Misc: Blog Button

Hey all! If you linked to my site using the blog button over there on the right hand menu, please update your image link! I recently switched from Photobucket to flikr because I keep going over PB's monthly bandwidth usage limit. (It's only the 12th and I've already used over 50%.) It would really help me out if you update your link! Thanks!

Here is the correct URL for the button:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5505/9270308473_6b2e9b8a93_o.jpg

Misc: Thank You! and Site Maintenance

You may be noticing most all of my pictures are now "broken" links. Thank you Photobucket! And I should say Thank YOU! With the recent influx of traffic this site has been experiencing, my bandwidth usage on PB has increased. So much so that they temporarily blacked out my account. It will be sorted out very soon. I will be moving to flikr, but that is going to take a while. Meanwhile, sorry for the broken image links. The black-out will be lifted at the first of the month. Again - THANK YOU!

Misc: Clip Tool For Blender (New Location)

Just a little heads up for people who make poses and use OrangeMitten's Tutorials and A's ClipTool plugin for Blender. Their original site is gone.  Quoted from a post made by A on Simlogical:

"Sorry about that, my fault entirely.  I did something really stupid, and managed to recover some of it and recreate it at a new URL:
http://sims3cliptool.wordpress.com "

I know I panicked a little bit when I discovered their site had gone missing, so I thought I would help spread the word about the new location.  I've updated the link on my sidebar.

Misc: Pose Themes / Survey (Results)

The results of my little survey are in:

Theme	Votes
Strongmen (circus)	0
Contortionists	2
Couples (pg 13)	7
Broken Doll (modeling)	3
Vaulting (equestrian acrobats)	0
Pinups/Vargas Girls	4
Pole Dancing	1
Other? *	3

* It would have been nice if the people that voted "other" had left a comment mentioning what that might be.

So... That gives me a sense of what at least a tiny corner of the pose-consuming market has a hankering for. Of course, I will still probably do whatever random thought pops into my head at the moment, but it's nice to have a sense of what others might be needing. Thanks to all of those who participated!

Misc: Pose Themes / Survey (Closed)

Over the past six months (or however long I've been making poses), I have started a bunch of different collections but never finished them. My mind wanders, what can I say? I've also collected tons of ideas for things I'd like to do. I'm more than happy going along making whatever suits me at the moment, but I'm curious as to what the pose-consuming public is craving.

You'll notice a little survey over on the right side of my blog. It's just a little list of things that I've either started or have a mind to work on eventually. Help me out and tick of the themes you'd be interested in seeing (you can select more than one). If there are other themes that the pose universe is lacking, drop me a comment.

Just to be clear - this is NOT an invitation for requests! I'm just looking to get a sense of what people might want to see. I'll probably still do whatever the heck seems interesting at the second... but you never know! ha-ha!

Finds: Old Fellow Ranch Poses

Today I'd like to share another "Find". It's actually not a new find (for me), but more of a re-acquaintance. It's a German site called Old Fellow Ranch. Apparently they moved to a new site and I finally found it again! Anyway they have *tons* of really well done horse poses. Clearly this person has spent a lot of time around hoses and it really shows in her work. Anyway, the site is well worth a look-see if you are in the market for horse poses. And what I like is they have a lot of western style poses.

Happy 20K Views!

Oh my golly gosh! I stopped in to do some administrivia on the site and I noticed that it's broken 20K views! I am well and truly flabbergasted. It was just a couple of months ago I was wondering if I'd ever hit the 2,000 mark. I'm guessing it's because of the custom poses because my other works never got nearly this much attention. So keep your eyes "peeled", there will be new poses coming very soon! Anyway, thanks for dropping in!

Finds: Decorator's Best Friend from Virtual Artisan

While you are waiting for me to get off my rear-end and upload something of my own... Check out this piece of awesomeness from Misukisu!

Virtual Artisan: Decorator's Best Friend: Move stuff whenever you want. No cheats, no OMSPs.

A question for you all!

Dear Sim-Loving Friends,

You may have noticed that my page has gone un-updated in a while. That is partly due to RL stuff and partly due to creative block.  Unfortunately the creative block continues insofar as building is concerned.

Right now my main creative outlet has been pose-making.  I realize that I haven't posted a new pose-pack since last October, but I have actually been hard at work on several new pose packs.  In fact, I have 3 new pose packs ready to go right now (and one of them I've had ready for about a month.)  What's the holdup, you ask?

Up to this point, I have always published my poses on ModTheSims.  Mainly this is just for the visibility they get there.  As you may (or may not) be aware, ModTheSims is doing "spring cleaning" (a little early/late being as it is still Winter/Summer depending on the hemisphere last I checked).   They are clearing out their upload queues and preparing for a mystery "update" to the uploading process. As such, they have temporarily stopped accepting new submissions. This started on January 15th (the day I was getting ready to upload a new pose pack.)

It is now February 17th (as of this posting) and still not indication of when they will be accepting new submissions. (I can guarantee you when they do start accepting them, they will be flooded with new stuff).  I now have 3 new pose packs completed and ready to go. My question to you all is this - Should I:

1. Hold out until MTS is accepting new submissions, however long that might take.  (Keep in mind that under normal circumstances it took upwards of a week for MTS to accept/reject submissions in the past.  After they open their floodgates again, who knows how long it might take.)
2. Post them here now.  Then later, when MTS is accepting submissions, upload them there.  If MTS asks for changes (and they do occasionally ask me to make changes), do so and update the post here as well.
3. Post them here now.  Then upload them to MTS later.  If MTS asks for changes, politely decline and accept that they may be rejected.
4. Post them here only.
5. Other?

 Please vote in the poll in the sidebar or leave a comment letting me know what you think.  Or drop me a line through TS3/MTS/TSS/TS3CC.  I go by "k2m1too" on all four sites.

EDIT: Thanks to those that posted comments, voted or contacted me on other forums!  The consensus was to go ahead and post them here.  I may or may not upload to MTS once they start accepting uploads.  (We'll see...)  Anyway, thanks again and stay tuned - INCOMING!

Coming Soon!

I have a new pose pack in the moderation queue at Mod The Sims. I will post them here just as soon as they are published there. Until then, here is a little preview!

To whom it may concern

Someone, unbeknownst to me, reported my 4Shared account for abuse/copyright infringement because of my Gymnastics and Gymnastics 2 pose packs. If there is some reason someone thinks there is an issue with those pose packs, I would have appreciated them coming to me about it. I would very much like to know whose copyright it was they thought I was infringing on or why they thought there was some abuse involved with those specific packages.

Grand Re-Opening!

After a too-long hiatus, I have finally gotten the old blog dusted off and updated with all of my latest creations. All of the broken links and missing slideshows should now be corrected.  Yay!

On an additional note, I am now making custom poses for use with cmomoney's Pose Player!  As a Grand-Reopening gift, I have uploaded my first 3 pose packs.  My first two packs, "Airs Above The Ground" and "Take A Bow" were submitted to Mod The Sims. But, from here out, I will post them here.

Enjoy!