First Customized Face

Fritz Meier has gone and pulled another first; his is, to my knowledge, the first avatar to have a customized face!  (You'll remember an earlier post where he was the first to have a customized skin.)

And the face he used?  He did a Google search for rapper Snoop Dogg, and took the first good image he could find!

Note that ol' Snoop is missing some ears!

Outfit Outlay: My Halloween Costume

Outfit Outlay is a new regular feature of the Cloud Party Bugle, where I shall display an outfit (male or female or whatever other avatar) and then detail each piece, including vendor and price (or "Outlay").  For the first Outfit Outlay, here is my Halloween costume, the Demoness!  (Click on each picture for a larger size.)

HAIR AND SHOES: My hair is the Loose Bun style, one of five styles available on the Marketplace for free by the talented Lilli Thompson.  They are tintable and I coloured this hair FF0000 (hexadecimal for red).  The ballet shoes are part of the basic outfit available to all female avatars, and I tinted them red as well.

GOWN: The long black granny dress is my own creation, made from the female body mesh available via the Avatar Development Kit.  I edited the mesh extensively in Maya 2012, removing the hands and feet, and using the Merge command multiple times to stitch together vertices in the two legs into one long skirt.  It is not up in the marketplace yet, but I will be posting it for free later this weekend (it is not perfect, there are a few bumps here and there, but good enough for a costume).

ACCESSORIES: The horns, magnificent wings, and tail by Mykael are part of his male and female demon outfits, also free on the Marketplace, and all are modifiable.  I decided to modify my horns by adding the flames-and-smoke particles available for free on the Marketplace, part of a set of sample particles made available by Cloud Party.

Total Outfit Outlay: FREE

Utopia is Cloud Party's First Featured Island

Congratulations to Claudia222, whose island Utopia has been named Cloud Party's first official featured island, which means that it is highlighted when someone selects the Navigation icon on the cell phone menu within the virtual world.

Feel free to come visit Claudia's eerie island: https://its.cloudpartytime.com/#-34.5,-5,1.1,-1.2_2169

Mykael's Demons

Mykael took his inspiration from balrogs when he created the male and female demon outfits seen in these pictures.  Look at the huge wingspan!  He says he "wanted to see how far he could push the avatar modeller".

He is placing both outfits for free onto the Marketplace for Halloween, so you can go out and be a devil in this season of horrors!  Thank you for sharing your creativity with us, Mykael.

My Clown Costume!

Well, today I took my leotard outfit and did some stretching in Maya and some retexturing, and I now have the perfect set of clown pantaloons, here is my clown costume!  The masquerade mask comes from the Marketplace and is by Mykael, and the little clown hat is your prize for completing the first new user tutorial.

Black Leotard

Today I have been working on a bglack leotard, starting from the skin of the female avatar as a base point.  I still need to make a UV map for it, but on the whole I'm pretty happy with it.

My confidence in my Maya skillset is slowly coming back!  Some of the commands are driving me crazy though, because they don't do what I expect.

First Dress

Well today I made my first dress using the new Avatar Development Kit, basically by stretching the shape of the women's T-shirt.  It's a little boxy and stiff, especially when you sit down, but it counts as a dress.  Yay!

I've put it up for sale on the Marketplace -- the first dress created under the new Avatar Developers' Kit to be placed there! -- and I've thrown in a pair of matching granny panties!  Buy buy buy!  :-P

And here I am dancing the Samba in my new dress: