To celebrate the opening of my new Rouge sim, I commissioned my good old pal Alexx Markova for the third of the Boudoir Rouge posesets, containing 40 new poses, labeled Boudoir Rouge Poseset #3. Also, I decided to make a Boudoir Rouge Fatpack containing the 3 released posesets, for a total to 120 poses at a discount price.

All the Boudoir Rouge posesets are available at the new Rouge Boutique, click here to teleport directly to the store.

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 am really proud to introduce you a new 40 poseset that was custom designed for the Boudoir Rouge photo series.

They have been created by Alexx Markova on special order. 20 poses were already made by Alexx but already used for Boudoir Rouge, and 20 more poses, the Lingerie and Pin-up series, has been ordered and made custom especially for the picture series.

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:

Lay me: Charm, Frivolous, Intimate, Princess, Prowling, Red Hawt, Sultry, Take me, Temptation, Touch me

Naughty: Alluring, Booboobeeboo, Bootyful, Enticing, Lustful, Pervy, Shy, Smoking, Tease, Vain

Lingerie: 1-10

Pin-Up: 1-10

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The Boudoir Rouge poseset is available here at L$1500 for a 40 pose set:

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

First, a huge gigantic round of thanks to all of those who submitted a logo for that funny little contest. All the entries were very good, and all of them mean a lot to me, just that you took some of your precious time to make something for me. I am touched an honored, and found out a lovely trait about me in every and each logo designed by you guys. Much, much love to you all, you so totally made my day/week, and what the hell, you guys made my whole year.

Here are the contenders:

So, here’s the winners, in invert order.

*DRUMROLLS!*

3RD WINNER: STEPHEN VENKMAN

The only thing not good about this logo is that its not a monogram. Apart that, well it is quite me! Steph took a very nice capture of me to represent on this logo, a closed eye shot, my favourite kind. Stephen wins a complete set of Dramavatar stuff, including 78 pairs of eyes and shirts.

2ND WINNER: OPENSOURCE OBSCURE

This is a very nice monogram. Very nice idea too. Many people told me it was their favourite. With maybe slight modifications, this could become my secondary logo, like a watermark or a seal. Very good work, Opensource. Opensource wins a MachinimaCam, and all Dramavatar Stuff.

1ST WINNER: RYKER BECK

Okay before you go and think I favourited Ryker because she’s a sweetheart, think again. This logo has all characteristics I was looking at. It’s red, hawt, and me. I think I’m going to ask for a few little modifications, but basically, it’s perfect. Elegant, simple, classy, clever, a little naughty. Rings any bell? I can see that to sign my work, I can see that like a crown on my website, my first reaction was: wow! fucking awesome! Congrats Ryker, you totally deserve that win. Ryker will get $L4000, MachinimaCam, and all Dramavatar stuff.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

As I said, and I will repeat, ALL works submitted were awesome and all of them have something touching and significant. All entries were so cool that I decided that everyone will get a little gift from me, as a thank you. I love you all, thank you very much for participating.

Codie

Today Shockwave Plasma asked me if I had a personal logo, like the one that belongs to Tateru Nino. Tho I surely don’t have the cult following Tateru has, Shockwave surely thinks I’m hawt shit for asking me such a thing. Apart my standard signature, I don’t have a distinctive mark that can represent me.

I surely don’t have the time right now to design a logo for my personal use. Tho, it would be surely lovely to have something unique I could appose to my work or use around for fun, like a graffiti tag. So I had this idea that it could be a really fun to do a little contest, and ask for you lovely people to design a logo for myself.

The prizes:

• 1st prize: L$4000 cash, 1 MachinimaCam HUD, 1 Sakura Blossom Emitter, all Dramavatar eyes (78 pairs) and shirts (60 shirts), and a big valentine smooch from Codie
• 2nd prize: 1 MachinimaCam HUD, 1 Sakura Blossom Emitter, all Dramavatar eyes (78 pairs) and shirts (60 shirts)
• 3rd prize: all Dramavatar eyes (78 pairs) and shirts (60 shirts)

The rules:

