Jeepers Creepers, where'd you get those peepers?

[strangetomato]

It's always a happy day for me when kinemortophobia posts a new creation, and I've been eagerly awaiting part two of her easy/lucky/free recolours of Sarhra's eyes, so I was very pleased to see them posted today.
 

I was very excited about these, since Phobia had shown some previews of her work in progress, and I really liked her new recolours. She was even kind enough to create a dark blue tailored specifically to my tastes. I was so very excited to see them that I went right ahead and plonked 'em down on the Maxis sclera and made 'em into defaults.






Making defaults was easier than I thought it would be, even though I had a little trouble setting up the DDS utilities correctly. It was nothing that a little research couldn't fix, and I soon got it to work. Trust me... if I can do it, you can do it. I followed this tutorial at MATY.

So let's see these new defaults in action, shall we?




Phobia made this dark blue eye especially for me, and for Ripp. *beams* That's pretty sweet. I wanted it to be quite dark, and not too vibrant. Sort of a denim-y blue, like Lyran's dark blue. It looks more grey in this shot, because of the lighting, I now realize, but it's just about perfect.

Thank you, Phobia! That's exactly what I wanted. I love it.




The green I chose looks pretty good on Johnny...




And also Phi.

If anything, I might consider making contacts for Johnny again, just to fine tune his colour, but it's probably not necessary (I do intend to make the really dark grey eyes into contacts for Nervous, though - they're almost black, and I think it would work well on him).




As you can see, Phi is busying catching dinner.

And what are the boys doing?




Hula dancing in the kitchen. Yup, they're pretty useless.

Now, what about those other eye colours...






I didn't even need to summon Vidcund in to take a look at his eyes, because Ripp was stupid enough to spy on him at the telescope (no big surprise there). As usual, Vidcund wasted no time in arriving at the scene to lay into the peeping tom.

Ooops... It seems like I messed up and made grey the default for the light blue eyes. I'll have to fix that.




Vidcund: And ANOTHER thing...

Ripp: *sobs*

Vidcund: Ah, man... are you crying? Geez...

Ripp: No! I'm not... *bawls*




Vidcund: Umm, sorry... I'll just be leaving now. *thinks* That boy's not right.




Here's the grey on Zoe (though we already saw it on Vidcund too). It's the same one I tested before.




And the brown on Jaxy. I like this one quite a bit. It's very dark and rich.


So, there you go. Changing the sclera made them work so much better for me. I'm pretty sure I'll be switching over to these at some point. Right now, I still have some shots with Lyran's eyes that I want to use, so I'm going to wait a little. I want to avoid mixing the two types in one update, if I can help it.

There's also an interesting new alien eye set in this upload, and I downloaded it to try out, then forgot to take a shot of it. I'll test it out later. I'm pretty fond of Pixel's alien eyes, but I'm open to trying out a new default. Can't hurt to try it, right?




 

Comments

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Niiiiiiiice. These seriously make me reconsider my eyes. Damnit!!! XD

Can't wait to see the light blue too. :)

[tanathir.livejournal.com]

Ooooo these are nice! I love the dark blue for Ripp, it's perfect for him. Poor baby crying though; he's a sensitive soul. The green is great also, especially since I have yet to find a green that isn't substantially yellow and had an iris texture I like. Picky, yes I is. I love how the gray looks on Zoe. The brown I may have to get used to, since at least in that shot it looks too dark to tell the iris from the pupil.

Are we going to see JRO on vacation in future chapters? *giddy glee* if we are!

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

The colors are great, but I'm still not used to the location of the white dots. I really don't know why that bugs me so much! :/

It would be great to have alien eyes that match the set exactly. Pixel_and_Bean's eyes are amazing though.

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I downloaded them too. It's so cool that you put them on the Maxis Sclera! I would put them on the Lyran Sclera, but I love ALL OF THEM, and it would be SO MUCH WORK.

Ripp looks adorable! And Zoey does too. AND Johnny! The eyes look great. The alien one with the grey in the middle is VERY interesting, I'm TOTALLY testing it out later.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I did use the Lyran sclera, now that you mention it, since I used my default grey as a base (not even thinking that it was the default, not the original grey).

As far as I know, Lyran uses the Maxis sclera, though, doesn't she?

I really like that alien eye. I just took a look at it in Body Shop, and it does look cool. I really might make the switch.

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I'm posting about my project at my LJ AS WE SPEAK.

I'm not sure. I thought she did.

I looked at it, but I didn't really like it much. I might have to look at it more though.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Those look really nice! I like them with the Maxis sclera so much better (they did have a shaded/roundish looking sclera first, right? Seems to me I checked them out the first time you linkied to them.) :D

Aw, Vid with grey eyes! *squeezes* Reminds me of a couple (or more, lol) sons I've seen of his with grey eyes throughout my games. ;)

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

*snerk* "That boy's not right."

Normally, I don't notice things like subtle differences in eyes but THESE I can see the difference with. The brown is really yummy looking (great, now I want chocolate).

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nifty. I'm still sorting out exactly what level of Maxislike vs. realistic I want in my game, but those are very attractive eyes for your level of mostly-Maxis.

(I should post about some of my dilemmas on my Sims LJ, maybe. And maybe share the present non-default version of my very own alien skintone blend, although it has fairly obvious pattern seams at the neck (because the original skintone I used to give the pattern to the blend had them and I cannot fix that kind of thing).)

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

ick - the colors on this laptop are all wonky. :\

But i peeked through her post early (i like to sneak through your friendslist and her posts are always so shiny and full of colors!) so i did get to see 'em all pretty-like, but it's a shame that i can't really see the prettiness put on my faves.

ah well. :3

[a-gates.livejournal.com]

What hotties. *drools* I love Phi's eyes.... and Ripp, oh Ripp sometimes I think your name is short for Rip my heart out, kid. lol... Johnny, I got my eye on you.. *runs to fetch the drool bucket...drools some more.* lol. Anyhow have a Happy Holiday.

[kinemortophobia.livejournal.com]

I can't really express my gratitude to your for all your input about the recolors without sounding insincere and/or Hallmark-y but know that I'm bursting at the seams with it! Your Photobucket account has eaten the pictures, but hopefully that will be fixed sometime soon as I still have to catch up on this whole Round Robin Legacy business.

I am glad you're happy with the dark blue and dark brown as those were the most worrisome for me as really dark colors are difficult to make without making them muddy. They look really great on the Maxis sclera and I'm looking forward to any future sclera edits anyone else cooks up. Myself, I plan on editing them with a slightly less vein-y edit of Rensim's Confutatis sclera as I actually like the shading on it, but that is personal preference of course. ;)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

The photos are back now, if you want to take a look. :) I'm glad I was able to help you with the process. I'm just excited to have been able to have some input at all. That's pretty exciting.

I'm actually going to use the slightly lighter blue (Old Soul Song), after testing them out for a while. It still reads as pretty dark in the game, and it's a little punchier. My default set now includes Old Soul Song, Sunrise Sunset, Weather Reports, Love is Real, and Spent on Rainy Days. I'll probably do another post about it, and my plans for also using more of the custom geneticized eyes. I'm going to have more than one version of most colours, I think. For now, they're just contacts, but I'm going to edit them in SimPE (yeah, I'm in it for the long haul).

Thanks again for doing these. It's great to have so many lovely colours to choose from. :)