SkinXFormer's Skin Mod: AION - Ballerina Outfit

For the past 3 posts, I have been showcasing armor mods, so in this post, I'll do a random outfit instead. As suggested by the title, it will be a Ballerina outfit. Hmmm...where did I get the idea to make a Ballerina Outfit? Well... In AION 4.0, NCSoft introduced a new class known as Songweaver, who uses Harp as a weapon and are given graceful animations (although their idle animation does gives a "stoned" or "lost" kind of feel, in my opinion ~.~ ). And, it is their motions that reminds me of ballerina in a ballet performance.

In fact, AION has plenty of examples for matching outfits to animations, such as Bruce Lee's fighting suit and his Kung Fu animations; boxing attire and boxing animations; diving suit and diving animations; baseball outfit and pitching animations; and the list goes on. Look at these images taken from AION NA's online shop, Black Cloud Marketplace.

Baseball Outfit with Batter animation
(Image from Black Cloud Marketplace)

Dragon Training Suit with Dragon Taunt animation
(Image from Black Cloud Marketplace)

Ninja Outfit with Ninja animation
(Image from Black Cloud Marketplace)

So, I thought to myself why don't I mod a ballerina outfit to match the Songweaver's animations. :3

I started off by searching the internet for examples of ballerina outfit and decided to mod a classic outfit, which is basically a tight fitting pink bodysuit with a tutu. In case you are wondering what's a tutu, it is the fluffy layered skirt worn around the waist or hip of a ballerina.

With the design decided, I then need to find some armors or costumes in AION that can fit those criteria. There are in fact several costumes such as "Ornate Butterfly", "Cute Devil Outfit", "Black Swan Outfit", that come close to the classic ballerina outfit. Unfortunately, they do not have that really skin tight effect on the torso area.

Cute Devil, Black Swan and Ornate Butterfly

Finally, I decided to use 2 separate chest and pants armors to create the ballerina outfit.

For the chest part, I chose to use the "Sea Feast" series armor because it has a pure skin mesh without abnormal protrusion on the skin surface. This gives the possibility to create a really skin tight effect required for the torso part of the outfit. Another reason is.... well you guys will see later. :p

As for the leg, I found 2 possibilities, namely the "Dreamstrider Pants" and "Kaisinel Legging". Both are of the skirt and panties design, with the skirt looking similar to a tutu (although not a perfect match >.< ).

In order to match the outfit, I will also need to source for a suitable shoe and this is a big problem. Why? That's because almost all AION shoe armors have heels! I am not sure how many shoes I had to look at before finally finding one without heels, namely "Remodeled Danuar Shoe". >.< Unfortunately for me, the shoe has a pair of socks like wrappings around the ankle, which I will have to live with. ~.~

Let us now look at the final result which includes a modified "Sea Feast Tunic", modified "Remodeled Danuar Shoe" and slightly trimmed "Kaisinel Legging".

Front View

Front View - Close-up

The outfit at torso looks really skin tight, isn't it? That's because the outfit is basically painted right over the skin surface. :p And oh my... Is she the most busty ballerina I've ever seen? XD This is the work of the "Sea Feast" chest armor's "Bust-boosting" effect, which I said you guys would surely notice. >.<