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orikesDay Five is posted!
Actually, it was posted last night, but I was too tired to post a link here after getting it uploaded and getting the post made on Boolprop. I'd actually been hoping to get it up on Saturday, but there were still a couple of scenes to shoot and that took a little longer than I'd hoped.
Now that I'm in the homestretch, the writing is going much easier. It helps that there's more plotty scenes than otherwise, but still. The first couple of days were brutal to get through, but now I can see the finish line.
Now for the behind the scenes picspam!
The sand castle scene was actually staged. I had some great pictures of Cecil making a sand castle and I realized I wanted to use them, but thought it might be more interesting if Scott joined in. Once I got that idea in my head, I had to set the scene up and take it from that angle. It also gave me another chance to put the spotlight on Scott.
Even though the scores were really close, it honestly felt like the right thing to have Scott be the one to leave. He and Miranda get along fine, but there really wasn't a spark there between them. As Miranda said, he tends to stay in the shadows. Scott just always seemed to fade into the background and let the other bachelors take the spotlight.
This made it a little hard to figure out how to give him a little more facetime before saying goodbye. Then I realized, it really did make sense for the situation he grew up in. I mean, think about it. He's got his older brothers, Nelson and Columbus who have their friendly rivalry and all the girls they're dating. Then there's Jenny and Louisa who are both larger than life figures. His twin Adelina, the cheese sim starting a cheese cult. Then you bring in the 'twins' and their escapades. Other than his two baby sisters, Scott really is the most retiring one of the bunch. He's completely content letting others take the spotlight.
His relationship with his sisters helped him understand Miranda a little better than some of the other bachelors, but it didn't do anything for his romantic chances.
Speaking of our bachelorette, have I gushed about how much I love taking pictures of her lately? She makes the best faces.
This was an alternate shot for the end of the update where she gets the phone call from Scott. I almost used this one because of the background, but I decided the one I used had a bit better emotion in it.
Of course, she's not the only one that throws me awesome faces. I have much love for Dean.
This is one of the pictures that I wanted to use, but it just didn't work in well enough, so you get it in the Behind the Scenes.
"Why have I never noticed those before?"
Speaking of pictures I loved but really couldn't use in the update...
I was really looking forward to the goose. Miranda's relationship with all the bachelors was high enough I figured they'd all accept it, especially after they all accepted the romantic kiss the night before. Still, it was the most provocative of the flirts she could have done on them.
The reaction shots were hilarious, but it was quite a bit of fun trying to find the right shot for each bachelor. Even though they all go through the same animation, I needed a different feel for each one.
For example, Cecil smiling during the goose was just not going to cut it. Even if it is hilarious.
Okay, so the darts scene between Cecil and Dean. That was all autonomous and was fascinating for reasons completely different than the way I wrote it. Dean and Cecil became best friends that morning in the hot tub. I thought I had a picture of the smiley faces, but I couldn't find it.
While Miranda was having her date with Scott, these two started playing darts with one another. Everything was going fine until I suddenly saw all the minuses and broken friendship signs flying. WTF? Cecil was suddenly furious with Dean and I couldn't find a reason. Dean really isn't mean enough to cheat, so what the heck?
I watched them a little closer after that and lo and behold, it happened again. It was caused by a bullseye. From this picture, it looks like the first one was Cecil's bullseye, and then the next one was Dean's. No cheating was involved, but these two were taking the game WAY too seriously.
Luckily the furious cleared up pretty quickly and they were friends again fairly soon after that.
Cypress makes the BEST faces. This was an obviously staged scene, but I have a ton of pictures of him just making Cypress faces. He was a crapload of fun to write in this. It's fun having a character who has no internal editor and has an ego the size of Baltimore.
Speaking of large egos, I also enjoyed photographing Aria. She's an amazingly pretty sim and I don't think she could have been any other aspiration than Romance. She pulls these amazing bedroom eyes expressions that are just gorgeous.
Of course, that doesn't mean she is the smartest cookie in the box.
Since I installed AL, this has become Rhys' favorite activity. Any time I leave him alone for a second, he pulls out the jump rope and starts up.
The weirdest moment was when I was using the model pose hack. He was still visibly sitting on the floor where I'd posed him but as far as the game was concerned, he was jumping rope. It was very bizaare and one of the reasons I'm not that fond of the model poses hack.
I mean, it gets the job done and it's nice to have some alternative poses in some things. Like, I love the 'lean forward on my knees' pose. The problem is more things like Uranium's pose here. Her knee is completely deformed if you look at it from the right angle. It even looks a little odd here, but it works.
The other thing with this picture is that their feet are not touching the ground. I had to angle the camera just the right way to make it look like they weren't dangling their feet.
This pose right here was also one of the hardest I had setting up. It looks pretty natural, but it was a right pain in the ass. I had to put a couch in the room to get him to lounge just right, then I had to find an OMSP that was the right height to make it look like he was on the bed. Unfortunately the bed OMSP wouldn't work since he was floating on the invisible tray. Finally I discovered that the lowest rung on the stairs OMSP is the right height. But it was a bitch to place.
