Pose Boxes

It's been a while since I've posted here! But I haven't really been playing the game. It's a lot of work to get a story chapter out every week with pictures. Which is a shame because one of the fun parts of TS3 happens to be getting the pictures, and I've been breezing through that part to just be sure I have something up every week.

So I have started testing out the pose player. I've got the updated version now, and it's pretty awesome. You can add poses to a list to be used again and again. And instead of looking for a specific box like in TS2, you just have the one box and you type in the name of the pose you need. Sometimes this can be really handy or really not handy. Many poses do not have any sort of description, so it's hard to know what pose it is until you use it.

Many artists include the picture of a pose with the name beside it, so I've been keeping the pictures that come with the pose files. I've also got a notepad file where I'm putting in the names of poses. If I can, I put in the description too just to help me out.


The other day, I saw this pose pack and I had to use it. (I knew exactly who for too.)





I've been wishing to pose them forever on the floor of the meadow. In my head, they used to meet on the meadow and then just lay side by side. The closet I could imagine were the TS2 animations of sky watching (and later on cuddling under the clouds/stars). Nothing like that at ALL in TS3. Why would they take that detail out among the ones they did take out? Maybe Generations will put it back in?

Anyway, this is what I came up with.

Using the earlier link floor pack from Club Crimsyn. It's not bad, but here's the thing- the artist can mold the faces. And since there is no over lay yet, the face that goes with the pose is just the face with the pose. This isn't really Brandon's face. So that's the main issue I've got with the poses on pose boxes. Even if the pose looks great and natural because of the care an artist took (and these poses were pretty neat), they will still look stiff and unnatural because of the faces.

And I really deal with faces.

So I decided to give is another shot with a different pose pack from My Blue Book. Pose Set 003- Couple Poses. She says she worked hard on them, and it really shows. I think she did a great job with it considering how difficult it must be to pose one sim, let alone two and get them to line up!


My favorite picture:



It's adorable, but still those faces frozen like that.

But then I suppose my own attempts at couple posing like this have been the same for the most part. It's why I end up having weird camera angles to hide strange eyes or the fact that two sims may be going through one another. Like the first couple of pictures in this chapter.


But still, my favorite pictures of Pat and Brandon happen to be the standard EA animations. Catch them between animations, move them around a little and you have unique poses with unique faces and they will generally turn their heads to face each other. The Pose Player will also play those standard animations, so I still need to do even more experimenting.

I guess I just don't see myself becoming a major poses downloading whore. Though I do note the good ones I like and see possibility for future reference.

Lots of dirty pictures!

Because I'm a perv and proud of it!


All right, so the most recent chapter I think deserves some behind the scenes info. Mostly, how it was done. These were just some shots I took because I was curious. I had an idea and wanted to see if it could be done.

Basically, I wondered if using the OMSPs, I could make it look like one sim was sitting on the lap of the other sim. Well, then somehow that moved into "what if they're naked?" And there was probably some snickering.

Anyway, enough of me, some actual pictures.




First, I pulled out the picnic basket, my go to prop. Then I had them both sit down. I moved the sims off the blanket, and Kyrene is actually sitting on a couple of low fancy OMSPs. In order to get Kyrene's hands moved though, I had to get her to chat with Alex first before I put her on the OMSPs because once they're on the OMSPs, things get a little weird.



I loved this shot. She's just talking, but she looks a little sad-- yes I'm going with sad. This is not the first time I've caught an oddly sad look on her face (which is super odd since she's not posed, she's just talking).

The shot of Alex tipping her over is actually them on the couch.

Full shot:


Actual shot:


Kyrene is once again on a fancy OMSP. Using the Chaos Mod Painting, I had Kyrene do the "bored to death" animation, so she would fall flat, and I told Alex to take a nap, and then it was just a matter of timing.






I'm really just trying to push Photobucket now. I'm almost daring them, lol.


Okay, so this was actually my second shot at making dirty pictures. These two were the subject of another photoshoot that was a spur of the moment what if thing, and I don't foresee using them, so I'll present them here.


You have to use your imagination for these. These pics are also highly suggestive, but I think they would be the sort to be heightened with some text.

I imagine that she searches him out, probably finding him with a small group. It doesn't take much to get him alone. Her smile is promise enough. They probably seek out an abandoned room in one of the abandoned buildings. He hikes her up, kissing her, sliding his hand under her skirt as she wraps her legs around him, throwing her arms around her shoulder. And well...












The first three are just them making out with her on OMSPs.

The fourth shot (with him between her legs), Kyrene is actually doing the Party Animal idle, y'know where they throw their hands in the air? And then she's on an OMSP to line her up. Alex is doing one of the amorous animations, the one where he wraps his hands over someone's waist. I sort of liked the line up for that shot, but hated that he wasn't doing anything.

The last two are just amorous hugs, Kyrene also on OMSPs so it looks like he's lifting her up.



So that's pretty much it. Just involves a weird idea, and some play testing. I think that's enough dirty pictures of these two, not that either of these two would mind. You'll just have to imagine the dirty pictures yourself!