Reel Expression

Mildy funny story actually. So.. I get back into SL after month of being away and I had no idea what was going on. I knew WL was going to be released eventually, but I was hoping that it wouldn’t sneak up on me so quickly. But in actuality it snuck up on me twice!

A couple of weeks ago when I set up the subscribe-o-matic, for some reason when I tried to TP from their website it loaded and updated an old release candidate viewer that I had instead of the standard viewer. Of course I thought it was a standard viewer - I had forgotton I even had a release candidate viewer - so much to my suprize I found myself seeing the effects of WL.

My plan had been to deal with the extreme back log of CS stuff, set up the subscribe-o-matic and work on the new pose set + the new build. Imagine my horror to find how bad my avie looked on all presets! I did a lot of serching around to find a quick fix to I could wait to learn it when I had no time. The only thing I did figure out was that it hadn’t been released yet to the standard view.

So I calmed down, went back to the standard viewer feeling like a moron and went to work. Saddly, that only lasted for 2 days when on Wed LL made us all use WL. With all the problems SL has since + trying to figure out WL the pose set had to be pushed back. Why? Well, if you’ve read enough of this blog you’d know I am a perfectionist when it comes to my poses. During the tweaking phase I look at all different lighting conditions because the poses look different on each one. Harsh shadows can look like breaks in the skin where there is none. Most people used to take their shots facing the sun at sunset or sunrise, but on WL that looks like ass. Bright lights will cover some breaks or skin twisting and different lighting conditions will show different issues. Part of this is to make the best product I possibly can and partly because people are looking at them to purchase at many different times of the day. Now because of all the customization I can’t check as much as I’d like. Granted issues do slip past me then what I would like, but I’m worried more will now.

Then you have my least favourite part: taking the pictures, editing and then making the ads. I love taking RL photos, but for some reason not so much in SL. Luckily when SL was acting up too much to work on anything, I finally asked my mate Callie Cline since she has a finger on the pluse of SL fashion community… far more so then me. She directed me to Caliah Lyon’s post which is a bloody godsend.

I guess being frustrated doesn’t help with your googling skills, since I couldn’t find that post. So in case you also live under a rock, you can follow the steps here.