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About Us | Services | Index of Major Projects Fox and Ground Construction Company is a real business in the Second Life® virtual world. We help to create the virtual world that millions of people worldwide share, by creating and building the islands, homes and other features that our clients and other people will use in that world. If you own or rent land within Second Life®, we can enhance the value of your property by sculpting the terrain, doing landscaping, and building custom structures. We can locate, obtain and set up content made by other creators, such as swimming pools or multimedia systems. We can also act as a general contractor, hiring and supervising teams of content creators on larger projects. We work on projects as small as a single parcel of land, to projects that span multiple sims. Staff information: Ceera Murakami is my primary character, or avatar, in Second Life®, and is the owner of Fox and Ground Construction Company. She appears most commonly as a female three-tailed Kitsune with red and white fur, or as a single-tailed anthropomorphic red fox, and less frequently as a female Human. She is also a senior staff artist at Textures-R-Us (TRU), with over 1000 custom textures of hers available for sale at TRU. Contact her by e-mail at ceera@polyhedrongroup.com. Feral Mill is Ceera's twin brother in Second Life®. He occasionally assists with building and texturing work. He appears most commonly as a male anthropomorphic red fox, and less frequently as a male Human. Starchaser Webb is an artist and script coder who occasionally works for Fox and Ground Construction Company. His primary appearance is as a male anthropomorphic winged fox. Starchaser also owns a Real World business called the Polyhedron Group, and he owns the web server and Internet domain that hosts the Fox and Ground website and our e-mail services. Marko Saito is Ceera's Partner in Second Life®. She appears most commonly as an argent-furred, female nine-tailed Kitsune, and is our staff creative consultant. Miz Phobos is a black-furred Kitsune who is our sound effects and media specialist, as well as a talkented scripter. Kazuki Iuga is a male anthropomorphicFennec Fox who is an apprentice builder. Kendrew MacKay is a male Human who assists with security testing, and is a staff builder. Jamie Amaratsu is a male anthropomorphic Fox who is an apprentice builder. Whole-sim and multi-sim terraforming Imagine having a completely new look for your sim. If you own one or more sims, or if you have the cooperation of a private island sim owner who is willing to download and upload for you the .raw file that defines the terrain of a sim, we can use specialized software to edit that data file, or can create new terrain maps entirely, to allow an entire sim to be terraformed in a single upload. This method allows us to create perfectly seamless multi-sim islands, with terrain that flows smoothly from one contiguous sim to another. (Not available for Mainland properties.) Parcel Terraforming If you own less than a full sim, or if you have land on the Mainland, we can do manual terraforming using the in-world editing tools. Within what is allowed by the parcel's terraforming limits, we can do what is needed to make the land more suitable for the foundation of your building, or excavate areas for a swimming pool, or make other changes. Sim design and planning We can take your rough concept and produce a detailed project plan, with measurable project milestones and estimates of costs for each phase. All of our larger projects start with a detailed plan of this type, so the client will be able to approve the conceptual design before work begins. Let us do the research to determine how best to bring your dreams to reality within Second Life®. General Contractor We can hire and supervise teams of content creators for larger projects that need to be completed faster or which require specialized skills. We can also search for, obtain and install products developed by other content creators, to provide specialized furniture, pools, and other features for your project. Custom built homes and other structures Ceera and her staff are skilled builders, scripters and texture artists, able to make anything from low-prim starter homes to elaborate palaces. We can produce custom photo-realistic building textures to bring your buildings to life, and add a fantastic level or realism. Landscaping From a simple garden, to a hillside vineyard, to all the plants required for an entire multi-sim area, we can do the landscaping for your projects. We can also make custom plants, for cases where you want to use a species or type of tree or bush that no one in Second Life® sells. Land management services We can set up parcel divisions, parcel level or sim level access controls, and local or sim-wide security systems. We can also assist in the day-to-day management of sims, acting as a representative for the sim owner, to deal with residents and help to resolve problems. |
