Rare MHA Sims

Hey folks! I'm tempted to cut to the chase this time (I think enough virtual ink has been spilt over this pack already). Still, being done with these feels unreal. I can't stop just looking at them and smiling. I can only hope you enjoy this all as much as I enjoyed making them. Now, to address your most pressing question,

Wild Wild Pussycats+ (but what's the "+" for?)

So, I anticipate the naming might be confusing to some, especially if you aren't reading my progress posts. Here's the clarification:

I put in a great deal of work into making the swatches as appealing as possible, and I intend them to be a helpful tool for creating your own characters.

This also extends to alternate makeup designs, swatches for the visor (worn with headgear), and last but not least, pants. No, not skirts. Well, skirts too, but also pants! Designed from scratch for those of you who might like to wear some pants from time to time (or trousers, I guess, if you're nasty)

So I suppose all that is to say, I put everything I had into this, and the plus stands for you. Get creative and have fun!

A surprise announcement!

I don't want to give this bit too much focus, but I've decided to go ahead and set up a Ko-fi page. I've had a couple people ask directly to give me money for my work, and now that my ongoing output is fully original, I think I can be comfortable with making that an option. I'll never paywall my releases, but if you'd like to give me a few bucks to show your support, I would appreciate it!

my Ko-fi page, for those interested

CC Guide:

Boots (10 Swatches, both frames) in Shoes

Gloves (10 swatches, both frames) in Body Accessories>Gloves

Hair (all 4) in Hair

Headgear (10 swatches) in Hats

Visors (10 swatches) in Glasses

Makeup (10 swatches) in Face Paint

Skirts (10 swatches, both frames) in Clothing Bottom

Pants (10 swatches, both frames) in Clothing Bottom

Tops (10 swatches, both frames) in Clothing Top

Download: SFS

Known issues:

muscle deformations really didn't want to work properly on some items, especially with the masculine frame. it's possible to make them work, but large muscly characters can get pretty finicky (Tiger especially was a pain for me)

Tiger's hair has a bit of an abnormal shine to it in CAS (at least for me) and I can't seem to figure out where it's coming from after checking around a bit (it isn't the obvious thing I don't think). It really doesn't look that bad, at least. I'll keep looking into this for a bit just in case :)

I've mostly had a plan to transition away from using models directly from official releases, as I did with the Wild Wild Pussycats pack, so I don't see that being something that would dissuade me at all. On top of that, MHA is really the only series that I've ever considered making CC for. I watch a lot of shows, so I'm not saying it'll never happen, but MHA is super unique for me in terms of just how much it's consumed me over the years.

Additionally, I haven't really been working a lot on these projects for a while. I had kind of a big life emergency pop up right after the release of the last pack and I haven't had a good time to start a big project since. I'm still decided on what my next project will be, but it'll have to wait until I can find the time.

It took me a second to remember where I had seen Midnight's hero outfit CC before, but here's the link. It should be free on Yescyclops's Patreon.

And I'm glad you've been enjoying my CC. I'm going to try and get back into making more soon (not sure when that'll happen tbh, school and life are crazy atm).

As you may know, I've been working on my academics for a bit (started a degree in Secondary Education last month), and it's been keeping me pretty busy. As it turns out, college is pretty hard work! But I wouldn't be posting just to give my moshiwakes, I've also been working on a couple other crafts and I figure y'all might be into these too!

I've been working on making braided bracelets for some of my coworkers (just a really nice zen craft for long public transit commutes).

If you're curious, this pattern is called あんだくみ(anda gumi, flat braid). And the one in the background is a bit of an experiment with irregular patterns and rougher threads

But that's not all! I've also started playing around with stitching and patching!

(bonus points if you can name the reference here)

But yeah, I guess all I really wanted to say is to have fun! Experiment with things! I'll try and get back into making CAS soon, but in the meantime I figured it was worth sharing my current creative projects!

hi! short answer, not at the moment

I've been pretty busy lately for various reasons (moving out soon, starting school up again, mental health and such), so I've hardly had time at all to work on any modeling projects. the next big release is still stalling atm, might just wait until the new year as much as I know that sucks. honestly though, I've hardly touched Blender since the Wild Wild Pussycats pack released.

that said, I was looking around for some nice potential holiday wishlist items and I found some really nice looking MHA figures. I really like how these things look! so I opened up FModel and blender and got the Uravity model from My Hero Ultra Rumble to see how well I could recreate one of them (Banpresto Break Time Vol. 4 - Ochako Uraraka). not a perfect recreation, but I think it was pretty good posing practice!

that said, I've just now taught myself a new process for hair texturing and,, look. I'm not going to delay for this, but I kinda just want to see how it shakes out? I might be releasing a slight update to a few select packs in the coming week or so in case anyone wants to take a peek at the more sims-like textures I've been working on. If that's something you'd like, feel free to check them out, I'll post whenever I get around to uploading them.

subtitle: I hope I never need to make another pair of puffy gloves ever again

Hey folks! I've been hard at work over the last week getting some of the last items in place: the gloves, as well as finalizing all the swatches. Fun fact about gloves, by the way: They're pretty easy to add weights to automatically, so long as you fit them fairly close to the hand.

pictured: the hardest struggle of this entire project

But hey, it's not all bad! I think they ended up looking pretty good, honestly! And then there's the other thing I've spent my week doing, which has been far more rewarding:

Swatches!

