sourdoe

Happy new year yall!

I’ve been trying to update this blog, but I’ve been busy fiddling with Blender – specifically this one nightmare mesh that I’m trying to fix. No one ever tells you it’s a massive wall to scale trying to fix meshes that aren’t cooperating with older versions of the game. 

So what happens when a frustrated animator meets an unfixable, impossible mesh? You start on a brand new animation LOL. This gif here is my favouriteeeee animation from TS3 — that I was completely DEVASTATED that EA did NOT include into TS4. So, I recreated it for TS4. 

The animation looks fired up and ready to go, but unless I can find someone to collaborate with, like write a script mod? or some action mod or something, this might end up operating on Turbodriver’s Wicked Whims mod. Wicked Whims isn’t 100% ideal since I’d LOVE for this to be in regular gameplay. 

If anyone knows any modders, holler at yo girl. Or if you are one yourself, come through! I’d love to work this into a regular gameplay animation with someone :)

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Character Introduction: Becky Lack

Note: Isn’t it crazy how when you love The Sims so much, that you just end up opening Blender more than the ACTUAL game? LOGIC, AMIRITE?? So I decided to make a character post for this Sim, where I actually focus on my gameplay/writing and take a short procrastination from animating and frankenmeshing in Blender. 

Becky Lack is an EA pre-made sim from my TS3 gameplay who I’ve re-created in TS4. She was initially a smaller character but I found her story way more compelling than my actual save. So, I’m basically planning to re-tell her TS3 journey in this game. I mean, it’s kind of a loose re-telling, since I’m taking part EA story canon with story progression and some dramatization creative liberties in this re-telling ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

While she does (later) achieve her dream of being a Musician (if the spoilery album covers gave any indication), she started from the bottom as an emo/’edgy’ teen:

Teen years can be pretty rough for anyone (to look back at).

Some quick facts:

As with EA canon, she’s a runaway, except not from family but from a foster home.

Will live with The Crash Pad household at some point (canon).

Aspires to be a Music sensation (canon).

Has no family ties unlike the EA story. Therefore, she does not have a last name. Adopted the word “Lack” (in lieu of “Blank”) as a personal “fuck you” to the full name requests on forms.

I can’t wait to start telling this story. I don’t have a name for it yet – so I’ll just call it sour-does story. You know, cause @sourdoe ? But it’s like sour…does? Instead of sourdoe’s? Like wordplay? (crickets)

As a side note, I will be releasing poses that I use in my stories, seeing as it’s a heck of a lot easier to craft poses than to actually hunt down ones that fit my scene on the internet. I’ll also be releasing any custom cc I make throughout this story, in case anyone wants. However, I am fairly new to creation, so they’re not totally finessed - and i have no skills in weeding out bugs. 

Things people don’t do: Draw elaborate storyboards for poses they’re gonna make for their OCs that used to exist in TS3 but have been ported to TS4

Come Dance With Me - full animation

Comes in 1 file

Requires Pose Player & Teleport Any Sim (more info here)

TOU: please don’t re-upload this file, or claim it as your own

If you use my cc, please tag me: #sourdoe, I would love to see your game screenshots!

Let me know if there are issues or weirdness

Made with Blender & Sims 4 Studio.

download link: here(SFS) no ads!

[edit] The download has been fixed! If you have the previous version, please replace with this file. The previous animaion just ended up in a default T pose. I dont know what happened there. Thank you @heliel11 for letting me know!

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Super weird gif frame rate but Progress (I guess?) Also, wow remind me to never post via mobile again loool. The previous post looks soo potatoey on desktop. 

This is just the first half of the animation and I’m already exhausted. Crazy how the jump-catch portion had less keyframes than the lifting portion (red marker being the divider between the two).

Things that I haven’t done yet:

details (blinking, expressions, hand details)

clipping checks

the entire second part of this animation with tonnes of kissy anims (and reactions) which im dreading --- but will carry on for my OTP sims

I really hope I find tips later which make things infintely easier before this happens haha

holy smokes animating with 2 sims is haaard guys

Been working on some animations since I’ve just learned a little bit about dope sheets. The animation is still clunky cause I got lazy towards the end lol, so here’s a gif WIP.

Hey yall. It’s weird reintroducing yourself into the simblr community when you’re not exactly been active to begin with haha. A little bit of background: I used to play on TS3 until one day, the game wouldn’t even run. I used to make poses on TS3 too all of which were gonna be uploaded one day but lost in the end, which is sad. :( Not gonna lie, still gutted about that so I’m planning to recreate those sims from TS3 in TS4. I’ll still make poses in TS4 now that the game is a lot more stable (and faster) for testing. I’m also picking up new skills like alpha editing and clayifing hairs now that I’m on TS4. ANYWAY, rambling aside, I’d like to celebrate my return to this simblr with my first clayified hair. :) Send me feedback, I’m still learning. ENJOY! 

Also – NO ADS! :D

raonjena 55 (maysims ts4 port) clayified by sourdoe

all EA colors

custom thumbnail

requires mesh by Maysims

works in laptop mode

Nap time.

Made for my performer sim who has 2 babies in her life. Who says lady sims need to choose between career and family.

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I always imagined playtime to be double the fun if the adult sim has a childish trait. That way the kid would be playing with someone who thinks like their age haha. They’re role playing Godzilla over here (and I’m sure you can tell who emerged victorious).

Sims can’t cry tears. And tear makeup always looks so bleh. But damn it, I will make her look like she can cry.

My rigs being adorable.

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