The avatar name is…

Skylar! (can also be spelled as ‘Skyler’, the letter which never appeared in the avi names before would be Y)

It also was a pretty popular guess and there were 19 entries which got it right.
So the very first person who guessed the name right is getting the avatar and 15K, but the remaining 9 winners were picked by lottery among 18 who got the name right..

The winners are:

1. SkyVikirnoff (avatar + 15K credits)
2. ScarletSiara
3. llChana
4. Covet (tall)
5. Ismeny
6. Polar
7. Eux (tall)
8. Pastel
9. Sera
10. spiceyMelody

all of you will be getting Skylar avatar once she is released!

As for everyone else, thank you so much for trying!:)

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Hint1: 6 letters
Hint2: starts with S
Hint3: has 1 letter that never appeared in names of my avatars before (still/’nameless’ avatars excluded)(note the Avatar page hasn’t been updated since Katerina)
Hint4: the name is rather rare, although it’s been getting more popular lately. It is considered a girl name, but it can as well be unisex.
Hint 5: there are 2  ways  of spelling it, with an A and with an E. both will be accepted as correct, although it’s the variation with an A

PRIZES:
I will be giving away 10 avatars to those who guess the name correctly.
If I get less than 10 correct answers, the rest of the winners will be chosen by lottery
1st person to guess the name correctly will also get 15K credits

TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONTEST:
+ Simply leave a reply to this post with 5 avatar names
+ Put your own avatar name in the Name field.
+ You don’t have to leave your actual email address
+ Put up to 5 names in the comment area.
+ If you enter more than 5, only first 5 will count as your entry.
+ if you would like to wait for the tall version of the avatar, please make a note about it in the comment.

All of the comments will be hidden, but you will be able to see your own comment as long as your IP address stays the same
After the contest ends, all comments will be revealed

I decided to create a first to know mailing list about my new avatars, contests and some other releases. Facebook likes to filter out pages posts, so there’s a big chance you might be missing out on my fb updates and I’m aware not everyone is on Twitter, so now you can get the latest news straight to your mailbox!

[CLICK HERE FOR THE SIGN UP FORM]

!!! Please keep in mind that you will need to confirm the subscription via link sent to your email. If you didn’t get the email, please check your spam folder.

Here is each category explained:

Avatars: Get an email each time a new avatar is released + possibly some more avatar news like exclusive sneak peeks etc. Technically, this is the list for the regular height avatars.

Tall Avatars: Get an email each time a tall version of a certain avatar comes out. No other news on this list.

Contests: Get notifications about upcoming contests and giveaways (might not include completely spontaneous facebook/twitter giveaways though)

Derivables: Get newsletters about new derivables

If you would like to change the lists you are subscribed to, just click on ‘edit your subscription link’ at the bottom of the newsletter

Each newsletter will contain ‘unsubscribe’ link, so you will be able to unsubscribe at any time.

As for the avatars, because most of them come with custom hands, so far they haven’t been affected as much.
The only avatar that doesn’t come with custom hands, is Victoria (original, standard height version only), so now she uses the updated IMVU hands..just for the protocol, this was NOT a change made by me.

These updated hands look the same, but there is a small glitch happening with the left ring finger. Sometimes it’s more visible, sometimes not as much.

Also there’s a chance they might glitch with some furniture poses and other products..

They will no longer work well with layerable products like layerable nails, gloves, some rings etc.

So in order to use these layerable items and stop the possible glitches, you will need to use the original standard hands, I have them available here:
http://www.imvu.com/shop/product.php?products_id=4226760

OR you can use pretty much any other hands, nails created up to this date (as i’m writing this the latest product id is 24857XXX)

As for the other avatars, as for now they work fine. However, once some new hand meshes that were created with new avatar master files begin to pop up, that issue i mentioned above with the ring finger might become apparent when wearing the new hands.
so I haven’t made a decision whether I will be updating my existing avis with new xaf/xsf files yet.

Regarding my meshes/derivables:
The most popular mesh that got affected by this change is probably my Layerable nails for standard hands mesh

Imvu changed not just the left ring finger bone names, they tweaked the weights on both of the hands, that’s why these nails no longer align as perfectly as they once did.

