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Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on December 20, 2006, 10:07:14 pm
Anja's Friend
Anne Seladdams


All characters in my stories are copyrighted characters in a copyrighted story. Downloaded for personal use only. Any publication of these characters in any form without prior written permission is strictly forbidden, and is a violation of US and international copyright law.

There's more to Anne than just her black and white walls and floors (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=32071); for instance: her face, body, and clothes!  And here she is!

(http://www.pearlsims.com/images/s2/afsims/anne_seladdams_portait_1.jpg)


Anne plays the title role in Anja's (adults only) story, Anne's Obsession (http://www.insimadult.org/showthread.php?t=23907).  She has her own photography studio in The Meat Market.

(http://www.pearlsims.com/images/s2/afsims/anne_seladdams_portait_2.jpg)


Anne's download includes 3 items of new custom content from The Pearl: her skin tone, ribbed black tank top, and black jeans and boots.

She also has custom content from some of the master sims artists around the net:
(http://www.pearlsims.com/images/s2/afsims/anne_seladdams_custom_content.jpg)


You Also Need to Get These Meshes
Anne requires the follow custom meshes, which you must download and install seperately if you don't already have them:

   MESH_afTopNakedHi_36DDD-Nat (for the skin tone)
MESH_afBottomNaked_HiDetail_36 (for the skin tone)
Warlokk's MESH_afBottom_36_PantsCowboyBoots
Warlokk's MESH_afTop_36DDDn_Halter
XM Sims Flora hair030

Added: Warlokk's clothing meshes are right here in Insimenator.net.

   The top: Warlokk's Hi-Res Bodyshapes - 36DDD Enh/Nat Tops Separates Collection (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=16938)

The bottom: Warlokk's Hi-Res Female BodyShapes - 34B Default, Bottoms Separates (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=11427)

If you would like Anne with smaller (eyes), you might also be interested in: Anne's Black Tank Top in 4 Sizes (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=32440).


No Pets: Anne was created with only the base game and University installed, and should work with any version of The Sims 2.


Edit (1/3/2007): I corrected the meshes you need for the skin tone.  Skin tones require two separate meshes, a top and a bottom.
Also note that I posted several versions of Anne's skin tone in different top sizes.  Sorry kids; they're on the adult site.



Copyrighted Material
Anne is a copyrighted character in a copyrighted story, so take a clue from that.  Insimenator.net is authorized to distribute her and you're not.  If you upload her to the EA Exchange or any other unauthorized place, you will be plagued with horrible dreams about unspeakable things lurking under your bed for the rest of your life.  You will also be a criminal, which EA sims to think is funny in The Sims 2 but in real life heads you down the path of decades of fear and misery; don't do it!
Copyright ©2006 by The Pearl, for the contributors.  All rights reserved.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Buffy on December 20, 2006, 10:15:27 pm
beautiful sim greg...she has beautiful big.....ugh eyes :D
thanx for sharing


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on December 20, 2006, 10:55:14 pm
Quote from: buffybot;477838
beautiful sim greg...she has beautiful big.....ugh eyes :D
thanx for sharing


Thanks, Buffybot!

There's an amusing story behind her big... um... eyes.

I thought I had made that skin tone based on Warlokk's 34Dn-36 mesh.  So I created the character and made clothes to match that size.

Then when she her took shirt off... holy merde!  No wonder she looked like she was having trouble breathing in that top!

So I guessed that she must be 34DDn.  I made some new clothes, and that's how she appears in her story.  But after I posted the story, I noticed that she was still changing her body shape when she got naked.

I went spelunking in SimPE and found that her skin tone was actually linked to Warlokk's 36DDDn mesh.  Eeek!  At that point, I had to choose between editing the skin tone in SimPE to update the descriptions or throwing away Anne and all the screen shots I'd made for her story.

Given those options, it wasn't too difficult to decide that I really liked her with the extra flotation! :laugh:


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: bre on December 21, 2006, 04:37:45 am
Yes, she does have big... eyes. LOL Huge eyes. But she's very pretty. :) Thanks for sharing her.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Buffy on December 21, 2006, 09:42:37 pm
lol greg...one can never have too much in the flotation department...


