Making Tshirts in SL is easy, right? There are dozens of tutorials about how to do it right. Yet, today, I do not refer to Photoshop with my prefered, loving nickname for it ‘PS’, but as ’sweatshop’. Why so? Well, for starters, it crashed on me twice. Of course we regularely save our work. Not. And then there is the frustration of adding all sorts of detail to your clothing, although you know it will only show up half because of small textures. Pfff.

For girly Tshirts there is always the problem of the ‘what do I put on the front’. It’s almost impossible to put any text on the front side, because even if you take into account the breasts mesh, there’s no way to know which size and shape of breasts the avatars will have. So no text there. Some fishes then? We all seem to love fishes lately, so why not. =)

And then, what do I put on the back? No artwork, as somebody else is already doing that. So what’s typically about the cannery? Fish! And SLartists! Because although SLartists and RLartists have a lot in common - creativity, passion, a certain view upon the world - they do differ, if only because the worlds they represent differ. And a free ‘I <heart> Vint’. *grins* I hope people will see the humor of that, and will not think I’ve put the ego slider to the max. =)

(And then I did not mention the hassle of uploading all textures, creating the shirts, labelling, wearing them for the ad, creating the ad, … . I pity people who do mass Tshirt production in Second Life.)

And if you already thought girly Tshirts were a pain, here come the gent’s. Now I know why they are that hard to dress. I knew about the short tshirt layer and actually needing to use the jacket layer. But I did not realise it would be this bad. Looks like the wrong washing machine program was used. Several times.

Shading is hard compared to girlie tops - upper part of breasts shiny, belower part more dark - too. Now, I want the tshirts to be tight. But how tight? And how can I know if the avie wearing the tshirt will have washboard abs or just plum pudding? And - of course - going for the abs, how do I shade such things? And how do I do the breasts without letting them look like lady’s breasts. And maybe the washed out yellow is a bit to un-manly too. But the smiling shark is neat, no?

Anyway, I think the male version will need some more work tomorrow - or shrunken Tshirts should become fashionable again overnight. And sadly enough, I think neither male or female version beats my ‘Rejeanne’ top in quality. And now I’m a bit afraid that top turning out that good was just ‘luck’. *sobs*

Tags: cannery, clothing, texture

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