Unfortunately due to a schedule conflict (RL and TZ are bitches!) I cannot attend to the Koinup Machinima Contest ceremony at Orange Island. But the winners are already announced on Koinup. Myself and Tao Takashi each chose a winner and the community chose their own favourite, which was also my first choice.

Here are the top winners:

• The Little Newbie by Alienhearts (community winning machinima)
• “The Cats Will Play” Grindhouse Tribute by Bkiddo
• ChouChou by ChouChou

They will receive a cash prize from Koinup, and a license for MachinimaCam HUD Pro as soon as I can go inworld to deliver it.

There was a very high amount of outstanding work presented for this contest, the choice was very hard. I encourage all participants to continue working on doing machinima, many of you are extremely talented and are showing some real skills for the art.

Again, congratulations to the winners, and thank you all for your very active participation to this contest. Thanks to Tao Takashi for co-judging this contest, and thanks to Pierluigi of Koinup for giving me this opportunity to see all those marvelous pieces of work.

One thing I didn’t expect at all was that some designers would actually start spending their time designing me stuff. Well, I got served pretty good. Not only one, but two designers delivered me a very special gift in the same week.

I mentioned them before but I thought it deserved a post on their own, just to state on how much I felt honored by the gesture. Those lovelies actually spent HOURS of their precious time making this for lil old me? OK girls. You got me. I’m falling on my ass.

Beware, you peepz know I certainly don’t pretend to be anything like a fashionista or fashion blogger. So in a blocky fashion, here is a bit more about those incredible outfits, with pictures of myself modelling them, and stuff.

Codie’s Gown - From Nuclear Boutique

Sasy Scarborough introduced me to Arikinui Adria (AKA Ari), and in the first instant I talked to this adorable woman, I was charmed. It didn’t take long before I invited her to Boudoir Rouge, because her name means sophistication and beauty and sexy.

One night she totally blew my mind when I saw that item drop into my inventory. I saw the name and I was like, no fucking way! And I put it on and it was perfection.

I have a HARD time finding fitting system skirts, mainly because some designers don’t check their skirts on larger avatars, and they put the texture topping too low. Result is I end up with a ring of emptiness around the waist. Not with this one, it is a perfect fit.

Fluffy prims are attached on shins, making it hugging the legs pretty nicely. Very elegant soirée gown, probably one of the best I own. Honnest! Tho I admit there may be a bit of favoritism, I let you be the judges.

Codie’s Gown is available through this SLURL. Check Nuclear Boutique’s Blog for more info.

Codie Corset - Bluebell Fasions

How an amazing gift Roxette Wise made me for the Boudoir Rouge launch party. This 4 variation set of lingerie with corset is nothing short of amazing. I sure own a few lingerie sets, and this is one of the good ones. And well, the color scheme is so me

Roxette posted about it on Bluebell Fashion’s blog.

Available on OnRez, SLX or inworld.

Also, I would like to mention that Dinee Ghia made me an adorable necklace using my logo. Picture of it follows. It’s lovely sweetheart, TY so so much, big smoochies!

Like if that was not enough, I heard some other things were on preparation for me. Will keep you posted as it comes. You people always amaze me. Much ♥♥♥.

I will be giving a 1h presentation on making Machinima movies at Orange Island on Thursday this week, 9h30AMSLT, for Orange’s Machinima Week. Check the schedule for more information.

Therese Carfagno interviewed me and wrote this lovely article on SLNN. I was interviewed at the Chouchou sim, then we took a ride to Code Red for a few picture. Thank you Therese, that is an awesome job, and you never misquoted me once. Much ♥♥♥!

After much success with the Boudoir Rouge poseset, and needing more poses to finish the series, I decided to custom order another 40 poses set from Alexx Markova. They are also now for sale, for your own enjoyment.

~~ The Boudoir Rouge Poseset #2 ~~
~~ The Official Poseset for the Boudoir Rouge photo series
~~ From CodeBastard Redgrave

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THE STORY

This 40 poses set has been custom designed for the Boudoir Rouge photo series created by artist and photographer CodeBastard Redgrave.

You can see the Boudoir Rouge series on Flickr here:
http://flickr.com/photos/cbredgrave/sets/72157603777971430/

For more information visit the Boudoir Rouge homepage:
http://codebastard.com/boudoir-rouge/

They have been created by Alexx Markova on special order. 40 new poses have been custom made by Alexx for the remaining of the Boudoir Rouge series. This set focuses mainly on back shot poses, lingerie and intimate poses, as well as more classic pinup and boudoir style poses.