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Lytough on December 22, 2006, 09:51:34 pm
umm..nice...nice...nice...ooohh, you know I can't say it!! :thumbup:


Edit: for those wondering who this Anja may be, here she is; she's my little daughter.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: MizPyro2U! on December 22, 2006, 09:54:17 pm
She is very blessed ....:D shes got some of the biggest.....eyes i have ever seen, but she is still very beautiful


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Lytough on December 22, 2006, 11:25:02 pm
hmph... you better behave, Anja,  nuff said... :neutral:


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on December 22, 2006, 11:38:18 pm
:laugh:

More amusement: I just noticed that if you look verrrryy carefully, you can spot Diva through the window.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: kathy on December 23, 2006, 03:31:42 pm
She is gorgeous!


Title: Beautiful Work
Post by: fordman1 on December 23, 2006, 07:35:07 pm
Thanks For Sharing This Gorgeous Sim Just Had To Download Her.:drool:


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Soooz on December 23, 2006, 10:37:59 pm
Holly flippen heck her boobies are HUGE !


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: MisNomer on December 24, 2006, 03:55:34 pm
She's very pretty.  What a tragic story - and in a sick sort of way, it's fun :O
Thanks  for sharing.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on December 24, 2006, 08:33:18 pm
Thanks, VerDeTerre! :)

That was very hard story to write.  I originally just created Anne to be the local photographer in Anja's story, and then got interested in her obsessive behavor.  'Why are you doing this?' I wondered.  

So, using the old writer's trick: I asked the characters!  I had Anja chat with her after a photography session and then it all became clear.


Incidentally, if anyone would prefer a less pneumatic Anne, I posted some variations on her top size here (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=32440) and also posted some alternative body shapes with her skin tone at InSIMAdult.  I think she looks best as a 34Dn36.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Eric on December 26, 2006, 09:27:45 am
Very nice... Thank you :iconbigg:


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: MisNomer on December 29, 2006, 06:41:07 pm
Quote from: Chairman Greg;484814
Thanks, VerDeTerre! :)

That was very hard story to write.  I originally just created Anne to be the local photographer in Anja's story, and then got interested in her obsessive behavor.  'Why are you doing this?' I wondered.  

So, using the old writer's trick: I asked the characters!  I had Anja chat with her after a photography session and then it all became clear.


How many people are in your head? lol  This is wonderful.  I'm sharing your trick with my son (the writer's tip, that is), he likes to write.  For that matter, I might use it in my tutoring.....:rabbit:


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on December 30, 2006, 11:31:24 am
Quote from: VerDeTerre;493290
How many people are in your head? lol  This is wonderful.  I'm sharing your trick with my son (the writer's tip, that is), he likes to write.  For that matter, I might use it in my tutoring.....:rabbit:


:lol: That's one of the hazards of writing stories--you end up with all these people living in your head!  

I really don't know how many there are.  Once in a while I still hear from characters that were in my science fiction stories that were published 15 years ago!  The more well-defined the characters are, the more they stick around.

Writer's tips are one of my favorite subjects.  So, merrily threadjacking my own download topic, I think every aspiring writer should know:

The Seven-Point Outline
  • A character
  • in a setting
  • with a problem
  • who tries and fails to solve the problem
  • making it worse. (Repeat 4 and 5 as required to develop the story.)
  • Finally the character tries one last time and succeeds or fails in a big way, leading to
  • the validation.

The validation, or l'envoi, is the ending where you see how the character's life has been changed by the events in the story.  Too many otherwise fine writers tend to leave it out.


Heinlein's Rules for Becoming a Professional Writer
  • You must write.
  • You must finish what you write.
  • You must put it on the market.
  • You must keep it on the market until sold.
  • Never rewrite except to editorial order.

Those first four rules are very insightful.  About 90% of writer wannabes fall out at the first step.  Then 90% of the remainder fall out at the second step, and then the third, and the fourth.

The fifth rule is more controversial and even Heinlein didn't follow it.  (His wife Ginny was his First Reader, and he did follow Ginny's editorial orders.)  The key point is that the only person whose opinion really matters is the one with the checkbook.


