Rael Delcon has created a plugin exporter for the free Albatross3D modeling software that will allow you to make sculpted prims for free. Albatross looks like  a full-featured modeler and it works on WIndows, BeOS, and Linux. It even has a pretty spiffy Sculpting mode that lets you push, pull, and smooth the vertices of [...]

I think I have mentioned Jason Welsh’s (aka Canned Mushrooms) ZBrush tutorials in the past. Jason has an informative, casual style and I’ve learned more about zBrush from these videos than I have from any other source on the web. He’s recently updated his zBrush 3.1 tutorials with a whole new set of videos that [...]

I was sloggin’ through the SL Forums a couple of days ago and came upon a question about free ways to paint textures directly onto a sculpted prim. It sort of jogged my memory and I looked up a program I remember hearing about a few months ago called Blacksmith3D. I’m glad that I looked [...]

I’ve noticed comedian Drew Carey’s name pop up several times in the SL press lately. Seems like he has become an active member of our community. Here’s a sort of video introduction to SL that he has created for Reason.tv. This is a pretty well balanced presentation of our virtual world. I really like the [...]

GreenerBusiness 2.01: Virtual Environments from GreenerBusiness on Vimeo. Here’s a short documentary/report on the use of video games and virtual worlds as support platforms for environmental change.  “Second Life can be one of many tools that helps give other people that insight that there’s something beyond ourselves that’s worth preserving.” They also discuss a nifty [...]