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silverbelle1220

The War Years Saga - Behind the Scenes

Jul 22, 2013 22:59

Now that I’ve had a bit of a chance to decompress from the epic war chapters, I figured it was a good time to post some behind the scenes/picspam stuff, to give you all a chance to understand a little better some of what I was thinking and why things turned out the way they did.

( +108(!!!) Pictures and Meta…slow connections beware. )

family: gavigans, character: john haggerty, character: shirley, character: bruce, family: haywoods, family: bradfords, character: asher, character: dorothy, character: howard, generation: 8, character: viola, character: vivian, generation: 7, character: nicholas, family: seiffs, family: hutchins, family: sterling alcotts, character: cordelia, character: margaret (peggy), character: steven, character: edward, character: edith, character: cindy, character: loretta, character: gilbert, story: bradford legacy, character: rosalie, character: daniel, character: jefferson, character: harris, character: sterling, character: clarence, picspam: bradford legacy c29, game: sims 2, character: thaddeus, family: daniel bradfords, generation: 6, character: alice, character: james, family: silas alcotts, character: sakura, character: calla, character: walter

Comments 8

katee412 July 23 2013, 08:41:24 UTC

I loved seeing the out takes and reading your thoughts, I'm sorry I don't have more specific comments but honestly I just enjoyed it all :D

silverbelle1220 July 23 2013, 19:32:52 UTC

Thanks! Since these chapters were quite different than the regular legacy chapters, I though people would like hearing some of my rationale. Glad you like it.

leilia July 23 2013, 09:52:50 UTC

Randomly awake so you get comment to your BTS because 108 pictures is totally an update.

I do like seeing all the other random things and reading the rationale about your storytelling process. Seriously, I love it.

I told you before how I really liked the pictures for Danny's chapter. I am now even more impressed that you greenscreened it. Seriously, I'm impressed.

It is totally legit to edit genetics. I did it with my turn at the Round Robin to make sure the elf ears didn't die. And Jan has had enough influence on the family, it's time for some new matriarchs to go with your boys. Which is why I've loved Cindy so much.

I am totally incoherent. But Yay baby boom and moving on with your story. I can't wait to see how things play out and getting to know Steven more.

silverbelle1220 July 23 2013, 19:38:19 UTC

Heh, I guess it does qualify as an update with that many pictures.

I think sometimes the story behind the story is even more interesting. I know that’s why I read BTS. Well, that and I hope I pick up some new tips on posing/filming.

Takemizu really is pretty to film it. I just greenscreend that one shot of them on the ship leaving; perhaps I should have been a little clearer there. I just couldn’t get the angle I wanted for that shot within the constraints of the game.

I don’t feel guilty at all about fixing genetics. And I can’t stand looking at that mouth for the last few generations. I’m not sure if I’ll have a female heir or not, but we’ll see. I have to get two more generations to get born. Cindy is quite the matriarch, and I think Alice will be too, once she gets to come into her own a bit more.

You weren’t as incoherent as you thought. I can’t wait to introduce you to all the nooboos, and develop Steven a bit more.

lilycobalt July 23 2013, 11:41:53 UTC

I think the randomizer was a good thing to decide things. It's not as though the war cared which sims were important to the plot and which ones you had grown fond of, after all. I'm also impressed by everything you did for staging ( ... )

silverbelle1220 July 23 2013, 19:44:46 UTC

The randomizer was really the only way to go. I would have played favorites, and that would have showed. And no, war would not have cared. Oh, staging. I’m so taking a break from that for a while and will make do with gameplay pics as much as I can ( ... )

rosefyre July 24 2013, 06:49:05 UTC

Yeah, Rosalie...her sense of priorities is quite skewed ( ... )

silverbelle1220 July 24 2013, 18:53:45 UTC

Rosalie’s skewed priorities are one of the reasons that I have such a hard time writing her. I just cannot resign myself to her way of thinking most of the time.

Yay, I read the chart right! I kind of get why they ended relationship ties where they did, but darn, it makes it inconvenient some times. Rosalie would be horrified to know that she had such feelings for a relative. :P

Clarence tries, but he can only do so much before parental influence pushes him back.

Oh, I’ve had worse too, but that was just so not Howie. I’d probably lift show business first if I was playing an apoc, just because I can’t stand some of the game clothes. Or I default replace EVERYTHING before I started.

Heh, it is like the British Royal family. I do have a couple more generations, and I’ve got a few ideas in regards to that ( ... )