Random Inspiration

When we first bought the plot at Sabulella next door was a bit of an odd place, it had large green prims on the ground with bits of land poking through and glow in the dark trees, it also had a couch and table, I found the decor a bit odd but each to their own, but then we never saw anybody there and after a while we decided to see who owned it, Governor Linden 0.o

Somehow I just couldn’t imagine the lindens decorating a plot like that and after some reading up on the subject I came to the conclusion this was abandoned land. Well I put in a request for it to be put up for auction and this weekend it was. what started off as plain sailing got rather hectic in the last few minutes but luckily we managed to beat the other bids and win the auction.

So now we own a nice rectangular waterfront plot and can expand our store a bit. We’ve already done some rearranging, made more structured walls, still in keeping with our ruined theme though, and organised the products into sections. The freestuff has been moved to a tent on the new plot, we plan on making that area look like an excavation of the ruins is taking place, hence the tent :D

Our new land.

Today is Regans rezday, he is the grand old age of two! To celebrate I made him a prim cake complete with icing swirls and silver balls, just like my mum used to make although her cake was real and chocolate flavoured :P

As you can see from the photo, it got him drooling :D

This has been in the back of my mind since I saw the first reasonably styled SL car..then mouselooked closer. The ‘Julia’ is a 3 attachment ‘vehicle’, with custom driving pose to make this possible (Worn either as an attachment in no object/no script zones, or with an actual physical vehicle skeleton to make passengers possible). Both boot and bonnet open to reveal the classic twin cam engine and other..stuff.

The bodywork has a colour change script with 66 possible options (though about 20 of those are distinctly awful). Total primmage is around 700 so far, but it seems to rez just fine except on sim crossings. Much like my hair >_<

Please view full size to see all the detail.

I expect to have it finished in a couple of weeks, in 3 versions: Tiny car Avatar, full size avatar and vehicle.

(Yes, it is that small ^_^)

Every cat’s dream, don’t like the water but want those tasty fish? Then get yourself a Personal Feline Submersible!

Cosy lighted cabin with air vent (bubbles when you type) and arm attachment with fishing net for catching dinner :P

Comes with several interchangeable sculpty tabby cats, and ao with 3 float heights. All for just  L$250!

Before we started our store I made a couple of things to give away as freebies, prompted by Regan saying he wanted some cut off shorts. Well I made him his shorts, then I made several colour variations and some T-shirts to go with them. I have been amazed at how popular those shorts are, just goes to show that sometimes Regan does have good ideas :P

The other day I decided it might be nice to have a flexi skirt as well so I set about making some. As before they come in several colours but unlike before they aren’t unisex, that is unless you are a male who likes wearing a mini skirt ;)

*~Ri!~* Freestuff

Not sure what will be next, maybe something completely different or maybe some shoes to complete the outfit, we shall have to wait and see :)

Despite my obsession with giant robots/battlemechs, my first completed avatar is in fact a big guy in a rusty diving suit O.o

After playing the very atmospheric FPS game ‘Bioshock’ for a day or two I was rather taken by the design of one of the recurring ‘boss’ characters, a (probably hideously deformed) humanoid creature in a deep sea diving suit of unusual design.

Armed with one of the pre game development renders of the character, I recreated it it in SL with relative success.

The SL avatar skeleton was woefully unsuited to the shape of the character so I had to have an animation override made to give the familiar hunched, lumbering stance (Something I have recently discovered that none of the other ‘Big Daddy’ avatars on sale in SL have, with predictably disappointing results). The trade off for this is a reduction in height, so while the avatar is correctly proportioned, it is a little smaller than one might expect, hence the ‘Little Daddy’ name ;)

A live model can usually be seen at our store in Sabulella where you can judge the quality of the build yourself.

500L$ with free lifetime updates (glow effect lenses are very nearly ready, for that ’smelling of fish and enraged’ look :P )

3 colours of glow, and the ‘glare’ effect prims are toggleable (So you don’t look like an idiot in the daylight).

In RL I’m not much of a skirt wearer but in SL I love them :) I have a very cute Lost Furest bunny avatar who just looks adorable in floofy flexi skirts and I wanted to make her some dresses. The idea I had in mind was a sort of retro fifties sundress style with a nice full skirt.

The first design I made is Retro Check, a sort of 50’s/60’s design. To go with the dress Regan made me some kitten heeled mules (after I explained what a kitten heel was :P) and some matching jewellery.

L$100

While browsing for reference pictures I saw a vintage 50’s prom dress with a lovely double layered chiffon skirt and just had to try recreating it, at the time not realising how awkward a double layer would be, but after some fiddling I got it to move just how i wanted it. It has a nice spring to the outer layer while the inner one stays a bit more in place.

Once again Regan made me some matching accessories to go with them, sandals, a pretty choker and earrings.

L$100 each or L$250 for the set.

Being a cold old soul I thought all these strappy dresses might get a bit chilly so I made some matching Bolero cardigans as well. Modelled here by the cute bunny herself :P

L$75

I like lucky chairs, I think they are a fun way to get new stuff and sometimes you find some hidden gems. I have used the lucky chair station at Popfuzz a few times and I find it a great way to discover new places, if I teleport somewhere for a chair I will also look about the whole area, under normal circumstances you might never have discovered it, especially with the very vague search function in SL.

We both thought it would be a nice idea to have our own lucky chair but wanted it to be inkeeping with the rest of the plot so it’s more of a lucky stone throne than a chair :P

There are no freebies in our chair, just some of the products we sell in the store including the dresses and some of the Tesla items, so not all female stuff!

All the content would normally sell for L$100

Welcome to our new site, our Random Inspiration group is so named because we tend to just come up with random ideas very sporadically so sometimes we may appear very productive and at others not much going on at all :P

Regan and myself have been making stuff for a few years for games, and I’ve made a few things for poser as well, it works well because he’s good at building where I’m better at texturing, so almost everything we make is a joint effort in some way or other :)

When we first decided to set up a store we bought a plot of land elsewhere but found that one to be not very inspiring so we started looking for somewhere with a bit more character and were lucky enough to find one in Sabulella that was bordered on two edges by protected waterways. The Sabulella sim and many of the neighbouring sims are criss crossed with these protected waterways making it a great place for sailing, Regan has been making a boat called the Kitten which we had parked on our little pier but twice it has gone walkabout so we have removed the scripting for the moment, I just hope whoever took it enjoyed the ride and thank you to the land owners who returned it :)

The store itself is rather unconventional, we just didn’t want the usual square building with stuff on the walls, it’s such a pretty spot there that we decided to build something more open plan, our inspiration came from the ruined temple at Delphi, our ruined temple is by no means an exact replica but it’s a fair representation. Our products are scattered all about the plot on fallen rubble and we recently added a stone throne style lucky chair. As much as we want people to look at our products we also want them to hopefully enjoy the build too and go away feeling that it was a bit more interesting than the usual four walls.

Most of the time there will also be “live” models displaying some of our stuff, they are alt accounts that we log in using the SLeek client, they can’t do much with that but they can pose which is all we need them to do really, one of the reasons for doing this is so people can see the prim work close up, some of the jewellery Regan has made for my outfits is so tiny and exquisite I just can’t capture it well enough on a snapshot, having a model solves that problem perfectly.

You can visit our store by clicking this SLurl