Ever look back at your first/early sims?
dboyd001:
..... Yesterday I found a CD-ROM that I had downloaded various sims. Many were sims I had made way back in the early days of my Game. The CD-ROM was dated 7 Jan 2005 so everything on it was earlier than that.
..... Since many of the sims were no longer in my game I installed them up to see what they looked like. In Sims2 Body Shop I found out why these sims were jetisoned from the game. Most of them were horrid, simply horrid, no nice way to put it. All were sims I did for ModTheSims2, many were self-sims that were requested. The ones that were just way too bad for anything were just flat out deleted. Out of about two dozen sims, only two seemed salvageble.
<a href=http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/dboyd205/?action=view¤t=FW.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/dboyd205/FW.jpg" border="0" alt="Fay Wong sims"></a>
[COLOR="Blue]Faye Wong: Before & After
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..... First example is Fay Wong, dated 5 Nov 2004. When I made her I thought she looked pretty damned good. Can't say the same now. On the left is the before and on the right after I did some fiddling. I had a good start, but didn't have what it took to finish. Change of make-up, features, eyes and now she looks a heck of a lot better.
<a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/dboyd205/?action=view¤t=TAMARAS.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/dboyd205/TAMARAS.jpg" border="0" alt="Tamara Kell sims"></a>
Tamara Kell: Before & After
..... Now Tamara really wasn't too bad to begin with, but I had her made up like a slut and that just didn't look good on a teen. Just toned down the make-up and different eyes and Tamara now has a nice, almost innocent look.
..... I may post both after repackaging. Comments and your pictures welcome.
Dave
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Tenshii~Akari:
...Don't... remind me... Your early sims aren't half as horrid as mine were.
Here's the comparisons... be forewarned, it's a good amount of pics.
WARNING: (Don't stare at them too long... your face will DIE. :twisted:)
#1: Saryna:
Version -0.04
Version 0.1
Version 0.9
(Both her and Kai @ Version 1)
Version 2/3 (only noticeable difference between latest two versions is in her child and toddler self)
#2 Kai'Von:
Does not even count as an official version. :tongue6:
Version 0.7
Version 1
Version 2 (Version 3 looks the same, only difference is in child/toddler ages)
#3 Denessa:
Two years ago (Dear GOD what was I ON?! )
Now
#4 Erikah:
Two years ago (I've got to admit, she was one of my better looking sims back then...)
Now
That's all I'm going to do for now... there's a definite evolution between now and when I first started getting into picture threads. I'm living proof that even those with supposedly "average" looking pictures can improve with time and patience! :laugh:
Ark_Sky:
Tenshii,are you kidding me?D: they looks awesome!XD you should have seen mine!I had TONS of pics of my sims,but sadly I deleted them due to pic overload, so I don't have any to share...sowwy D///:
but I'm sure some of you saw my first two sims on the site,Angel and Zao Ming,and I'd say I've improved quite a bit =)
dboyd001:
..... Yeah, you can see some of my early sims still posted on MTS2:
[url]http://www.modthesims2.com/creator/dboyd205[/url]
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..... I think a lot of people get carried away with eyes: too big, too wide, too round and the Maxis supplied eyes are just about as realistic as buttons as eyes on an old teddy bear.
..... The vast majority of the sims I did were requests for self-sims. No wonder I received so few thanks for them (I relooked at these too).
..... One other thing I noticed was getting a new computer. My old one ran on Windows ME, had just barely enough RAM and a 133mhz processor. Now with my new Windows XP-run, 1.2Ghz processor and a couple GBs of RAM the game runs so smooth, but the trade-off is with much more detail some sims look crude and horrid, even some of the better sims. Off they went to permanent exile. With the new computer I think I can refine the sims and they look ever so much better. The Fay Wong sim looked great on the old computer, but is a mess as is on the new. At least she could be saved.
..... Of course with 3, 4 or 5 years experience, we get better too. And thank goodness!
Dave
dboyd001:
..... WOW! You difinitely had the big-eye/slanty-eye syndrome. Fix those eyes and they look like they could get off life support. You wouldn't want to see the ones I jetisoned. They were monsters! Your monitor would melt. Your eyes would bleed from the shock. You would never be the same, sane person again. :)
Dave
Quote from: Tenshii~Akari;1203238
...Don't... remind me... Your early sims aren't half as horrid as mine were.
Here's the comparisons... be forewarned, it's a good amount of pics.
WARNING: (Don't stare at them too long... your face will DIE. :twisted:)
That's all I'm going to do for now... there's a definite evolution between now and when I first started getting into picture threads. I'm living proof that even those with supposedly "average" looking pictures can improve with time and patience! :laugh:
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