Even though I could fix it, by importing the mesh into the new max file, reapplying the updated physique and exporting it using the new xsf file..i’m not convinced it would be a good idea.

First of all, we didn’t get any clear step by step instructions on how to fix different types products (derivable meshes, actions, avatars, accessories?..etc)

I never reuploaded a derivable mesh that had derives before, so i’m not sure about what should and shouldn’t be done.
I read that there might be a complication where all the textures in the derived products might turn white, and they would need to be reapplied by texturers again.
So I don’t want to be responsible on breaking hundreds of products, the texture files might now be missing, or devs who derived might not even be on imvu anymore..
And I’m not even sure if making that mesh compatible with current version of standard hands would be a good idea at all. It was intended not just for default hands, but also fingerless gloves. So even if it could get fixed for the hands, it might no longer work with the fingerless gloves which use the old hands mesh with old physique..

so i think it would be best to just advise the buyers who still use these nails to buy the original standard hands. They are exact same hands as those before the change, same mesh, same size and weights.
I have them available at base price here: http://www.imvu.com/shop/product.php?products_id=4226760

Same goes for the layerable gloves:

IMVU changed physique on both hands, so they don’t work with standard hands anymore, so please use them with different hands or nails

So, my new avatar is now almost finished:) but the promo stuff basically just started, so still alot to do before i can finally release it.
Like i mentioned before, this avatar will be AP.. and is basically just an experiment.. never messed with ap stuff before.. but now i thought why not use this as a chance to try something i could never do because of GA restrictions..
so the concept behind was to make a Naked avi, not just one not wearing anything, but also one that’s aware of its ‘nakedness’ too. maybe the concept got a lil lost in the making but at least it was what i was going for..
also another awesome news is that it will feature a skintone made by the amazing Anry! I just feel so honored she even agreed to this! so yes, the avatar will sure look amazing!:D
and now i’m thinking whether or not i should do a GA version of it.. from what it seems it would be a lil too much work as almost every pose would have to be reworked.. but it would be great to use it for modeling GA stuff too.. so that’s a maybe..
It’s weird that there are barely any official guidelines when it comes to poses. so when making my other avatars i just stuck with a self-madeup rule – keep the hands away from the mcg ‘red areas’. so when i started working on Valentina, at first it felt exciting and liberating to just do whatever i wanted without having to worry about keeping things ‘clean’.. but somewhere down the middle it pretty much got old as the only type of poses i could do were with hands on red areas, as otherwise it would be a waste of AP lol so tbh right i’m not sure if i ever make another ap avi again, we’ll see about that.

and one more thing slightly offtopic.. but at the same time it does affect how my work presents itself, so maybe not so offtopic:
the shoes.
so lately i bought alot of nice shoes, and was disappointed to discover that some of them weren’t weighted properly. the ‘foot’ is not ‘animated’ as the shoe is attached to calf bone and not foot bone. so thanks to that some of the poses look off.. as i create them thinking that feet will actually move. with Valentina, i made most sitting defaults with legs up. (which is a bit of a hit and miss when it comes to furniture compatibility n stuff, but i just wanted to do something differently this time). so yeah, the fact that feet don’t move dont help at all so sometimes they go through the chair when they’re not supposed to.. here is what i mean:

On the left – shoe going through the chair, as the shoe/foot joint is not bendable
on the right – foot positioned as it was supposed to because shoe is weighted to foot bone and not leg(calf) bone
so if this happens to you.. not completely my fault..

So that’s it for now.. be sure to stalk my twitter/fb, will post as soon as it’s available (and might even do some random giveaways too:)

Well, the meaning behind the white cat is basically that it’s rare and exclusive. Say, if you see a product with my logo made in white, it means that’s its an exclusive not really available for sale..

Same goes for my new white kitty badge…

Made it just for special friends, devs and customers and its not available for request, sorry.

But.. I’m doing a series of mini giveaways of some of the products that are not as easy to get. Every 3 days or so I will give away 10 of those, so for a start it will be Victoria eyes as a separate. Made them for personal use as I like wearing them with avatars different than Victoria, so if you like these eyes, here’s your chance to own them:

http://www.sinderellastory.com/contests.php

Good luck!:D