New Hamster Avatar

Meet the new addition to the Gator’s Gallery family: this cute little mesh hamster, only waist high, with separate little hands and feet and even a pair of HUDs so you can change the colour of the fingernails and toenails.

Like the giraffe, the avatar uses regular human animations so you can take this little guy or gal anywhere without worrying about being able to sit on the seating.

Full details and more pictures on the marketplace here.

Giraffe Developer Kit

Are you a Second Life creator? If so you might want to check out my latest addition to the marketplace. It’s a full perm kit of mesh clothing for my new giraffe avatar. Just add your own textures and the clothes are ready for you to wear and sell.

Here’s the link: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GATORS-GALLERY-Giraffe-Avatar-Developers-Kit/11330689

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New Giraffe Avatar!

I’ve built my first mesh avatar! It took me nearly a month! It was quite a challenge.

It’s a cute little giraffe, with separate hooves, head, ears and tail. It’s only waist-high but it’s not a traditional tiny, instead it uses regular human animations.

It comes with a HUD which applies an alpha layer to help with the wearing of clothes should you wish to wear clothes. Going naked is perfectly acceptable! Clothes need to be specially made so to start with I’ve made a basic little blue shirt and jeans set.

Marketplace link for the avatar is here.

Marketplace link for the blue outfit is here.

Legwarmers

Maybe it’s not exactly the right time of year, but Gator said she wanted something to cover her legs so I’ve made her some nice cozy legwarmers (marketplace link).

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As you can see from the image they are rigged mesh made by my fair claw in Blender and also textured by me so you won’t find them anywhere else in SL. They come in one size (XS) for the smaller standard humanoid avatar.

Please try the demo to be sure they fit!

Sci Fi Con Awards

So following the somewhat popular and hilarious appearance of Borgwood Squares at the Sci-Fi Con in March, last night the sci-fi alliance had its star-studded awards ceremony. And Gator was honoured to collect two third place awards: one for best host/hostess and the other for best event (Borgwood Squares). Seeing as she doesn’t really know very many of the sci fi roleplayers, and seeing as there were so many fine events at the con, she was pretty pleased with that.

Borgwood (Tinywood) Squares of course runs every week though so please do come along on Sundays.

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Gator’s Gallery @ the Sci Fi Con

The science fiction convention is open! Like last year Gator’s Gallery has a plot to showcase Daisy/Elinor’s science fiction stories. This time it’s a swamp so you might want to bring an umbrella and wellies.

I’ve also released a new special group gift to celebrate the convention: more lunchboxes and mesh framed art this time featuring a NASA JPL poster of the asteroid Ceres. This is a poster from a really stylish series issued recently so if you’re not already a member please do join the group as these are well worth picking up. Incidentally I’ve seen these public domain posters for sale elsewhere for L$250!

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Once you’ve visited Gator’s swamp, checked out her e-books, toured all the jaw dropping futuristic exhibits at the rest of the con and ridden the rollercoaster finally, don’t forget Borgwood Squares is happening tomorrow. That’s Saturday 19th March, 11:30 AM SLT. The set is in place and waiting. Can’t wait, it should be a blast.

Borgwood Squares – Players Needed

The Science Fiction convention is starting soon and of course Gator’s Gallery will be there. As part of it I’ll be hosting a special edition of Tinywood Squares, renamed Borgwood Squares on Saturday 19th March at 11.30am SLT. There will be a specially redecorated set for the show including new seating suitable for biggies and tinies both. And there will be a second innovation–contestant prizes!

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But of course I’m going to need players. So if you’re sure you’ll be available on that Saturday at 11.30am and want to be a contestant or one of the nine squares please send me an IM (to “TheGator”) letting me know which place you’d prefer. If you’re not sure you’ll be online at that time or if I simply get too many interested players not to fear, send me your name anyway and I’ll start a back up list.

Don’t know how to play? See the Tinywood page for everything you might wish to learn about the game. Borgwood Squares will be run in much the same way as the regular weekly game with one exception. Because this an RFL event there will be no tipping of the host, which means the contestants will receive prizes instead of linden dollar rewards. But hopefully they’ll like them just as much! In terms of monetary value I plan on the prizes being of higher value. First, there will be an e-book token for one of my Smashwords books worth US$0.99. And there will be an item from Gator’s Gallery store, most likely a painting.

As ever everyone, even audience members, will also receive the Secret Square prize. So please do come along to what could well be the daftest, and most certainly the squarest, event of the entire convention.

Hope to see you there!