Me...in a machinima...awesome!!

Part of our training at Rodeo Drive Modeling Agency & Training school is experiencing runways under realistic conditions. Lights in your face, cameras for machinima rolling, the whole bit. What a difference a few lights make! Those turns are harder to make out, the spots  on the floor are a bit tougher to hit exactly.....but it does make you feel more that an audience is waiting just beyond where you can see. Add in costume changes in rapid fire succession and the unpredictability of other models and you have a pretty realistic scenario. As far as I know, I only made one bit bobble - kinda stepped off the runway - oops! Rather than fret over it, I just stepped back on and kept going. Hair changes, shoe changes, the only thing I didn't try was nail polish changes. Nobody went on stage with the wrong outfit or anything. Pretty amazing all in all.

One more week left until graduation! Can't imagine what we'll cover in the last two classes...I will bet getting a new profile pic shortly. The new me deserves one!

As for the HHBS build contests, the week long build is in progress. We had a low turnout for the speed build, and more than before for the long build. I'm trying to advertise it more in the groups and on the SL events. Maybe that will make a difference? I hope so.

RL has gotten in the way of my doing too much with my wanna be business. That just happens. The next few weeks are kind of 'hang on to your hat' weeks in real life and hope I come out the other end okay. I'll do what I can; that's all we can ever do.

Who'd'a thunk it...me paying attention to clothes and hair????

Anyone that knew me in RL would just crack up at how much time I've spent 'reinventing' myself for modeling. I think that's why I am liking it. It's something I would never do in real life (okay, a brief flirt with a finishing school at 18) and something I could never spend that much money on either..

Today, I purchased....

new skin
new shape
new hair

Over the last week or so, I also purchased new, lag free shoes.

I never would have thought about any of this prior to this course. I honestly think many of the things I'm learning in modeling school will apply to my building or to my eventual business. One of my favorites from Dhyana at Rodeo Drive Modeling Agency and Training Center....

"Don't say yes when you are thinking maybe. Say no."

I may not have the quote exactly right, but the idea is there. Don't promise anything you aren't absolutely prepared to deliver. Makes sense in a lot of contexts....

In the meantime, I'm plugging along with Blender and Photoshop. And ran another building contest for Happy Hippo Building School. w00t!!!

A New Day....A New Crisis

I seem to have a way with losing things in my inventory. I started, with serious partnership with Wat Denzil, building contests at Happy Hippo. We were closing out a weeklong contest and I was retrieving something for it and realized my entire contest folder was gone.....*&(*&((!!!! I still haven't found it and support doesn't give me much hope.

So today, I spent time backing up my most important things. Sadly SL doesn't have a good way of creating backups, or at least none that I am aware of. I'm just duplicating my important stuff in other folders. My inventory is quickly doubling.

I suppose on one of my sleepy nights, I must have accidentally deleted it. I just have trouble believing that. Regardless, time to recreate everything. Sigh....