Advanced Building Lessons In SL

Improving your skill sets as a builder can be a time consuming ordeal, especially if your an occasional builder or artist in SL. After looking at the basic tutorials and taking build class in world there's not a lot of information or training for advanced abilities that is easily found or available. I have come across a couple of places that give some great advice and information in a group discussion or training format that may be worth opening up a space in your groups to participate in.

The first is the now combined UWA / Burniversity Artist talks that happens on a monthly basis, some of SL most creative and unique builders and artist do an informal but information packed talk about special projects or building processes they use in world.

The group to join is either to attend these great sessions:

UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge - Hosted by Jay Jay Zifanwe and quadrapop lane ~ The UWA group has the largest Art & Build challenge in SL, a monthly contest going on for a yearn now half way through

Burning Life - Hosted by Dusty Linden & White Lebed ~ The Burning Life group is the in world version of Burning Man with a large vast knowledge base of every conceivable skill set needed in SL

Besides Introductory Building lessons occasionally some of the Building classes in SL have advanced techniques discussed, some of the more established schools will have a wider variety of information available at them.

Here's a few I have visited or attended over my time in world. There are many schools in world and I can't visit them all, so if you know of a good one please post it.

Builders Brewers
Fermi Sandbox and University
Happy Hippo Building School
Ivory Tower Library of Primitives
NCI Class Building
Oxbridge Class
TLE Educational Network

The other place to get some good advanced skills training is from builders and designers that sell build products. Off the top of the head I can think of a few, but remember these are places of business that are not build classes but belonging to the group does have advantages and information normally not obtained:

Kerhops Innovations
Skidz Partz & Sandbox Gate
Sweet Sculpties
To name just a few of hundreds available.

Finally the last good place to look is in Groups, the amount of information and knowledge that's shared in groups is over whelming. Bigger groups or extremely specialized groups will serve your interest best. So look on the search or ask fellow builders and store owners that specialize in build products or do what I like to do Profile pick look in peoples Picks to see where they go and like you will be amazed at the places and people you will find from profiles.

So look for build, texture, script, sculpt, animations, gestures groups to help you learn more about how to in SL. As always do the search and look in the SL Wiki for a starting point! Then start interacting and sharing what you know and find out something new. This is only the in world help available there is a whole universe outside of Sl with tutorials, videos and information available for you, so explore and post what you find that's good and helpful.

As always your welcome to post once you join the group and all questions will be answered. Your also welcome to drop by the in world Prim Pusher location to pick up tutorials and some builders texture tool box items.

Nyx