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2012年04月29日

Cistern of Dreams

A LEA full-SIM installation in April is, The Fool's Uncharted Empire by Athena Bedrosian. There are four stages. This is one of them, Cistern of Dreams. It looks like the underground palace at Istanbul.




The underground palace in RL. It is said to be the world largest underground cistern. It was impressive that there are many kinds of columns that were gathered from various old buildings. There had been more water that made possible to do sightseeing by boat.




Artist's comment: "“Where do we go when we dream? To me the feeling of the cistern with its layer of water, its closed-space containment, and the repeating columns evokes a dreamscape." The floating pose was not set but my private animation.




According to the little death, my body was twitched once together with falling feeling, and I went to a world of dream, or sunk into a dreamless sleep…

  

Posted by Temi Oyen at 06:25Comments(0)LEA

2012年04月26日

Shadow

Visited Gland Place that was introduced by Yana. "The world of Yana" is a cool blog introducing many beautiful spots. This place is said to be the most beautiful square in the world. I practiced shooting shadows
The world of Yana: http://yana.slmame.com/




This is sunset setting that I am using often. It is good to get shades but the coloring becomes monotonous. The shade is not depicted when buildings are made with texture only.
Gland Place: http://slurl.com/secondlife/La%20Baule/160/60/252




From top of the city hall, sitting next to the statue of Michelle. This tower should be 96m in height but this one has only 67m.




Went down to the place in the shadow. This square will be covered entirely with numerous flower petals, in August every two years. It will be held this year!




The shadow is unexpectedly clear. The sunshine and shadow touch the heart of a traveler… To get the shadow, Edit-Preferences-Graphics, then check on Lighting & Shadows.

  

Posted by Temi Oyen at 23:23Comments(0)Photo techniques

2012年04月24日

Breast shape

Instead of considering swinging breasts, it might be more important to find how to make the shape beautiful. Different from the exiting girlhood expecting how big and what kind of shape it would be, it should be possible to have any desirable shape in SL. But it is hard to get an eye-opening beauty as ones in RL. It could be some difference between artificial avatar and real one that provides emotion that makes us feel the real person behind it.




It could be possible to have some similar shape in standing position, but it becomes unnatural when changing postures. Especially there is a big difference from RL when bending upper body or lying down, which makes body line twisted. I think the line from bust to hip is the most beautiful in girl's body. Would it be possible to create body lines matching body movement instead of swinging?



I said I would not need swing, but the movement is realistic when standing up or make a small move. I might like to have it a little if I were with him in private…
  

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2012年04月21日

Mesh

Recent trend might be to ask "Is that mesh?" when seeing a cool clothing. Kazumi the owner of Baba meeting area. She makes frequent appearance at Dance Island, Japan Resort, or other dance shows. With the Phoenix viewer, it is possible to see if it is mesh or not by changing the low graphic quality that makes mesh invisible. In this case, jacket, shorts, and boots are mesh, but the characteristic hair is not. It is OK to make clothing invisible since there are transparent alpha under mesh outfits, but be careful not to forget to wear them, otherwise….

  

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2012年04月18日

Swinging Breasts

Trio of boot-girls at Baba dancing area. From left to right, Poffy, Coralreef, and me. Coralreef has shortened her legs recently, but also went on a diet and still looks a bit like lady-longlegs. Poffy looks rough and tough with bearing a knife.




From right to left, big, medium, and poor breasts. It was the first time to see breasts moving together with dancing. I was enjoying that there is no bra needed in SL, but everyone had some movement as such. The Poffy's on the right were held tight but those of Coralreef were swinging madly.




Even with a bra, this kind of violent dance could cause this harsh movement. It may come out of the bra if it is RL. But the movement sometimes seemed to be that of an aged woman.




The breast seemed not being deformed properly but just swinging around. So when it is rocking fore and aft, it comes out abnormally and is buried in the body. Could anyone create breasts that deform realistically when bending forward, lying down, or floating in the water?

  

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