Second Life - Latest!

My guy has some clothes now thanks greatly to the freebie stores dotted around the world, Ive not quite sorted out his hair yet but its work in progress. But I now own a selection of clothes and animations. I decided to aim for a more realistic looking approch for my character and dress him similar to how I do, more for personal reflection to my creation. My guy was however fortunate to get laid for the first time since joining second life, sadly some guy also got involved....

At first glance I wasn't sure about uploading the photos but after thinking about it I decided I would not be giving a true representation of my second life experience if i was to keep them off, it also gave me an insight into how seriously some people take these alternative lifestyles....

I will update again soon with hopefully a new hair style and more stories.

3D Text Modeling

Small example of 3D text modeling I made, it has some examples of lighting but all in all was just a test of using the software...

Second Life...

Proper not down with this my character still looks like a proper idiot, but its all about learning how to use the program so its going to take some time, I was expecting alot more basic in terms of creating a character, but was left surprised, anyway here is how my character currently looks..

I will update soon with hopefully a better looking character and abit of a diary of what hes being up to.

Oldskool Footage..

Found some real old footage on my 1st ever computer was bored so decided to make a edit on windows movie maker as being the only editing software on my 10 year old Windows ME computer have a lookski....

Ty Evans Work....

In my eyes one of the most influential directors of the skateboarding industry, his work breaks the barriers as what is for seen as the "norm" for skateboarding films, he trys and uses ideas which would never have being thought of. This is why hes so influential to me because i want to edit in his style i don't wish to keep to a strict plan. As you can see for your self these are ideas you wouldn't expect to see in a skateboard film, they boarder more on professional films instead of low budget flicks like skateboarding movies tend to be.

Below are some examples of his work for the film "Yeah Right!"

Xbox live avatars

Seen as we are going to be starting our identities module real soon, I decided to write a small peace on xbox live avatars. Xbox live recently introduced an update to which they ask you to design yourself as an avatar, not so much ask but demand its mandatory. To me this is an attempt by Microsoft to aim the Xbox in a more family orientated direction much like how the Nintendo Wii encourages you to create an online identity and add your own appearance choices such as hair and clothing, the Xbox version offers alot more for the user to customise and also gives the option to save alternative styles of you avatar in the wardrobe section. I also feel they added this program to give gamers more of an online identity before this the only customisable features were small gamer pictures. To coincide with the launch of this program Microsoft now offer a online world were gamers use there avatars to chat to people and complete challenges to unlock further clothing items.

Below shows the Xbox live avatar designer...

The program works alot like "Second Life" a program which incorporates avatars in a online chat area. A program I will be looking into later, here is my designed avatar for Xbox Live.

I decided to design my avatar to look as much like myself as I could, this was so fellow gamers could see a truer representation of my self in a 3D world.

Brushing the dust off my journal...

It seems like a life time since Ive even logged on here and with only a few weeks till we go back to uni I thought id get the ball rolling again, and make a pointless post first off I hope all my peers and friends had a rad Xmas and New Year!! and also hope everyone made all there dead lines and shizz.

Anyway check out my new respectable look.... No beard and short hair :P

Looking forward to seeing everyone again!

Peace!!