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Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life®

Second_life_adavanced_content_creat By Aimee Weber, Kimberly Rufer-Bach and Richard Platel

Published by Wiley, November 07

Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life is the exclusive, official book on creating everything from buildings and clothing to landscapes and animations for Second Life. Included is a CD packed with resources, including before-and-after files for the tutorials, clothing and character templates, machinima, relevant software demos, and other resources provided by Linden Lab...

Co-authored by noted residents and expert content creators Alyssa LaRoche (Aimee Weber in Second Life), Kimberly Rufer-Bach (Kim Anubis), and Richard Platel (Wednesday Grimm), this official, exclusive guide follows a logical progression that builds upon a reader’s skills so that new and intermediate content creators will quickly become experts.

About the authors
Alyssa LaRoche (New York), a.k.a. Aimee Weber in Second Life, is the founder and CEO of Aimee Weber Studio (www.AimeeWeber.com). The studio is one of the largest content creation companies in SL and has worked with such organizations as The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Society, American Cancer Society Relay for Life, American Apparel, Warner Brothers, and the Exploratorium. She also writes for AOL's Second Life Insider (www.secondlifeinsider.com) and is a frequent speaker on virtual worlds.

Kimberly Rufer-Bach (Clarksville, TN), a.k.a. Kim Anubis, is Owner, Designer, & Producer of The Magicians (www.themagicians.us), one of the oldest, most innovative content development companies in Second Life. Clients include the British Council, University of California Davis Medical Center, Global Kids, NASA, and New York Law School.

Richard Platel (Toronto, Canada), a.k.a. Wednesday Grimm, has been a Second Life  resident and LSL scripter since the public beta in 2004 and has been a professional software developer for over 7 years.

Paperback Original;  £21.99/30.10 EUR; ISBN: 978-0-470-17114-1 

For a review copy or competition copies please contact:
Alicia Barker - E: abarker@wiley.co.uk, P: 01243 770573

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