This is, obviously, the dress and shoes in SL. Click the image to get to its Flickr page to read how I set it up.

The image above shows my SL visualization of Lucas Cranach’s ‘St. Mary Magdalene’ painting. I photosourced the dress from my own, selfmade RL reproduction of a Cranach gown. Here’s what I call the ‘evolution of a dress’:

Now, while the dress is of course available at my alt’s store, Wunderlich’s, since yesterday, I’ve just released the shoes to Chopine’s store. As usual, they’re available in two versions – “Flat” and “High”…:

…and just like the dress, they come in no less than 16 colors:

As already said, the dress is available at Wunderlich’s, while the shoes are available at Chopine’s.

Hope you like the latest release

I would like to invite you to the Grand Opening of the new store!

The official opening will take place on Sunday, the 28th of March, 2010, from 9.30SLT to 12.00 SLT.
At 10.00 SLT, we’ll have the Metaverse Shakespeare Company as guests, who will entertain us with a play.
We’ll give gift cards and free shoes away at the opening!

The store is already up and running right now, there’s just some freebies missing, which I will put in place just before the opening. So don’t hesitate to already have a look before the Grand Opening!

I hope you will like Chopine’s – the work of more than four months went into the store and the shoes

Here’s the SLURL to the new store:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Falcon%20Bay/187/55/22

In case you should have any questions, please don’t hesitate to IM me, Chopine Aura.

Best wishes,
Chopine Aura

Which is why I take the chance to tease you with pictures of some of the upcoming shoes!
(Click them to see larger images!)

Marine Stilts (will be available in several colors):

Paint Stilts (available in color shown below and some metallic colors):

Black lace stilts (will be available in several colors):

Velvet flower chopines, as previously shown in my blog (will be available in several colors):

The historically accurate attempt on what Cinderella would have worn (will be available in several colors):

Spanish tooled leather Chopines, also a historical reproduction. The picture shows the ‘flat’ and ‘high’ versions in which I offer all my shoes.  These, too, will be available in several colors:

The grand opening will take place on Sunday, the 28th of March, 12.00 SLT, at my Main Store.
In case you’re an SL journalist or blogger and would be interested to blog any of these shoes, please read this entry in my blog.

Hope you like what you see – thanks for reading

Best wishes,
Chopine Aura

Have a tidily draped bed; an undone, ‘thrown’ bed or lie in the bed – the comforter will morph into the appearance you desire, and the entire bed will STILL be just one prim. This is NOT a temp rezzer, it’s a morphing, single prim sculpted bed with built-in poses.

There are three poses included with this bed – one that makes you sit at the end of the bed, one is sitting on the bed and another one is a custom made sleeping animation.
Those animations, too, are menu-controlled by clicking on the bed. They can be very easily adjusted by you by using the arrow keys on your keyboard, as well as the [Page Up] and [Page Down] buttons.

Here’s an example how both the appearance- and pose menus work:

The fact that this super versatile bed is one prim only does, of course, make it perfect for any Linden home. Of course, it’s available in several color-/material combinations, not just the red/gold shown above. The full range of materials can be seen in my XStreetSL store as well as at my inworld main store for sculpty furniture and art. Each bed costs L$ 250.

The bed is copy / mod / no transfer.
Please read the included notecard for details, if you’re not sure how to operate it even after reading this description. Of course, you can also try the beds out at my inworld sculptie furniture main store!

Each of these furniture pieces is one single prim only. They (currently, but that is subject to change!) come without any animations, but they’re copy and mod, so you can add your own:

They’re available as fat packs on XStreet, as pictured above, and also as singles at my inworld sculptie main store.

Also, I’ve created some single prim sculptie draped shelves, which work perfectly with the above shown furniture in a house as well as in stores.

In case you fail to believe that this is a single prim, I recommend taking a look at the following picture – click to enlarge:

The shelf is available in no less than 40 different material combinations (combinations of materials for shelf + drape) at my inworld sculptie SL main store:

A single prim bed, which can morph between various stages of ’neatly draped’ to ’someone’s lying in it’, and which will come with a custom sleep animation AND of course in several materials (all matching the ones already shown above!) will also soon be available; I’m already working on it – here’s a preview in Blender:

Here’s what the bed looks like in SL, with me lying in it:

Hope you like my low prim SecondLife furniture

Feet retinting / retexturing HUD preview (not the final version, but you’ll hopefully get an impression!):

A first draft for the redelivery terminal, just in case customers mess their shoes or the HUD up – first picture shows the terminal from various angles in Blender, second picture is taken in SecondLife:

Preview of a tooled leather Chopine (which will of course be available in several colors for SecondLife!) – this is a straight SL snapshot:

And this:

is actually a Hippo network vendor, which I made to look like a shoe box. It even has a gift option, and is just three prims.

Oh, and in case you want to take a look at the terraforming of the land Chopine’s store will be occupying in SL (and maybe even want to know where it will be?), then have a look at the map here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Falcon%20Bay - I’ve terraformed the store logo into the sand of the Second Life island

Hope you like what you see so far! Not much time left until the opening

Well, I’m finished, I guess.

This is what it looks like in SL now. NO postwork on this image, that’s a straight snapshot from SL, taken with ‘midnight’ settings:

Of course, the products are still missing; meaning the shoes. As you can see from other postings in this blog, I’m already working hard on them

Very bubblegum, very stylish, and still – very Chopine. This would, by the way, be a modernized version of this extant Chopine:

Have no idea yet if this modernized version will actually make it into Chopine’s store, but I nevertheless found it interesting to show the screenshot from Blender

The Chopines shown here by the way are the ‘embroidered Italian’ ones, which you may already know from one of the previous postings. This is basically a straight snapshot from SL with considerably minor photoshopping.

Here’s the original Chopine which dates to c. 1600, from the Ashmolean Museum, London, England:

That Chopine is covered with silk which was embroidered with colored and silver threads – just like this Court Mantua, which dates to c. 1740-45 and which I photographed at the Victoria and Albert museum, London:

From my photos of that Court Mantua, I photosourced the textures for my reproduction of the above shown Chopine.
This is what the finished textures look like when applied to the sculpties in my texturing software:

The trims around the vamp are still missing and so is the insole (which is actually another sculpty), but I guess you can already see how beautiful the textures turned out