But doesn't Devon look good?
I have no idea when Farnsworth met Ophelia. Or why he's day dreaming about her. But that's an awfully happy smile on his face.
Lipschitz is so cute. I hope Kiwi thinks I'm doing okay with him. I feel like I've been writing him a bit more over the top than she did, but there's always been a touch of silliness where he was involved. And he's cute.
I'll give a little more information on the stuff with Hello and him, but I will say that it's been completely autonomous.
Rhys makes the best faces. I loved using him for the exposition on what they were attempting since he was amazingly expressive. I couldn't even use half the pictures I took for that scene. I actually had to go back and get another picture of Lancelot because I didn't have enough of the other folks there.
Now, for an interlude I like to call 'Poor Malcolm'.
"Great. Just great. I'm vampire food in Stacie's legacy, a babydaddy in Doc's, and a villain in Michelle's, and now I get abuse in yours too? I didn't even think you had Bluewater installed in your hood."
I don't. But I've got it installed in Maxistonia and I needed a teeny bit of playtime this weekend, so I popped open the Ramirez house. Since it was the first time I'd opened that house, they got their noon Welcome Wagon. Malcolm was part of it.
So was Olive Nigmos. They did not get along. At all.
In Mal's defense, I will note that Olive started it. She shows up in almost every Welcome Wagon and does this with someone almost every time. This time it just happened to be Mal.
"Haven't I been through enough!? I thought Stacie had made me a sympathetic character and people would be rooting for me to have a little bit of happiness now."
Sorry Mal. Olive's just one tough old bird. Don't mess with the Black Widow, dude.
Day Six will hopefully be out within a week or so, but I have a lot of scenes to shoot and some of them are going to be pretty complicated. There's one scene that will probably have about upwards of eighteen characters being controlled. I think I may turn off Free Will for that one.
As a side note, I'm sorry about the broken picture links in older posts. Mux.net is having a bit of an issue and it doesn't look like it's been set up completely yet. Hopefully it gets fixed soon so my normal links work.
Actually, it was posted last night, but I was too tired to post a link here after getting it uploaded and getting the post made on Boolprop. I'd actually been hoping to get it up on Saturday, but there were still a couple of scenes to shoot and that took a little longer than I'd hoped.
Now that I'm in the homestretch, the writing is going much easier. It helps that there's more plotty scenes than otherwise, but still. The first couple of days were brutal to get through, but now I can see the finish line.
Now for the behind the scenes picspam!
The sand castle scene was actually staged. I had some great pictures of Cecil making a sand castle and I realized I wanted to use them, but thought it might be more interesting if Scott joined in. Once I got that idea in my head, I had to set the scene up and take it from that angle. It also gave me another chance to put the spotlight on Scott.
Even though the scores were really close, it honestly felt like the right thing to have Scott be the one to leave. He and Miranda get along fine, but there really wasn't a spark there between them. As Miranda said, he tends to stay in the shadows. Scott just always seemed to fade into the background and let the other bachelors take the spotlight.
This made it a little hard to figure out how to give him a little more facetime before saying goodbye. Then I realized, it really did make sense for the situation he grew up in. I mean, think about it. He's got his older brothers, Nelson and Columbus who have their friendly rivalry and all the girls they're dating. Then there's Jenny and Louisa who are both larger than life figures. His twin Adelina, the cheese sim starting a cheese cult. Then you bring in the 'twins' and their escapades. Other than his two baby sisters, Scott really is the most retiring one of the bunch. He's completely content letting others take the spotlight.
His relationship with his sisters helped him understand Miranda a little better than some of the other bachelors, but it didn't do anything for his romantic chances.
Speaking of our bachelorette, have I gushed about how much I love taking pictures of her lately? She makes the best faces.
This was an alternate shot for the end of the update where she gets the phone call from Scott. I almost used this one because of the background, but I decided the one I used had a bit better emotion in it.
Of course, she's not the only one that throws me awesome faces. I have much love for Dean.
This is one of the pictures that I wanted to use, but it just didn't work in well enough, so you get it in the Behind the Scenes.
"Why have I never noticed those before?"
Speaking of pictures I loved but really couldn't use in the update...
I was really looking forward to the goose. Miranda's relationship with all the bachelors was high enough I figured they'd all accept it, especially after they all accepted the romantic kiss the night before. Still, it was the most provocative of the flirts she could have done on them.
The reaction shots were hilarious, but it was quite a bit of fun trying to find the right shot for each bachelor. Even though they all go through the same animation, I needed a different feel for each one.
For example, Cecil smiling during the goose was just not going to cut it. Even if it is hilarious.
Okay, so the darts scene between Cecil and Dean. That was all autonomous and was fascinating for reasons completely different than the way I wrote it. Dean and Cecil became best friends that morning in the hot tub. I thought I had a picture of the smiley faces, but I couldn't find it.
