UPDATE: I missed my easter deadline, but I am still working on them! Join the group 'Clockwork London Critters' (my avatar announcement group) to find out immediately when these will be released. It's free to join.
I am so proud of this so far. I know it's not great at the moment (since it has no textures yet, and it's only a head), but I worked sooooo hard on it. T_T This is going to be my first vendor av with 3D eyes! I didn't show enough of their depth with this angle, but you can see the shape is crisp and meant to resemble the shape of my 2D eyes.
But that's not why I uploaded this. It's an animated GIF...to showcase a cute feature of this av. :D The speed at which this animates is the same as the actual avatar (provided the sim is not really laggy).
EDIT!--The nose has two variants to the wiggle on the avatar: the continuous one shown, and a 'low' setting where it just does two twitches with a 0-4 second pause before it twitches again. It can also be turned off.
I am so proud of this so far. I know it's not great at the moment (since it has no textures yet, and it's only a head), but I worked sooooo hard on it. T_T This is going to be my first vendor av with 3D eyes! I didn't show enough of their depth with this angle, but you can see the shape is crisp and meant to resemble the shape of my 2D eyes.
But that's not why I uploaded this. It's an animated GIF...to showcase a cute feature of this av. :D The speed at which this animates is the same as the actual avatar (provided the sim is not really laggy).
EDIT!--The nose has two variants to the wiggle on the avatar: the continuous one shown, and a 'low' setting where it just does two twitches with a 0-4 second pause before it twitches again. It can also be turned off.
Category Screenshots / General Furry Art
Species Rabbit / Hare
Size 352 x 319px
File Size 93 kB
Hehe, that nose wiggle animation is great!
Looking very nice so far. I hope you don't get too stressed with that easter deadline.
Last news I recall about your second life avatar business was that you were working on Lynxes and Snowleopards. I guess those got put on hold to make time for this seasonal extra?
Looking very nice so far. I hope you don't get too stressed with that easter deadline.
Last news I recall about your second life avatar business was that you were working on Lynxes and Snowleopards. I guess those got put on hold to make time for this seasonal extra?
Hopefully better! I'm actually planning an update for the rats when these are done by the way, to give them 3D eyes like this (will look just like the 2D eyes they have already, but 3D...have some new features already done like improved textures, better-looking hands and feet, improved ear movement (more ratlike) with ear positions...still workin on 'em in between things.
Would like to also add at least some minimal facial expressions, finger poses, and sculpted tails as an optional alternative to the old flexi. (The former two will also go on the rabbit but I may run out of time and need to release these in a later free-update)
Would like to also add at least some minimal facial expressions, finger poses, and sculpted tails as an optional alternative to the old flexi. (The former two will also go on the rabbit but I may run out of time and need to release these in a later free-update)
Alright, jeez XP But can you really blame me? They ARE my fave animal and the only av on SL of them, well...SUCKS. I just had one commissioned recently though, the creator modified a Uchi cat head for it....if I come across any extra money, though, I may come to you to finish the job ;3
To further clarify "waste your talent on thigns there are already thousands of"
You mean 'waste my talent' on things most people want and would like to see from me and are asking for in droves.
I'm not going to drop everything because one person wants something from me. I need money and what people wants makes money. If you would rather I don't make things that will actually enable me to be able to eat, you can go screw yourself.
You mean 'waste my talent' on things most people want and would like to see from me and are asking for in droves.
I'm not going to drop everything because one person wants something from me. I need money and what people wants makes money. If you would rather I don't make things that will actually enable me to be able to eat, you can go screw yourself.
Well, I already said I thought this bunny was cute XD and they are a species who DO need a good av. I've apologized, I didn't mean to come off like that; it's just that so many people want things nowadays that're so..."bleh". It wasn't an attack on him, it was a statement on the community as a whole, the way there's almost nothing but foxes, wolves, cats, dragons, or rabbits around every turn with almost nothing to distinguish the individual. To be honest, I AM glad that he's making the rabbit at least; like it's been said before, all the other ones are...bad.
Uhm. I make all of my avs in several colours (plus the custom recolours for some extra L$), there several options to customise them, becoming increasingly so with each av to the point I will even have changeable facial features (and I don't mean just expressions, features) on some later avs, and alternate versions of various av parts.
Oh yeah, and of course THEY ARE MOD-OK, so people can do whatever they want to alter how the av looks.
So, this is making everyone identical HOW?
Oh yeah, and of course THEY ARE MOD-OK, so people can do whatever they want to alter how the av looks.
So, this is making everyone identical HOW?
Again, I apologize. Many vendors make them in different colors and such and I'm thankful for being mod-able, it's just that the selection of species hasn't always been the widest...
If what you say is true about being able to change out facial -features- then I'm definitely welcoming any av by you! That's something I don't think I've seen available in any av currently!
If what you say is true about being able to change out facial -features- then I'm definitely welcoming any av by you! That's something I don't think I've seen available in any av currently!
I have definite stuff planned for wolves (after rabbits, lynxes, and snow leopards)... not sure on other species but I have some really concrete things planned. Granted my style of drawing/building wolves is also extremely different from other avs out there... but I want to make around 3 different muzzle shapes, and left, right, or both ears have notch in. I definitely want that.
Rabbits maybe I want to make the markings so the eye patches (there is light around the eyes) can be set to left/right/both/neither...but that is a LOT of textures per colour so a huge pain. I kind of still would like to attempt it though, especially for the english spot's black patches. Toggling of light/dark on the toes maybe. Housecats when I get around to them will have marking settings too (each colour's white spots) if I get that down on rabbits.
