Animations

Behind the scenes.

After studying for three trimesters with brilliant professional RL animators in Autodesk Maya, I had to become a "Blender Tramp" because the rigs I wanted to used for SL are only available in Blender format.

The learning curve was a "bitch" at the time - but since those days Blender has grown and imo could now be seen as stiff competition to expensive industry standard software.

The right Blender workflows, addons and SL specific integration systems make creating and exporting animations for our virtual world a lot less frustrating.

Fellow creators in SL were awesome, helpful and surprisingly open to sharing their tips and techniques. Thank you!

A solid base for a couple animation can take anything from hours to days - on average mine take 4 to 8 hours depending on the complexity. A complete new piece can take up to three months to create.

SL has a maximum file size limit of 250kb which forces animators to be be creative and balance joint movements to create the best possible results which are below the max file size.

SL offers a few full perm animation sellers which make it easier for creators to assemble adult furniture - whilst some are great, they do limit the user experience when they see the same animations in different brands.

My passion is to provide the best possible, unique user experience which lasts and keeps customers entertained, sassy and smiling :P

The investment.