Forum activity: lesser-known animators tour

Very interesting thread! had the same question as Bradley, because we furniture makers need full permission animations of course.

So far B&B are the best animations I saw, but I would love to see other work as well (as long as I can get the right permissions).

Greetings Marcel

One animation store I like that hasn't been mentioned yet is Reverie Virtual Systems (not a fan of the name though ) I'll go in-world to check my landmarks to see if there are any others.


I'm planning to do both waltz and tango soon. "Soon" is a relative term though; I mean in like a month, after a couple other items on my todo list. I think ANOmations has a ballroom dance, have you checked there?


It should go down stairs fine, but you can't go up. Hopefully I can improve these with the new physics that are being tested.


ADDITION: durr I forgot Web Page's store on Da Boom. In general there are a ton of animation stores I have landmarks to that haven't been mentioned yet, but I don't know if this thread is only for smaller places or just any animation store. Like, ANOmations hasn't been mentioned, but Cristiano is an SL celebrity.


I didn't know about this place, looks very cool. Note that this is a newer branch of an established line of stores, 5ith Order.

Incidentally, responding to the OP

A long time ago I did a mermaid AO to go with the mermaid costume Isis Desmoulins created. I don't know if the outfit is still for sale though, haven't talked with her in a while.

Happy Dispatch. Lots of good stuff for AO's (I think he has a ninja AO too), a few REALLY inexpensive poseballs with sits and relaxed poses, and very good naughty poseballs.

This need for full-perms finally drove me to doing a few of my own (well, this combined with becoming the inadvertent but lucky owner of Gearsawe Stonecutter's masterful "U-Poser"--which is more time-consuming than external animation tools, but great for fitting poses specifically to an avatar or an in-world construction... and somehow more fun).

I've even resorted to buying a whole bunch of copies of a no-copy anim I particularly liked, making a little assembly line to stuff the anims one at a time into individual instances of the product, and scripting a vendor to dispense them each individually. What a pain in the a$$.

But you can see why animators are nervous about full-perms: I've seen almost every one of Craig Altman's gorgeous full-perm Bits & Bobs animations turn up embedded in cheap furniture made by folks who don't understand the "slam bit" and therefore didn't follow instructions on how to set the permissions appropriately.

Ok, might as well plug myself.

Living Dead Skins in the sim of Dansim.

I didnt like the Huddles Zombie AO, so I made my own.

It's not the "zombie-with-arms-sticking-straight-out" stuff either. I go for a more 'natural' dead thing.

Fairy's Grove makes a mermaid A/O - they do not sell any other A/O's except this one. Although they just redid the store and I found it very annoying to shop in now, and I do not know if they currently carry it. I'd IM they creator, Wraith Unsung first to make sure.

Its important for the walking dead to appear like they really do in real life.

Speaking of animations, a friend of mine is looking for some decent food preparation anims. (Chopping veggies, peeling potatoes, etc). Can we include quirky anim shops for specific needs on the List?

Absolutely, let us know if your friend finds them.

Also, I've always wondered if folks who have dining rooms in their SL homes might want a 'going to dinner' AO, with eating anims, hostess walking with dishes anims, lalala. I would find it spooky, myself, but ... I know I saw a dining room set somewhere with eating anims built in.

*shudders*
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I think part of the reason we dont see too many "off beat" animations like Oryx mentioned is.... we can't animate our hands & fingers directly.

But this also keeps us from seeing countless "one finger salutes" around the Newbie areas.

Pond Life has dining tables and chairs that change texture. Click on the table and get a menu for various dinners, desserts, drinks. Also a variety of dinnerware. Too much to describe here but well worth the trip. A bit pricey, but easy Lindens come, easy Lindens go.

I just saw a couple at Bits & Bobs, kneading dough and using a rolling pin. Would love to see more, been looking for stuff like that as well.

What a great idea. *will scour this thread and pop in world in a minute* I'm always looking for new animations.

But I have to second that Anti Antonelli has great great animations. And amazing service too!

I still love the great & well known, but confess that I'm always looking for more. To date I've really been disappointed with some of the newer creators -- not as much attention to a smooth animation... just cranked out by the dozens for a quick sale.

Now to go to these places I haven't heard about! Thanks again.

This is one thing I wish we could animate, but I doubt LL will ever change to the avatars so we can animate them. Adding 15 joints per hand would add alot of overhead to a system that already has problems handling what we have now.

I do alot of speciality animations and get asked for a lot of off beat things. I always tell them that they won't be as good they are imagining since the hand, fingers and facial expressions are so limited. Not to mention how bad these avies actually bend and pose.

I guess I'll have to mention myself? Although I simply have one vendor with my standing poses and AO in it currently (working on the store), but they are more natural ways of standing that I made for myself, that people kept IMing me "where did you get your AO" and then "can I buy them from you"?

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I.. just met a guy..name is JosephAbel Speedwell? I'll come back and change the spelling.
He has made intimate beds with poses that also supplies what a scripted male part would supply.((Trying to put things delicately here.)) so basically rather than click genitals(to get a desired outcome)..you click the bed((and the outcome appears on the "F" partner). I was very impressed..and the beds are texture changeable too.

It might be in search under Speedwell's. Nothing fancy..but very promising.

~Lana Tomba

Just stumbled on one with quite an array of unusual ones of this sort: "BB Animations" in Isere. Found them from an interesting shop, "Shade" in Crooked Earth that uses a number of them (and Craig Altman's, and I think some originals) to good effect. Oh, and AV Puli has a good food-prep one I've used before, too.