But yeah I wanna do stuff like that. I really have been considering this for the past month or so, because the way I make different species in my art look different is by facial feature differences. So...it would be nice to have that on avs to some extent. I really do not believe everyone needs a complete custom. Most people's fursonas could be made from a modified and/or recoloured vendor av or a specific species. If you have an issue with everyone's fursonas looking too similar to begin with...well that's not my fault.
Rabbits maybe I want to make the markings so the eye patches (there is light around the eyes) can be set to left/right/both/neither...but that is a LOT of textures per colour so a huge pain. I kind of still would like to attempt it though, especially for the english spot's black patches. Toggling of light/dark on the toes maybe. Housecats when I get around to them will have marking settings too (each colour's white spots) if I get that down on rabbits.
But yeah I wanna do stuff like that. I really have been considering this for the past month or so, because the way I make different species in my art look different is by facial feature differences. So...it would be nice to have that on avs to some extent. I really do not believe everyone needs a complete custom. Most people's fursonas could be made from a modified and/or recoloured vendor av or a specific species. If you have an issue with everyone's fursonas looking too similar to begin with...well that's not my fault.
I know, and I'm sorry if it felt like that was aimed at you. I do give you serious applause though on the facial structures; that will make it SO much easier (and cheaper!) than buying 3 or so different avs to cut up, mod, and fit to each other-especially with the way SL likes to make things no-mod after doing that, so if you want to change something you have to start all over again!
Wolves...there's a few good ones, but most of them are like super-realistic and can be kinda creepy or just not look right in most places. Of course, that's also aside from the high price tag most of them carry XD
Wolves...there's a few good ones, but most of them are like super-realistic and can be kinda creepy or just not look right in most places. Of course, that's also aside from the high price tag most of them carry XD
And for the spots, perhaps make an overlaying surface to put the spots and such on instead of having to make whole new skins/textures for each one? I don't know how well that'd work, but it was an idea I had concerning Space Marine avatars and their chapter symbols/rank markings and such.
Wouldn't work coz the spots would be different colours. Would have to do separate textures anyway. And before you suggest it, no, tinting those would make it look ugly and also not match in certain lightings x.x
And regarding the wolves, yes, I know there are a billion of them but people voted them high on list of things they wanted to see (after big cats, so they are going in the middle of the set as stated) and they would be very cartoony, scruffy, and stylised in comparison to the realistic wolves everyone else is aiming for. May not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's how I draw wolves and it's something different.
This comment thread is getting way too long. Should probably stop now. x.x
And regarding the wolves, yes, I know there are a billion of them but people voted them high on list of things they wanted to see (after big cats, so they are going in the middle of the set as stated) and they would be very cartoony, scruffy, and stylised in comparison to the realistic wolves everyone else is aiming for. May not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's how I draw wolves and it's something different.
This comment thread is getting way too long. Should probably stop now. x.x
BUNNY BUNNY BUNNY BUNNY BUNNY
This is terrific! Those eyes look great. How are you doing the blink? Are there separate eyelids, or did you go with the sculpt-animation technique?
Man, I have GOT to get my desktop machine back on the net, so I can see some of this on SL directly.
This is terrific! Those eyes look great. How are you doing the blink? Are there separate eyelids, or did you go with the sculpt-animation technique?
Man, I have GOT to get my desktop machine back on the net, so I can see some of this on SL directly.
Eyelids are part of the same piece. It's like those eyelids for the Morton av I managed to do ages ago...all the points jammed around the eye so it doesn't get too wrinkled and misshapen. I need to work on it a lil more to make sure it takes further to zoom out before it gets eaten, but it's still pretty good.
Ohh my god I want one already Ov O wibble
You gotta do an English spot version, they're my favourite bunnies: http://www.freewebs.com/jazzyrabbit.....bits/topic.jpg
The head shape came out fantastic <3
You gotta do an English spot version, they're my favourite bunnies: http://www.freewebs.com/jazzyrabbit.....bits/topic.jpg
The head shape came out fantastic <3
I didn't think of that... they aren't as well known for wigglynoses but I just remembered how my sister's rats sorta twitch their noses and their whiskers vibrate. XD
I wanna update the rats eventually with sculpt eyes, better hands and feet (got that part), better textures (got that part too), and maybe try and keep this in mind to see if I can do twitchy nose with synced up whiskers.
Also the updated ears (new script, closer to rat ear movements) have a flattened position option and they can vibrate so you can have horny rats running around SL, rofl...I actually got them to vibrate really fast too. XD
I wanna update the rats eventually with sculpt eyes, better hands and feet (got that part), better textures (got that part too), and maybe try and keep this in mind to see if I can do twitchy nose with synced up whiskers.
Also the updated ears (new script, closer to rat ear movements) have a flattened position option and they can vibrate so you can have horny rats running around SL, rofl...I actually got them to vibrate really fast too. XD
Well, there really isn't much to watch. XD And kind of boring, actually...
80% of the building is done in Maya and imported with the importer script...part left in SL is adding the fur tufts, textures (again, in another program, Photoshop), and scripts (which...you can't see since I'm in the script editor).
80% of the building is done in Maya and imported with the importer script...part left in SL is adding the fur tufts, textures (again, in another program, Photoshop), and scripts (which...you can't see since I'm in the script editor).
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