While Miranda was having her date with Scott, these two started playing darts with one another. Everything was going fine until I suddenly saw all the minuses and broken friendship signs flying. WTF? Cecil was suddenly furious with Dean and I couldn't find a reason. Dean really isn't mean enough to cheat, so what the heck?
I watched them a little closer after that and lo and behold, it happened again. It was caused by a bullseye. From this picture, it looks like the first one was Cecil's bullseye, and then the next one was Dean's. No cheating was involved, but these two were taking the game WAY too seriously.
Luckily the furious cleared up pretty quickly and they were friends again fairly soon after that.
Cypress makes the BEST faces. This was an obviously staged scene, but I have a ton of pictures of him just making Cypress faces. He was a crapload of fun to write in this. It's fun having a character who has no internal editor and has an ego the size of Baltimore.
Speaking of large egos, I also enjoyed photographing Aria. She's an amazingly pretty sim and I don't think she could have been any other aspiration than Romance. She pulls these amazing bedroom eyes expressions that are just gorgeous.
Of course, that doesn't mean she is the smartest cookie in the box.
Since I installed AL, this has become Rhys' favorite activity. Any time I leave him alone for a second, he pulls out the jump rope and starts up.
The weirdest moment was when I was using the model pose hack. He was still visibly sitting on the floor where I'd posed him but as far as the game was concerned, he was jumping rope. It was very bizaare and one of the reasons I'm not that fond of the model poses hack.
I mean, it gets the job done and it's nice to have some alternative poses in some things. Like, I love the 'lean forward on my knees' pose. The problem is more things like Uranium's pose here. Her knee is completely deformed if you look at it from the right angle. It even looks a little odd here, but it works.
The other thing with this picture is that their feet are not touching the ground. I had to angle the camera just the right way to make it look like they weren't dangling their feet.
This pose right here was also one of the hardest I had setting up. It looks pretty natural, but it was a right pain in the ass. I had to put a couch in the room to get him to lounge just right, then I had to find an OMSP that was the right height to make it look like he was on the bed. Unfortunately the bed OMSP wouldn't work since he was floating on the invisible tray. Finally I discovered that the lowest rung on the stairs OMSP is the right height. But it was a bitch to place.
But doesn't Devon look good?
I have no idea when Farnsworth met Ophelia. Or why he's day dreaming about her. But that's an awfully happy smile on his face.
Lipschitz is so cute. I hope Kiwi thinks I'm doing okay with him. I feel like I've been writing him a bit more over the top than she did, but there's always been a touch of silliness where he was involved. And he's cute.
I'll give a little more information on the stuff with Hello and him, but I will say that it's been completely autonomous.
Rhys makes the best faces. I loved using him for the exposition on what they were attempting since he was amazingly expressive. I couldn't even use half the pictures I took for that scene. I actually had to go back and get another picture of Lancelot because I didn't have enough of the other folks there.
Now, for an interlude I like to call 'Poor Malcolm'.
"Great. Just great. I'm vampire food in Stacie's legacy, a babydaddy in Doc's, and a villain in Michelle's, and now I get abuse in yours too? I didn't even think you had Bluewater installed in your hood."
I don't. But I've got it installed in Maxistonia and I needed a teeny bit of playtime this weekend, so I popped open the Ramirez house. Since it was the first time I'd opened that house, they got their noon Welcome Wagon. Malcolm was part of it.
So was Olive Nigmos. They did not get along. At all.
In Mal's defense, I will note that Olive started it. She shows up in almost every Welcome Wagon and does this with someone almost every time. This time it just happened to be Mal.
"Haven't I been through enough!? I thought Stacie had made me a sympathetic character and people would be rooting for me to have a little bit of happiness now."
Sorry Mal. Olive's just one tough old bird. Don't mess with the Black Widow, dude.
Day Six will hopefully be out within a week or so, but I have a lot of scenes to shoot and some of them are going to be pretty complicated. There's one scene that will probably have about upwards of eighteen characters being controlled. I think I may turn off Free Will for that one.
As a side note, I'm sorry about the broken picture links in older posts. Mux.net is having a bit of an issue and it doesn't look like it's been set up completely yet. Hopefully it gets fixed soon so my normal links work.
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Date: 2008-09-17 08:37 pm (UTC)There are some great pictures here Orikes, I always love seeing out takes, and hearing what other authors have to say about the behind the camera stuff.
I've found I've had, not exactly trouble, but small difficulties when using the model hack, in particular the face overlays. Sometimes they work, other times they don't, even with free will turned off. If you can get it set up right, and get the right angle, it's great and gets the job done, but I think I prefer to try to work other things out.
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Date: 2008-09-18 03:37 am (UTC)I love the out takes too. I love hearing about the planned vs. unplanned stuff as well as seeing how an author makes use of what the sims give him/her. Of course, it's also cool seeing how other people do things.