Below find the text to the Lesser-Known Animator Tour. The version of this with landmarks is available inworld from a garish little pyramid in the freebie area of the Forum Hangout (aka the Place Which Shall Not Be Named). [Allana/160/32/36, the dark area in the lower right of the sim]. Or if you'd rather, send me an IM inworld and I'll drop a copy on you. Feel free to hand out to anyone.

If the place you suggested isn't there, it's because I couldn't find it! I tried to include at least one of the major TYPES of AOs ... mermaid, japanese, combat, gang, etc.. I had to leave out the furniture places, it just got big.

I had THE most fun collecting landmarks ... there are amazing weird anims out there. Fortunately, I didn't have much cash on me, but I will be going back!!

nika

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This is a list of lesser known places to get Animations. It's nowhere near exhaustive, having grown out of a thread on SL’s forums. Unusual anims are a fun way to make your avatar and home unique! At the bottom of the card, I also list some of larger Animation stores.

Before we start, there are a couple of places to note: first, the FABULOUS mall
Animations Universe ������
This place is mecca for small, unusual anim stores. It has a search kiosk at the rez-in point which will look in all the shops for an anim with your word(s) in its name. A few of the shops mentioned below have outlets here. Some of these creators also do custom & full-perm anims.

Secondly, Animation Warehouse: This place has both huge and small animators represented.
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Not all of everyone's product line is at Animation Warehouse.
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LESSER-KNOWN ANIMATORS

.*.yggdrasill.*. ������
-- “Silly” pose balls (Akaneko Nagy)

**Animation Shop** ������
-- AOs, gangsta, mafia, BMX, pimp

Animation Shop Memetar ������
-- Jokey animations, funky AO, cleaning AO, freebies

Antonelli’s Animation Products ������
-- Tasteful, sensual couple's animations, animated sits, and special-purpose animations as well as menu-driven animated furniture and scripted poseball accessories

AV Puli Animations ������
-- Neko AOs, stands, AOs, unisex, food prep

BB Animations ������
-- Full perms! Food prep/serve, household anims, babies, combat, AOs, geisha

Cova AO ������
-- AOs (inexpensive) M&F, poses, kimono-friendly walks

Curio Obscura ������
-- Steampunk shop with narrow skirt AO and poses

Dark Side ������
-- Animations both cuddle and sexy (mostly), furniture, beds and gorean rugs.

Djezebel Animation Stores ������
-- Audience anims, dances, bar anims, eating, gorean, AO, poses

Essensual Designs ������
-- Sex anims, furniture, pose balls, full-perms!

Fhelzgud (Mall) ������
-- sit poses

Happy Dispatch ������
-- AOs, poses, morning stretch, mic and audience anims, standing pee, ninja.
-- Tell me if you figure out what's up with their "Third Life Box"

Living Dead Skins ������
-- Zombie AO, gory gestures and anims

Malaika Mermaids ������
-- Mermaid and mermen AOs and poses

Mamesando Rings ������
-- AOs and poses, Japanese, soldier, widow, samurai, anime character, tai chi

Meike TM Designs ������
-- Hug & Kiss AO, Entrance AO, couples poses

The Motion Merchant ������
-- Two-person interactions; Pose ball HUDs, AOs, Swim

Mr. P’s ������
-- Gestures, Animations, Poses, Walks, Games (Hacky Sack, Hover Board, etc.)

Merwings ������
-- Mermaid, merman anims and AOs

Omnimations ������
-- (at Omni Corp hub) AOs for men, Poses, undeformer

Payne and Despair ������
-- Couples poses for the Fallen, the Forgotten, the Unloved. Ascend to heaven.

Rickymations! ������
-- Cuddles, Kisses, Model Poses, Animations, Sex Balls, & Poseballs, XCite-compatible

Second Frame ������
-- Speaking gestures, male walks, elder walks, runway, couples fly/walks

Steam ������
-- aka "Hard Core", "Adult" animations, XCite compatibile

Web Page Design ������
-- Mood Mixer AO (like many in one), Poses, Type'NTalk TNT, gadgets

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Well-established places in alphabetical order

Abranimations (AOs, dances, combat, couples)
Animazoo (Dances, AOs, poses)
ANOmations (Dances, AOs, Poses)
Bits and Bobs (everything in pose balls, and all the best)
Lost Dog (Animations scattered among furniture etc.)
M&P Animations (AOs, poses, pose balls, couples, etc.)
Neva Naughty (terribly naughty)
Owenimations (Dances & chimera)
Pillow Talk (innovative pose balls with fun single and multi animations, furniture)
Reel Expression (AOs, poses, a little furniture)
Reverie Virtual Systems (AOs, poses, home of the Torrid AOs/poses)
Sexy Jesse’s Sexy Motions (Dances, AOs, pose balls)
Sine Wave (Mostly dances, some gestures, poses etc. above main store at ~ 230m)
Vista Animations (AOs)

It's a little funny to see Mr. P's listed as a lesser known animator, since that is literally the first store I checked out when I joined SL a year and a half ago.

lol, they just had this debate on SLU.

Thanks for doing this Nika, you are indeed a treasure, regardless of what Trout says.

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Lol he had a similar comment about your place! Beau has indeed been around a while, but it seemed to me that you're both better known in the forums than in the greater metaverse, tho maybe that's just my own ignorance. He's renovating his product line for 2008 soon, btw!

In any case, it can't hurt to have a few extra people drop by, can it?
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Oh that was definitely not a criticism, just an idle observation.

It's BECAUSE of what Trout says.......