NFL Cheerleaders

NFL Cheerleaders. Enough said. I may eventually get around to doing all the teams, but it's not a real high priority. These are kind of boring to do. All of the costumes are basically very similar just the color schemes are different.

Super Hero Girl - Stilletto

This is a cross between a Tandy Bowen's, from Cloak and Dagger, and Supergirl's Costumes with some black stockings, gloves and a few puffy arm and leg bands thrown into the mix.

One night "Superhero Girl" by Eve 6 played on iTunes and I thought, that'd be a cool costume, so I stopped whatever I was doing and skinned this in about an hour. I based the costume on what I remember Dagger's and Supergirl's costumes looked like when I was a kid and still had time and money to read comics.

Bah, I miss those days.

Nishi's Racing Modelwear 001

I made these outfits based on Race Queens in Asia. Race Queens are pretty much banned from tracks in America because of the highly suggestive costumes and for safety reasons. However, In Japan, most Race Queens are pop idols and almost as an important part of the race team as the driver. They act as promotional models and can draw huge crowds to promotional events, such as car shows. It is ironic that an American Company, Hawaiian Tropic, started the Race Queen craze in 1983 at 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The practice of using promotional models at car shows is prevelent in the United States. These models are usually associated with the street racing or import scene. For example, Import Tuner Magazine keeps a running list of the models that pose with cars for their stories.

Andrea Bagnall (photo) seems to be my favorite domestic car show model.

Back to the SL portion of the post, for some reason people really seemed to like these outfits. I had several people want copies of the outfit in custom colors. Six color variations are shown below, but I probably did about 10 different colors.

I did two a Tony Stewart and two other Nishi Racing outfits. I don't seem to have any screen shots of those costumes though. My wireless router is being quirky, so Second Life keeps booting me because of timed out connections. When I get that fixed I'll log on and take some screens of those.

Naughty Nurse

Every self-respecting female avatar needs a naughty nurse outfit. Hmm. I need to get around to doing a French Maid outfit one day.

Modern Witch

This is probably my favorite costume. I wanted a new outfit for Halloween 2007, I decided on a witch costume. I didn't really have a concept for the clothing, I just wanted it to look sexy. So, I just sat down with Photoshop one night and banged out the textures.

I decided to go with a basic school girl/stripper concept with lots of fishnet, fake fur and jewelry. The only part of the costume that was difficult to build was the hat. To make the fur required a lot of prims. I'll have to look at the object's prim count one day, but I suspect there are close to 300 prims in the hat alone.

Leslie's Tartan

This was the first set of clothing I ever made in Second Life. The only thing even remotely special is that the Sunglasses are actually part of the hair attachment. The root prim is the bridge of the glasses, combining the two attachments freed up an extra attachment point for jewelry (like a nose ring or lip ring).

Before I reopen Nishi's I may go back and script the glasses so you can select what color rims/lenses you want in them.

Leslie's Party Dress

I put this ensemble together just after I finished the Leslie's Tartan set. Female avatars are supposed to have a black dress right?

This was really simple to build. I just repainted the textures and hair from the previous outfit and added in a variation of the corset from the tartan.

FFX2 Yuna - Gunner

The Final Fantasy X2 outfits were exceptionally difficult to reproduce. The level of detail in them took a great deal of time to reproduce. There were also a tremendous amount of textures that I had to build to capture all of the detail.

I've seen a lot of variations of this outfit in Second Life, and I honestly think this is the most accurate rendition of the Yuna Gunner Dresssphere Costume in the simulation. The most problematic detail in the whole costume was that Yuna's character has different colored eyes. I had to texture a blue and green eyeball then, map that onto a hollow half-sphere prim and attach them to the avatar eyeballs. That was tedious work.

I want to do Yuna's Dark Knight Dressphere Costume as well, but that is going to a take a while to build. I don't even want to think about the number of prims it will take to make that suit of armor.

FFX2 Rikku - Thief

This was a rather fun, but frustrating FFX2 costume to reproduce. I had to build the swirled-pupil eyes of the Al Behd, but I was able to texture map them onto the eyeballs because both eyes were the same.

The difficult part of this costume was recreating all of the flexible fabric in it. The skirt, bows on the arms and scarf are all flexible. It took a lot of meddling with each prim's gravity to get the outfit to flow realistically when the avatar moves.

The hair was a real pain in the ass to build because Rikku had so many braids and colored beads. Not to mention the scarf wrapped around her head. This costume is accurate from her head to her shoes. The only thing I couldn't duplicate was flexible hair braids. When I built the outfit, Second Life didn't have the capability to attach a solid prim to a flexi prim and have them move in concert.

This is one of my more favorite costumes.

Abby's Fishnet

I like to watch NCIS, so I decided to do a line of gothic clothing and name it Abby, after the character on the show. The outfit has a lot of fishnet, studded bands and barbed wire. A perfect outfit for a night in the mosh pit.

Abby Gothic

This is a pretty racy costume. I based it on some photos of Bianca Beauchamp, left, (official website), then took a lot of liberty with the whole latex concept. There's a lot of transparency in the shirt and skirt. The costume uses the actual skirt mesh from Second Life, but I added the transparency with textured TARGA files. The skirt is as short as I could make it and still have it look like a skirt.

This is the second costume in the Abby line, inspired by Abby on NCIS.

The costume also contains a tremendous number of prims in the attachments as well as flexi prims in the armbands. The boots are similar to the ones from Abby's fishnet, but they have more studs.

This is also the first scripted costume I designed to sell. All of the attached objects have a "Bling Script" embedded in them. If you're not familiar with Second Life, Bling Scripts make the prims sporadically emit a brief starburst, like a light source reflecting off gold or silver.

I also included an earring that has an animation override script in it. The AO override script, prevents the avatar from using the default "at rest" pose and instead cycles through five other model-stance poses.

I think this is my best designed outfit, but still it's not my favorite.

Nishi's Unlimited

One of my Second Life avatars, Aireanna Nishi, once ran a clothing store in Second Life called Nishi's Unlimited. Due to the fact I've been extremely busy in 2008, I closed Nishi's Unlimited in January. The screenshot above is from the shop I was running in Dakari Coast Estates at the time. I still get occasional messages from people that purchased clothes from me, so I may reopen the store this fall.

Check this page in September or October of 2008 if you are interested in purchasing any of these clothes. You can also usually find my avatar in the Sand Box at Ed Tech or at Abbott's Aerodrome. I love virtual skydiving.

Second Life Clothing

Ever since The Sims came out, I've been fascinated with skinning character models. So, from time-to-time, I skin clothing for avatars in Second Life. At one point I opened a clothing shop, Nishi's Unlimited, but got too busy to keep it running in the simulation.

I decided to post some advertising shots from the shop for each set of clothing I designed. Over the Fourth of July weekend, I got the urge to work on some new outfits. I plan reopen Nishi's in the fall when I'm not so busy in real life.

Products Available will be:
Abby Gothic
Abby's Fishnet
FFX2 Rikku - Thief
FFX2 Yuna - Gunner
Leslie's Party Dress
Leslie's Tartan
Modern Witch
Naughty Nurse
NFL: (Houston, Jacksonville, Tampa Bay)
Nishi's Racing Modelwear 001
Super Hero Girl - Stilletto