There are a lot of other great bits of advice from folks who've already run the gauntlet but I think those two things are the solid foundation that all professional writers need.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: MisNomer on December 30, 2006, 07:44:40 pm
I LOVE the seven points - I've seen plenty of short versions to this used in the schools, but steps #4, 5, and 6 really add an important layer of excitement.  Heinlein's I'm not so sure about.  He may be a good writer, but I tend to think there is much merit in a) abandoning ideas (and that way one has the freedom to explore) and b) rewriting (it supports the principal of a).  His rules sound more like a formula for commercialism than art, which is not what I would have expected from him.  Thanks for sharing.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on January 02, 2007, 01:23:58 pm
Yes, that was Heinlein's advice on how to become a professional writer.  It sounds sophomorically simple but I thought it was a very insightful observation of why so many writer wannabes are still wannabes 30 years later.

If you're only interested in doing "creative" writing for your own amusement, then you define your own rules.  A lot of "creative" writers express disdain for the Seven-Point Skeleton in the secret sanctum of the SFWA suite; but then, those are the same folks who don't sell very many stories.

I suspect that the fifth rule, about rewriting, was advice to a specific group of writers in a writers group that kept rewriting their stories on the advice of the group.  I've seen that happen; even fell into that trap myself for a while.  But even Heinlein didn't follow that rule.  Heck, he rewrote Stranger in a Strange Land for ten years before it was finally published.  I rewrote my story The Last Plague so many times (admittedly, all to editorial order) before it was published that my writer buddies started calling it The Last Rewrite; but when it was published, it got the cover of Analog.

Hey, quick quiz: Like many of Heinlein's story titles, "Stranger in a strange land" is a quote from the Bible.  Do you know what Bible story it's from? :)


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: MsMacDugle on January 02, 2007, 07:06:15 pm
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q274/MsMacDugle/ArtistAppreaciation/Thanks.gif)


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: MisNomer on January 03, 2007, 06:12:24 am
Quote from: Chairman Greg;501140


I suspect that the fifth rule, about rewriting, was advice to a specific group of writers in a writers group that kept rewriting their stories on the advice of the group.  I've seen that happen; even fell into that trap myself for a while.  But even Heinlein didn't follow that rule.  Heck, he rewrote Stranger in a Strange Land for ten years before it was finally published.  I rewrote my story The Last Plague so many times (admittedly, all to editorial order) before it was published that my writer buddies started calling it The Last Rewrite; but when it was published, it got the cover of Analog.

Hey, quick quiz: Like many of Heinlein's story titles, "Stranger in a strange land" is a quote from the Bible.  Do you know what Bible story it's from? :)

 

First:  What is SFWA?  Second:  You're a published writer? (Allow for a moment of admiration....) Is that how you make your living or something you do for enjoyment? Or both?  Third:  No clue!  I'm not overly familiar with many parts of the bible outside of the gospel.  It isn't from the gospel is it? :smt120  
Maybe I need to reread that one, didn't grock it well....  Fourth:  Hmm...yes, It's the age-old conflict between art and profit.  The whole thing about finishing what you start just goes against the grain so much.  There are people who feel you have to finish every book you start, for example.  My feeling is that I would never start anything if I felt that committed before beginning.  There has to be room for experimentation.  Fifth:  So, tell!  Which bible story?


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on January 03, 2007, 04:15:02 pm
:laugh:

  • SFWA = Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America


  • Yup, I've had several stories published, all science fiction, all in Analog (http://www.analogsf.com/).  

    (http://www.simshost.com/images/analog-april-1994-sm.jpg) Ta da!
    It's fun to read, but is it art?

    There's also a list of boring technical papers too lugubrious to mention.  I've never been a full-time writer and it's been years since I've submitted anything for publication.  In my day job, I'm an aerospace engineer; I design spaceships for a living.
    Thirty five years ago I couldn't even spel rokkit sighuntess.  Now I are one!


  • No, it's not from the gospel.  This was quite a bit earlier.
  • Can't say much about art versus profit.  I think it's more of a confict between creating art that other people want versus creating art that nobody else likes.  But maybe we don't define "art" the same way.

I really don't know what context Heinlein was thinking of when he wrote that; don't see how it relates to art.  Well, I suppose someone who never completes anything would have difficulty claiming the title of "artist."  I think I understand his point, though: I have a bazillion unfinished stories that will never see the light of day unless I finish them, and hence no one will ever be able to tell me whether they're "art" or not.


