[Coldsaturn]

I...feel like I need to justify myself lmao 
I spent the past three days fixing the sims after the latest patch nuclear bombed everything on sight, I had to start a new save file to avoid losing the one I was using for my legacy challenge, and I was also testing a few lads sims I had downloaded but that were using a whole head mask that made me wonder if facial poses would even work with them (answer: they kinda don't, the mask is too rigid, I had to liquify my way through). 6 hours later I had this.

(I hate that I need to open the image twice to get the direct link instead of the redirect to the hosting website. The link is correct, I don't know why it does this)

P.S. the poses aren't mine, I didn't want to open blender just for a test run.

[Coldsaturn]

[ChicletPrime]

/squeals
/claps hands!

oh my god, FANTASTIC! love love love this! get'em, Rafayel! the line about the waters being dangerous because he's in them made my brain twitch. please tell me there's more coming with this, because this is amazing.

sorry to hear about the nuclear bomb patch? i hate it when a company fucks up a perfectly okay game for no apparent reason.

[Coldsaturn]

I have about 10 different scenes that could equally happen. I wasn't following any kind of specific plot bunny and instead was just going for atmospheric vibes, but I could definitely think about making another. I had lots of fun after all!
I am finding out more and more that these models are the most accurate but at the cost of fucking up the sim's rig underneath so much that any kind of animation or facial expression is forever fucked. I am entertaining the idea of creating stunt doubles.

Yeah, EA is infamous for doing this with the sims about once every two months. It's an old game with a fuckton of DLCs all written in different code versions and formats, and not even they know what will go in conflict whenever they slap something on top of the already big pile they have. I use mods so things breaking after an update are a given, but even people who play vanilla have problems because the game packs themselves will go in conflict with each other.

[ChicletPrime]

i used to make little comics from my City of Heroes characters - you will have a captive audience if you want to continue any of this. i will physically make popcorn, even.

/thumbs up on the stunt double idea.

no reason not to have a set going for better facial animations and one for the main body/scene blocking. never shy from commitment! if its worth doing, its totally worth overdoing.

[Coldsaturn]

I'm way too stubborn to abandon this before figuring out a feasible solution, that's for sure!