Here she is covered in rags, sitting on a pile of trash.

Here she is, deep in the trash.

This doesn’t look good for her.

This really turned out the way I expected it too.

I’m really satisfied with the way this turned out.

Clicking the cubes on the corner activates them.

The corner cubes rotate, emanating textures and music.

Here I am, standing in front of the gallery:

Note my fire breathing dragon:

Here are some more images of the gallery:

At the end of it all, I just had to rest a little:

A special thanks goes to Radar Masukami for the prefab used for the gallery.

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

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…

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Those first two images use a special white modeling room I designed for modeling shots.

I’ve also been working on something new, but it’s not ready yet.

I will also have to take some screen shots of my Bluesmoke Hancroft avatar wearing the Robin Wood UV maps. Those would be extremely helpful in understanding how everything is put together.

Hmm… this one has a little of a Torley-ish feel to it…

Assembler – the third in a series I’m now calling The Futuralia Series.

Looks like I’ll have to master the art of the Prim skirt. The Linden idea of a skirt is just… well… not really there…

It’s not that obvious here, but I’ve been playing with transparencies on this one. Click through to the Flickr page to see the full size images. More Futuralia images would come soon, hopefully.

I started playing with transparencies on this one.

Another thing I want to do is reshape Bluesmoke Hancroft’s body a little. I think she looks a little to unnatural for now.

“The singularity, a point in the development of intelligent, whether artificial or enhanced human intelligence that would cause the end of humanity as we know it. In fact, the by-product of the singularity would be an intelligence so advanced, that we can’t even imagine what it would be like.”