Thursday, July 31, 2008

MeltyBritches: Oh, the choices...

Alerts My Alerts The latest from ps3 - Google Blog Search PS3 Fanboy import hands-on: The Last Guy echochrome team working on new puzzler, not sequel Bare Knuckles: Sony's PlayStation 3 clearly found its place SCEA VP: PS3 native dev means better looking 360 games An Xbox 360 Controller Crammed into a PS3 Dual Shock Controller's Body PS3 Firmware 2.42 Released PS3 Fanboy import hands-on: The Last Guy Top So we did just that, we bought the Japanese release and what we got was a delightful little surprise. CREATE MORE ALERTS: Auctions - Find out when new auctions are posted Horoscopes - Receive your daily horoscope Music - Get the newest Album Releases, Playlists and more News - Only the news you want, delivered!
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I have been working on completely redoing all of the shapes for my store, HotBox, and in doing so I realized that different skins look good on different shapes. Depending on what skin I'm wearing when I build a shape, it might take on a completely different being than if I had used a different skin. I know that the skins I wear all the time are the skins that look the best on my personal shape. I inspect the seams, the nostrils, the ears, the knees, and the blurriness (or lack thereof) on the eye detail.I haven't always been so picky and as my avatar has evolved, so has my particular requirements for a skin in frequent rotation.My first major skin purchases was from Cake. My favorite was the Caramel Skin in Crush with Caramel Skin in Bare and Caramel Skin in Emerald as options for different outfits. Then after about 3 months, I started really seeing all the different skins and I saw someone in a skin that looked very doll-like and I asked them about it. I pretty much shelved those skins and went on a fierce hunt for the right skin for me. He took me to RAC (now Laqroki) for skins and I bought my first shape. My costume folder in my overburdened inventory is impressive, ranging from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle to Nun getups.One day I was shopping at a large retailer that provides high-quality goods in every category, and I realized that in those clothes, with that hair in this skin and this shape that I looked exactly like everyone else. I bought a ton of different skins so that I would be able to build shapes that were not just finely honed, but also had the ability to look totally different in each advertisement in my store. I thought about making a smaller shape to wear just so I could wear clothes with prims without having to adjust all of them and when my friend Marcelle Decuir gave me a copy of their shape, I wore that shape and tweaked it until I made the shape I currently have. I had just got a skin from Bazy and alot of how that skin was made went into how I made my face. I've tweaked the shape a tad here and there a smidgen with the biggest thing making the shoulders wider so that my favorite AO didn't look odd.When I saw on the feed a preview of the unreleased Tuesday skins from Blowpop, I knew that they would be right on my shape and was there the day they debuted, buying so many that the creator, Annyka Bekkers, told me that she would drop the next series on me and I was in hog heaven when she did. I sent out a notecard questionnaire asking my friends to tell me their top ten skinmakers so that I could see who the real biggies are and adjust my worldview a bit to better accommodate a potential shapeshifter.The results are still filtering in, but here is a list in no particular order of the skinmakers my friends love and I look forward to sampling all of these skins and perhaps finding some new favorites.Dernier Cri, Laqroki, Beauty Avatar, Dutch Touch, Bebae, Rockbarry, Canimal, Lovey's, Celestial, Nomine, Abyss, Xccess, Rosemar, M&R, FreeSpeerit, MiaSophia, Tuli, Aden, Bianca F., Sin Skins, MinaJunk, Fleur, Gala/Curio, Bazy, Karamia, Chai, Redgrave, Minnu, PXL, Blowpop, Fashionably Dead, Nylon Outfitters, Detour, Cake, *BP, Ducknipple, Naughty, Tres Very, Bijou, MIW & Artilleri.Here I leave it up to you, the skinbuying masses of SL.
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