Reel Expression

Status:
I need a holiday. I never want to open poser or photoshop again. I need a beer. Does working for a few hours, going to kickboxing, and coming home not able to move enough to work count as a day off? If so I haven’t had one of those for a week now. If not, I haven’t had a day off in two months. I’ve been working pretty much 10-14 hour days. I need a beer.

If I wasn’t such a perfectionist, I would have been done ages ago. Since last Nov I’ve been working on the builds (too many rebuilds), poses and furniture. Stuipd LL came out with the stupid sculpties so I can’t even release the furniture. When I make a pose set, I spend a long time with it. I start logged out of SL and do a quick draft. Then its a lot of fine tuning. Many times I’ll be doing the first round of 1 pose set while another is waiting to be refined. It seems (for me anyways) if I leave a set for a week or so, I’ll see flaws that I never would have seen before. So really… it’s a long bloody process. I need a holiday.

In a little over 24 hours I’ll close the sim down to delete the old build. Part of me can’t wait for that. But that naggy part is all about the “not ready” BS. I set the date.. even if I’m really not ready, I’m going to open anyways.

Sometime after that (before 8pm SLT) I need to have everything set out. *sigh*

Then Saturday I’m going to my husband’s gig, get pissed and then come home to for the sim opening party. If I pass out or talk incoherently, deal with it.

Tue - We fly out to the States. It’s something like 12 hours with connections. Bleh. Heathrow is a bitch right now too.. need to be there three hours before! We leave at 12:30 but we have to leave the flat at 7am :( But I get to see my family. More important I get cheap shopping and my camera! yay! *jump animation*

What am I doing right now? Preloading ZHAO IIs with all my AO sets. 1 by 1. That way if someone buys it they can just wear it. People have always asked me why I did that. First of all the preloaded zhao will have Ziggy’s name as the creator and I don’t want my customers bugging him if they have issues. The other problem I have is that I just feel cheeky including free items that someone else has made within a box I’m selling. Last but not least, with the ZHAO you can have up to 12 different sets. I figured it’d be easier on everyone if those that already have one can just throw the anims into their AO instead of having to rip out the contents.

Oh well. Enough people complained so I’m just making it ultra confusing. You’ll get a massive folder: preloaded ZHAO II, ziggy’s instructions, info from me, notecard converter (to convert old zhao I notecards), and all the anims.

AO’s

Nothing too exciting this time around. I did some reworking of the handbag AOs so all the typing and emotes come through without making the bag look silly. Basically it’s two different anims for each thing. 1 that locks the arm to hold the bag steady (priority 4) and another for the rest of the body (priority 2). Sitting is a bit different but I don’t want to type it all out.

This is the AO set I made for Elika. You’ll find it cheaper in her bags :P