Holiday Ear Cozies

    I've been keeping very busy this holiday season in real life, but I wanted to try and do a project for everyone as a little Christmas something. Between all of my other obligations, it took longer than I had hoped, but it was important to me to finish and get it out in time, so I made the time around everything else.  

 When I told my husband I was going to be working on new elf ears, he threw out the idea of putting little knit hats on them as a kind of joke.  I laughed out loud but found the idea rather charming and the image in my head was adorable.  An elf's ears wouldn't fit under a beanie or a tobbagoner, how do elves keep their ears warm?  Wouldn't they get cold? Not if they have ear cozies!

 I threw together these cute little knit ear accessories, complete with fuzzy pom poms, just in time for Christmas.  I think Fair Isle style knitting patterns are so festive, and the white fuzzy trim evokes a holiday feeling, but they're still perfectly appropriate for any cold weather setting.  They are rigged to fit both the Sprite ears and the Sylph ears, and work on all versions of ear lobes, gauged and ungauged.  They do use PBR materials, so keep that in mind if you are using a viewer that is yet to be updated.

Originally I had hoped to do more colors and patterns, and even a matching hat, but I realized I wasn't going to be able to get it done before the holidays.  If people really like these and there is a demand for it, I could always turn them into a Real Product with actual options.  In the meantime, these are available on the marketplace and my store on the twilight for just 50L.

*~*Illusions*~* Christmas Ear Cozies: 50L

Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice, Saturnalia, and whatever else you might celebrate.  Much love <3

Gauged Sprite Ears

     As promised, I managed to get together the gauged versions of the Sprite ears.  Thankfully, I was able to handily borrow from my work on the Sylph ears, skipping all of that pesky trial and error stuff!  These came together much faster and will hopefully bode well for future projects.

 

 

Skin by Gaupa, gauges by Chorrai, beard by  MrCoin

I've been playing with some masculine avatar shapes and treated myself to a new mesh head at the LeLutka black friday sale.  I think he's looking pretty good!  The gauges are made to fit tunnels and plugs made for Swallow XL gauged ears, and seem to work on all of the plugs I've tried, with maybe a little clipping on the back on some of them.  Pretty much the same situation as with the Sylph ears.

Skin by Amara Beauty, earrings by Faetal, cosmetics by Nuve

I had someone ask me about supporting darker skin tones, so I want to reassure all you rocking those deep colors that these ears will look awesome on you too.  I noticed that sometimes a skin might have an ear texture that doesn't line up as well with the elf ears, but a fun trick with the Velour skin tone standard is that another creator's ears might work.  Of course, there's also the three tintable ear bases in a pinch.  

I hope you check these out, I know a lot of people have been hoping for more variety in gauged elf ears and I'm going to just keep trying to plugging* away at them. 

out now on my store at the Twilight and on the marketplace:

*~*Illusions*~* "Sprite" Ears Gauged S for LeLutka Evo X: 300L

*~*Illusions*~* "Sprite" Ears Gauged XL for LeLutka Evo X: 300L

*see what I did there?

Sprite Ears

After doing all of the hard work behind making the new Sylph ears, of course I was going to make more updated ears! A special request meant I had to turn my attention to the Sprite ears next.  

Skin by Traditional Face, facepaint by Loa, hair by Sintiklia

These have a slightly more refined shape than the originals, with higher detail where it's needed and much more efficient geometry.  These are rigged to size up and down with the ear size slider, and can go from cute little pokes through your hair to big goblin-y ears.  Like the Sylph ears, these will move with the ear position settings on your LeLUTKA head HUD, and even move with animations if that sounds fun to you.

They come with the same seven sets of shading and highlight layers, meant to be worn with your Evo X ear skins as a base but also including three tintable bases if you need them.  I've seen some people wearing just the Evo X HD ear skins alone, and yeah I mean that looks fine, I tried to make sure it would, but trust me guys it looks so much better with the shading layers!  The vendor picture is shown with the Vivid Pink (Velour) skin tone which needed the "medium" highlight and shading layers.

I'm also working on the gauged versions of these, but I had a very busy Thanksgiving week and we're getting into holiday season so don't hold your breath for them, haha.  How is it December already?

The ears are out now on my store at the Twilight and on the marketplace

*~*Illusions*~* Sprite Ears Lelutka Evo X: 300L