I'm so spoiled with my graphics card. I may as well put it to good use. That's why I try to fit in a lot of those zoomed out establishing shots - why not? It's also just nice to give more of a sense of place. I love how I actually know the lay-out of Strangetown really well now, since I can see all the neighbouring lots.
I'm glad you like the compositions. I spend a lot of time planning them out and setting them up. I really ought to have half a clue about composing a photograph after going to art school (these days I only seem to take sim photos, but I have produced some actual photographs in the past), but it's definitely something that just comes with practice, I think. I use the camera mode that you hit tab to go into and just feel around for the right composition. I like the amount of control it gives you. I've heard that screen caps give better quality shots, but I can't imagine trying to do it that way. The camera mode feels more like, well, a camera to me.
I quite like your compositions! I was admiring them just the other day. And you create all your sets so well too. It makes for a very rich image.
I do that zone out at the fight scene too, especially anything drawn out and "exciting". My rules for fight scenes: make it brief, funny, and/or stylized. Avoid fight porn.
Ripp's despair got to me too, but it was worth it. I was amazed at how well those images matched up with the image I had in my head when I wrote that part.
That series of shots moving out from the window was a last-minute edition, and I was glad it occurred to me to do that. I like how it gives it a cinematic feel. I've been using sequences of pictures-only a bit more frequently lately, and I like how it works. I may try to experiment with that a bit more. Sometimes you can tell and not show, and then show and not tell. Why not? We have the freedom to do that.
I'm glad you like my Buck. :) He's the youngest Grunt, and yet the most sensible and mature in most ways.
I love the idea of Johnny happily cooking those omelettes, even though the thought of eating them (and even smelling them) grosses him out. Ripp is lucky to have them, isn't he?
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I'm so spoiled with my graphics card. I may as well put it to good use. That's why I try to fit in a lot of those zoomed out establishing shots - why not? It's also just nice to give more of a sense of place. I love how I actually know the lay-out of Strangetown really well now, since I can see all the neighbouring lots.
I'm glad you like the compositions. I spend a lot of time planning them out and setting them up. I really ought to have half a clue about composing a photograph after going to art school (these days I only seem to take sim photos, but I have produced some actual photographs in the past), but it's definitely something that just comes with practice, I think. I use the camera mode that you hit tab to go into and just feel around for the right composition. I like the amount of control it gives you. I've heard that screen caps give better quality shots, but I can't imagine trying to do it that way. The camera mode feels more like, well, a camera to me.
I quite like your compositions! I was admiring them just the other day. And you create all your sets so well too. It makes for a very rich image.
I do that zone out at the fight scene too, especially anything drawn out and "exciting". My rules for fight scenes: make it brief, funny, and/or stylized. Avoid fight porn.
Ripp's despair got to me too, but it was worth it. I was amazed at how well those images matched up with the image I had in my head when I wrote that part.
That series of shots moving out from the window was a last-minute edition, and I was glad it occurred to me to do that. I like how it gives it a cinematic feel. I've been using sequences of pictures-only a bit more frequently lately, and I like how it works. I may try to experiment with that a bit more. Sometimes you can tell and not show, and then show and not tell. Why not? We have the freedom to do that.
I'm glad you like my Buck. :) He's the youngest Grunt, and yet the most sensible and mature in most ways.
I love the idea of Johnny happily cooking those omelettes, even though the thought of eating them (and even smelling them) grosses him out. Ripp is lucky to have them, isn't he?