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!

OMG! I'm A Zombie!!

I just had a great show yesterday at my lounge, with a wonderful audience and we then had a halloween party afterwards. We hired a "DJ" again after a year, but unfortunately, this wannabe DJ was absolutely wack.

We receive applications from so-called DJs now and then, asking us to give them a chance. I thought, since it has been a long time when we hired a DJ for a party, perhaps we'll try to get one this time for our upcoming halloween party.

Mind you, I had to learn my lesson again, regarding hiring wannabe DJs. The last one we hired, streamed in a very low quality and mono lol! Oh boy, I mean they wanna make money with a crappy set-up or what? I thought since then, that it's better if I myself would just do the DJing myself, since all they do is just play random shit anyway.

This time, the so-called DJ was even worst... a nightmare, to be precised. He played a mix of disco tune "snippets" which he recorded, from all possible sources he can "get" from, on the internet. Oh man. He streamed in mono and even played some shit he recorded from youtube. Good lord! I mean can you imagine that shit?

It was just so horrible and no one came to our halloween party lol! I had to kick out this guy on the spot and ejected him from my groups. He kept asking me over and over again, what type of music he should play and I already told him jazz and soul grooves and this idiot didn't even know anything about music wtf?!

Now if he ever come back again or holla at me with his "hun" shit (I hate that by the way), I'll report him to the Lindens, cuz I suspect that this dude is a minor. He's probably a 15 year old kid, judging his voice, when he attempted to speak on the mic before he started his crap. That dude belongs to the teen grid for sure.

As you know, I have a weakness for creepy and scary stuff, especially if they are really well done. So here are some shots of my gorgeous costume at the halloween party.

Hair: Deviant Kitties
Blood: Canimal
Dress: Canimal
Skin: Exosius Woolley (freebie complete avatar with zombie AO)
Shape: self-made
Shoes: Maitreya
Bleeding Back Axe: Bloody Hell (freebie)
Headless HUD: Elrico Torres