Lots o lists . . . .

Using pen, paper and cameras, we explored the proposed area. We looked at it from a new angle, and explored everything as if we were exploring a new location in Second Life. We went to places we would generally never go to and looked at things from a new 'point of view.' Well actually I just sat at Federation Square for allot of it because I was wearing my 6.5 inch boots and it wasn't very comfy. :(

Then we had to answer some questions.

What is already there that can be used somehow? Objects, buildings, textures, people, businesses etc...

• Underground stores
• Stairways
  
• Doors

• Cloud levels
• Street signs
• Stores
• Large amounts of fast food places

• Paved stone everywhere
• Not allot of wood

• Top of buildings are circe 1800's, early 1900's
• Apartments across the Yarra River
• Billboards
• Stages
• St Pauls Catherdral
• Lots of sharp edges and angles being used for building on the Federation Square side
• The ground isn't level
• Colours are all neutral
• Creams
• Beiges
• Stone
• Yellows
• Greys
• Whites

• Police presence
• Lots of lights everywhere
• Street lights
  
• Fairy lights

• Information booths
• 8 flags
• "Art" buildings
• People exercising
• Babies and prams
• People smoking
• News and fruit stands
• Banks and ATM's
• Not allot of seating
• Rubbish bins everywhere
• Not allot of rubbish about

• Broken things are high up
• Digital clock

• Noises
• Hum of traffic
• Honks
• Breaking
  
• Trucks
• Trams

• Crossings
• People talking
• Different languages

• Traffic fluxuations
• Birds
• Music

What could be there in the future - how will the overall future theme effect what exists at the moment, and what will replace it?

Taller buildings, less spaces. The overall future theme would effect it by having half buildings, allot of rust, rubbish spread about and dust blowing. I don't think anything would really be replaced. Everything would will be there, just more extreme. Bigger and taller.

What would you like to see?

• Strip joints
• Abandonded stores
• Hidden stores
• Downstairs
• Upstairs

• Eternal sunset
• Burnt Sky

• Lots of birds
• Stage
• News scrollers
• Police Presence
• Groups of people or just single people
• Maybe bots?

• Banks and ATM's
• Own currency
  

What wouldn't you like to see?

Everything of that typical electric fantastic bullshit that you usually see in futuristic settings. NO FLYING CARS DAMNIT!! AND NO TUBES!!! (thanks pete)

What area would you replicate? Where are the boundaries? How will this be handled?

I would replicate Flinders St between Swanston St and Elizabeth St. There are allot of stores that could be used/replicated. Also the stairs and underground passages that run below the streets would provided lots of interesting areas for exploration.

I also took stock of peoples clothing since that's what I am most interested in.

• Jeans
• Lots of pants
• Winter?
• Spring?

• Lots of black
• Sunglasses
• School uniforms and business suits
• Sportswear
• Bags
• Handbags and backpacks

And that's my rants so far. I will add more later.

Enjoy!

Welcome to Chanidesigns . . . .

Chanimation is branching out and Chanidesigns has been created!!

I am making clothes for our project.

All post-apocolytic stuff. Gasmasks, radiation suits and all of that.

It's gunna be super fun!! I'll start drawing up some designs when I have some spare time. :)

Catch.

Chani's got a gun . . . .

Yeah this is my gun.

Yeah I know it's just cylinder, but shut up. It's my cylinder!! It's very very shiny though. I don't know allot about guns and I'm not really interested in them, hence my crappy design.

Still, it works. I proved this by shooting Leaha "Arkelia Cazalet" a few times. *snicker*



Happy shooting!

And Chani said let there be "Elle"

So today the first thing we had to do is create a tshirt. I thought that this would be a great time to promote my upcoming game "Elle's Heart", which I am creating in GD2 with Lisa.

This is the "Elle Shirt". Elle is on the front and on the back it says "I wanna be like Elle". Nifty huh?



Then we had to make objects and attach them to ourselves. I made some leopard ears and a tail.



Yeah my tail aint that great. It's pretty square, but if I made the right texture I could make it look round.

We then moved on to pop-guns. I made one. It was big and shinny. Very tube like. Then for the millionth time today Second Life crashed on me and I cracked the shits and just quit. If I can I will take some shots of it later, but right now I'm too mad at Second Life.

Grrrrrrr *angry face*

Apparently we are going to be talking about the assignment soon. I'll update about that later. Here are some bigger screenshots for you.





Have fun.

Everybody wants me . . . .

Barns Balhaus has invited you to join a group in Second Life.

Barns Balhaus has invited you to join a group.
There is no cost to join this group.
Group:
Cube Gallery Artwork: come and see the new CUBE GALLERY I & II

in Heisenberg 247,200,282 in the sky &
Kryptonite Island 216, 13, 21 with Beach

there are changing exhibitions of mordern art, paintings, pictures, comicstrips
but something more like a present for visiting.

who wants exhibit own artworks IM me

Barns Balhaus

Anyone else getting invites?! I might consider this one though. I'll have to investigate about it though. I don't want my art work stolen or anything.

