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strangetomato) wrote2011-03-26 06:23 pm
strangetomato) wrote2011-03-26 06:23 pm
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Vamping it up.
Quite some time ago (has it really been years, already?), ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
simgaroop and I were planning to do a collaborative story. We decided to focus on the Tricou mystery, since we both like to play with the Maxis storylines and this was one of the game's better mysteries to unravel. We were both new to it, since neither of us had ever written about them, played them, what have you.
It never got off the ground, unfortunately. I think we both have a tendency to explode things, make them overly complicated, and the combined effect of both of us doing this caused the project to crumple under the weight of our excess of enthusiastic ideas. We eventually lost interest, which is too bad. (Maybe one day we'll work on another project, eh Simgaroop?) Our episodic fantasy/supernatural/superhero/teen drama, featuring those downtownie teens as the main characters (working title: Fallen Trees) never saw the light of day.
I did write a couple of little snippets, though, and I recently dusted one off, thinking it might make an interesting little short to get myself back into writing. The recent surge of Tricou-related posts on my flist has also gotten me thinking again about the mythology that Simgaroop and I were working on. Some of it has already worked its way into my S,HWC universe, as previously seen here (that drabble was written while it was all still a secret project). It'll probably never get told in any amount of detail, but I plan to sneak in some snippets of it ( the Cordials have a connection to it, as does Titania). It'd be a shame to waste story ideas.
I know I'm getting getting my flow back again when I start making cc for a story project. It seems this is actually working! :) I've been playing around with this on and off all day. I'm sure the sim below needs little introduction for anyone who's played with her. Her looks are quite distinct.
This is what I've been working on: an edit of Phobia's vampire default. It's pretty simple. All I did was layer my red Just Alien lips on the mouth and then erase the outer edges of it, to make it look like a blood stain. I did the same to the eyes, leaving only the inner part of the eye as red, showing the eye colour of the sim (in this case, you can clearly tell that Rainelle has light blue eyes).
What do you think? Do you like the effect on the eyes and lips? I'm thinking I should maybe work on the edges of the red centre of the eye to make it blend better, and also adjust the colour of the red lips to make them darker. Other than that, I'm pretty please with the way this turned out.
simgaroop and I were planning to do a collaborative story. We decided to focus on the Tricou mystery, since we both like to play with the Maxis storylines and this was one of the game's better mysteries to unravel. We were both new to it, since neither of us had ever written about them, played them, what have you. It never got off the ground, unfortunately. I think we both have a tendency to explode things, make them overly complicated, and the combined effect of both of us doing this caused the project to crumple under the weight of our excess of enthusiastic ideas. We eventually lost interest, which is too bad. (Maybe one day we'll work on another project, eh Simgaroop?) Our episodic fantasy/supernatural/superhero/teen drama, featuring those downtownie teens as the main characters (working title: Fallen Trees) never saw the light of day.
I did write a couple of little snippets, though, and I recently dusted one off, thinking it might make an interesting little short to get myself back into writing. The recent surge of Tricou-related posts on my flist has also gotten me thinking again about the mythology that Simgaroop and I were working on. Some of it has already worked its way into my S,HWC universe, as previously seen here (that drabble was written while it was all still a secret project). It'll probably never get told in any amount of detail, but I plan to sneak in some snippets of it ( the Cordials have a connection to it, as does Titania). It'd be a shame to waste story ideas.
I know I'm getting getting my flow back again when I start making cc for a story project. It seems this is actually working! :) I've been playing around with this on and off all day. I'm sure the sim below needs little introduction for anyone who's played with her. Her looks are quite distinct.
This is what I've been working on: an edit of Phobia's vampire default. It's pretty simple. All I did was layer my red Just Alien lips on the mouth and then erase the outer edges of it, to make it look like a blood stain. I did the same to the eyes, leaving only the inner part of the eye as red, showing the eye colour of the sim (in this case, you can clearly tell that Rainelle has light blue eyes).
What do you think? Do you like the effect on the eyes and lips? I'm thinking I should maybe work on the edges of the red centre of the eye to make it blend better, and also adjust the colour of the red lips to make them darker. Other than that, I'm pretty please with the way this turned out.
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I can certainly set aside the eyes and lips as makeup when I'm reworking it. Would you prefer the eyes as full-face makeup or actual lipstick? I'd do the eyes as contacts, I assume.
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I have been turned off Vampires for a good while now, actually. All the "Teen Vampire 'novel'" craze has kicked me off, but if it's made Dark, Sexy, Twisted and Realistic.. You've got my vote! (LOL)
I would really LOVE to hear the indepth story of the Tricou family, actually...
DRABBLEDRABBLEDRABBLE~? (LOL)
For the Eyes and Lips; They'd work better being Contacts and Lipstick, yes. However, I don't think Lipstick is Multi-layerable, so maybe Full-face for both (but separated and Multi-W)?
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It would be nice to include a couple of options, so people can pick and choose. Thanks for the input! :)