Strangetown Extras: Worthington Portraits

[strangetomato]

I've been shooting some family portraits to make into painting recolours, so I thought I'd share one of the ones I've done so far. I think it came out pretty well.









They're standing in order of age, from back left to front right: Lillian, Edie, Charlotte, and Frances.

I like how easy it is to compare their genetics when they're side by side like this. As you can see, Edie's the only one who avoided their mother's non-chin.

I'm going to need a lot of these to decorate my new Worthington mansion, which I'll post about later (I'm really coveting Mansion and Garden stuff right now, but I'm supposed to wait for Santa to bring it). I'm doing some wedding portraits, and a couple of family group photos, and some baby stuff.




 

Comments

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Nice! And funny coincidence, 'cause just earlier this evening I was thinking about your version of Frances' family and trying to remember his sisters' names, 'cause I could only remember Edie. Looking forward to seeing more pictures, I love portraits like that, especially from different ages.

How did you go about making Frances' parents again, so that they have his features? I'm toying with the idea of making some families for some Maxis college students myself...

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

You'll be seeing more of the whole Worthington family in the next chapter, because I'm going to be doing Charlotte's wedding to Malcolm Landgraab, and the whole family will be there. That should be fun. A lot of work, but fun too. I've already started to decorate the venue (why does sim decorating take so long for me?).

My method involves working backwards from the sim you want to create a family for. I started with Frances, decided which features would belong to each parent (since they obviously shouldn't be the same, unless you really want cartoon silliness), and then I either altered the other features by hand or used another sim to breed a parent using the pacifier in CAS (this method is trickier because you have to keep rolling until the genetics end up the way you want, but it's lazier too, because you just have to keep clicking).

After I have the two parents, with the features from that original sim all evenly distributed (along with their own features that weren't "passed on" to the uni kid), I use the pacifier function again to create any additional kids. Lillian, Edie, and Charlotte are all genetic children of the Worthingtons, with no additional altering, and so they have the recessive genes and all that too.

It would be technical possible to have a child born to them who looks just like Frances, but the odds are no better than any combination of their genes.

Does that make sense? Maybe I should do a photo tutorial to illustrate it.

I also prefer this method for recreating the parents of premades, like Glarn and Kitty Curious, because the sims you can ressurect are always unaltered face templates, and don't have any resemblance to their "children" at all.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

That does make sense. That's what I thought you were doing, actually. Thanks. :)

I've been working for months on very clean versions of Strangetown and Pleasantview, in which I've actually deleted every "broken" dead sim, and replaced most of them (not most "grandparents" though) with new ones that can be resurrected if so desired, relinked them to their kids and their memories and so on. I didn't model them after their children, though (except Loki's dad - why would both his parents be face template 1??). Also fixed genetics and added recessive ones, cleaned out unnecessary garbage relations and other stuff, and other minor tweaking. I finally finished a couple of weeks ago and merged the two neighbourhoods into one, and have just recently started playing it. I plan to do a story. :D

And I'm going to need a university, so... yes.

Anyway, that's my long and slightly unrelated story, I guess I just wanted to point out that we're not adding more characters to the MegaHood. :p

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how I made Guy Wrightley's family, who I haven't shown yet. (You'll see his sister in my next chapter... When I get to it.) Though it was a lot of work, it was pretty fun to do. He's pretty much a genetic oddity in his family, hehehe. Both of his other siblings either have black hair or darker skin.