It all started with a ring.....

I love to play with prims. When I discovered how to make curly, swirly prims visions of elegant fanciful jewelry danced in my minds eye. It took a while, a lot of starts and restarts and re-restarts to create what I had in mind but, finally it's here: The Wishes Set from The Body Politk.

Originally this set was going to be a single diamond ring - I had weddings and engagement rings on my mind, thanks to Siyu Suens suggestion I expand on my wedding ring selection.But then my good friend Geddy McGettigan said "How about a bracelet?". Well, OK...while playing around to come up with a good matching bracelet, the armbands were born.

Hmm well, what goes with armbands...a circlet of course! Both very fanciful pieces (they look fantastic on our new fae skins) and this "engement set" took on a whole life of its own. Back to the bracelet I went but before that was completed I ran across a necklace in RL that provided instant inspiration for one for this set as well. Don't worry Geddy the bracelet is done too!

Each piece in the set has texture changing capabilities, from the metals to the different gem sizes there are more combinations then you can shake a stick at, including pink and black gold.

This is the most ambitious set of jewlery Max and I have created to date, but I am really pleased with the outcome and it was a fun process, hope you enjoy wearing it as much as we did making it
We have the necklace and circlet on display in the store so feel free to stop by HERE and play with the texture change function.
Enjoy!
Max~n~Polly

Hey everyone,

I've decided it would be fun to try something new. Whether it's Second Life content, computer art, video games, movies, music or anything similar I'm personally always fascinated in the process that goes into making anything creative. I'm sure there are others like me who might be interested in the process of creating something for Second Life.

With that in mind I've decided to start a creator's diary on a new fantasy avatar we're just starting work on. While I'm not going to go through every technical step, the idea is to give some insight into how an idea starts, some of the steps along the way and ultimately what we end up with in the end. I have no idea how many parts there will be or how long it may take but hopefully some of you out there find it interesting

A few months ago we released our popular female drow avatar:

She was a lot of fun to work on and we felt it was high time we did a male version as well. While I already sell a male drow skin I wanted to do a series based of the newer Envision male skin line. The skins were completed relatively quickly in both blue and black to match the female tones. The fun part is now coming up with the design of the character himself.

The only thing I knew I definitely wanted to do going in was that I really wanted to make a hooded cloak for him so that quickly led into making him into a ranger. Before starting it's usually a good idea to know where you're going on an avatar (or any design actually) so the easiest thing to do is make a sketch. It doesn't have to be a great sketch but having a road map is going to make everything a lot easier.

I started by wearing one of the new drow skins (also, the observant of you might notice some new elf ears as well ), finding a nice pose and taking a snapshop.

Then I took that snapshot into Photoshop and started sketching some ideas over the image. Very loose at first but after about an hour or so I ended up with a design I thought was pretty cool and would be fun to make. I could take the drawing a lot further and make it look better but for my purposes a quick sketch was fine.

Here he is without the hood:

Although I was happy with the design Polly felt that the colours weren't really in line with the popular image of drow culture so I reworked them a little bit and came up with something that worked better with the lore and was maybe a little bit more bad-ass:

So that's our starting point. It may and probably will change as we start working on the individual pieces but hopefully it turns out well in the end!

We'd love to hear feedback so if anyone has comments they can leave them here or get in touch with us in world.

Take care!

Max

Any way you spell it, we have them! Fantasy/Fairy skins available in 4 soft pastel colors - blue, violet, pink and green.

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Each skin tone has 5 facial options, a basic makeup and then 4 more fanciful designs with facial decorations , or grab the fat pack and get all the options at a huge discount.

So flit, fly or flutter on over to our fantasy section HERE and get one of the most unique fae skins on the grid!
Enjoy!
Max ~n~ Polly