MALKAVIAN VAMPIRE - XAKI KURASAWA

I finally finished my Malkavian. His name is Xaki Kurasawa ^_^


Download link: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3823629

NEW BUILD - 3000 GRANADA ROAD

I've really been feeling creative lately and I'm not sure why. This is a house I've finished building today, it isn't furnished yet but I'm not quite sure which of my sims is going to be living here so I've left it for the moment.

I'm thinking of adding a basement with cages and using this as my vampire hunter sim's home but I haven't decided yet.

I'm not sure what's come over to me, this is the second large house (large for me) that I've built in two days :/

Download Link: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3818570

Aside from the terrain paint I used this is a CC-free build.

NEW SIM - CHLOE RIVERS

This is Chloe Rivers; she's a mother of one and a vampire hunter in the evening... that is until she began to question her motives when she falls for a local Malkavian vampire despite the ring already on her finger.

...yeah I came up with a backstory for a change XD

I also forgot to actually export her ¬¬ go figure. I want a better picture anyway for the exchange.

FINISHED :D

I finally finished that house. It's uploaded on the exchange

http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3814628

DARK BUILDS AGAIN

Just a small update tonight of a house that I built. I've downloaded the Late Night edition of LA although I had to patch up to get it to work. I took this as an opportunity to also remove the awesomemod since I had to start again anyway.


I haven't furnished the interior yet ^_^;

BATTLE OF THE BANDS - ASSIGN 4

Not much to say at the minute since I'm craving to play more Vampire the Masquerade but I really did need to get this done, so I've dedicated most of the day to setting things up. I used my club that I built yesterday - initially tried with more sims but it just didn't work ^_^; as always, styling them took far longer than it really shoud have XDDD

A CLUB WITH NO NAME

I've trashed my town and started again. I'm not quite sure why but I just got very bored with it. Actually it's rather typical of me, but I want to see a mass building project through damnit!

The trouble is, when I leave a town for so long, I start to lose my connection with it and the inspiration I had, so when I finally do go back to it, I can't build anything anyway.

So this is my new town. I've built an apartment so far (inside one of the EA shells) and then the idea struck me of a little, hidden away nightspot situated in a rough area of town on an empty lot.

...and so the club I have not yet christened with a name is born XD.



I may have gotten carried away with the blue. Ahh well. Actually there was something I was wondering; is there any way of sampling the strobe lights etc WITHOUT having to take a sim there? I ask because I don't want to move anybody in yet but I would like to see how the effects look. Plus it's a pain in the ass to drag a sim down there only to realize the effects you envisioned just didn't happen.

Tch, this is why EA should let us modify community lots while our sims are there :/

Edit: I'm thinking of using the exterior for my Battle of the Bands shoot. I'm not sure yet though. Right now I'm still trying to work my head around potentially controlling more than 8 sims. I know I can rig up that many sims with the awesomemod but whether I'm being too ambitious remains to be said... I could just green-screen a bunch of sims and edit them in but then I'd have to faff around with resizing, shadows etc and I've never done shadows before.

NEW SIM - MITNICK EALRIAN

I haven't made a new sim in a while. He's been sat in my library half finished for the longest time but I finally felt inspired to finish him off.

His name is Mitnick Ealrian and he's a vampire ^_^


Download Link: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3724461

NEW SIM - KAIJI TATSUMI

I actually made him from the same template EA sim I used to make Shinu. I created Kaiji first (hence why their eyes are so similar) but because I hadn’t moved him into my game yet I abstained from uploading him.

I’m sorry that the pictures lack my usual style, I wasn’t feeling too well when I moved him in so his house isn’t furnished yet. I just posed him in front of the pretty wallpaper XDDD

Unlike Shinu, Kaiji is much softer and calmer. I did toy with the ideas of making them lovers because in my head they’re the complete opposite of one another – I still might actually, but for the time being he lives in a small Japanese-inspired suburban house away from the skyscrapers.


Funnily enough I was going to name him Kanji Tatsumi but I try not to steal both forenames and surnames from the same character. For anyone whose interested Kaiji is the name of a Japanese DVD released over here in the UK called Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler. It wasn’t half bad either… if rather cheesy XD



Download Link: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3681031

BATTLE OF THE BANDS - SESSION 3

Session 3 is a shot taken from a music video. At first I really had no ideas for this one since all the j-rock videos I watch either just have the band playing (Despairsray do this, as do Girugamesh and Abingdon Boys School ¬¬) or the video is so damn complex I haven't a hope in hell of mimicking it without some serious editing (the puppets in Despairsray's Redeemer video)

So I did what I always do; fucked around with the animations in debugger. I vaguely knew what look I wanted but it was just getting the animation to match. Working with 4 models is still a pain in the ass but it's a lot of fun. You wouldn't believe how many times I had to make Niwa sit at the snake charmer basket before I got this shot - I either paused just after the perfect sitting pose I wanted or Fuuka/Mihoki were doing something really shit XD


Amusingly, I discovered this little gem whilst fucking with the animations:

LOL :D

RANDOM PICS

Just some random pictures taken from my town. I'm using a pre-made world... Redcliff I think it's called.

I'm gradually replacing the pre-made buildings with my own. It's taking a long time and it's a pain in the ass because I suck at building.

