/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6962387
Unfortunately, the mediocre embraces mediocrity.

This screenshot is of a place I made in Second Life. You could waltz your avatars to New Age music, meditate among Mandelbulb flowers, or chat with a head in a globe chat bot,then buy animated paintings of looping GIFs in the gift shop. It was unique,an enviorment I created and provided, for people from all over the world to meet,dance and Romance in a real and definite kind.. It was rarely used,but those who stumbled upon it enjoyed themselves. But would you believe literally next to me crowds of avatars would gather at a a place that had only a tree,a few bushes,and a stresm,a single block with s revolving water texture on it,something that was thrown together in 3 minutes. Such was the mentality of the "normal",and your Masterpiece might go unnoticed after all.

Still tell the story, though. Find exposure and play algorithms.

Try a different medium.

You are an amateur finding out what can be done with this strange thing called a Creative Urge. So you have the freedom to explore and experiment with the many apps and gadgets that are out now. Even game modding involves artistic endeavors, and pic related is a screenshot of Second Life at my last ballroom.

I was involvef with Second Life for several years, and was enraptured by the process of building. You conjured blocks of a variety of shapes,altered their dimensions, and paint them with textures. Everything in SL wss built inworld by an avatar player character, and people have made real world livings from marketing their items made in the game. I sold stuff too,animated paintings made from GIFs found online. I never charged a lot for them,wanting to encourage impulse buying and wanting people to enjoy my labors,since once an item is made,it can be sold repeatedly forever. And I made ballrooms.

Unique places with New Age music to dance to,and spots tailored for Romance,and romance of a sort did happen. I was glad to inspire them.

I was heavily involved in Second Life in the mid 2000s,and specializing in making animated paintings, and making unusual romantic places with ballroom dancing to New Age music. This place had mandelbulb flowers and color changing crystal grass,trees with silver bark and foliage that cycles through the rainbow. The couples,dressed in suits and gowns,swirl through the clouds of fog on the dance floor.
And my store was cleverly concealed under the cliff where folk could crowd around a hooka and enjoy the music, or simply meditate. It held me captivated for years. And the women look like women not Lego sex dolls like in Minecraft. I miss it,but I won't go back to it.

Why do kids flock to Minecraft when they could be doing stuff like this?

I doubt that this qualifies as 3d sculpture for 99% of you guys,but I had a lot of fun building stuff in Second Life. A game engine with lots of versatility, I have seen amazing things that people have made. Pic related was a club I designed, where avatars could dance to New Age music, meditate among the Mandelbulb flowers and shop for animated paintings.

>>3186870
As a fellow artist who had little time to socialize, may I recommend Second Life. I was enamoured with it for years,and made clubs clothes and turned GIFs into animated paintings and sold them. The place in the pic was my last club,with textures made from PhotoShopped ice photos and flowers made from Mandelbulbs. People would dance to New Age music and meditate in the strange gardens for hours. Everything there someone made in the engine itself ,so you should see what you can find there. And maybe you can rescue a princess or two and sweet talk her out of her clothes,as well. Can't do THAT in Minecraft!

Try changing mediums.

I was trying to generate pages of a graphic novel,and work a night job that demanded 48 hours a week from me,not to mention all the preparing for it and the half hour walk back and forth to it. And the processes of making these pages quickly began getting tedious:draw stuff in pencil,scan into computer,clean up the bits into usable elements and then hammer them into panels and pages afterwards. And all this left little time for a social life. I was lonely. So I looked into avatar based chat programs to have human contact with the convenience ,and spiritual nutritional value, of fast food. And I found Second Life.

A wonderland for the Creative, it was beautiful,challenging and inspiring all at once. You conjure building blocks out of the air,stretch and morph them into shapes,glue them together and paint them with textures you either uploaded yourself or found freebie libraries of,and they became the World. You could write scripts for these objects and make sophisticated machines out of them, replicate what you made with no material costs and sell them for REAL MONEY (well,you sold them for the in house currency and then sell that for real money to other people,almost the same thing). The only thing you needed was time and ingenuity, and after a day of building things,you could knock off the day at a club and bring home another pretty avatar to sweet talk out of their clothes! That alone nearly became a full time job too. But onto the building stuff...

The pic was of my last club,DreamGardens:the Dragon's DayDream. The building and floor textures were made from pictures of ice I spun into wonders out of PhotoShop. The trees changed their colors over time,as did the crystal grass. The plants were made from Mandelbulbs and you could meditate among the alien splendor or dance to new age music. I had a shop where I sold animated paintings crafted from GIFs found online and sold for peanuts,just to spread the magic!
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