The missing link . . . .

I missed class on Thursday for personal reasons.

Hopefully I'll catch up and it will be all good.

Just checked out Dale's page too, it seems we have a theme. Not all that keen on it but I haven't heard all the details yet. Either way I'll give it a red hot go.

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag . . . .

Okay so for the rest of the class we were told to build a house. This so didn't happen for me because the damn thing kept freezing everything freaking 3 minutes!! This is how far i got.



How freaking lame?!

Not impressed at all.

My life as a box . . . .

Yeah, so then we had to upload a photo of ourselves to use as a texture. It costs 10 lindens to do this. Not cool. Apparently it's not so bad but when you've only got like 90 it's a big deal.



I hid away on a dock so no-one would see me as a box. I also made a small box too. Stupid photos.

Grrrrr!!

It's all in the family . . . . .

I ran into another Katscher!! Exciting much?! Above her head it did read "Fuki Slave
Keiko Katscher". So Keiko Katscher is a slave to Fuki huh? Crazy. I kinda left her to do her own thing when I saw that she was downloading free sex stuff.

That's a whole barrel of fish that I just don't want to dive into. Lol.

Was kidna cool thought to see another Katscher. Like we are related or something. It's crazy how something small and pointless, like an online name, can make you feel something towards a complete stranger.

I hope I run into more Katshers.

What you see here now . . . . .

Me and Prima.

Yeah. We both wear black, have dark hair, dark make-up. What some would call "goth". Just depends on your point of view I guess.

Looks reasonably similar, I just usually make myself taller and thinner.

I hate photos of me. You can see better ones at www.taintedprincess.deviantart.com

Hopefully we don't have to do this again. :)

tailor made . . . .

Okay so I've been giving it some thought about what we should do in the class and what I would like to do. I realy think I'd like to tackle making clothes. I mean you can change your body in so many different ways in second life so I'm not sure how you would get around that.

Maybe I could just make my own body that people would have to use while wearing my clothes.

No matter was is decided in class clothes are still going to be needed. I'm sure I could figure out a way so I could make them. I'm not really into the whole item making thing, nor do I want to make houses and landscapes.

People always need accessories, shoes, bags, clothes, make up and hair. From what I see there really isn't that much of it that is that great. I could even do costumes. Now that would be wicked.

I guess I shall have to wait and see what is decided in class.

hello canoes . . . .

Yup! That's right! After visiting and reviewing 3 places on Second Life we were asked to create something. I was stuck for an idea so I used one of Dale's ideas and built myself a canoe.

This is my canoe.



Isn't it pretty? I'm very proud of my canoe. I might add in a tail thingy later, and maybe a ring thingy on the side for the oars to be threaded through. I always hate trying to texture these damn things. I don't have any textures yet besides the default ones. I'll probably go looking for some in a freebie warehouse later. So I end today with another shot, this time it's me in my canoe!!



God knows what I'm looking at but 2 points for trying to sail in a canoe which resides on land. Go Prima!! She's got smarts. *giggle*

Later

the cavern . . . .

Name: The Cavern

Like: Some of the decor is kinda cool. Spacious, could probably do with something more to it.




Dislike: The fact that the description missed out on a few things. After closer inspection it turned out to be s bdsm, strip joint place. At least the people there were happy to talk to me.

Come back?: Most likely not. It's not my kinda thing.

damania . . . .

Name: Damania

Like: The architecture of Damania is fascinating. It looks like it's built of a kind of metal, possibly copper or gold. It is all curveous and slinky. When you enter into Damania you see a billboard when, if you click on it, will teleport you to that place on the map. Saves allot of time. In Damania lots of things are available to buy. You can buy fantastic houses, sculptures, classy furniture, old fashioned cars or even a cat!! Although it all seems just a little bit expensive.







you can even play some kind of car game there too.



Dislike: Nothing really. It loads relatively quickly and is very easy to navigate around thanks to the mapping system. The only problem I have with it is that everything is very expensive.

Come back?: Maybe when I get some money to spend. I'd have to be in it for the long run though otherwise it will just seem like a waste.

hidden leaf village . . . .

Name: Hidden Leaf Village

Likes: The place actually resembles the Hidden Leaf Village, Konoha, from the anime series Naruto. It very bright and seems very easy to navigate around.




Dislikes: There seems to be a large abundance of rules that you have to abide by.

Rules of the Hidden Leaf Village


IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST TO READ THIS DOCUMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY BEFORE STEPPING FURTHER INTO THE VILLAGE, CLAIMS OF IGNORANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. BY ENTERING THE VILLAGE YOU ARE AGREEING TO ABIDE BY THE RULES OF THIS SIM AND THE JUDGEMENT OF ITS ADMINISTRATION.

