The Vault opens this month on the 8th, an event especially for accessories like jewelry, hats and masks. As an accessory store, of course Illusions needed to be there, and I already knew what I wanted to make. When I finished my Barocco necklace, and put on the mask and ear accessories with it, my immediate thought was "this needs earrings".
They're unrigged to allow you to reposition them and scale them up or down, and using the Barocco Necklace HUD will also change the textures and colors of these. After a lot of playing with my Barocco pieces, I had some versions that were too fine or too small and I had to make sure that all of the scaling was relatively consistent with the other pieces. I think I finally got a decent balance of fineness and size so that it's all cohesive. I'm looking forward to taking pictures with the whole set once I have a moment.
I also found some time to work on something else that's been on my project list since Fantasy Faire in April. More fits for the ear accessories!
Despite seeming like a simple ambition to adapt the ear pieces to different ear shapes, perfectionism took over. Just warping the pieces into place so they didn't clip through wasn't good enough, I had to make sure every element of every piece looked right on every ear. I love all of my ears and wear each on a regular basis, so they all deserved ear accessories that were made just for them. I didn't want to show any specific one special favor.
What do you mean, there's only four? Oh, right, yeah... I'm still working on the Sylph ones. They're hard to adapt for, okay? Don't worry, I do love my Sylph ears too, they're just taking me a bit longer and I didn't see any reason to hold up the other shapes in the meantime.
I'm also going to be sending out an update to the Elfin versions, so that all of the HUD's will work with each other. My goal is that you will be able to change all pieces of the set at once with one HUD. so you don't have to keep detaching and reattaching HUDs to change each piece.
The Vault opens on the 8th and runs through to the 18th. The Barocco Earrings are a Vault exclusive, but the ear accessories can be found there as well as at my store. Check them out!