A new product by Marine Kelly that inspired me to buy them from a list of features. That right there is proof of their success - what are we here for if not to make stuff people will buy.
Playing around with them I was satisfied to see Marine's tried and true style, good animations - including spreader bar animations which is not something I've seen yet and they're done well which is even better, and a restricting combination of poses.
The fitting, as with most items, takes some time but I think it's worth it for some fun.
There's some decent innovation in them too, even a few ideas that I was planning for my own cuff set (which I guess says good things about me if my ideas are good enough for Marine's famous work). Sadly some of the innovation seemed to go to waste. Things like the crotch chain, which take up the stomach slot, is a neat idea (that of having a bunch of relays to send a particle in a shape to avoid it cutting into the avatar unrealistically - something I wanted for my cuffs) but it only turns on for one of six poses in the arm cuffs and none of the leg poses.
To me that just seems like a lot of work for so little use.
The four collar in one is a nice idea though it makes adjusting it tricky as it's hard to tell what is where.
Overall I like them, they're done well with solid and fast scripts - they have some innovation and of course look great. Perhaps my standards are just to high but I think Marine could have done a lot more to improve them.
8 / 10
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Internet Worthy
Here's what I don't get. You go out looking for inspiration or mood or just to waste some time surfing the internets vast supply of pictures and you come across - the faceless wo/man.
Why? Blurring, cropping, smuding; whatever, the face of the person out of an image has it's uses, like anonymity in a candid photo. But why, in an image that you are knowingly putting on the internet for all to see do you erase the face?
If you don't want people to see your face: what the hell are you doing posting images of yourself?
There's nothing worse then finding a rare gem of a artistic picture, with pose and rigging done marvelously (for ones tastes) only to have the image cut off at the chin because the model was, despite knowing the image was going to be online, unwilling to show their face. All it does it ruin the image, it doesn't let people see "the pretty work we did just without my face" it removes all value from the image, imo, because who's going to look at art form when there's such a glaring imperfection?
Why? Blurring, cropping, smuding; whatever, the face of the person out of an image has it's uses, like anonymity in a candid photo. But why, in an image that you are knowingly putting on the internet for all to see do you erase the face?
If you don't want people to see your face: what the hell are you doing posting images of yourself?
There's nothing worse then finding a rare gem of a artistic picture, with pose and rigging done marvelously (for ones tastes) only to have the image cut off at the chin because the model was, despite knowing the image was going to be online, unwilling to show their face. All it does it ruin the image, it doesn't let people see "the pretty work we did just without my face" it removes all value from the image, imo, because who's going to look at art form when there's such a glaring imperfection?
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