Strangetown extras: Another painting recolour

[strangetomato]

So, I recoloured another painting, and I tried one of the poster formats this time. I even put some text on the poster, using this great simlish font by SIMale on MTS2. To show off the results, I've put together a little scene with Johnny and Ripp.

Ripp: So where is this present, Johnny?

Johnny: It's in your bedroom.

Ripp: I can't believe you bought me a present. Is it because I did the dishes?




Johnny: Now, don't get too excited, okay? It's nothing that great.

Ripp: Just show me, already!




Johnny: Okay. Here it is!

Ripp: Oh my god! It's awesome! Where did you get this?




Johnny: I just saw it at SimMart. Check out the cheesy lens flare!

Ripp: Check out the rockin' bodies! Fuck, they're hot. So which one would you choose?

Johnny: For what?

Ripp: You're fucking kidding me, right?

Johnny: Oh... right. Well, the one on the left -

Ripp: Angela.

Johnny: Okay, Angela. She seems nice.




Ripp: So you'd do her?

Johnny: Yeah, I guess so. I don't know. I mean, it's completely hypothetical. I have a girlfriend, and why would either of them want to sleep with me, anyway? They're famous actresses! And I don't even know them. What if we had nothing in common?

Ripp: That's so not the point of this game. You're not picking out your future wife, Johnny! You're just supposed to decide which one you want to bump uglies with.

Johnny: Okay, then which one would you pick? I guess you'll have to take the other one -

Ripp: Lilith.

Johnny: Right... Lilith. You'll have to take her, if I already picked Angela.




Ripp: This isn't like picking teams for sports, Johnny. I can pick the same one.

Johnny: Well, that's convenient.

Ripp: What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

Johnny: Nothing. Just convenient... like, I could drop her off with you after we were finished our date.

Ripp: Who says you'd get first crack at her?

Johnny: Ripp, I'm not taking a "crack" at anyone, okay?

Ripp: Besides, why would I pick just one of them, when they come as a sweet matching set?

Johnny: Wasn't that the point of the game?




Ripp: Thanks for the present, John! You're the llama's ass!

Comments

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I love it! Love the scene with Johnny and Ripp too. I've said before, I think you "speak" for the sims so much better than I do. I mean, I really hear their personalities coming out in your diologue, where I don't always with mine (my sims tend to just talk like... me... lol!)

Anyway the poster looks awesome! Great job!

I just noticed that out of the three comments on this so far, two look like they have Ripp in their icons. :D I need to upload a pic of Vampire!Ripp from my story to use as mine. :P

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Yep, Ripp is in my icon! :P
...And the girl next to him? My Sim self! Hahaha.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Now I want to do a whole series of these posters (and band posters too).

My strategy for writing dialogue is to pair up certain characters with people I know, just for the way they speak. For Johnny and Ripp, I have a very clear idea of who they "are" in this sense, so I really enjoy writing them (but the people they are inspired by do not interact at all, so that part of it is where I have to get creative - imagining those character types as best friends). I'm sure that some of the characters I write are more or less me too. Or they go in and out of my voice. It's hard not to do that.

Vampire!Ripp? I have to go check that out! (I have to catch up on your story, period. I'm terrible for that lately.) You should make an icon. Join the Ripp icon party. Pixel made her icon (the same one I'm using) from the pic where Stella is filling Ripp in on the details of alien biology. I love the wide eyes, and the smile that betrays how excited he is. ;)