27 April 2014

Mycenaean Ox Figurine

The function of the lovely Mycenaean figurines this ox is inspired by is unknown: they may have been children's toys, votive figurines, or grave offerings...



The real-life versions are tiny. We've made them bigger for SL - so big in fact, that in the case of this ox, we've turned it into a make-shift seat! The "Ox chair" comes with a female pose, a unisex one, and a "petite" pose. Try them in-world at our main store!
There's also a small version that will look good on a shelf, to decorate your home.


The pattern, although heavily inspired by talented Mycenaean artists, is hand-drawn. The materials use custom specular and normal maps.
Featuring original mesh and textures, your Ox Figurine also benefits from fine-tuned Level of Details and Physic shapes. What it means to you is that it'll look good up close and personal and from afar too, while still keeping a reasonable land impact.

PERMISSIONS:
Mod,Copy,No trans.
The version with seats will show as No Mod in your inventory, but you will be able to modify it when rezzed.

FEATURES:
- Includes three versions: one small, one large, and a bonus large one with sits (AVSitter system)
- Land Impact 2
- Mesh + advanced materials

Get it in SL
Get it on the Marketplace

We hope you'll enjoy this Timetwist product!

Yours,
Raindrop Drinkwater & Abyssin Otoro

21 April 2014

Updated banner

We've updated the banner. We kept the colour scheme but simplified the design. It's a lot more readable now.

New:


Old:


05 April 2014

Amphora: Warriors

This amphora comes all the way from the Bronze Age.

The pattern, although heavily inspired by talented Mycenaean artists, is hand-drawn (hand-vectored-and-painted, technically!). The materials use custom specular and normal maps.



Two versions are included: one "new" amphora, and one that, frankly, has seen better days. It's just a little cracked. It's still perfectly usable as long as you don't mind a small leak every now and then. (Mop not included, by the way.)

Featuring original mesh and textures, your Amphora also benefits from fine-tuned Level of Details and Physic shapes. What it means to you is that it'll look good up close and personal and from afar too, while still keeping a reasonable land impact.

FEATURES:
- Includes two versions: one "new", and one antique.
- Land Impact 2
- Mesh + advanced materials

Get it in SL
Get it on the Marketplace

We hope you'll enjoy this Timetwist product!

Raindrop and Abyssin

04 April 2014

Pottery WIP

Quite pleased with this one... I'll now need to work on a damaged version of it.



Little things that probably no one will see: I've tweaked the diffuse map, gloss map, and so on so to get rid of the seams by using the clone brush and smear brush directly in Blender. Took me a while to find that trick. That's different from my usual workflow, which was a painstaking process of endlessly switching between 2D and 3D apps.

By the way, I ran into an annoying issue with Blogger. It took me two days to submit this post because of this horror:

Blergh!

Google+ introduced the Auto-Enhance feature a few months back - feature I promptly turned off with my Google+ account, the one that's linked to my real identity.

Unfortunately it's switched on by default on Picasa Web Albums accounts as well... and if you don't have a Google+ account, there's no way to turn it off. Hence this lovely, "enhanced" creation. I had to create a Google+ account for Raindrop Drinkwater just to set my preferences! Stupid. I deleted it immediately, but seriously, how backwards is that???? Get your stuff together, Google.