A bit behind the scenes
Overdue but hey. Here's a short collection of fun stuff and behind-the-scene shots from chapter 7 and a few besides... Tweedledee.
Let's get the ball rolling with some earlyish pictures!
An old old picture of Angua carrying Binky. Is it just me, or would this leave her totally scarred for life? Maybe that's why she can go straight through stuff. She suffered a traumatic experience in her early years. It's all your fault, Ange! Ha!
Desdemona and Olive being adorable. I wanted this as the cover for my interlude, then I realised it would give away the ending. I've always loved this shot, though.
Remember when Brutha woke up in a cold sweat after his first vision? Guess what his actual nightmare was? Well, it made me laugh...
Moving on to the College years!
Someone wanna explain why this is a really bad idea? It just proves my earlier point that you can't stop school spirit, yo.
I would imagine Bru doesn't find that too much of a problem, Adrienne. I really didn't understand this one bit. It mostly went the other way though, and in favour of Adrienne...
See?!
This is what I had to put up with for much of the College years. It came about when I deleted a tombstone with moveobjects when the ghost in question was out haunting. You would have done the same! It was to save our poor old persecuted ghostbait Bill! Anyway, thereafter anyone walking or standing around outside would turn around and go "LEGASPTRASHCANWHUT?!" and it was really, really irritating. That's why they don't get a placeholder for Hidden House this time, because I'm hoping it'll reset. We'll just see. The front of the house was also glitching out with people zipping across the lawn to climb the steps with no transition in the middle and other such things... Grr.
The potential for embarrassment in this picture. It's huge. That's about all I can really say about it, to be honest. The hottub was a confusion of legs and arms for quite some time. Hehe.
Okay, it was far too late at night when Binky pulled this face and I laughed way too much... It's totally an Amy Winehouse expression, amirite?
Rolling over to Zeb's ebil lair now...
This is what the set looked like. So his lair totally doesn't have a roof. Sue me. It did the trick! Binky's prison really was underground, which was good fun. However, the "underground vault" of the bank was actually the upper storey of the bank building, the same place where Binky encountered the clueless assistant. I totally couldn't be bothered making it subterranean, so nyaah.
It started hailing. Go figure. At this point I grudgingly gave them a roof...
The back of the house, with all my hacks, dressers, mirrors and everything else I needed to make the scene work! Well, it's my first attempt at fabricating something entirely for plot. I think I did okay. *shrug*
Here's how I kept them busy when I didn't want clueless peoples wandering into shot to play red hands. Binky's wearing black stuff because this was taken when I was still rocking out my first idea, which was that Zeb just wanted Binky to rob a bank using her magical going-through-stuff skill. Then I decided that was too general, really lame and changed it to be a bit more sneaky and selective. Or I tried anyway.
Zeb being a Romance Sim made some things interesting... I particularly like this picture. "Grrface! Personpersonminus! You're hot!" Yeah. Julie's a mean Sim, and she spent a lot of time snarling and glaring at Zeb, which was kinda hilarious. I had them off free will while I was setting up shots like Binky talking to Bilious, and she would just stand there and make extremely angryangryfaces, with the occasional knucklecrack.
Almost done! Now for embarrassing post-crash moments:
This is the first thing I was faced with upon reinstalling Sims 2 and running it for the first time. Recognise our lovebirds? It's Bru and Adie! I couldn't believe quite how funny they looked without their CC stuff. I was so angry at it that I quit the game then and there and went to hunt down their hairs and things. SIMRAGE.
My poor Founder seems to be doomed to haunt forever in that terrible getup! Maybe that's why he looks so cranky at me. I don't know how to change his clothes so he'll be rocking out that yellow polo for quite some time.
Oh, I almost feel bad for showing this one... Poor Bill. It's not his fault I downloaded his shorts before I downloaded his shirt. And I'd got him a nice default beard too, hence the facial monstrosity there.
