Posts made in May 14th, 2012

FATEeyes

Posted by Angel on May 14, 2012 in New | 2 comments

I woke up early yes­ter­day morn­ing and as I was brows­ing through the lat­est updates on my flickr, I saw Berry’s pics and out of curios­ity headed over to her blog. She beau­ti­fully intro­duced with a video, new mesh eyes from Damien Fate.  I have always been a Poetic Col­ors girl myself when it comes to my eyes and have recently been cheat­ing occa­sion­ally with the Mayfly eyes.

I was really curi­ous after watch­ing the really well designed video (Thank you Straw­berry for tak­ing the time)  and wanted to have a look myself to see if I would enjoy them.  I patiently waited for Damien to post the release offi­cially on his web­site and I jumped at the Demo on the Marketplace.

The Demo gives you one eye as well as the HUD to play with.  So I hopped on my pose stand and wore the eye and the HUD. Just as Berry demon­strated in the video, the HUD is very well done and com­pre­hen­sive. I found it super easy to fig­ure out and play with.

On the HUD, it quickly showed you the exist­ing pre­sets to get you started, and do not for­get to wear your alpha layer that came in the pack.  I asked on my plurk line if any­one has tried, as I wasn’t sure they were for me, then Damien Fate (The cre­ator) very kindly asked me for my opin­ion and already told me he is plan­ning an update.  I do not think those eyes are going to be for my every day SL life, because to be hon­est I love the eyes I have and do not see the need for a change. How­ever, they have an AMAZING poten­tial for more inter­est­ing looks and feel.

I actu­ally enjoyed wear­ing the “Cus­tom 5″ pre­set with a Dark Giselle skin (@ Cul­ture Shock — Spe­cial Edi­tion) and for a sec­ond I was back in World of War­craft look­ing like a demon lol… So for role play­ing or for spe­cific pho­tog­ra­phy fun, I can see me actu­ally enjoy­ing them quite a bit.  Now I have to think and put together an Angel in a demon look… hmmm.. that might be tough!

When it came to a first impres­sion, I will say with­out a doubt that this is a prod­uct that has been built with great love and care, and you can see that a lot of thought has been put in the cre­ation and design of it. One of its main amaz­ing fea­tures is the ran­dom pupil move­ments — pretty much like in RL, which makes them very nat­ural in feel.  I will not for­get to men­tion that for a price of L$395 they are a super bargain!!!

Now if I had any sug­ges­tions for pos­si­ble updates (Thank you Damien) then I may con­sider adding a shine free option.

When I was play­ing with the Cus­tom 1 pre­set, I wanted to see the eye in full with­out enhance­ments (if you see what I mean).

In the Iris tex­ture options, I would love to be able to have in the iris a cou­ple of color mix actu­ally (if pos­si­ble), I per­son­ally have a thing for blue and pur­ple in eyes as a mix. To be able to blend in mul­ti­ple col­ors to give more tex­ture. I am not quite sure it is pos­si­ble, but since I am not cre­ator myself it is best I leave that to the pros.

To sum it up, FATEeyes are a rev­o­lu­tion when it comes to eyes cus­tomiza­tion (did I steal that from Berry??) and I can truth­fully say that you could spend ages play­ing around with the set­tings.  I would cer­tainly encour­age all of the sexy peo­ple in SL to give them a try and see how you like them.

Here is the direct Mar­ket­place Link: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/FATEeyes-unlimited-customisation/3512345

Run

Posted by Angel on May 14, 2012 in New | 4 comments

I have been fol­low­ing Bouncer’s flickr stream for quite some time and the only log­i­cal expla­na­tion is well that he is absolutely yummy. A girl can drool, right? No harm done as far as I know, plus I have to find a way to get through to him :-p …  Bouncer is a very sought after male blog­ger as well as a pose cre­ator. So yes­ter­day finally as a show of sup­port I headed to his shop — Bounce This Poses — and raided what he had available.

I also took the time to look back at my post on Glam Affair’s recent mesh releases and I wasnt too happy with the way the pics turned out, so I took on this occa­sion to show you again whats on offer.

• Mayfly — Deep Sky Mesh Eyes (Vivid Blue)
• Maitreya Mesh Jazz Boots — Black
• >TRUTH< Kirby —  light browns
• –Glam Affair — Lena Dress — azure
• –Glam Affair — Giselle — Light D HB 10

And if you are won­der­ing why Run as the title? Well here is why… (I am obsessed with this version)