500
SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
100
FINISHED CUSTOM ORDERS
50
IMVU AVATARS CUSTOMIZED
500
HOURS OF WORK
5
DESIGN YEARS EXPERIENCE
1000
ASSETS CREATED

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Brought to you by Shiva - est. 2020

Shiva started creating on IMVU.com in 2006 and quickly rose to one of the most recognizable stores/brands on the platform. With millions in digital sales, she created Shiva.vu, a website dedicated to digital resources, as well as textures, meshes and custom content both for IMVU creators and digital artists alike.

Shiva.vu has grown to be one of the top visited and top selling resource websites in the digital world of IMVU, Sims, Avakin, Second Life creators.

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About Shiva.vu

Shiva.vu is a digital resource platform designed for creators in virtual worlds like IMVU, Second Life, The Sims, and Avakin. It provides high-quality digital assets, including textures, 3D models, and design elements, to help users customize and enhance their virtual creations. Whether you're crafting avatars, building environments, or designing accessories, Shiva.vu offers a curated selection of resources tailored to both beginners and experienced designers. The goal is to simplify the creative process, offering ready-to-use and customizable assets that save time while maintaining artistic flexibility.

At its core, Shiva.vu is more than just a marketplace—it’s a hub for digital artistry, a space where creators can access tools that empower their vision. By blending quality with accessibility, it bridges the gap between inspiration and execution, making virtual design more approachable and rewarding.

Shiva.vu's mission is to help creators and entrepreneurs grow their businesses by offering a variety of resources designed for success. We provide learning articles and tutorials that cover everything from the basics of digital creation to advanced business strategies. These are tailored to help you refine your skills, stay ahead of trends, and navigate the ever-evolving virtual world. Alongside this valuable content, you will find premium resources, including exclusive art, templates, and tools, that are designed to elevate your creative projects and streamline your workflow. To ensure your business thrives, you can check tips and tricks that are based on my own experiences—helping you tackle common challenges and uncover new opportunities as you're building your IMVU brand (or digital brand). These tips and tricks are usually included with files purchased, and can be valuable to both experienced creators, and newbies alike.

Whether you're looking to enhance your craft or build a sustainable brand, Shiva.vu equips you with everything you need to grow and succeed.

The articles and tutorials posted on Shiva.vu are entirely original, created with the intention to offer fresh perspectives and actionable insights. Each piece is crafted from my own experiences as a creator, blending practical advice with thoughtful reflections on creativity, business, and the ever-changing digital landscape. The content is exclusive to the website, meaning you won't find it anywhere else. I aim to provide not only step-by-step guides to help you master your craft but also in-depth articles that explore the psychology and strategy behind successful creation and marketing.

I plan on releasing content regularly, however there is not a set schedule. 

Custom products

At Shiva.vu, I specialize in creating custom mesh heads for IMVU, providing you with personalized and unique looks for your avatars. Whether you're in need of custom IMVU makeup for the face or lips, or seeking standout custom display pictures, I deliver high-quality and original artwork. My custom display pictures are generated using AI, then meticulously edited to enhance quality and ensure a fast delivery time, all while maintaining originality and avoiding any copyright issues. I work directly with clients through email or Instagram, ensuring clear communication and a personalized experience to bring your creative vision to life.

Custom IMVU products (face/lips) can take anywhere between 2 days to 10 business days to finish. I am able to recreate and references you send, however, the end work will always be made in my own style.

Custom artwork takes 3 days to finish.

Shiva, the owner

It might not come as a surprise, but my real name isn't Shiva. I signed up for this name on IMVU because it was easy to remember, short (great for a brand), and very familiar to a Dota 2 item (Shiva's Guard), a game which I loved playing. Still do, I mean the play part. The love part is still questionable hehe.

I've been creating on IMVU since 2006. I create products there, mostly textured products, but I also create digital resources.

In my free time, I go out with ze cute fluff, a German Spitz dog named Maya, she's very cute and talkative. She also knows when her feeding time is. By the minute - and she gets fussy and starts talking if the owners God forbid feed her 30 seconds later than her meal time.

I cook everyday. I think I love it because, to me, it's no different than drawing, or working on digital products - it's creating. It's somewhat artistic, and I really like that.

I do my makeup everyday, and I sometimes create my own makeup, at least the eyeshadows (I buy the pigments and binders online and just mix them myself trying to reach certain colors).

I play video games regularly and I plan on  launching my YouTube channel soon (sometimes I think that I'm funny in my head, and YouTube would be the best platform to showcase that).

I studied Computer Science and worked at Microsoft as a Software System Engineer for 2 years and a half before pursuing this path to create digital resources. The corporate life was interesting, inspiring at times, quite a harsh teacher, but it was also the bridge between my naive mind and becoming an adult. I believe that career path is always there in the background, but I needed to pursue a different career path, one that would allow me to have more free time to be able to focus on building YouTube one day. Do I have more free time now than I did working at Microsoft? Yes, but the free time doesn't come from free time - it just comes from not stressing myself with work. I work a lot more today than I did with my corporate job, but the difference is that I don't feel like I am wasting my life after working 10-12 hours every day. I feel like I am building something, sometimes it falls apart, sometimes things are smooth, but my mind and heart are more at peace. My wallet is more or less the same as having a corporate job, it's a bit more stressful now because of taxes and having to manage everything myself, but I like to think that I am a creative individual, and all of this is part of the creative process of building something - whatever it is that I'm working on, it's nice to see it from start to finish.

 

If you ever have any questions, concerns, or simply want to say hi, know that I do read everything, I am just slow at times and forgetful, but I will get back to you!