Getting Ready for the NSW Learnscope Workshop in Second Life
My explorations in Second Life continue, and I’m excited to be getting ready for a workshop I’ll be facilitating in Second Life next week for the NSW Learnscope 2006 August Workshop event. The workshop will be hands-on and a chance for some of the participants to visit a virtual world for the first time.
In preparation, I’ve been learning lots myself… including how to make some groovy items to share with the group on the day.
First off, I created some Second Life Tour T-shirts using Photoshop and some photos I’d taken in Second Life previously. These were easy to make using Robin Wood’s template, and I love the way the green one looks on my avatar. (And yes – for all those already requesting, I will make you one in your favourite colour! ;-p)
Creating Comics in Second Life
Today, I completed another groovy project – my first Second Life Comic Book! Using a tool called Comic Book Creator and my camera in Second Life, I managed to create a cool (but very basic) little comic book that provides some simple instructions on how to edit your avatar.
It was fun to make, and I hope will be a handy tool – either on paper in RL or in virtual book form) for the workshop participants to use in order to get a quick guide to beginning the process of creating their own virtual identity via their avatar.
You can download a PDF version of my HowTo: Dress Up Your Avatar by jokay Wollongong Comic here.
A Virtual Comic Book
Comic book complete, a virtual version was the next job on my list. I wanted to convert my 2 dimensional comic into something I could pass to others ‘in-world’ or for displaying at my spot in Second Life.
Using a groovy product called THiNC Book 2.0 by Toneless Tomba I managed to create a 3D version of my virtual comic book by uploading the images (after a little editing in Photoshop) and loading them into my book.
1. My first virtual book, 2. Constructing a virtual book, 3. Virtual Printing Press, 4. Printing my first virtual book, 5. Printing my first virtual book, 6. 3Snapshot_04022, 7. My first virtual book, 8. My first virtual book, 9. Mieke checking out the book, 10. HowTo: Dress Up Your Avatar – Page 1, 11. HowTo: Dress Up Your Avatar – Page 4, 12. HowTo: Dress Up Your Avatar – Page 5, 13. Dancing with Mieke
Off to the Virtual Printing Press
With that complete, it was easy to use the THiNC Printing Press to make a copy ready for distribution.
Check out the huge version I’ve added to my spot in Second Life – If If you want a copy of your own, visit my spot in Second Life and grab one – it’s free! 😉
Now… to my next publication! What types of info would you like to read in virtual book form?
(Wow!! I’m a self-published virtual author! Tee hee! Thanks to several of my friends in Second Life who gave me some great ideas and feedback!)
Thankyou for sharing your work Jo. I am inspired albeit daunted at learning about a new world through IT. I look forward in keeping up to date on your progress and shall live vicariously through you for now. Take care Monica 🙂