Strangetown extras: Grunt Family Portrait

[strangetomato]

So, I finally decided to try my hand at making a custom painting with SimPE, and the process was super easy. I'll definitely be making more of these to customize the artwork in my story. More specifically, I'm going to decorate homes with photos of the characters in my story whenever appropriate. This will include family portraits, wedding portraits, and so on. I'd really like to recolour that cluster of smaller frames with random snapshots (but I don't recall seeing that template in SimPE. I'll have to look into how I'd go about doing that.)

My first first project was, predictably, a Grunt family portrait. I wanted to have the boys discover this stashed away with the General's belongings. It would be something he put away after Lyla left, since he couldn't bear to be reminded of her. I have no idea when this might turn up in the story, so I decided to just share it right away.

Ripp: Wow. I haven't seen this in forever!

Buck: I found it with Dad's things.

Tank: We're all so happy looking.




I've never made a group of sims view art at the same time before. They have a conversation, just like they do while eating or watching TV. The boys all stood around and discussed having 5 best friends (how appropriate!), and maxing out a skill, while they thought about the portrait.




The general behavior was mostly positive, especially from Ripp, and they made some of those puzzled expressions like the one that Buck has in this shot.

And what was their final reaction?




 

It's enough to just break your heart. They were all really sad about it.




Here's a better look at the source material. I posed them as if they went to a portrait studio. (I guess Buzz must have chosen the background colour.)

The photo is a little blurry when you get really close to it in-game, so I'm going to see if there's a way to improve it, but this might be as good as it gets with a .jpg file from the in-game camera. It will work just fine for story purposes as it is, so I'm not too concerned.

Pretty cool, don't you think?





ETA: I followed this tutorial from MTS2 to make the custom painting.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I think it makes a nice addition to their home (and perhaps one of their future homes... I wonder who'll claim it).

Ooops! Your images seem to have been moved or deleted by photobucket. I was really looking forward to seeing them too. Can you repost them, please? I want to see how you used the painting! :)

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

What the...? I just uploaded them! *grumble,grumble..*
Let me see, maybe I used a wrong code or something. Let's try this again:







They aren't deleted (no little flashes of sim-titty at all)so I'm not sure what the issue is except that I can still be inept on the PC.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool! That painting is really getting around. I love seeing how it's used in other people's games. Does the sight of Ripp and his greasy grin inspire increased cologne sales, I wonder? ("Suddenly I feel so DIRTY... maybe this perfume will help..." *snicker*) That sims seems to find it as amusing as we do. :P

I thought you might have moved the photos after you posted the link, but it might just be some photobucket randomness.

Sim titty! *snort* You had better think of the children before you post those cartoon nipples on the internet.

[my-simsession.livejournal.com]

This is me, indigoleo, I'm already logged in on my sim journal and can't be arsed at the moment to change. :) What can I say, it's my day off, it's gray outside and I'm lazy as hell.

I never really thought about Ripp's grin increasing perfume sales...I'll have to look into that! I merely picked that wall because it was big enough (and empty enough) to place the picture there. Not many sims have had a chance to look at it yet. I loved how Hiram stood there for the longest checking it out and then busted up laughing.

I actually had photobucket delete one of my sim pics for just that reason. Ironically, Ripp was in it (rolls eyes) and it was in a small bathroom at college when he and somebody else were fighting over who was going to move out of the way. The streaker girl came in and Ripp got all shocked and I got a pretty good pic of it, from the back and with just a little bit of breast. And they deleted it. Prudes. I've seen much more sim-skin posted in other people's stories.
The word of the day is SIM-TITTIES! :D

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, days like that are a good reason to be lazy. A had a snow day yesterday (in APRIL!), so I know the feeling.

I don't think I've friended your sim journal, so I'm going to do that now.

I always find it funny to see what gets yanked from photobucket. It's seems like the nudity, however mild, is the trigger. It makes me laugh, since I can make some pretty sexually suggestive images without nudity, and those are fine.

Hear that kids? The word of the day is SIM-TITTY. Or PIXELTIT. :P