Second Life Furry Avatar Tutorial 03 - General Textures

A short tutorial showing a few methods for making avatar textures. These methods work for anything from heads to legs to paws.

Note that this tutorial is for Photoshop, though you might be able to adapt some practices for other editors.

Additionally, in regards to the opening, it was because someone was worried that I might think he was trying to copy my avatar with his build. :P Note that I condemn blatant copy and theft, but it's perfectly understandable if your style mimics another designer's.

UPDATE: Note that I will regrettably no longer be continuing my avatar tutorials. I was hacked several months ago, in February of 2009, by the group known as Dwi'Tek and, due to other complications as well, forced to abandon Second Life altogether.

I hope what I have made has helped you all so that many avatar designers may take my place.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• second
• life
• furry
• avatar
• tutorial
• photoshop
• texture

[Kainiac222]

Your Wolf-Avatar looks sooo awesome!!!

I really like him!!!^^

Did you create him on your own?

[ZombieZephyr]

@Kainiac222 yep

[Kainiac222]

@ZombieZephyr Awesome Thing!!! Do you also sell them? (I want to have a Wolf Avatar in SL, too. But I don't know where to get them^^ Creating on my own is a little bit difficult for me, you know^^)

[ZombieZephyr]

@Kainiac222 I quit SL like 3-4 years ago. :U I used to be the biggest avatar designer on the teen grid with Sylver Bu. (I also made weapons and that's actually how I paid for my simulator though :P even on TG's poorer economy. But the grids are merged now anyway).

But yeah. I no longer play. The game was fucking with my head and making me a social wreck. Plus the hacking didn't help in the matter.

[bluewulv]

Can you add a third color, like making the ears black? Sorry I didn't ask this earlier. I know, I'm really bad at that <=) Thank you for all your help.

[ZombieZephyr]

@bluewulv Anything you can do to an image you can apply to a prim in-world. Textures are merely images that are applied and stretched over the mesh.

[CatFoxB]

i liek what u did on this butgood one man

[RachelTheFurry]

nice furry!!! <3

[TheLoneBit]

I know that sounded like portal in the begining by the way the cake is a lie.

[maruku0]

@XxwarriorwolvesxX *You, *Compliment, *You, *I, *I'm, *there's, *Explain, *Your, *Month, *I'm going to, *You, *Your. next time you insult someone and then block them like a coward, at least try and use proper grammar, because from everyone elses stand point, you look like an idiot.