  • It's from the story of Moses, from when he was gadding about in Midian after he got kicked out of Egypt:
   And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
-- Exodus 2:22
I had to look it up.  Ref: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=2&chapter=2&version=9
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Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: MisNomer on January 03, 2007, 08:30:30 pm
Thanks Greg, I so enjoyed all of your background info.  Impressed I am over your talent and accomplishments!  (Speak like Yoda I do :).)  

Never mind the whole debate over "art" and "profit".  From my perspective, it's more of a question of having the opportunity to manipulate and learn about a medium, whether that medium is clay, words, or a new way to move the body or mind.  I work in the education field and see how much is gained from play and how much is lost when those opportunities are ignored in the rush to produce or to meet "standards".  Besides, as an adult devoted to the notion of behaving like a kid, I support wholeheartedly the notion of playfulness, inventiveness, creativeness and generally ignoring goals :D. I would consider your bazillion unfinished stories fodder for your finished works.

Gershom?  Really?  Gershom?


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on January 04, 2007, 02:41:33 am
Right!  Let's elevate ignoring goals to an art form! :D

Yup, Gershom.  He even has his own stub in the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershom), which at least is longer than mine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Bennett_%28writer%29).  The Wikipedia article says it means "a stranger there," which some how relates to Moses being exiled from Egypt.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: jjjim on July 04, 2007, 05:17:49 pm
Wow!!! Beautiful!!! Thanks


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: aimee0824 on July 05, 2007, 08:20:49 pm
Wonderful sim! Thanks. :D


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on July 09, 2007, 12:31:19 pm
Thank you, jjjim, and aimee!  I'm rather fond of Anne myself. :D


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on July 21, 2007, 09:13:59 pm
:laugh: Thanks, Darlene!


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: meanalessia on July 23, 2007, 03:20:29 am
Great job.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on July 28, 2007, 10:44:04 am
Thanks, Meanalessia!  I think Anne is one of the prettiest characters in my game.  She just looks like a gal who spends a lot of time roasting her epidermis on South Padre.

Lots of credit for that goes to Sussi and Helaene and Hathor and Rensim and Sims2BNP!  I am still in awe of the creative talent of the fan artists who can make the makeup work so well; have never succeeded in that area myself.


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Lisen801 on August 10, 2007, 10:01:17 am
She looks great and I want to download but I can't find these files:

Warlokk's MESH_afBottom_36_PantsCowboyBoots
Warlokk's MESH_afTop_36DDDn_Halter

Where can I find them?

/Lisen


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on August 15, 2007, 04:27:38 pm
Quote from: Lisen801;872682
She looks great and I want to download but I can't find these files:

Warlokk's MESH_afBottom_36_PantsCowboyBoots
Warlokk's MESH_afTop_36DDDn_Halter

Where can I find them?

/Lisen


Good news!  They're both right here in Warlokk's section of Insimenator.net.

The top: Warlokk's Hi-Res Bodyshapes - 36DDD Enh/Nat Tops Separates Collection (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=16938)

The bottom: Warlokk's Hi-Res Female BodyShapes - 34B Default, Bottoms Separates (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=11427)


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Lisen801 on August 16, 2007, 09:19:49 am
Thank you very much Greg I'll give it a try and see if I can get Anne into my game. There are soooo many Warlokk files!!!

/Lisen


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on October 16, 2007, 06:38:29 am
Indeed!  It takes some work to figure out all the Warlokk files and keep track of what you have installed, but for me it's worth it to have the variety in my neighborhoods.  Try thinking of the body shapes like installing different sets of things to decorate houses; then it all starts to make sense! :D


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Sita on March 23, 2008, 03:23:25 pm
Ooh trivia! Greg it was something to do with the Jews in exile in Babylon? "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land...."


Title: Anja's Friend Anne Seladdams
Post by: Chairman Greg on March 23, 2008, 10:26:52 pm
Could be, Sita!  I don't think Miriam's family was in exile in Babylon when Moses met her, but I really don't know where the heck Midian is.  Didn't the Babylonian exile come a lot later, after the Israelites were established in the Promised Land?  (http://hullabaloo.sunsims.com/forum/images/smiles/thinking-yim.gif)


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