One important thing about those poses is they have been created and ajusted to fit my own avatar shape which is more curvy than the average woman shapes, making them fit for the round women as well as thinner ones.

I throughly reviewed, tested and made correction requests to avoid any limb or finger collision, cause as little articulation deformation as possible, and minimize clothing glitches as much as possible. With such tough revision cycle, I wanted to insure that I would have poses which requires less postprocessing.

This poseset is the product of a close collaboration with Alexx Markova and myself for all aspects of the process. Alexx did the all the execution and I helped him review and correct the poses for better photography usage. Of course I’m proud of having the opportunity to bring you this very special poseset.

I really hope you will enjoy those poses as much as I enjoyed working with them.

Very yours,

Codie <3

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This set contains the following series of poses:

Behind: Attention, Attitude, Coy, Distracted, Flirtatious, Kneeling, Listening, Queen, Sofa, Undoing

Classic: Abandon, Determination, Fey, Fireside, Flying, Frolic, Offering, Ravished, Vargas, Waiting

Seduction: Anticipation, Betty, Coiled, Heel, Inspection, Needing, Pounced, Seeking, Silk, Stocking

Sensuality: Coltish, Demure, Expecting, Extravagant, Lounging, Playful, Pride, Primping, Resigned, Rocking

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The Boudoir Rouge posesets are available here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Strata/30/43/41

I got commissioned by Jacek Antonelli of Cuddlefish Junction to make a demo of her Bubble Ride product, so I thought I could as well make it artsy and nice to look at. So I used Windlight to capture this movie, using a mix of presets and custom settings for the sky and water. I then made the final cut and editing using Sony Vegas.

Hope you will enjoy it, especially on this extended downtime day.

High resolution version available here:

WMV Format (60 megs very high res)

Flash Format (high res)

*drumroll!* Sorry for lagging that much, I was too busy to do a decent post announcing the winners for the Boudoir Rouge Photo Contest. Let me first say that this was for fun. And I had a lot of fun. And I was flattered and honored by every submission to this contest. Being your model was symbolically very important to me, it really honored me greatly to have you all doing that for me.

This said, one reason why I hate contests, is that I cannot make everybody win. I was tempted to take the whole L$12000 and split it in 10 parts and shower everyone. But as every contest, the point was to try to encourage talent. To those who didn’t make the cut, don’t feel left out, your work was all so nice it was very painful to have to choose just a few ones. It was in fact so painful that I added a 5th winner and ended up in a split that made me add L$1000 in prize money.

So, in reverse orders, the winners are:

5th PLACE: TIE (L$1000 each) - Jacek Antonelli and Harper Beresford

Jacek’s entry is awesome and got very little processing, all lighting and angles are from inworld lighting, and I like the portrait cut.

Harper’s an awesome inworld photographer. She may not postprocess but she definitely have much talent. The lighting, angle and framing are just perfect. Very good job.

4th PLACE: L$2000 - Cicciuzzo Gausman

I would have favored a larger format for this submission but never mind, it does look awesome. The hazy treatment, the lighting, the angle, the motion blur, the atmospheric is awesome.

3rd PLACE: L$2500 - Vint Falken

I mean…. XD…. Do I really have to comment? Hilarious, charming, flattering. Vint actually never took any studio pictures of me, it’s good if she took one single picture of me ever apart that. But her entry into the matter is spectacular, as she is. When I saw that shot, I laughed for the whole day. I ♥♥♥ that girl.

2nd PLACE: L$2500 - Elease Graves

This is actually my desktop wallpaper. Stunning. The treatment is awesome, and the mix with illustration too. I just want to lick it. Elease always impressed me and she just keeps getting better and better.

1st PLACE: L$5000 - Mylena Aquitaine

Gosh girl! That kicks ass. The whole 4 picture set is outstanding. The lighting, soft ambiance, but especially the angles and her choice to do what I cannot do with Boudoir Rouge, use framings where we cannot see the faces. But she dares doing it, and with delicious results. I picked this one as my favorite but each of them submitted were pure delight. You deserve that 5K up hand Mylena.

