iC - Seregel - Elorisse by Ina Centaur for FDC
Written by ina on Sunday, 19 of April , 2009 at 7:15 am
Tags: Elorisse, FDC, iCouture
Elorisse is my contribution to the FDC. It’s an entire outfit that I created from scratch — well, the “look” is inspired by this image from Seregel:
And the rest took about 24 hours of insanity as I bootcamped myself to working blender into creating sculpties for Second Life, to meet my own random-ish personal challenge of migrating to open source starting with this project. All the sculpties were created using Blender, although I baked textures using modo. The skin is a pale hybrid of some of my old 2008 creations - Juliet and Gaeae.
In the final step, I wrote a ditty called M’Elorisse (well, the skins I create on SL are always attributed to a character in my urban fantasy), and braved the guerilla tools of SL photography, by having to use hack-ish ways to align the eyes and such.
The daughter of a bishop,
who should ne’er have been:
Silk’s way, fleece’s haven,
They call her M’Elorisse.
That visage of perfect haughty,
strong jawbones, thin arms,
half-painted lips on ivory skin.
They see her M’Elorisse.
Her mother’s elegance,
Her father’s nigh repugnance,
Flutters of satin aloft,
They bid her M’Elorisse
–Ina Centaur
April 19, 2009
Inworld notecard:
iCouture by Ina Centaur presents Seregel Elorisse, a virtual interpretation of a Seregel sensation,*
created as part of the Fashion Designers Challenge event, where two dozen fashion designers on
SL challenge each other to add some spice to our usual perfume of artistic creativity.The outfit includes skin, eyes, dress, and extra’s, such as earrings, bodysuit, and draft variations.
Additional items to complement (not shown in ad photo) include shoes, hair, and hat. Find the rest
at the iCouture Grand Opening event on June 9, 2009… when Ina Centaur turns 25 in RL (zOMG!)Please stay tuned to http://blog.InaCentaur.com for details.
* The FDC Challenge I received was to create an imitation of something from Seregel. I chose this
elegant dress, partially for the challenge of creating something that looks both special and elegant
in black (on SL!): Seregel Pic
iCouture is currently located @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Skin%20City/186/175/563
I ended up using the Mona Lisa backdrop from my Mona Lisa Primting, and this video summarizes some of what I wrote above, and also shows in context where I took the photo at (although the entire backdrop, pose, shape, skin, eyes, and more, are included in the boxed outfit set)!
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Comment by pLoon
Made Sunday, 19 of April , 2009 at 8:58 am
Ina - wow. I’m so impressed with all of this. You’ve done an amazing job. It is a work of art, not just a garment. I enjoyed learning about primtings as well. Best of luck with this in the Challenge.
Prairie Loon
Comment by ina
Made Sunday, 19 of April , 2009 at 11:13 am
Thanks, pLoon! I think it’s kind of a… “for your honor” challenge without an explicit prize — but that makes things harder!! I don’t even know all the designers participating in it atm, and the few I do know are as confused about the FDC event as me… are you a designer, too? G’luck to you too!
