I'm back to blogging after a while of absence in Second Life. My RL is quite hectic at the moment, but hectic in a positive way, and I think I've found some balance. I think I'll have more spare time to blog and to learn new things in SL. This is precisely why my releases recently might seem "simple": I'm focusing on learning mesh, especially mesh rigging, yay! And some better texturing too. I would like to move on to making mesh-only items, but this requires a lot of knowledge I don't really have. I'm trying to acquire this knowledge and I hope it will be worth the slowdown!

Until friday you can buy them at a discounted price at The Dressing Room!

All of these items are available at [MAGIC NOOK] Main Store.

Happy shopping! :)

Long time no see! My RL projects are currently taking a lot of my free time - new and awesome things are happening, but I didn't forget about SL, just focusing on other things at the moment. I felt though that it's time to update the blog with some news.

These days I've been only logging to SL to make/rez stuff for events. I didn't event advertise the items, or send review copies to anyone (*blush*). So in the next few days you may expect new review copies (if you are a blogger), a reply to your inquiry (if you are a customer) and quite a few new blog posts (if you are a reader of this blog) :)

Awww, mesh is thriving on SL market and everyone is so excited: creating new items, trying new clothes, testing new possibilities. I might be the only person in SL that is (kind of) not very enthusiastic about mesh. It's not that I don't like the benefits mesh creations bring to Second Life - I LOVE the possibilities - but it's more like I'm not ready for mesh yet.

I remember when I first heard of sculpties I disliked them so much! That time, just like today, I didn't feel I was ready. There was so much to discover about regular prims (and I'm still learning) and I had no experience with 3D graphics except a few simple renders I had created long time ago out of curiosity. It was all new and I felt it requires too much professional knowledge which I thought I wouldn't be able to gain through my favourite method of learning: trial and error.

But once sculpties were available gridwide, each time I created a primmy item I thought "Oh, sculpties would make this so much less primmy". I started experimenting with various software and finally settled with Blender 3D, which really is a fantastic and powerful program for making sculpted prims. I learned to make sculpties - through trial and error.

I love sculpties. I made a lot of sculpted items since then, I learned how to make complex sculpties in one prim, I learned to make sculpted plants, I started to make sculpted clothing items and jewellery, I learned how to bake materials and lights on sculpts... And there is still so much to learn about sculpties, so much to discover! But mesh is now available gridwide. I don't feel like I'm ready yet. But when I make items now, I think "Oh, mesh would solve this problem easily". Is it time already?

In the next few hours I will be working on a new blog template, so if the blog appears messy and you can't access the content, I'm sorry. I'll try to make it as smooth as possible.

It's high time to make the layout a bit wider and refresh the looks - I didn't change the graphics ever since I started the blog in 2007 :)

If the blog is not all pretty and new in a few hours, it means I broke stuff and trying to repair ;) (not going to happen I hope! :))

[UPDATE] The new template is up, yay! I still need to do some small adjustments (widgets, pages menu etc.), but that's task for tomorrow. I hope you enjoy the new looks!