Free Full Perm Female Skins - Sezmra’s Splendor
September 15, 2008 6:59 pmWhen Eloh Eliot first released her skin’s .pdf files - how much more ‘full perm’ can you get? - ‘accusation hell’ broke loose in the Second Life Skin & Fashion industry: This would ruin business for any dedicated skin maker, chase their customers away and put them out of business. As today, there are is still a large amount of famous - and good skin makers in Second Life, charging over 1000 L$ for beautiful, well crafted skins. So the ’slash end skin business’ was probably something like all those people predicting the end of the world: probably they are right in the end, but they surely go the date wrong! On the contrary even, Eloh Eliot’s free skin psd files were an inspiration & knowledge source to many, teaching us great tricks and allowing people to build upon them. For instance: I used them often as an inspiration to shade clothing I made, pasting the free skin’s shadow layers and adjusting those to achieve exactly the effect I wanted. Thank you, Miss Eloh Eliot!
Splendor .psd skin files
Following in Eloh Eliot’s footsteps with a release of ‘free full perm female skins’ is Sezmra Svarog - or ‘Laurie Ellis’ for the humans - with her Splendor line. Sezmra introduces herself on sezmra.com: ‘I’m a pretty average girlgeek, and my SL name is Sezmra Svarog. I have spent over four years in Second Life as a skin designer. I owned and operated Nora BodySkins & Fashions from 2004 to 2008. Currently, I am now enjoying Second Life from a personal perspective.‘ Although Sezmra Svarog’s skins - opposed to Eloh Eliot’s free ones - are not ‘layered’ PSD’s, which means you can not as easily adjust them for your own purposes, they are still a lovely gift to the community: ‘The first skin resource I am making available here is a female skin called “Splendor“. This is probably the best skin I’ve ever created, and I am offering it to all of you Second Life, Open Sim, … whatever denizens to use as you see fit.‘
Miss Sezmra releases these .psd files - head, torso and legs - in three body shades accompanied by the following rules (suggestions):
- You are free to use these files to create your own skins for your Second Life avatar, no matter what Grid you are using it on.
- You are free to alter these files to create your own skins in order to resell them.
- You are NOT encouraged to redistribute these files, commercially, as is.
- Credit would be nice!
So as far as I can read, as long as you are no ass trying to make money of selling her .psd skin files off the shelve, you’ll be fine using them for whatever purpose you wish… . Nice from the lady, no? You can find the direct download link here, but I’m sure Miss Sezmra would love you to take a look around at her website, especially as she announces soon to come skin tutorials, accessories (tattoos? scars? bite marks?) and more Second Life skin resources. Yeey, I’m seriously looking forward to those, and I bet you are too!
6 Responses to “Free Full Perm Female Skins - Sezmra’s Splendor”
What a lovely article - thank you for contributing to the release and free-skin-resources talk!
I wish I could have made these skins like Eloh’s, in that the highlights and shadows were layers that could be adjusted. Unfortunately, it isn’t possible with these particular files. I was developing this as a product originally, to be sold, but I changed my mind after a few realizations.
I may revisit the idea with another offshoot of “Splendor” where the shadows and highlights are just layers and not hardbuilt into the image.
Again, thanks for the article!
I think what Sezmra is doing is great. A lot of talented people just don’t get around to doing skins because they don’t know where and how to start. Eloh’s were the first out in the open to give those less experienced with 3D texturing and skin in particular a chance. I struggled with it as well and actually ended up ripping an excisting skin just to get an example (never sold a skin in my life so stop shouting “abuse” or whatever). Seeing how it was done I made my own (from scratch) … looks like shit but I made it myself and I still use it … If in those days (almost two years ago now) Sezmra’s or Eloh’s had been around it would have saved me a lot of time and agony.
Thank you Sezmra!!
Sezmra is GREAT! I’ve been a big fan of hers since I wore my first NORA skin in 2007. Great,great stuff. I’m betting some talented people will do some great things with these skins :)
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I love these skins. I did some makeups and made them available for sale inSL (at a very low price and with credits). :)
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