Oh my, September was such an eventful month. Apart from all the amazing designs that were released into shop, gSm also added new categories! It's time for a recap!!
Stats Stats Stats!
Stats, stats, we love stats. We've again kept track of the community shop drops and created this graph for you*:
*This is all done by hand, so do take the data with a grain of salt.
The community designers have released 233 drops with 1.492 items in August. That makes for a total of 1.189 drops and 6.786 items since the launch of the community design tool.
| Drops | Items | |
| April | 10 | 60 |
| May | 278 | 1291 |
| June | 165 | 862 |
| July | 254 | 1571 |
| August | 249 | 1510 |
| September | 233 | 1492 |
If you want to see more statistics about your own or your favorite designer, do check out the designer statistics page. You can either find it by clicking the icon behind the designer name on the item page, or find it on your/their profile under their model 'my designs'.
Witchy pumpkins
Fall has come and the spooky season is here, and that was shown in the community shop! Look at these beautiful magical pumpkin fits!
1. Lulu.
2. Petrikor, melon soda
3. Ellie
Spooky season
But not just witches and pumpkins entered the shop! Spooky figures filled the shops. From bloody figures to zombies, to claws... these first looks are an amazing start of the season!
1. Lamentar, Anarki, Shymallow
2. tinkerbel9, Marshmellow, Britelia, Chizumi
3. cries, Atreides, lovely-you, Hayoko
Animal prints
This month the community shop also hosted a large amount of animal print items. And these don't even include all the fur items. There were to many to fit on a few models.
1. trashyblonde, melon soda, cheat
2. Auxiliary, Mommy
3. chaiii, Yuuni
Reach for the stars...
Between all the spooky and cosy fits, there were also some amazing galaxy, neon, science fictionesc fits.
1. Naze, Fellan
2. LauraNadinex
3. MioArt
Come and play a game!
And there was enough eye candy for people who love a game or gaming. A round of cards, a collectable doll or did you recognize the game items and which games they're from?
1. Hayoko, lovely-you, Chizumi
2. Millzam, supermickan, missinat
3. Vixetoria, Teddirachi
After making the Ode to the Mushroom hat, we didn't expect there to be so much more mushroom hats. It may not have made the September themes, but keep it up and it's for sure going to be the main theme in the yearly recap.
You may or may not have noticed that some designers like to share a little bit of extra information with their items. Sometimes it's to highlight the inspiration, and other times it's not that deep. Have you already added info to your items? Maybe this will inspire you!
- Not all items are 'silly' items. The community designers have eyes for high fashion. Check out this dress from meganinthewoods.
- Sometimes it's really not that deep. If you want something, make it! Just like MioArt has done with these items. Although that's not to say that MioArt is never that deep, because this is lore!
- Or take inspiration from Petra1999, who has stated pure facts in the designer comments.
Check this out!
Again we've hunted down some resources for all designers to learn from. And this time we actually have a fun new features as well:
- The return of the designer spotlight is a fact! If you've missed it, we've returned designer spotlights where we interview designers on who they are, their inspiration and their process. Here are the first 5:
- Cries has created a magazine where she explains how she designs hair, check it out here!
- If you've created a tutorial, process video, design highlight or something else that may be interesting for this section, do let us know <3
This is already the end of the recap. Have a good October! Are you ready for Halloween? What items are you still missing to finalise your Halloween costume? Let us know down below in the comment section.
Stay creative!
Love you all <3