second life

New stuff on the horizon

01-03-2020

New stuff ahead! Yes, and it'll be more than one item this time. We'll kick off with a pair of sunglasses... because... why not? And then there will be a new set (Nilea), an add-on to that (naughty!) a set of pasties and a pair of shoes. Stay tuned for more ;)

Ellen wearing the Nilea set in combination with Jessy gloves, stockings and a pair of naughty pasties!

Making second life clothing

23-05-2008
Something different for a change. Why only use the blog to announce new releases? There is more to write about! Take for example questions that are asked me from time to time.... A recurring question is 'how do you make clothing?' or 'is it easy to make your own clothing on second life?' In upcomming posts I will show you how I do what I do. I hope this will make you, my readers, happy... (both of you haha).
  • The things I am going to cover will not be complete tutorials, if you want to know something about a detail I seem to have skipped, just send me an email or comment on the post!
  • My way to do things is not THE way to do it, there are a lot of techniques to design and make clothing for second life.
As always, you need the proper tools to create your own magic. I use a pen and paper, avipainter, adobe illustrator and adobe photoshop. Next to that, there is a package of body-part templates provided on the second life website which you can use to fit your clothing images on.
  • Avpainter is a very handy program which gives you an avatar in a window on which you can paint. very simple. I don't use this program all the time, only when I want to make a design which is completely new. (yes this means that a lot of clothing is created using something 'old' as a base for something new... this saves -a lot- of time.) When you are working on a design, you can also load it into avpainter to see if it works. uploading a texture to SL costs 10 L$ and it takes a lot of uploads to get everything right.... so avpainter can save you some money! It can be bought through slexchange.com
  • Adobe Illustrator. When a design is drawn in Avipainter, it is imported into illustrator and used as a template to draw the clean lines in. If you have another programm in which you can draw lines quickly, you can use that!
  • Adobe photoshop. I use it to finish my designs, change colors, ad details like paterns, shades... I really can't think of designing clothing without photoshop. Some people use an alternative like paintshop pro or Gimp. As a websdesigner in rl I use photoshop every day.. There is little it can't do and I cannot imagine desinging stuff without it...
Next to these tools you need a good deal of creative energy, patience and time. Designing clothing for you avatar is hard, especially in the beginning, so my advice is: 'start simple' (with a T-shirt for example) and work your way up to a detailed outfit consisting of more pieces of clothing... One of the best websites for detailed tutorials... no, the best website for tutorials is SL Natalia's blog. She has covered everything you can possibly think of in relation to designing (clothing) in second life... In upcoming posts I will cover how I start/make/finish a design... There is one more question which is asked me a lot... it is: 'How do you make these realistic latex shines?' I'm sorry but this will remain my secret ;)

New Flickr account

17-01-2008
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have opened a new Flickr account where I will post all pictures regarding my clothing design's. This can be a complete new design, sketch, try-out, or shop / sale sign... This way I have one location to use as a platform for showing my designs and you will have the possibility to post comments and tell me what you (don't) like about them! See you there! Hugo's fashion at Flickr

Flickr

04-11-2007
As I already said to a lot of people: Second life offers so many ways for someone like me to be creative... I like to design and build my own house / studio / shop. I like to design clothing and I recently picked up photographing in SL again. At first there were the pictures of a model (usually Ellen) wearing the clothing... Ellen and Ava wearing new shirts!Then I came across the SL community in Flickr and was amazed by the sometimes intriguing and beautiful photo's posted there. Seeing what some artists can do in and with second life got me curious as to what I could do with it myself and a little help for photoshop :). Right now I am still experimenting, but really like the pictures taken so far. Lilith wearing the set AvaTaking snapshots in second life and post processing them is fun, but the real fun starts when you post your images on Flickr in order to share your creations with others. I can spend hours clicking through fascinating collections and great artwork. It is cool to see people like your work too. To the right you see a picture of Lilith Lunardi, taken by herself, while wearing the Ava set she bought from me! Designing these sets is fun, people buying you creations is cool... A picture taken by a satisfied costumer is very, very cool!

Blog online!

15-10-2007
Hello all! This is a test for the new Wordpress software... This blog will be an addition to the hugo and vandornan website.

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