Rules for all persons:

- No guns in the village, period.
- No spamming, griefing, or any other obvious Terms of Service violations, these will result in bannings.
- Do not beg for money from other players
- Do not ask stupid questions you can easily find the answers to on your own.
- JUTSU ARE NOT PERMITTED IN THE VILLAGE. Only in the arena may jutsu be performed. In the Village you may use swords or Taijutsu, but no other jutsu.
- Do not peddle items in the village unless you are paying for a shop
- Follow any commands given by higher ranks
- no push jutsu are allowed that have a large push sufficient to knock one out of sight
- No autoshields
- NO ORBITTING
- The village is not the place for building. Go to a sandbox.
- Do not ask stupid questions.
- Read and follow the list of banned jutsu.
- Do not wear clothing that does not fit your rank. No ANBU masks if you are not ANBU, no vests if you are not Jounin/Chuunin etc.

Rules for members:

- Wear your Konoha tag at all times while in the village
- Wear your character 􀀀 at all times
- Speak using proper roleplay format, including brackets for OOC speach and /me to show actions. Please limit OOC speach. This is a roleplay sim after all. You may also set your Title as OOC as an alternative to brackets.
- You must wear clothing consistant with the Naruto series. No clothing or objects inconsistant with the Naruto series may be in the village.
- Genin and above may swear within reason. Excessive swearing to the point of impropriety will be punished.
- You may not use Naruto Series names as your character name, though they may be your SL name.
- Students are not authorized to use jutsu or most kinds of weaponry, even when sparring.
- All problems and disturbances should be reported to higher ranking officers. Students and Genin should not take it upon themselves to react to griefers or rulebreakers.
- Godmoding is forbidden. This means no cursed marks, or sealed tailed beasts.
- Students are not permitted to have tails. Furry avatars are accepted but not encouraged.
- Obey all ranks higher than your own

Rules for newcomers/visitors/nonmembers
- Please read all informational notecards thoroughly before asking questions
- there is a specific process involved for membership. Your account must be at least one month old to join. You must also have been in and around the village for at least four days. There is a 50L entrance fee to join. You are to dedicate yourself completely to this village if you are a member, so you cannot be in any other Naruto groups.
- You may feel free to visit and observe the roleplay in the village. If you see a roleplay going on, try not to interrupt. You are considered Out of Character visitors.
- Please listen to and respect the requests of members.
- No group tags from other ninja villages are allowed, except for the Amegakure, who must wear their Amegakure group tags in Konoha.



Come back?: If I was interested in joining a online role playing Naruto themed space I would definately come back, it would take some preparation though. Getting the right clothing, learning the rules and such might just take a little more time than I'm willing to give at the moment though.

so many ideas, so little time . . . .

So here I am. It's midday and I'm still in my pj's!! Gosh I love my day off uni. Anyway I said I would update and so here I am. Here are a list of the ideas that we came up with in class for our island which I stole from Dale's site.

* Pirate ship
* Theme Park
* Mutant/Minion/Fights
* Kill them all
* Human Body
* Underwater
* Chocolate Land
* Safari/Zoo/Farm
* Harry Potter
* Virtual Melbourne
* Alpine (Snow, caves, igloos etc)
* VU Building
* Net of future
* Alice in Wonderland
* 19th Century Aussie Town with droids
* Extreme Sports
* Online Festivals
* Stoneage/Medieval
* Creative Platform
* Evil Lair/Battlezone
* Second heaven and hell
* TV World
* Art Gallery/Museum
* Bot band
* PC Land
* Coluseum/Parthenon
* Historical
* Supermario/Family Guy/FF/WOW/Simpsons
* Shopping mall/arcades
* Comic book world
* Space station/Moonpad
* Alien Planet
* City of the Future - Cultures of the past
* Lego theme
* Abbatoir/Torture
* Mansion
* Racing
* Fashion House
* Neverending disco
* Garbage dump
* 50s B Movie
* Musicals/Theatre/Concerts
* Gangster town

We took up allot of space on the white board. I really like the human body idea, a full blown community inside of a human body. You could have a bar in the liver!!

Since I'm such a little morbid thing as well I love the idea of having an abbatoir/torture chamber kind of thing. Have like rotting bodies everywhere, tools used for gruesome experiments and massive structures full of secret rooms and passages. Not to mention the blood. We could make a lake of blood, or even rotting flesh!!

Doing something in an Alpine setting would work too. I wonder if you could make it so that everyone on the island randomly shivered so it gave more of a sense of being cold, or everyone walked about with a little cloud infront of their mouths so it looked like they were breathing in very cold weather. Even if we could engineer it so it actually looked like it snowed would be pretty awesome too.

Well it's time for me to get some breakfast/lunch.

Cheers.