Strangetown extras: Remember that time we all crammed into the photo booth together?

[strangetomato]

Here's a little something that I've been working on for my next update. It's a photo booth photo for Johnny's bedroom, which I've created myself and will add to the game by recolouring a painting with SimPE. I had to do it this way because you can't stuff three sims into a photo booth, which is a real shame, since people do it all of the time in real life (I know that I have, many times). I considered posting a WCIF post to the Sims 2 community, but then I figured that if someone had created a hack that cool, I would have heard about it by now. So, using Jaydee's Photo Poses Animation Box, I took the matter into my own hands.

I'm so pleased with that arched eyebrow shot of Johnny. He's so not amused by Ripp's antics. It's just perfect.

All I have to do now is update SimPE and do the recolour. It's been updated for K&B Stuff, but I can't seem to extract the files into the program folder that I created for it on my computer. I followed the instructions to the letter, but my system will not allow them to be placed in the folder (yes, the computer must take all of the blame for this, not me). I don't know if it's some security setting, or what, but I'll gladly take suggestions, if you have any. I run Vista, if it makes any difference.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous of Ophelia. Seriously. Well, not so much the tragic past, but her present seems to almost make up for it. She's surely lucky to share a photo booth with these guys.

The animation box gets all the credit for the expressions. I just selected them and posed them together. I love the arched eyebrow (and the flared nostrils *snicker*). It makes me wish that more animations featured that look. I'd use it all the time on Johnny. Maybe I will use this pose again in the story. Johnny just seems like a brow archer to me.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

He is the epitome of an arched brow. :D

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Johnny Smith is not amused.

Or maybe he is, but he won't give you the satisfaction of knowing it. :P

In that photo, with Ripp posing all coquettishly, it seems like Johnny's trying to say, "Am I really getting my photo taken with this weirdo?"

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

There's also a progression, I just realized. Ripp starts out in back. Then in the lower left, he's squeezing to the front. Maybe that's why The Brow is arched. :D

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I intended it to seem like Ripp was inching his way to the front. :P And Johnny isn't impressed, since he's supposed to be in front. It seems like he might be trying to nudge Ripp out of the way in the last shot.

The Brow. *snicker* They're finely manicured brows too. Johnny's brows seem like the plucked brows, even though they're set to the thick brows.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

I had a boss who we called "The Brow" for that reason. One of my co-workers drew a comic and whenever Jeff appeared, he was just a floating, arched eyebrow. :D