Sunday, January 14, 2018

Innovative Products Of The Year

We are starting a new year with 2018 and looking back at all the products and destinations we have featured on our Innovative Product & Places Board (Located in the lobby of ISL Headquarters).
Each month our team finds the most innovative products and exciting destinations and feature them on the board with an LM or link to the places or products and added information.  We went through all of our choices from this past year and BBX Designs had more entries than any other designer.
We have written our praises on the talented creator, Aymec Millet many times in the past 5 years for the luxury yachts, clubs, homes and water vehicles because of the extreme attention to detail, high quality furnishing and animations and the high resolution textures.
We were really enjoying our cruise on the extravagant Queen Luxury Yacht by BBX (and still think it is the best luxury yacht in SL!) When they introduced the Dream House and we were blown away.
One of our favorite features with the BBX Designs' houses and clubs is the surrounding landscape with lawns, sidewalks, docks, etc. that makes it easy to blend the structure into your sim or in most cases even use it as a floating island.  Also the added vehicles such as boats, jet skies, cars and helicopters are outstanding bonuses.
THE DREAM HOUSE is a fully loaded mesh home that includes a one click day/night change system. Top quality furniture with HQ animations throughout and decorations.  Each object features precise lights & shadowing for that realistic effect. The Dream House comes with dozens of amenities such as the large living room with fireplace and high quality furnishings with great animations, Full kitchen with running water and animations, Bathroom with working showers and items like shampoo and perfumes, a library area, dining room with animated dining table and drink and food rezzer, Jacuzzi, large indoor swimming pool, fully stocked bar, spacious bedrooms and much more.
The exterior of the Dream home includes a large garage, yard with winding sidewalk that takes you to the dock and a helicopter pad. 
The house comes with a luxury yacht, speed boats, jet skies, a sports car and helicopter.  5 total vehicles that are drivable and very high quality with great details.  They come with a rezzer for temporary use or you can rez them and leave them.
You will appreciate all the thought that went into the Dream House and all the details like working blinds and curtains, running water on all faucets and steam, lighting effects, a great security system and of course the awesome couple and single animations throughout.
The Dream House by BBX is our choice for the most innovative product of 2017.



A close second place was the LUMIPro 2017.  The best photography tool and HUD in SL. LUMIPro is a HUD worn by the photographer that controls all aspects of lights worn by the model or yourself.  The photographer can adjust position, color, radius, etc.  You can use it no rez sims!  The built in posing system controls ten models independently and again, without the need to rez for pose stands.  It contains both projectors for perfect shadows and the best eye management system on SL as well as a camera and scene management system.  It come with 121 pose/positions.  LUMIPro is the
first available lighting system to use projection prim capability.  Since it's introduction, the LUMIro has changed photography in SL and is now a top seller.  Plus, Free updates!  They are always improving and adding to the LUMIPro so this is the only photography tool you will ever need.




Toys For Tots-Our biggest year yet!

Our annual Toys For Tots drive was a huge success!  A big thank you to all the businesses, stores and clubs who participated.  Our team hit the streets in early November to distribute the official Toys For Tots kiosks and we are happy to report that everyone we approached not only accepted the challenge but exceeded way beyond our expectations.  It was a close race but the winner of our grand prize was Jason Amoit, who's sim wide events collected the most amount of donations.  We nearly doubled last years totals which proves that Second Life residents are the most caring and generous people in the meta-verse!  Because of you, thousands of deserving children were able to experience a very merry Christmas.  You all rock!

Friday, January 12, 2018

2018 A New Year!

A few months ago, ISL group lost a valuable member.  Eliza Blackburn's passing was devastating to us all and we halted production both in-world and online for the past few month's.  We know Eliza would have wanted us move forward with our group endeavors and charity work so we have had meetings to discuss this new year.
Thank you to everyone for your patience and kindness and we have many great things planned for 2018.  RFL and Rock Your Rack events, highlights on some of the new and exciting features in SL and our annual fashion and media awards.
Stay tuned for a great upcoming year!