• All entries to the contest must be posted as a link in the comments of this blog entry. No exception made.
• The logo must be a minimum of 1600×1200, for better scaling
• You can submit more than one work
• The 1st winner must provide the Photoshop and/or Illustrator files used for the logo.
• The 1st winner must concedes the full rights to his creation to me (CodeBastard Redgrave) since it is to be used as my personal logo. You retain the right to present your work as a porfolio item of course. I retain the right to modify it at my will.
• I do not engage in using the logo if you win. EDIT: To precise my intent, it’s just in case I feel no logo represents me. Very unlikely to happen but I’m of a careful nature.
• All works must be submitted before Feb 14th 2008 @ 12:00 AM Linden time
• Codie is the sole and only judge, will choose the 3 winners and will give out the prizes personally

Guidelines:

• Red is a must
• Monographic logos are better since they can be used in a single color or incorporated in other designs, but not mandatory
• The logo should be of a square ratio
• Bonus points if the logo looks good when embossed
• The logo can contain writing but should be as universal as possible
• If you are to use any of my previous work, please ask permission. Of course if you need inspiration, feel free to scour my flickr.

Have fun! I know I will checking out the entries. If nobody participates I will take that L$4000 and go blow it on something just to cure my sadness.

My sweet friend Ana Lutetia just made this most awesome list of the most popular SL shopping spot with direct SLURL links to please your immediate shopping addiction. Of course she was sweet enough to list my puny insignificant little store in there. Me lieks! TY Ana! *muah!*

UPDATE: Oopsie. Ana did a boo boo and erased the page, she had to put it on with another URL. Sowwy, here’s the corrected linky:

Ana Lutetia’s Shopping Directory

Emilysamber is an adorable, uber sweet girl I met in RL a few weeks ago. At first I thought she would think I’m a weirdo for passing so much time on Secondlife. But to my big surprise, she jumped in both feet tied, and became an instant SL addict, just like me. I will spend the details about our relationship, let’s just say she made me feel happy lately and Codie needed that.

She is so lovely in RL, when I saw her in this pityful state, I felt I had to do something radical to help her look as lovely in SL as she is in RL. As clever as she is, so focused and so aware of her own tastes, it was a real quick job to get results. After about 3h and 2000L later, we had her look like the real sweetie she is. She is a real redhead, pale skin and freckled. What could Codie want more. She wanted those characteristics on her avatar, so she got a makeover based on those requests.

• HAIR: Calico - Brandy Fire (also Ember 2 Fire and Tabitha 3) - 500L$
• SKIN: Tête-à-pied - Natural Makeup Almond #3 - 500L$
• OUTFIT: Silent Sparrow - Serendipity Suit (woman) - 500L$
• SHAPE: Sincere’s Cutie - Freebie
• EYES: Dramavatar Dark Green #8 (gave her Dark7 and Deep8) - 75L$ worth (gave her)
• SHOES: Tesla’s - Sculptie heels with ankle strap - Black - 349L$
• TOTAL: approximatively 1850L$

BEFORE TRANSFORMATION PICTURES:

AFTER TRANSFORMATION PICTURES:

I guess you will all agree, especially at that derisory price, that this makeover is a total success. Her avie is not yet as cute as she is in RL, but for a 5 days old avatar, i think she nows looks awesome enough to go in her Secondlife with self-confidence and with hope for the future.

Relatively to my last post about Flickr censoring german users from viewing mature contents, I decided to release 2 of my Dramavatar Mood Shirts in a special package to support our german Flickr friends. The 3 shirt package is only 5L$ on SLExchange.Com and can be used to show your opposition to Flickr censorship of german users, with a humorous twist.

Get the two special Dramavatar Mood Shirts - Flickr Edition right here on SLExchange

The package contains the two following shirts: Too Hot For Flickr, and Flagged NIPSA. I think those express very well some people’s frustrations regarding censorship on Flickr. You can also ask me directly for them by IM when I’m in-game.

You are not a german Flickr user? Lucky for you. But I support this cause because censorship can happend anytime, anywhere. Nobody is immune to it. It will happend more and more, so we better shift a gear and oppose it while we still can.

Also remember that this is not all of Flickr’s fault. If you are german and you are affected by it, protest your own governement, because they are responsible for Flickr censoring german users. Those puritanist morality laws are not to be beaten if you don’t go to your local representant and oppose them very firmly.

Down with censorship! Long live freedom of expression!