Archive for the ‘Erik Hugo’ Category

Texture thieves

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

I would like to focus on a problem that has risen in SL. At this moment people, or better, thieves are stealing textures due to a bug in the sl-client software. These stolen textures (skins and clothing) are being resold in sl or handed out freely… The creators who have worked so hard and devoted all their time to make all these beautiful things see their work being reduced to freebies.

This weekend I learned that Emilia Redgrave (who has created high quality clothing and who I admire very much) will possibly leave sl because of this. I completely understand this… If I learn that my creations are ripped and resold or given away, I’d stop designing too…

stop texture thieves

You can let Linden Labs know this matters and has to stop. You can do this by voting for fixing this bug in LL’s bug tracking system called Jira. You need to log in and then click on votes, to add yours. Here is the link:

Support SVC-676. Vote now

Website updates

Friday, February 1st, 2008

As you may have noticed on the website, I haven’t updated it lately. I’m currently looking at a way to incorporate some kind of tool to easilly update the items in the collection, and I have found it: Drupal CMS. It will however take me some time to figure it out completely, especially the graphic design of the system… And for the rest of the website… I noticed that some people somehow look over the main menu, and others who use it, look over the sub menu’s…. A redesign will need to be made somewhere in the near future.

SparkOne more new item has been released: Spark (why use only female names, I figured… ) This is the first complete outfit with a shirt and a pair of pants (and a lovely pair of panties haha..) The set has a ‘Trinity - Matrix’ kind of look… I hope to get some more stuff done this weekend… We’ll see :)

First items released

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

My first plan was to make all items and release them all at the same time. This, however, could take some time, especially with a very busy rl… So I altered my plan a little and decided to start selling finished items.

Ava 3.0The first items are online! First was Ava 3.0 which has been lying around from the time I designed the first Ava set (that is more then half a year now). Well, it is for sale, finally! All items are for sale in-world and on slexchange and onrez. Ava 3.0 is marked as ‘adult content on sl-exchange, so enable mature content if you go shop there!

Demi - blueOther items which are already in shop is the shirt called ‘Demi’ and it is available in three colors (there may come a fourth one…) The shirt comes in a set with a pair of matching panties. I also designed a standard vendor lay-out of which only the colors will be different for types of clothing.

pricing and permissions

Until now, all items I released were ‘copy’. I will change this into ‘transfer’ for all items and ‘modify’ for specific items (and I will also include this information on the vendor lay-out). Prices have been very low until now, and they will go up a little. Simple latex shirts will start at a price of L$ 245,- and for shirts or corsets with a lot of detail (belts, straps) it will go up to L$ 345,- A latex bodysuit in one color (top, bottom, gloves, stockings) will come at 295,- Complete outfits will start at L$ 495,- and will go up to L$ 895,- I will also release combination packages like the Ava 1.0 white set in combination with a colored latex bodysuit.

landmark to the shop

Since the shop is (still) situated in a skybox, a direct SLurl won’t work. I will therefore create a tp-unit on the ground under the shop and post the SLurl to that on the website!

Shiny progress

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Ellen in latexIt has been a while since my last post, and that is for a good reason. My rl webdesign agency is doing very well! We are happy and our clients are too! This, on the other side, limits the time I can work on the new ’shiny’ collection…

I have been walking around in-world to see what my competition has to offer and have grown aware of the fact that my designs are of high quality (at least, I think so lol). The designs created so far are straight forward and when I have a little more time on my hands I’ll have a go at more items like the ‘devil’ design

Ellen in latex on a new vendor designThe plan now is to start selling the new latex outfits when I have ten or so unique designs. They may come in different colors, but I won’t release each item in like twenty color variants… Next to the special outfits, I’ll be selling the ‘plain’ latex catsuits in normal and transparent variants in more color variants…

The Flickr site I’ve set up especially for posting pictures of my designs has had more visits than I expected! Comments are very positive and I hope to start selling the new items soon… (this still may take me some weeks…)

Ava 3.0And in response to two questions I received, asking me why the Ava 3.0 (worn in combination with a totally transparent catsuit by Ava herself on the picture to the right) design was never sold and if I am planning to put it in the shop I can say this: When I was working on the design I noticed a lot of these kind of designs were already on sale. I will however put it in my shop soon.

New Flickr account

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have opened a new Flickr account where I will post all pictures regarding my clothing design’s. This can be a complete new design, sketch, try-out, or shop / sale sign… This way I have one location to use as a platform for showing my designs and you will have the possibility to post comments and tell me what you (don’t) like about them! See you there!

Hugo’s fashion at Flickr

Latex catsuit

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Latex combination photo 1Ok, one more item about latex clothing and then I’ll post something different again… This is not a blog latex clothing only! It was Ellen who surprised me by combining two sets: the Ava white version set and the red cat suit I am currently working on (and after that other colors will follow too). These two items looked good together and I think this will sell in-world… I don’t know how I am going to market this, Ellen may get her own clothing label for these kind of outfits, the loves shiny rubber clothing!

latex clothing combinationWhen I look at this, more combinations come to mind… I will soon start making complete outfits and I will also open a Flickr website where I will post only images of (new) outfits I have created.

Red devil

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Red devilYou saw the shirt, and now the rest of the outfit is almost finished. The set is called ‘Red devil’ and it includes the ‘little devil’ red shirt. The outfit was originally designed for the picture you see here, worn by the lovely Kucinta Moody. It will soon be for sale, the first lingerie kind of outfit based on the latex templates I mentioned earlier on this blog. I have not decided yet if to include a bra too… I think I will :) to make it more complete…

More items are lined up to be released, I hope to have some time on my hands to do so!

Mature content

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Ava 2.0As I was updating my SLexchange and Onrez pages with the newest adition to the Ava product line I noticed that the original Ava (red) and Ava 2.0 (blue) were marked as mature content. (This was done on the SLechange website). This came as a surprise, because I was not notified bij SLexchange. I can imagine that some folks find the content of these two items a bit too ‘naked’ (while they do cover all naked bits :)) so…. so be it. You can still find the items behind the ‘unsencored’ filter.

Only thing that kind of bugs me is the mature content filter on the onrez website which which seems to be turned off after a few clicks (and which has to be re-ebabled again). This becomes tiresome very quickly… Sales dropped to a zero after the items were placed behind the filter. Now I know why…

A week ago I bought a pair of Cleric 2.0 guns at SLexchange. I checked other guns for sale too, off course these items do not have to be placed behind a filter…

Ava 2.1Other news is that I finished a new item. Well it is not really new, it is the Ava 2.0 set in the color black. Gloves and stockings are included in the set as well and the set is called Ava 2.1 (surprisingly)

One more other thing.. A few links of items to Onrez seemed to be broken and have been fixed. If you happen to find a broken link on this website, let me know!

LM of our shop changed

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Yes, is has… agian… Happy because we are now at a better spot. But on the other hand, the SL-url keeps changing so people visiting this site end up at an old location because I (yes.. all my fault) keep forgetting to change the SL-url. Well, it has been updated! Happy shopping eveyone :)

New item: Lita 1.0

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Sexy Ellen wearing the set LitaYesterday I finished one of the pieces which I have created a long time ago. This black colored set is called Lita and it is the first non-lingerie set I’ve created. (except for the Ava classic pieces..) Again, it is an aquired taste and you’ll like it or you don’t :) Comments so far have been really positive…

I will probably make a color variant of this piece since the original design was in the color red. The black version can be bought in-world and at onrez and slexchange.