Taking the SSA-1811 Exocet for a first Flight. This fine vehicle was created by Gaius Goodliffe and it can be found in Second Skies store at Extropia Odyssey.

If you go over to Edloe Island, you would find a gallery of CD cover art, linking up to some excellent music by independent SL musicians in iTunes. This is the work of Crap Mariner, who is always out there to help SL musicians. I added a poster with a link at my own gallery over at Podcaster Island.

Don’t forget to also check out the accompanying website for this project.

While it’s nice to have a chill spot out at Podcaster Island, I decided I want to do more with this place, so I decided it was time to re-create my gallery, only… a little differently this time…

I’m not having walls on this one, or… indeed - a floor. There’s the chill spot and there are also fish swimming through the air… guess I’m just putting the surreal into the experience.

Naturally, my avater is the most surreal thing there…

I’ve been having problems with my web connection. This has resulted in all sorts of strange avatar behavior on Second Life. Here is one example:

Unfortunately, there’s not much I can do about this now. This has impact way beyond Second Life for me and includes difficulties in uploading podcasts and other strange web connection related phenomena. This is also a setback in developing my Bluesmoke Designs. I’m hoping to fix this once my financial status becomes a little more stable.

Decided to go fishing up at Nowhereville.

Caught an interesting hammer shark.

Naturally, I’m calling him Blueshark

Also, I want to thank Crap Mariner for adding my Blueprint CD to the excellant collection over at Edloe Island.

Created a new sitting corner at Podcaster Island. Just a little place to chillout and relax.

Couldn’t resist some self-promotion. My Night Guy T-Shirt giver would give you a free T-Shirt and a notecart with a short blurb about my Night Guy podcast as well as a website link.

I’m also using this place as a small gallery with a few of my artworks.

What’s a chillout spot if I don’t actually use it to chillout?

I have shown my wife the designs I made and she thinks I shouldn’t be entering the fashion world at all. What do you think? Let me know by voting at the poll on the sidebar.

Experimenting in cloths designs for Second Life. I call this one “Snarl”. It might not be the best name since the design is more rosy then snarly, but I like the sound of that name

It’s still far from being perfect, but I feel that it’s better then the Futuralia, and I still feel the default skirt design is far from being perfect. I’m looking for a way to streamline prim skirt design.

I created a facelight for my Bluesmoke Hancroft character. I found the creation of this extremely easy and now my character shines at night…

Hopefully, learning how to design a dress that looks decently like a dress would be as easy. Yeah - dont I wish

I’ve been taking UV study pictures of my Bluesmoke Hancroft avatar, trying to understand better how the UV maps work.

Here, you can clearly see where everything goes. I’m using the UV maps created by Robin Wood, which are excellent for positioning textures and elements while creating SL clothing items.

One thing that is important to understand is how the different elements of the UV maps connect. In this example, it’s clear to see how the shirt and arms connect at the shoulders.

This image clearly shows the connection between the shirt and pants. I did 16 UV image studies and posted them all on a special Flickr UV Study set in the hope those would also be helpful for other designers, especial other novices like me.