After Philo Sion, the creator of my cherished SL neko skin refused a dialogue on me exporting that Hybrid skin to Open Sim, I got a friendly offer from Storm Thunders to help me with a personalised vint-style neko skin for Open Sim. Full perm - a very much full perm even, Storm handed to me the layered photoshop file - and for personal use only, of course. *purrrrs*

Storm made me a kick ass striped - yeah, no more spots, I did not want a ‘copy’ of the Hybrid skin and these little tigers looked that cute - white neko skin, with small fluffy fur hairs - so I’m a softie now! - and recolorable spots. Storm, thank you so much for this great work and giving me an awesome very much evolved ‘template’ to work with! (Hint: SLurl to Storm Thunder’s shop)

But Vint would not be Vint if she would not change a few things:

1. I changed the opacity of the base layer, so the effect on the stripes would resemble that on my Hybrids skin. With that I forgot to put full transparancy on the lashes, and thus ruined those, but luckily that’s easily to correct. I need to try out some more to the find the optimal opacity of the base layer - the ‘recolorable pastel color spots’ are created by making parts of the skin transparant. How much transparant, that’s the tricky question.
2. The eye make up: I feel like dark, smudgy make up around the eyes at the moment. If there is an Open Sim logo, I might consider adding that under my eye as a small tattoo.
3. Lips and shading around those: the shading around the mouth was neko style / cat like. I prefer a human face, but tried to give the lips a ‘cattish’ effect with the shading. Made the lips wider to fit my shape better, but I need to do some correction on the below lip still.
4. The nipples: I think I’m going to photosource a pair of real life nipples. Google image search for ‘naked breasts’, here I come! *grins*
5. Addes some overall shading and highlights on the butt - it’s cute! really! -, legs and breasts. Maybe a bit to much on the breasts.

Planned skin versions - probably I’ll change make up frequently according to my state of mind:

1. A winter skin with longer, fluffy and softer hairs: my winter coat.
2. A summer skin with tan lines.

Strange ideas that probably will never be executed:

1. A skin with flees upon it.
2. A skin with ‘rent out ad space on the breasts’. (Start the bidding, please! ;))
3. A skin where pieces of skin seem ‘ripped off’, showing the flesh beneath it.
4. An ‘old’ version of my neko self: hanging breasts, rimples, rash, … .

Tags: skin, template

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