sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ɢᴜᴇsᴛ: ᴀɪ sᴀɪɴᴛ-ᴘɪᴇʀʀᴇ - Ep. 11
Today's guest of NSLS is an amazing food creator.
Her store is named Mamere and it is like heaven for all the Second Life foodies! In her store you can find all the best Asian food and from all around the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the amazing: Ms. Ai Saint-Pierre !
Cla: Hello Ai, it's a big pleasure to have you here, thank you so much for accepting to be interviewed!
Ai: You're welcome. Thank you for giving us such an opportunity.
When we welcomed you to our team of bloggers, I thought you had an interesting project. So I am honored to be able to participate.
C.: Let's start our interview going back to the beginning of your Second Life. When and how did it start?
A.: My current avatar is the second. I built the first one over ten years ago to play with my cousin in France. I thought it would be a very interesting idea to live together in SL if you have relatives in far away countries.But after that, I got tired of it, so I left SL for a while. Then, about 7 years ago, my older sister started SL, so I started SL again.That's my current avatar.
C.: When and how you started to create food and decided to open your Mamere store?
A.: I used to collect food and do RP for restaurants. However, I gradually came to think that it would be nice if I could make food myself in SL. But it was very difficult. I tried modeling software called Metasequoia, but I was frustrated. And then some time passed and I was unable to work in RL since summer 2020 due to covid. Unfortunately my job was related to travel. So I lost my RL job. But I saw this as an opportunity and decided to start learning Blender.
I learned about Blender and Substance Painter from my old friends Ouka Ugajin from [[RH]] Design House and Ai Kiyori from Carpe Noctem. And we are selling products from 2021.
C.: Are you a foodie in real life? What is your favorite food?
A.: Hmm. I have a lot of favorite foods haha. But I think sushi is my favourite. I think I used to go out for sushi once a month before the Covid pandemic.
C.: If you had to create something different from food, is there something you would like to create?
A.: I studied 3DCG to make food, so I enjoy making food the most.
But I think it would be great if I could create restaurants buildings, not just food. I made a small container cafe once, but haven't tried it since.
C.: What does inspire you the most when you have to create a new food?
A.: Lately, I like to make my customers and friends favorite foods rather than what I want to make myself. So when I know what my friends favorite foods, I feel a strong desire to make it. For me, a product is only valuable when my friends are satisfied with it. I'm not a chef at RL, but this feeling may be similar to that of a chef.
C.: So you and Miyabi are the food designers of the store. What are your respective skills? What makes your creations different?
A.: Frankly speaking, I almost only make food. But Miyabi also makes things other than food. I started learning Blender because I wanted to make food. However, Miyabi started learning Blender because she wanted to make a stuffed animal animesh. Recently, she has become able to make animesh. So our products will be food and animesh from now on.
C.: Your other sister Erica is the store blog manager, what requirements a Mamere's blogger should have?
A.: Photo quality certainly matters. But people who are only good at photography are not suitable for our bloggers. We want people who love our product to be bloggers. So it is very important that our bloggers like to have conversations with us. If possible, We would like to be friends with all our bloggers.
C.: I know this is a busy time for you, with the holiday season coming. How are you doing with all the Christmas treats? Will we have a yummy SL Christmas?
A.: We will be releasing a lot of products this Christmas. First, we plan to collaborate with Ai from Carpe Noctem to sell Christmas cocktails and sweets at Arcade event. And we will be collaborating with More from Okinawa event to sell a Christmas dinner set at Okinawa event. So probably more than 20 kinds of our food and drink will be released this Christmas.
C.: Would you like to ask yourself a question and give yourself an answer to end our interview?
A.: Okay, will you continue to make yummy food, Ai?
I like the manga Shin'ya Shokud? (Midnight Diner). And the owner of the shokud? makes whatever food he can make and serves it to the customers. And I want to be like him in SL. So, I will continue to cook yummy dishes if my customers and friends want me to cook them.
Thank you so much Ai, for getting the time to answer this interview despite your busy schedule and for letting us know better about your great store and your amazing food!
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See you all in two weeks time for the last episode of Not so Late Show. Stay tuned!
