Work in Progress: Vampire Skintone

[strangetomato]

Here's an update on my vampire skintone, with some of the changes I mentioned (darker lips, and smaller, more blended red eye area). I'd love to have your feedback on it.

 

 

 

 

 

The effect is a little odd on aliens, because it gives them defined pupil and iris areas. At one point I was messing around with a half alien and half sim eye (for Jill Smith) and it ended up looking exactly like this (minus the red). What do you think of this? It's less than ideal for me, but so are alien vampires with regular sim eyes, so perhaps it's a step up from that? The chances of me having a sim alien vampire is pretty slim, so it doesn't really matter to me, but I'm curious to know how everyone else feels about.

Also, Stella is wearing makeup, so some of the rosey hue of her lipstick is making her lips look warmer than it would be by default.

Comments

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

I definitely like the lips darker. Very nice!

Alien vampire eyes... totally a step up from having a white sclera all of a sudden. But it does look a bit odd. I think the solution to alien vampires is, as you said, contact lenses (and the Phobia red alien eyes would be the ones I'd use, too).

I should say, I don't really play with vampires in my game. I've only had them if I rolled a challenge that requires them. So the opinions of people who DO play with vampires should be weighted over mine. :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Do you think I should go even a little darker? I'm torn. I might test it out and see.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the effect. When I tested out those half sim half alien eyes, I thought they looked creepy, and a little like snake eyes. If I were to ever have an alien vampire, I'd use contacts, for sure. And all my tinkering with the overlay will be in relation to regular sim eyes only.

Yeah, I'm the same way. The Tomato Legacy was my very first time playing with them, and also with zombies. The limitations do make things interesting, even if they're a bit of a pain! :P

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

I like the lips as they are, but darker could work too... as long as it's not so dark it doesn't look red anymore. :)

I'm about to have a zombie for a challenge... going to try to have fun with it. ^_^