I really had fun picking out the new colors and designs for this pack, and getting creative with the makeup designs too! I'm especially proud of swatch 10, "monotone." It's inspired by a few things: the black-and-white printing of the manga, the monotone swatches in the Unreal games, as well as a bit of concept for the Pussycats that depicts a pair, instead of a foursome, in white and black outfits. Overall, just a fun design!

And in the process of making all these, I ended up working out a nice and future-proofed workflow for making more color swatches. Probably best not to reveal anything too early though, hmm?

I also made a handful of original makeup swatches that were a blast to think up! I even wrote up the design doc in a format that might come back at some point :)

And just in case you wanted to mix and match a bit more, you can actually adjust the hue, lightness, and saturation in Create-a-Sim for all of these makeup swatches.

And that just about does it for this checkpoint! Here's the progress list:

Hey folks! It's been a while since I've posted news about the Wild Wild Pussycats CC Pack I've been working on. As it would happen, there's a few reasons for that, thus the post. Chief among them is the fact that I started a new job recently. It's only part-time for now, but it's been seriously tiring. I'm kind of rediscovering how hard it is to do work, even mental work, when you're tired from standing all day. I don't think that's been the main hurdle, but it hasn't helped for sure.

The main issue I face staying motivated in creative work is that, to be honest, not all of what I do feels creative. A lot of the time I spent on the Accessory Pack was just procrastinating the repetitive process of making LODs. This time, my villain was feminine-to-masculine build conversions.

the humor that my first FTM model conversion was for Tiger is not lost on me

Again, these are repetitive (the bane of my ADHD brain's existence) and seem like they would be trivial (they were not). All in all, it's the perfect trigger for the classic "this is way too easy, it would be boring so I don't really want to do it." As it would turn out though, their actual difficulty is what saved me from my worst impulses, but not before a couple weeks of pure procrastination. On the bright side, I did clear out a bit of my anime backlog!

The other thing that actually really helped me to get out of my slump is a trick I would recommend to anyone in a similar situation: Make things. It doesn't matter what the things are, just make something. Make whatever kind of weird artsy thing that's on your mind! Bonus points if it's in the same medium as the thing you're putting off. That's practice, baby!

Anyway, I think that's about all I had to say this time around. I might post one more checkpoint before the final release, or I might hold onto it until after and put in into a format I've wanted to try out for a bit. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

Here's the progress:

one of the weirdest and most specific criticisms I've seen is that Deku (post-timeskip, quirkless) should've made/designed his own support equipment instead of receiving it from Bakugo. the reasoning for this is that in being given this new source of power instead of creating it for himself, he is refused growth by the story. Deku started powerless, was given a quirk by All Might, and only then was he able to become a hero, and to help others.

on the surface, I can see how this is the same. Bakugo (a successor to All Might in his own way) handing him the key to power definitely rhymes. however, I think it's important that Bakugo (and the rest of class A) come together to do this for him. it's a restatement of something important within the story, and something that I thought came through really well in the season finale: giving selflessly to others engenders similar behavior in return.

do nice things for people without expectation, and before long you'll find that they've given back to you, however that may happen.

Uraraka was willing to lay her life on the line to help not only Toga, but everyone else around during that fight. in return, Toga apologizes for her actions, she mends the wound and moves to make things right. her entire world has been turned on its head not by violence, but by kindness.

All Might, in a similar though less noticeable way, shows in this latest episode what he's gained from teaching. he's devoted himself fully of late to class A, showing them how to apply their skills to the goal of helping others, and in return? he's learned so much about how to help himself. No, no one gave him that, and he likely wouldn't have been interested if help was offered, but his care for his students is truly what saved him in this instance.

So could Deku have done the same? maybe, I guess, but more than that, would the fanbase accept it? I don't think so. Even doing as All Might did and learning from those around him to create something for himself wouldn't have fixed everything. that would be labeled derivative all the same. really, there was no ending for him that would satisfy everyone, but I'm happy with what we got (or what we will get, as it were). I have a lot of strong feelings about a lot of things in these final arcs, some good and some bad, but overall it feels like Horikoshi wrote what he wanted to write, and what he thought would best communicate what he wanted to say. at the end of the day, that's all I can ask.