Noob Make-Over 2 - Inventory's Mesh Avatar Delilah

So I thought of doing another newbie avatar make-over or rather tweak-over, but using only items from the default inventory - library, as I've already did once, which you can read here. Since we now have starter avatars in mesh, I thought of using one this time. I chose the one called "Delilah",coz I find the face the most decent out of the other female avies to choose from. Above you can see the default avatar, which has totally a strange looking body shape and humongous hands.

This is the Delilah Avatar's original appearance.

In the next shot, you can see the same avatar stripped naked (doesn't have wee bits and so on). 

I made a different body shape to start off, as you can see in the next shot.

Here is the direct comparison, side by side. The mesh body is rigged but kinda distorts weirdly somehow. Good thing is, that you can change some parts of the body, but unfortunately, it is not possible with the face.

Another example for comparison - here you can see the WowMeh mesh body with Slink hands and feet. 

 

Here is again the Delilah mesh avatar with the default body shape.

Here is the Delilah mesh avatar with my body shape.

Here's the direct comparison, side by side.

A close-up of the original shape.

My make-over shape. Notice that the mesh avatar is very blocky due to lesser polygons. I especially did not do any image post processing, so you can see the real deal.

This is wearing the WowMeh Mesh Body as an example, notice that it over all rounder and smoother.

 

Here is the final result of the tweak-over.

Style Like a Goddess

Gown: *{JB}* Helena [Ivory]
Bracelet: MG Bangle - Athena
Hair: Exile
Gazebo: [DDD] The Garden Pavilion
Chaise Lounge: [DDD] Garden Pavilion Chaise
Fountain: Lark - Atlantis Fountain (MARBLE)

C-Stylez Product Release for July - Lipsticks!

Vamp Red

Brown Sugar

Cool Rose

Pink Love

Pink Kiss

Posh Red

The lipstick comes in a set, which includes:

- Wearable lipstick for photos or machinimas (no cap)
- Display lipstick for vanity sets, shops (with cap)
- Lipstick tattoo, so you can also wear the shade

The lipstick tattoo is compatible with the following skins:

- Glance
- League
- LAQ
- Redgrave
- YS&YS
- Lara Hurley
- Glam Affair
- Al Vulo
- Curio
- Zoul
- Essences
- The Skinnery

You can purchase the lipstick at my SLM Store.

Summer Casual Outfit - Staying Classy

Dress: :V.e. Clara II Bow Dress XS Innocence
Shoes: **Dirty Princess**Naughty Couture Princess Heels
Bag: Maitreya Calgary Clutch
Eyelashes: *MC* "Falsies" Eyelash
Bracelet: MG - Bangles - Athena
Earrings: [MANDALA]:SENJYU Earrings/SNOW SILVER
Mesh Hands and Feet: SLink
Hair: *booN KBO906 hair
Pet: [Manticore] Snow Leopard (Gacha)

It's summer time again and I thought of wearing something sexy but still avoiding the "slutty" aspect. So I've come up with this classy yet sexy dress and a pair of stiletto sandals to go with it.

I thought of including my favorite snow leopard pet in my shot, which I got from one of Manticore's Gacha machines. Watch out playing gatcha cuz it can be addictive!

Second Life Mesh Avatars For Newbies!

Second Life has just released mesh starter avatars for new residents. I tried them and here's what they look like:

Alejandro

Alicia

Alison

Angus

Archer

Barry

Brandon

Delilah

Fabian

 Hugo

Johnny

Julian

Lucy

Mariah

Marissa

Sara

Tristan

Curtis

Vanessa

Zoe

Vampire Beast

Werewolf Beast

 

Zombie Ian

 

Sadie

I must say that the humanoid avatars look really weird and totally unproportional. Just look at the huge hands on the female avatars e.g.

This again proves, that Linden Lab does not have an eye for any aesthetic or beauty or let me just say, no taste at all. I can understand that not everybody has an eye for "nice" things, but don't they have anyone responsible for art or a creative department or some sort?

Cuz if they hired a professional artist to create those mesh avatars, that professional should have great knowledge about body proportions right?

Anyway, on the other hand, this avoids LL competing with SL creators, which is a good thing. Obviously, newbies will sooner or later purchase better looking avatars, if they want individuality.

So all in all, the mesh avatars aren't that bad for starters. The only thing that I find really poor, is that all starter avatars set the standard of really tall female avatars, like all of them are more than 2 meters tall.

This is why a lot of giant female avatars walk the grid. I also realized how tall I was, perhaps a almost a year after I first joined SL.

I didn't know I was that tall, cuz I based my shape from the default library shape. I only felt gigantic, when I met oldie avatars back in the day. I wondered why most of them were so short. So I tweaked my height after having troubles of being always taller than male avatars, cuz it's height plus high heels, equals to super tall.

By SL setting this standard, we will always have gigantic avatars and huge furniture. Another problem will be, when newbies will have problems trying to figure out, which alpha they are suppose to use, cuz in the avatar folder, there are more than two alpha layers as a choice.

New residents will have to be educated about the differences between, system layers, prim, sculpts and mesh, and how to use and combine them.

I like the none-human avatars and mesh is definitely the future so...  cheers!