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Yes this is a screenshot of Second Life, though it might not seem so; might even seem like, say, someone had walked into a painting by Georgia O'Keefe. But to be precise, it's an SL fashion blog pic by Ms. Brie Wonder, who shoots SL screenshots which seem like such. Click here to embiggenize, and behold in full.
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Classic New World Notes stories:
Sander's Villa: The Man Who Gave His Father A Second Life (2011)
What Rebecca Learned By Being A Second Life Man (2010)
All About My Avatar: The story behind amazing strange avatars (2007)
Fighting the Front: When fascists open an HQ in Second Life, chaos and exploding pigs ensue (2007)
Copying a Controversy: Copyright concerns come to the Metaverse via... the CopyBot! (2006)
The Penguin & the Zookeeper: Just another unlikely friendship formed in The Metaverse (2006)
Guarding Darfur: Virtual super heroes rally to protect a real world activist site (2006)
The Skin You're In: How virtual world avatar options expose real world racism (2006)
Making Love: When virtual sex gets real (2005)
Watching the Detectives: How to honeytrap a cheater in the Metaverse (2005)
Man on Man and Woman on Woman: Just another gender-bending avatar love story, with a twist (2005)
War of the Jessie Wall: Battle over virtual borders -- and real war in Iraq (2003)
Home for the Homeless: Creating a virtual mansion despite the most challenging circumstances (2003)
I often wish Linden Lab were more aware of what their platform was capable of. Singling out the camera and Windlight settings, SL could look so much more impressive for all users with better default presets, at no cost to performance.
In addition, well made avatars and environments can bring SL up to where it compares favourably to modern MMOs.
Here are some screenshots, with no touching up in external software, of sim work from SL.
http://tinyurl.com/7due6br
http://tinyurl.com/76xf7eb
Ms. Brie takes these basic concepts and combines them with wonderful use of lighting and composition. LL could also learn from that when presenting Second Life to their potential customers with their marketing materials.
Posted by: Sveid Heidenstam | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 12:46 PM