New World Notes: From Sketch to SL: Here's a Glimpse of the Process Behind Designing a Second Life Dress

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

From Sketch to SL: Here's a Glimpse of the Process Behind Designing a Second Life Dress

Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style

Maylee Oh is doing amazing work both inside and outside of SL. If her name rings a few bells for you, it may be because she released this mesmerizing machinima back in April to advertise her ultra-feminine Second Life fashion brand, The Secret Store. She's currently preparing for the August round of Collabor88, a themed shopping event that opens on the 8th of each month. This time, designers are invoking a range of greek gods and goddesses, and Maylee has been giving a behind-the-scenes peek at what she'll be offering over on her Tumblr.

She started with some colorful concept art (pictured on the left) and today she posted an animated peek at the finished product. Well, almost finished. Things do tend to look just a little bit better rendered in 3D modelling programs like ZBrush (as shown in Maylee's video) than they look for most of us in Second Life itself.

That said, I doubt this mediterranean-inspired minidress will dissappoint. See the finished product in-world when the August round of Collabor88 opens this Friday.

Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart on Twitter, Iris Ophelia in Second Life) has been writing about virtual worlds and video games for nearly a decade, and has had her work featured on Kotaku, Jezebel, and The Mary Sue.

Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2014 at 12:30 PM in Iris Ophelia's Gaze, SL blogger link, SL Fashion, SL Mesh, Virtual Fashion | Permalink

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