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I recently posted the first chapter of a story and got a lot of compliments on the posing of my Sims. Since many of people were asking how I did everything, especially the facial expressions, I decided to make a tutorial for everyone. muslemura recommended this community as a good place to share it.


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Hello! I did a behind the scenes "How To" post and was invited to share it here. Just a few tips & tricks about posing sims, community lots and eye direction and expressions. Please feel free to add to this and contribute also. :)

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Hi folks!

It was suggested that I post this over here which seems like a good idea. This would be a basic tutorial that hopefully might help us when deciding on the shots we want to use and when thinking about our photo compositions when it comes to sequential storytelling.


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So here I'll show you how I set up the following shot using animation and pose boxes as well as with OMSPs. If you have a cheerleader in your game, maybe this can inspire you.

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Been awhile since we've had anything other than the challenges here.  To remedy that I've whipped up a quick tutorial on a question that's arisen in various places recently.  What do you do when you want to film a scene on a community lot, but the resources you want to use aren't buyable on community lots?  There are several ways around the issue; ( Read more... )

Ndainye has written a wonderful tutorial here about the different falling animations in the game and how they can be used to create various effects for sim stories. I'd like to share how I use the techniques she has described to stage shots, using a scene from one of my recent chapters (chapter 19) as an example. Obviously this will be spoilery ( Read more... )

How can I make my sim look as if they've fallen? It's a question I've seen several times at boolprop and elsewhere, it's a fairly common thing in storytelling. Maybe there's a fight or maybe the sim in question is just clumsy. Luckily during normal game play Sims have a wide variety of ways that they can and do fall down. There are lots of ( Read more... )