Fashion

[BrittanyW1]

I'm interested in being a fashion designer in SL and i just don't know where to start. I don't have premium so does that affect my options? please help.:matte-motes-crying:

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi Brittany,

Being a basic member has no affect on your fashion designing options. Fashion design requires a few talents, but creation in SL is a blast! You'll need to develop a working knowledge of an image editing tool like Photoshop or the free program GIMP. The most basic clothing is the system layer stuff, which is painted on the avatar and requires no 3D modeling, just image creation.

Here's a LL wiki page with numerous clothing creation links...

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clothing_Tutorials

I recommend Robin Wood's Avatar clothing templates, as they're higher resolution (1024 x 1024) than the textures you'll load into SL (512 x 512) allowing you finer control over your creation.

If you want to do mesh clothing, you'll need to learn Blender or something like it.

You should also acquaint yourself with the Fashion and Building/Texturing forums. They're not very busy, but are specific to your interests.

Have fun creating!

 

[Lindal Kidd]

There are numerous resources both in world and on the web to help you.

Tutorials - do a Google search on Second Life clothing tutorial. Some good basic ones can still be found in The Mermaid Diaries (Google it!)

In World classes.  Caledon Oxbridge University has a nice Basic Clothing Design class.  Builders Brewery offers building classes (and you do use building tools in clothing creation, for all sorts of attachments.)  NCI has classes too.

Self help in world.  Do a search for The Ivory Tower Library of Primitives for building tutorials and The College of Scripting Music and Science for scripting lessons.  The Particle Laboratory will help you master particles (a necessary skill for adding bling to jewelry!)

Free software.  GIMP for texture creation and editing, Blender for 3D mesh creation.

Specialized tools.  Most of these cost money, and you should learn the free software before paying for them...you may find they aren't worth it.  One popular one for Mesh clothing is "Marvelous Designer."  It works with Blender.