Maxis Taste Weekly Dare 002: Freestyle make-over

[strangetomato]

If you haven't already checked it out, I recommend the maxis_taste community to anyone who shares the love of Maxis-made sims (I'm assuming that includes many of the people reading this journal). It's all about the Maxis-made sims and content that matches the Maxis style, which is right up my alley.

I decided to participate in the latest challenge (or "dare" as they are referred to in this community), which asks the participants to do a freestyle makeover of a pre-made sim (up to three), using any cc available to them. I chose Johnny and Jill Smith, since I've been wanting to make them over anyway. I did a little photo shoot, and here they are...

Here they are, enjoying the sun and sand (nice abs, Johnny!), but wait... there's something different about them.
 



I decided to make them over to be more genetically realistic. I'm not sure if this really fits the purpose of the challenge, but it didn't say we couldn't mess around with genetics. Either way, I've wanted to try this out for a while, so I did.

Jill hair is a little on the shiny side to be a Maxis match, I know, but that doesn't always bother me so much with hair. I really like this long flowing mesh to go with the beach look. (It would be cool to retexture it to be more Maxis-match... that could be another possible project.)




Here they are, fully clothed. They're fairly different from my other take on them in Strangetown, HWC, but I could still see them wearing something like this.

 Don't you love the scenery on Twikki Island? It's so beautiful.




This photo would be another nice addition to the wall in the Smith family den, don't you think?
 


Custom content used:

- Jack's alien eyes by pixel_and_bean
- lipstick and eyeliner by HystericalParoxysm
- eyeshadow by Lyran
- Johnny's hair by Maxis Dreams
- Jill's hair by Nouk
- Johnny's outfit is from the EA Store
- Jill's dress is a recolour of an H&M dress by me
- Jill's bikini is by HystericalParoxysm

Comments

[dothesmustle.livejournal.com]

They look adorable as "complete" aliens. Jill looks a little bit like Stella! I've heard that Ninika on MTS2 is making maxis match versions of a lot of popular hair styles, I think she's on GOS, too. So she can make retextures of a lot of pay hairs. Her name is "Neena_Needles" on GOS.

Also, Miki at GOS uses Maxis textures..kind of. This is one of my favorite hairs of hers.

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=2124.0

Not sure if that counts as Maxis Match.

She also has this hair. You can find it on her LJ, yaymiki.

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links. I hadn't seen the second hair before, and it's gorgeous.

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

Ah, I LOVE that hair. I made darker recolors of it because they were too light for my tastes, but that hair is wonderful!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

She does look a bit like Stella, doesn't she? They're probably based off the same template. They're both very delicate and pretty, without any really extreme features. That's one of the reasons Stella will make a nice PT. There'll be some pretty hybrid children once she starts working.

Thanks for the links! :D I really like that Miki style, and it is somewhat Maxis match (works for me, anyway). I checked out Ninika before, and I love her textures, but I wish she'd recolour a mesh that I'd actually want. I just don't like most of Peggy's hair, no matter what texture it has. Same goes for Rose. I dislike all the stray pieces and excessive detail. There's this one male mesh (Rose's, I think) with these thin little pieces hanging down over the forehead... it makes me go nearly insane whenever I see it, but I digress... people seem to like it. I see it all the time.

[dothesmustle.livejournal.com]

Stella would make a good PT. She had cute children in my game, she also has pretty nice cheekbones, but sometimes they look odd on a sim.

I love Miki's retextures as well, they're very cute. Yeah, I like Ninika's textures, but I don't really like Peggy hair(though I LOVE Rose's hair :x), I have a few of her hairs, but I usually don't bother going to booty for them.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

IF YOU LIKE ROSE HAIR YOU CAN'T BE MY FRIEND ANYMORE!

(Sorry - got a little CAPSLOCK SIMS in here for a second. :P)

I think there might be a couple of Rose hairs that I like, but I'm totally all about the Raon hair for my girly hair needs, and some XM Sims meshes too (but less so).

Oh, and Stella's a total babe, no doubt. Does she have strong cheekbones like that? I'll have to take another look. I love prominent cheekbones.

[dothesmustle.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. :[

I like Raon, too. Sometimes her hairs are REALLY shiny, or her colors are just awful, haha. I usually just get recolors of her hair, sometimes she doesn't even bin and I just go "GAAAH." XM Sims annoys me, because you have download EVERY recolor. Eh, I guess beggars can't be choosers. :P

Yeah, her cheekbones are pretty dominant, too. Four out of five her children got them. here they are on a male sim and on a female sim.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Heehee. I made Avery sad. :P

I use retextures of Raon hairs for that reason too. They're too shiny and the colours are really different from the Maxis ones. XM sims is a little annoying like that, but I often only want a couple of the colours, so it's not so bad.

Cool. I like the high cheekbones. I'm looking forward to breeding up a storm with her as a PT. (Well, maybe a minor storm, but still...)

[dothesmustle.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you saw it already, BUT Miki has some new retextures at GOS.

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=5557.msg165806#msg165806

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=5531.msg165146#msg165146
(This one is good for ~punk rawk~ sims...perhaps the new drummer for The Shifting Paradymes? ;D)