I placed the skyscrapers and made a lot of the houses, but the community lots were made by the world's creator.

Actually while I'm on the subject; why do the houses in the distance look like this? I have all my graphics maxed ¬¬

I've also been working on a new sim. I was in an anime mood (this is what happens when you binge on Fullmetal Alchemist) so I decided to try and make Roy Mustang... got annoyed because it wasn't working out (I think the random generated sim was defective, there's some weird stuff going on with his mouth that I just can't fix and his ears seem extremely low even though there are no sliders for ear height ¬¬) so in the end I kind of tweaked him a bit more and turned him into an original sim.

SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/331079.page

Right! I'm taking bets on what EA will break this time with their latest scheduled maintanance. ;)

I mean there are so many things for them to screw up; the forum (even more), nuking threads (again), the security (again), the exchange (again) or something new and equally irritating. Only time will tell. One thing is for certain though - I bet the store doesn't break.

VANITY CYCLE 2 - ASSIGNMENT 4

My entry for Vanity Cycle 2 - Assignment 4. The challenge was to do a sportswear ad; these days sportswear doubles up as streetwear and a lot of the big companies (Adidas, Nike etc) market towards this whilst keeping the clothing practical for actual sports... so I went with a simpler shot with a sleek-ish design.

NEW SIM - NASO TEYUMI

I've been in quite the simming mood this weekend so I've made another new sim; his name is Naso Teyumi.

I hit a bit of a simming block with my new guy from yesterday so he's still a WIP. I had an idea for Naso while I was making the other one and it wouldn't go away XD;


Download: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3630335

BATTLE OF THE BANDS ASSIGN 2

My entry for Battle of the Bands assignment 2. I had to show what my band gets up to in their dressing room/after a gig ^_^

RANDOM STUFF

My current WIP sim. He doesn't have a name yet. I'm not sure how much I'll change him. I love that hair and his lil' goatee but he's looking quite a bit like Vincent at the moment ^_^;


I went to town on my... uhh town today ^_^ I wanted it to have a country-ish Sotoba/Inaba feel but I love those skyscrapers so I've split it into two districts. The below picture is a Laundromat I threw together on the quick.

I still suck at building XD

RANDOM PICS

Just some random shots of the house I made for Tohru:


...and a new sim. Initially she was going to be a self sim of me (I've dyed my hair again recently) but I just couldn't get it to look anything like me (-and I'm certainly not as skinny as my sims XD) so I decided to just take what I had done and flip it back to my usual style.

Her name is Rei Kusanagi. I'd do a CC list and all that but TBH I'm feeling a bit lazy tonight ^_^;

I'm subconsciously turning my town into something out of the anime Shiki. So I've been turning a lot of sims into vampires XD

FAIL NAOTO & *SIGH* RUTHLESS

Ha! Ha! I can't believe this. I entered in a fight against Shadow Naoto with barely any health left and no SP. I wasn't expecting to win - I'm playing on beginner's mode so I can get New Game + and I always did prefer the social links side to the dungeon crawling.

Well at level 55 I got 3/4 of the way down the health bar before MC finally died. I was so amused, especially since I was just using the 'rush' option :D

Heaven is next. Ugh... this is the big test for me because I completely lost interest last time because of how vast Heaven was. It didn't help that last time I played I was on normal mode and very badly underlevelled.

I'm torn between ditching Teddie and using Naoto instead. I like Naoto a lot (wish the VA was better though) but Teddie has some good buffs and is an awesome healer. Since I am level 55 by this point I don't really need him since I can make Persona with Mediarama etc but the buffs are something else... and Naoto may just end up being another Chie or Kanji (physical attacker).

Still annoyed Chie never learns her -Dyne spells. Ahh well, I'll probably stick to my usual team or maybe switch between Teddie and Naoto until I figure out what works. If I remember rightly Naoto's moves are heavy on the SP. I have enough issues with maintaining SP as it is XD


On another note; I'm aware of the Ruthless business but frankly I could care less about it. She's already reaping what she's sewn with the simming community and I really have nothing to say that hasn't already been said. But! If I find out that certain individuals that HAVE expressed their utter contempt and disgust have suddenly been banned from the EA forum for minor offences... you'll bet I'll be getting my claws out with the rest of 'em.

NEW SIM - TOHRU NOTAMA

Sod it. I know I said I was going to wait until the exchange was fixed but goodness knows when that'll happen ¬¬

His name is Tohru Notama

CC List:

Skintone: Default Replacement "Asian" Skintone (Mod The Sims)

Eyes: Default Replacement (Subaxi)

Hair: Peggy (Free)

Eyebrows: Subaxi

Nail Polish (not shown): Club Crimsyn

Pants: MYOS

**Made using additional sliders from Mod The Sims - including the Elf Ear sliders. Should look as pictured even without these sliders provided the sliders are left alone in CAS**

I use .package files. I'm afraid pretty much all of my CC is not transferrable.

Download Link: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3590173

HYPOCRITICAL MUCH?

OK. Why is it that somebody can get banned for posting the word 'bump' in large letters but all the tossers currently hanging around in General Discussion spamming with their crappy pictures that have FUCK ALL to do with TS3 can get away with bloody murder?

The abuse over in that forum right now is untrue! I'm really having to reign myself in from giving a few puissants I've encountered tonight a piece of my mind.

¬¬