Well, hope you enjoyed this little distraction! In other news, I still can't get my userpic to work. It keeps hollering about me about some such jargon... I'm sure I'll get it some day.
Let's get the ball rolling with some earlyish pictures!
An old old picture of Angua carrying Binky. Is it just me, or would this leave her totally scarred for life? Maybe that's why she can go straight through stuff. She suffered a traumatic experience in her early years. It's all your fault, Ange! Ha!
Desdemona and Olive being adorable. I wanted this as the cover for my interlude, then I realised it would give away the ending. I've always loved this shot, though.
Remember when Brutha woke up in a cold sweat after his first vision? Guess what his actual nightmare was? Well, it made me laugh...
Moving on to the College years!
Someone wanna explain why this is a really bad idea? It just proves my earlier point that you can't stop school spirit, yo.
I would imagine Bru doesn't find that too much of a problem, Adrienne. I really didn't understand this one bit. It mostly went the other way though, and in favour of Adrienne...
See?!
This is what I had to put up with for much of the College years. It came about when I deleted a tombstone with moveobjects when the ghost in question was out haunting. You would have done the same! It was to save our poor old persecuted ghostbait Bill! Anyway, thereafter anyone walking or standing around outside would turn around and go "LEGASPTRASHCANWHUT?!" and it was really, really irritating. That's why they don't get a placeholder for Hidden House this time, because I'm hoping it'll reset. We'll just see. The front of the house was also glitching out with people zipping across the lawn to climb the steps with no transition in the middle and other such things... Grr.
The potential for embarrassment in this picture. It's huge. That's about all I can really say about it, to be honest. The hottub was a confusion of legs and arms for quite some time. Hehe.
Okay, it was far too late at night when Binky pulled this face and I laughed way too much... It's totally an Amy Winehouse expression, amirite?
Rolling over to Zeb's ebil lair now...
This is what the set looked like. So his lair totally doesn't have a roof. Sue me. It did the trick! Binky's prison really was underground, which was good fun. However, the "underground vault" of the bank was actually the upper storey of the bank building, the same place where Binky encountered the clueless assistant. I totally couldn't be bothered making it subterranean, so nyaah.
It started hailing. Go figure. At this point I grudgingly gave them a roof...
The back of the house, with all my hacks, dressers, mirrors and everything else I needed to make the scene work! Well, it's my first attempt at fabricating something entirely for plot. I think I did okay. *shrug*
Here's how I kept them busy when I didn't want clueless peoples wandering into shot to play red hands. Binky's wearing black stuff because this was taken when I was still rocking out my first idea, which was that Zeb just wanted Binky to rob a bank using her magical going-through-stuff skill. Then I decided that was too general, really lame and changed it to be a bit more sneaky and selective. Or I tried anyway.
Zeb being a Romance Sim made some things interesting... I particularly like this picture. "Grrface! Personpersonminus! You're hot!" Yeah. Julie's a mean Sim, and she spent a lot of time snarling and glaring at Zeb, which was kinda hilarious. I had them off free will while I was setting up shots like Binky talking to Bilious, and she would just stand there and make extremely angryangryfaces, with the occasional knucklecrack.
Almost done! Now for embarrassing post-crash moments:
This is the first thing I was faced with upon reinstalling Sims 2 and running it for the first time. Recognise our lovebirds? It's Bru and Adie! I couldn't believe quite how funny they looked without their CC stuff. I was so angry at it that I quit the game then and there and went to hunt down their hairs and things. SIMRAGE.
My poor Founder seems to be doomed to haunt forever in that terrible getup! Maybe that's why he looks so cranky at me. I don't know how to change his clothes so he'll be rocking out that yellow polo for quite some time.
Oh, I almost feel bad for showing this one... Poor Bill. It's not his fault I downloaded his shorts before I downloaded his shirt. And I'd got him a nice default beard too, hence the facial monstrosity there.
Well, hope you enjoyed this little distraction! In other news, I still can't get my userpic to work. It keeps hollering about me about some such jargon... I'm sure I'll get it some day.