Da Sexy Avie (Post your pic!)

Cute! And the art behind you in the second one is really beautiful work.

Everyones avies are so gorgeous!

I'm a newbie, and have been playin around with my appearance for hours n hours and just can't get the face to look realistic at all. Nothing near what everyone here looks like lol. Are there face skins you purchase to edit that look more real or do I need to sit and play around with my toon...?

Skins are like an outer covering for your default body. They give the features a more realistic look but you still have to play around with the settings to adjust your features, e.g. mouth width, brow height etc and it's those adjustments that give you an individualistic appearance rather than looking clone like.

Been awhile since I have looked on this one.. Thought I would add my updated AV =D

Pie?





You can manipulate your shape (underlying framework) into pretty much anything you want using the sliders, but if you want a nice skin (body surface), you'll really need to buy it. The default skins are uniformly unattractive, with the exception of the one made by Munchflower Zaius...it's under Library>Clothing>Nightclub Female>Sexy-Female Skin. That's what I'd suggest using until you find one you like well enough to invest in and, if you like it, you can visit Nomine to check out the rest of her work.

There's also a rather long thread here with female skin suggestions when you're ready to shop: /327/73/202346/1.html

I <3 Celestial Studios myself.

WOO HOO! Here's my little addition to the group.

Liquid body armor may exist in RL, but not like this

ok namssor. that's just ... just ... *grabs her wallet and runs to second skin*

I'm crazy about it too... but I went to the store and didn't see it. Please Namssor, we gotta know how to get it!

Out on the town

This is a combination of a new Evie skin tone I have in development with some avatar texturing work I've done in ZBrush. This won't be available to the public (as seen) until I roll out some newer skin tones. I like to use the forums to get feedback, and it seems this image has generated some interest, so I will definately produce something for sale in the future .

well that is an amazing Skin ...

i do remember that soon after i joined i stumbled across Chip Midnight's place
and he had several Techie Android Skins ...
and ... i thought id add here he was really nice to me ...
he gave me a couple modifiable DEMOS to play with ...

suffice to say yours are beautiful too ...


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now then ...

on page 99 you said ...


so i thought id try a few self portraits one of which is below ...

but it was not an easy shot to get ...

the Ctrl-0 setting was not a problem

1. i first took some SL SnapShots ...
however taking shots with SL SnapShaot proved a tricky process
cos my head kept bobbing endlessly as i was trying to precisely set
the full-screen-frame with the Camera Controls ...
and then when moving the mouse to SnapShot controls,
of course my head turned away

but i was eventually able to get some nice shots ...

2. to try preventing my head from bobbing and turning like i had a nervous condition,
i used some stationary poses, and then a posing stand, but they didnt work at all,
cos the angle of my head wasnt right, and my eyes kept floating
like i was in a faint.

3. so i took screen shots instead which is easier and besides,
they come out better than SL SnapShots

so below is a full screen uncropped selfportrait screen shot #4 and #5,
which i did enhance with the enhance feature of my Paint Shop Pro ... Pic #5

-the original size of the pic is 1352 pixels wide ...
-i resized the pics to fit on this page

i dont remember exactly ... but i took the shots facing sunset or sunrise lighting

i never take shots with daylight ...
i mean in daylight everyone looks like they just had their Botox injections

so thanks for the hint about using Ctrl 0 ... its pretty neet!

here are a couple more hints

when youre full in with Ctrl 0, tap out slowly about 5 times with Ctrl 8
and depending on the background you can get quite a show!

to avoid that puffy Botox look in daylight ... always face North!



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Thanks Arsenic . Your snapshots in full on lighting look great BTW. Chip does some truely innovative stuff, as do quite a few residents. I love lurking in the New Products forum (here too!) and checking it all out.

The keyboard <Ctrl+0,9,8> shortcuts are great snapshot tools. As far as camera control goes, I use a HUD based camera system called CaliCam:

http://www.caligari-designs.com/CaliCam/

This system saves all the snapshot angles I use for POP displays in the store. I just load the pose (always priority 4 to freeze movement), set the camera angle, alter the field of view (Ctrl+0) and take the shot to disk. Like you mentioned, the only thing I don't quite have control over is the eye movement. This can be fudged a bit by waiting for the eyes to move to the correct position. They move in sequence, and not in random, so it is possible with patience to get the eyes in the spot you like. If all else fails, several shots can be taken, and the eyes can be sampled into other snapshots if need be.

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Namssor Daguerre ...

thats exactly what i did ...

SL's Default standing position has about 5 differ poses,
changing about every 20 seconds

that is enuf time to select and set the head position
with Ctrl-0 full in ...

also i set the cursor on the lower edge and center of
SL's window to make sure the eyes were looking directly ahead

then at the right moment i simply pressed Print Screen
on my keyboard ...

and thats one reason why, no matter what pose someone uses,
screen shots are so much easier and better than SL SnapShots


btw ... if there is a mini-pod version of Cali-Cam i would buy it
cos it has more features than i would use

tnx for the comments and info

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a pic a friend of mine made of me

New One

I know that stuff related to this question has been posted ad nauseum everywhere, but I am lazy and so am asking again...

I know that the skin design has a lot to do with the appearance, and everything to do with makeup, but with regard to the actual shape of an avie's eyes, which holds more sway? Is it the skin design or is it the shape underneath?

I ask because my avie has I guess you could call them bedroom eyes. They are slanted and always appear to be half closed, which of course is the key to my smoky, mysterious beauty! If you look at my pic that I posted earlier, or my board profile pic, you can see what I mean. I am having a new skin designed which, on the avie of the designer, makes her look wide-eyed and with much less Asian influence than my avie has, and I'm wondering if that will carry through to my avie also.

Thanks to whoever can offer some insight

It has to do with your shape more than anything but a good skin maker can do the eyes to look certain ways a bit too.

After god knows how many hours, it's nice to see it coming together. Too bad I'm a prerfections so I suspect it'll never get done *laughs*

Some times kicking back w/ friends being normal is sexy too =p

Here I am post makeover with my new custom skin. I am proud to say that my designer, Christy Maroon, managed to capture every single nuance of the concept I had in my head. I got oil and tanlines, and she even gave me Lana Lang's nose from Smallville! Wooohooo!

Now if I could just look directly at the camera! Grrrrrrrrr

Riding off in the sunset on a killer whale after a game of cat and mouse

Since you got new skin, let's see a body shot?

This is little me. You will not have seen me in SL for sometime as I am LOCKED OUT WITH A RUBBISH GRAPHICS CARD AND VISTA!!!! If you can solve my technical problems you may become my Sub with my full blessing xxx
P.S. Thanks to the lovely Sh Oluja for the photograph!

I have Vista too. I got to the point where I was crashing every 10-15 minutes. I upgraded my graphics card drivers and it made no difference. I was going to write SL off as being Vista unfriendly when as a last resort I decided to upgrade my graphics card to a new NVidia Geforce 8600 card (My PC can't handle the 8800 cards). The difference was amazing. I was on for 6 hours yesterday and didn't crash once.