Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Tutorial
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting There’s a new blog in town and it’s called Gather and Nest. It’s a group blog focused on Linden Homes that aims to reach beyond the blog and form a community of gatherers and nesters. The founders are Gorgeous Aurelia (Gogo), Teresa…
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Update: Marketplace listing and description for EEP settings has been updated below! Elie recently posted gorgeously grungy photos like these to his Twitter and the lighting was so moodily perfect, I first thought they might be photos from his real life apartment. But no, this is his skybox in Second Life, shot with Firestorm and…
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Promptcraft: Guidebook for Generative Media in Creative Work is a new book by longtime XR creator Evo Heyning and as the title suggests, has copious advice for getting the most out of AI image generators like Midjourney and beyond. Evo has a starting YouTube tutorial above, and she kindly shared some helpful image generation tips…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Now that's we've all marveled at Scylla Rhiadra's stunning tributed to Degas paintings, Scylla pulls back the curtain to explain her techniques for turning raw Second Life screenshots into an image like the one she created above. (Original here on her Flickr.)…
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If you're among the tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of Second Life users who upload SL screenshots and video to Flickr, you'll want to watch this Flickr video tutorial above from Strawberry Linden, explaining how to add Flickr's new Virtual Photography category to your SL Flickr content. More info on the Flickr blog: Virtual…
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I just remembered there is a way to save your outfit details in the Outfits menu in the viewer. I made a quick video to show. pic.twitter.com/yGzxeXvqSi — Strawberry (@strawberrysingh) May 11, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js In case you missed the update https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“>from last week's post, here's Strawberry Singh's walkthrough for exporting your avatar outfit details. As…
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Here's the latest clever hack for VRChat: An Xbox One Kinect connected to the virtual world, so the user's real life movement is tracked and mapped onto their avatar. In this video above, VRCer "Zotteke" is using a Quest 2 to log into VRChat while dancing in front of a Kinect; Zotteke's furry avatar does…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting I like amplifying SL blogs I admire, and after doing Cajsa’s Choices for over three years now, I have discovered things I would do differently if I were actively blogging Second Life fashions today. I have seen some innovations by bloggers I really…
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In case you missed it, here is Ugleh Ulrik's tutorial for using the AI-driven platform Artbreeder to transform avatars. If you have questions about his tutorial, clickthrough here to ask him on YouTube. On Second Life Friends, a large Facebook group for SLers have been using this tutorial t0 turn their avatars into "real" people.…
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Want to turn a Second Life avatar pic into the "photo" of their real life analog? Watch this Artbreeder tutorial from Ugleh Ulrik, the SL creator who first started the whole buzz around using the AI-driven platform to transform avatars. "I do a lot of experimenting with new AI tech," Ulrik tells me, "and once…
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