Skip to main content

May 2017 Update

Well, I almost forgot about this blog! Just as I was returning to Second Life last year, First Life had to go and get a little crazy. I ended up with a full-time job, involved with sudden family developments and finding myself with little to no time for the computer in general. Shocker right? Although sometimes on weekends I do find myself playing around in zbrush for an hour or two if I'm in the mood to have a little bit of sculpting fun. I haven't forgotten about my plans to update my store while developing my mesh skills enough to switch to full-mesh works at some point. Over the past few months I've been reworking a handful of my sculpts, picking statues at random to play around with for a couple of hours each weekend. I've been fine-tuning my texturing, as well as normal detailing.

As I was working with the Gargoyle remake, I finally had the thought to get rid of prim eyes and do them solely with normal maps. I also tried this with the Kitsune but it needs a lot more fine-tuning. I won't get rid of prim eyes with everything, but I'll be experimenting with what I personally think looks better. Live marketplace updates are coming and I have big plans for the dragons.

 Aside from swapping out prim eyes, I'm also more focused on detail sculpting rather then just using zbrushes to smear a texture around.
I'm also replacing the 'Corroded Bronze' texture theme with a reworked version 'Ancient Bronze' as seen on Dragon Xv3 :

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Koi Fish I & II Remakes

These remakes are likely my last ones in this format ( Dual Sculpt / Mesh ) as any future remakes or releases will likely be pure mesh. I had a lot of fun with sculpts and it's time to bring that chapter to a close, a couple of years too late, but if you like playing with a certain toy, there's no reason to stop enjoying it just because something newer has come along. I also released an update for Dragon Lantern II, as I was planning on updating all 3 to version R2, however, I no longer feel like finishing the other two. I'm wrapping things up, and with that, I'm also bundling together older works in the form of classic packs and cutting prices. I'm not sure where I'll go from here today, if I will continue to make statues, or branch out into other fields, such as jewelry, avatar accessories, pets, etc. ( Maybe both? ) Thanks to everyone who followed my work all this time! I got quite a lot of enjoyment out of seeing everyone's creativity and what t...
Post a Comment
Read more

Fairy Statue I

This month's release is a beautiful Fairy Statue! What makes her special is that she's my first ever full color statue, which had a stunning outcome. It separates her from my previous releases and gives her a life-like feel, but if color is not your thing, there's the usual Stone, and Marble texture sets as well. All 3 texture sets are included with and without shadow maps mixed in. The challenge was adding in more detail then my previous humanoid-type sculptures like eyes and toes, and trying to cover the overlapping joints. I've never mixed red and purple for my daily choice of clothes but this fairy makes it work! EDIT: It's a Sculpty :) I keep getting asked if it's mesh, the fact that some of you couldn't tell is saying something! Color Rules! :D
Post a Comment
Read more

Dragons 9 & 10 + Future Plans

Dusting off the Shop I've been gone for a long time but I'm returning to SL and I have resumed sculpting. Even though I've fallen pretty behind, sometimes breaks are necessary in life. Interests come and go.. and sometimes.. they even return.. usually with the help of badgering from friends. Dragons 9 & 10 Dragons IX and X have been released today which mark my first releases in ages. They are SCULPTED. Why? Maybe it's because I stopped building for years, and fell behind on mesh.. OR it could be that I'm just a stubborn old school builder.. who knows! Update: They are also MESH! I just updated both dragons to include a mesh version with.. drumroll please... MATERIALS! After what seemed like an endless stream of failures I've finally managed to produce functioning normal maps without all of those crazy artifacts and glitches I was getting. Update on Mesh I would like to say mesh statues ARE coming - but there are a few thing...
Post a Comment
Read more