dying to see ASHE, then tell me! If a bunch of people send me IM's or notecards or whatever, then maybe Ashe will come to life.

School Girl Outfit!

Well, I wanted to make an XStreet "top ten worthy" outfit, and the directions I got were:

1. Black

2. Short

3. PG but just barely

I started on a black miniskirt outfit, but then I was wearing it with the top from the Veronica's Secret set, and thought "dang, this would make a great schoolgirl outfit!" So I made a plaid texture and started screwing around...

Then someone was wondering why the Schoolgirl outfit didn't come with undies. So, I decided to make some new undies. I was thinking obout re-doing the bras in my current undies sets, so I had this new cut in the works. What do you think? I was thinking that I should make matching garters and stockings, and maybe a matching frilly robe :)

Slow Progress on Ashe, more stuff

Ashe is coming along slowly, and taking a lot of sculpts. RL has kept me from spending more time on it. In the meantime, I added a couple of items:

The "Dare" dress, new yesterday, will get a little adjusting and 2 more colors: Black and Red. And maybe a little gold chain :)

OK, so I got a little side-tracked

I had a friendly vampire customer come in, all hot to get a vinyl version of my toga. I thought "wow, that's a great idea", so I put Ashe on hold. Ashe is gonna take lots of custom sculpties, so I'm already feeling a little overwhelmed again. This toga was a fun break from that, even though it took me like 5 tries to get the textures just right. Ah well. If you missed the introductory sale, sorry! Add my store group and you'll get those notices! hint, hint...

Ashe from FF

Another Final Fantasy character has been requested. I never set out to be a designer of Final Fantasy characters for Second Life, but it seems that the Final Fantasy fans have found me and they keep wanting more! I have a hard time saying "no" (hold the snickering down please), so I guess "it's ON".

Ashe will hopefully be done by end of July. We'll see!

Edit:

I gave up on Ashe because the more it comes together, the less I liked it :(

If I get enough people begging for Ashe, I might still make it, but so far there were only 2 people who really expressed interest.

My most complicated outfit to date!

Why do I do this? I think it's a relentless persuit of perfection. The Gorean "Panther Girl" is a warrior that lives in the wild, is fiercely independent, strong, and sexy. I wanted to make an outfit that fully embodied every aspect of that, and would allow someone to step into that world with a single purchase. The design goal was to produce the best Panther outfit in SL. At least it is my favorite :)

This is the result - another 5 weeks of torturing prims and playing with scripts, getting everything to work. I worked with a few really helpful people, and I would like to thank them!

:) Gostosa Siamendes: For lots of ideas on what Panthers like in their outfits, and for feedback while I was making the outfit - Thanks so much!

:) Patrik Ling for help with the weapons scripts, thanks!

:) Kara Markova: For being a huge help with what matters when it comes to a Panther bow. I would have been clueless without you!

I'm hopeful that you love this outfit. I have to spend the next few months getting the (yes, fully functional) weapons to be approves by various sim owners (there are 1047 Gorean sims) before I get too many more variations out.

In the meantime, looks like the next project might be "Ashe" from Final Fantasy:

She'll take a while, but several people have asked about the outfit, and apparently it's not available in SL yet... I can't resist that type of opportunity!

Panther/Babarian Girl is coming...

This outfit will strive to be the best Panther outfit in SL, with so many features it'll blow you away!

So far: all prim outfit with bow, bow strapped to spine, extra arrows in thigh quiver/holster, fur bra, fur skirt with dagger, knife, rope, pouches, and a set of keys to get yourself unlocked from nasty traps :)

Most everything has some flexi dangling thing... a bow string, twine, rope ends, etc...

skirt with weapons is scripted to make the weapon disappear when you wear that weapon in your hand - great feature for roleplay (you'll be able to command the dagger, rope or knife to "draw" and "sheath")

Fur sandals and leggings with extra daggers in case you lose a dagger in some bad guy :)

Still to do: 

1. Script the weapons for damage (in talks with scripters), 
   
2. Make the bow "draw" and "sheath" or "stow" like the rope/dagger/knife,
3. Add beads and feathers to the current pieces
4. Make arm bands
5. Make clothing layers so I'm not nekkie if the prims don't rez soon enough or someone turns off prims to reduce their lag...

Speaking of lag, I'm trying to make the scripts as low lag as possible; and the ARC so far is still pretty low; I'm trying to keep the texture count down without sacrificing looks :)