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sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ɢᴜᴇsᴛ: ᴀɪ sᴀɪɴᴛ-ᴘɪᴇʀʀᴇ - Ep. 11
Today's guest of NSLS is an amazing food creator.
Her store is named Mamere and it is like heaven for all the Second Life foodies! In her store you can find all the best Asian food and from all around the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the amazing: Ms. Ai Saint-Pierre !
Cla: Hello Ai, it's a big pleasure to have you here, thank you so much for accepting to be interviewed!
Ai: You're welcome. Thank you for giving us such an opportunity.
When we welcomed you to our team of bloggers, I thought you had an interesting project. So I am honored to be able to participate.
C.: Let's start our interview going back to the beginning of your Second Life. When and how did it start?
A.: My current avatar is the second. I built the first one over ten years ago to play with my cousin in France. I thought it would be a very interesting idea to live together in SL if you have relatives in far away countries.But after that, I got tired of it, so I left SL for a while. Then, about 7 years ago, my older sister started SL, so I started SL again.That's my current avatar.
C.: When and how you started to create food and decided to open your Mamere store?
A.: I used to collect food and do RP for restaurants. However, I gradually came to think that it would be nice if I could make food myself in SL. But it was very difficult. I tried modeling software called Metasequoia, but I was frustrated. And then some time passed and I was unable to work in RL since summer 2020 due to covid. Unfortunately my job was related to travel. So I lost my RL job. But I saw this as an opportunity and decided to start learning Blender.
I learned about Blender and Substance Painter from my old friends Ouka Ugajin from [[RH]] Design House and Ai Kiyori from Carpe Noctem. And we are selling products from 2021.
C.: Are you a foodie in real life? What is your favorite food?
A.: Hmm. I have a lot of favorite foods haha. But I think sushi is my favourite. I think I used to go out for sushi once a month before the Covid pandemic.
C.: If you had to create something different from food, is there something you would like to create?
A.: I studied 3DCG to make food, so I enjoy making food the most.
But I think it would be great if I could create restaurants buildings, not just food. I made a small container cafe once, but haven't tried it since.
C.: What does inspire you the most when you have to create a new food?
A.: Lately, I like to make my customers and friends favorite foods rather than what I want to make myself. So when I know what my friends favorite foods, I feel a strong desire to make it. For me, a product is only valuable when my friends are satisfied with it. I'm not a chef at RL, but this feeling may be similar to that of a chef.
C.: So you and Miyabi are the food designers of the store. What are your respective skills? What makes your creations different?
A.: Frankly speaking, I almost only make food. But Miyabi also makes things other than food. I started learning Blender because I wanted to make food. However, Miyabi started learning Blender because she wanted to make a stuffed animal animesh. Recently, she has become able to make animesh. So our products will be food and animesh from now on.
C.: Your other sister Erica is the store blog manager, what requirements a Mamere's blogger should have?
A.: Photo quality certainly matters. But people who are only good at photography are not suitable for our bloggers. We want people who love our product to be bloggers. So it is very important that our bloggers like to have conversations with us. If possible, We would like to be friends with all our bloggers.
C.: I know this is a busy time for you, with the holiday season coming. How are you doing with all the Christmas treats? Will we have a yummy SL Christmas?
A.: We will be releasing a lot of products this Christmas. First, we plan to collaborate with Ai from Carpe Noctem to sell Christmas cocktails and sweets at Arcade event. And we will be collaborating with More from Okinawa event to sell a Christmas dinner set at Okinawa event. So probably more than 20 kinds of our food and drink will be released this Christmas.
C.: Would you like to ask yourself a question and give yourself an answer to end our interview?
A.: Okay, will you continue to make yummy food, Ai?
I like the manga Shin'ya Shokud? (Midnight Diner). And the owner of the shokud? makes whatever food he can make and serves it to the customers. And I want to be like him in SL. So, I will continue to cook yummy dishes if my customers and friends want me to cook them.
Thank you so much Ai, for getting the time to answer this interview despite your busy schedule and for letting us know better about your great store and your amazing food!
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See you all in two weeks time for the last episode of Not so Late Show. Stay tuned!
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