I want to wholeheartedly congratulate and thank the other participants to the contest: Amanda Shinji, Véronique Lalonde, Osiris Pfalz, Rheta Shan, I know you girls knows I ♥♥♥ your pictures and I will pay your prize in kisses and ♥♥♥.

OUT OF CONTEST HONORABLE MENTIONS

The following pictures were submitted out of the Boudoir Rouge Photo Contest period but were too outstanding to avoid. There is 3 posts that especially got my attention and that I would like to share.

All winners will get their prize inworld tomorrow night. I am so honored and proud of all of you participating and coming to my humble event to encourage me, your friendship is dear to my heart and I shall honor it. Much ♥♥♥.

Codie

I am proud to announce that I have been requested by Koinup.Com to be a judge and to provide MachinimaCam as prizes for the new Koinup Second Life Music Video Contest.

Here is the integral communique:

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Videos and Music tell more than thousands words! So we had this idea to create a Second Life Music Videos Contest.

The theme is totally free. You can create a video, which features your first 100 days in Second Life, or create a whole story, directing other avatars! Otherwise, you can show us footage from your favorite sims. Or just create a sequences of wonderful images and stream them, as a slideshow, Just remember to add your video a good soundtrack!

You can submit your entries from April, 2 until April, 29.
The winners will be announced on May, 6 here and on the Koinup Blog.

Here are the latest entries.
Rules and Guidelines

• In order to take part in this contest, you must have an account on Koinup. Registration is free and takes only a few seconds.
• All the videos have to be shot in Second Life.
• Add some good soundtracks to your videos. Remember: all the entries have to be music videos!
• All the submissions in the contest must be tagged with this tag:
  secondlifemusicvideoscontest
  (copy this tag and paste it in your entries)
• Videos can’t be shorter than 1 minute or longer than 6 minutes.
• We accept .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .wmv, .asf, .avi formats up to 150 MB in size. We do not support files with more than 2 audio channels and Windows Media Audio Professional (WMA Pro) audio codec.
• Submissions can’t be videos already hosted on Koinup. We accept videos already published on other websites. So if you have a machinima that meet the rules, you can submit it!
• Videos must remain on Koinup after the end of the contest, but you are free to publish them also on other websites and blogs.

PostScriptum: Don’t you know how to tag pictures? Look here!

Here are the latest entries.

Regarding the music

Some SL musicians has been so kind to gave us permissions to use their tracks as soundtracks of the contest!
Here are the links to download:

• Funk Shepherd & Dizzy Banjo
• Lyn Carlberg
• Melanie Fudge
• Rich Palmer
• Kim Seifert

Pay attention:
you can use these songs, but only for the contest. you have to type credits (authors, titles and links of the tracks you have used)
If you want use other music, we highly suggest to use only contents released with Creative Commons licences. You can find good sources of CC music here:
http://ccmixter.org/
http://creativecommons.org/audio
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Music_Podcasts

Winners and Prizes

The price is totally Amazing!
20,000 L$ plus the MachinimaCam created by CodeBastard Redgrave.
MachinimaCam is an effective and highly useful tool to control your SL camera and help you to make machinima.

Winners will be selected by our authoritative judges: CodeBastard Redgrave and Tao Takashi.

There will be three winners. Two of them will be selected by our jury. The third one will be the Community winner and will be selected by the Koinup Community.

How become the Community Winner? Well, your video will be the community winners if it will be the coolest once submission will end. Coolest video is the most commented, faved, viewed!
Here you can find exactly what is coolest on Koinup.

Here are the latest entries.

Hope you will be a large number to participate!

Here is a contact sheet with all of the Boudoir Rouge Photo Contest participants. I have those the winners, results will be announced tomorrow night. Until then, much ♥♥♥.

Pool is closed for the Boudoir Rouge photo contest submissions. I will choose the winners and send the prizes tomorrow, as I is too tired. To see all the entries, check the Codie’s Redhawtness Flickr fan group.

Thank you so much to those who participated, all entries touched me to the deepest point. I’m so grateful that you people even took the time to participate, because I know it surely wasn’t for the meager prize money. You all took the time to picture me, and made me beautiful through your own eyes. This was for me the whole point of it, inverting the role I played as the photographer behind Boudoir Rouge, and making myself feel like a worthy model. To those who thought I was worth it, I lay on you millions of kisses and huggles. ♥♥♥ you.