Date Posted: 28th May 2007 at 11:48 PM

Those of you who were waiting for Bob - sorry the wait's going to be a little bit longer as the upload needs some things changed and I won't have time to resubmit for a while as I have a few exams coming up.

Namely 3 written papers and a practical where I get to shine bright lights in peoples' eyes to look at their retinas, stare inside their ears and to poke and prod their faces with cotton wool, reflex hammers and maybe even pins.

Paysites:

Other than that while I regularly visit community forums to lurk and post I'm aware some people don't and so might not know about the latest goings on in the paysites saga and of course some people may not have heard about it at all.

A couple of threads about the whole debate can be found at the SC2

This is the first thread covering the subject - be warned you may need to have a couple of days free to go through the whole thing - it's continued in this thread which is still short and contains the general gist of feeling.

The reason I'm pointing this out is mostly because I feel strongly about the issue - the EULA itself states “You may include materials created with the Tools & Materials on your personal noncommercial website for the noncommercial benefit of the fan community for EA's products” which to me clearly says paysites are illegal. While in the community recent contacts with EA's legal team - have a look at the end of the large paysites thread for the quoted letters - has prompted both a petition set up by Nouk and a letter writing campaign. I've signed and sent a letter myself and I suppose what I'm mostly saying here is that I'd encourage anyone else who feels strongly about the paysites issue to do the same. Apathy won't get us anywhere, but if enough people say something then EA may actually care to make a definitive statement and start taking action against the paysites.

If nothing else read about it, make up your own mind about it and pass on the links to your sims playing friends.

Steps off soapbox.

Revision Ho!

Date Posted: 22nd May 2007 at 11:43 PM

I do believe I've finally finished my Bob Bryar sim and I've managed to make him stop trying to catch butterflies long enough to get some shots.





He'll be submitted tommorrow so hopefully will be up in a few days. Moderation permitting of course!

Date Posted: 6th May 2007 at 12:36 PM

I have some free time comming up and since simPE doesn't scare the besjesus out of me and because Tig and HP write very idiot proof tuts (that I, with a fully paid up sub to the idiots guild love) which have lots and lots of wonderfully annotated pics (yay again! cos words are like so over rated) I've decided to attempt to learn how to mesh.

I've already done the first half of the basic clothing tut so now I'm hoping to get to grips with milkshape.

Henceforth alternate sobbing and excited squeeks may be heard comming from my little corner of the world and if I'm lucky possibly a clothing mesh or two.

I also think my completed version of the Patient should be submitted soonish. He'll be up by next weekend at the very latest.

But enough of that - back to meshing!

Date Posted: 23rd Apr 2007 at 10:17 PM

Random update I've been working on my Mikey sim a bit he's still not right but it's getting there as are the clothes:



I've also been working a bit more on my skeleton gloves outfit it still needs a few more changes but I'm fairly happy with it so far.


I've also been playing quite a bit seasons :lovestruc ! My most amusing and still not quite finished walkby:


Also fingers crossed a teen of mine Ellie will be appearing on site. I made her for one of my hoods and fell in love with how cute she was in game and so decided to upload her.


In other random sharing news I donated some blood earlier today - so if you're one of the 1-2% of the population that shares my blood group (I'm rare yo!) and you get unlucky you may be in luck. I love feeling the tube the blood runs through as it goes to the collecting bag I'm always amazed at how warm the blood is - yes I know I'm odd.

Date Posted: 18th Apr 2007 at 4:15 PM

I finally installed seasons a couple of days ago. I love it and I've not even seen the damn pengiun yet.


Though of course my silly selfie did manage to freeze on the first day of winter.


But the game has also inspired me to do some new clothing:

This outerwear with skeleton gloves isn't finished yet (I'm going to change the jacket) but the glove design is from a pair of real life gloves I painted by hand for myself to wear - they're even anatomically correct. I scanned one ages ago but only just got round to using the pic.



The patient, who you may have spotted in my profile pic (also I'd suggest looking at the pic if you have half a minute spare, it's animated - and tell me if you like it!) is almost done I just need to finish his outfit at the moment it's just a touch too white.

Also I made a new teen boy skinny jeans outfit which I may post soon.

I do normally do sets but I don't really have the urge to do more at the moment.

Edit: It's up . Gah first post is someone bitching about it, not because it doesn't work but because they don't like the style of clothing. Rant here because I don't like to waste billygoats:

If you don't like something I worked hard on and decided to share for free I won't be offended if you ignore my uploads and move on. But chosing to make snide comments when you have no intention of downloading is just a waste of your and my time and manages to make you look incredibly rude.

If you don't like what I'm making you have the option to make your own stuff and guess what if it turns out to be good enough to be accepted here and it's not to my taste I'll just move on without giving you a useless opinion.

Chienne, s'il te plaît

Date Posted: 14th Apr 2007 at 3:13 PM

Wow! Today my counter finally tells me that I have had 100,000 of my items downloaded by people, considering I only started uploading about 6 months ago that is just wow! Anyway as a celebration I've finally got round to adding a profile picture.

To the people who bother to click the thanks button - thank you. I appreciate looking at the list of names of people who like what I'm making and I find it really encouraging.

To the people who bother to comment - thank you. I love reading comments and it's incredibly nice that you spent a few extra seconds to tell me what you think about my uploads.

To the people who use my stuff in films and pictures - I absolutely adore seeing the sims and various bits and pieces I've made put to use. :lovestruc
Here are a few of my fav music vids that use some of my creations:


Firstly my absolute favourite movie (well it was made to order )

Blood - by the amazing Tealia who's made a ton other other awesome MCR sim videos using items I've made.


Welcome to The Black Parade - The first vid I found using my uniforms set. Apparently she says she made the video before I put them up - odd that the outfits are identical to the ones I made then.
The Black Parade - Uses my Mother War amongst other things.
Cancer - Looks amazing.
Mama
Teenagers

Here's to the next 100K!

Date Posted: 12th Apr 2007 at 11:21 PM

I arrived back home today having set off from home - not the same place! I really need to sort out in my head where I consider I live because I'm starting to confuse myself.

Anyway two weeks wandering round local fields at dusk with the dog, planting seeds and getting to visit the local castle which I've not been to in yonks was great. And yes I am a wimp for clinging on for dear life to the battlements which have a 3 foot wide wall - I just don't like heights much - but the view is totally worth it and makes me want to dl a ton of medieval stuff.

But since I'm sure no one cares about my break.

Sims wise I've not had access to any programmes for 2 weeks. But today once I got back I had the urge to do some recolors of callum91's conversion of the seasons Caesar mesh which I really like. I think I have about 15ish different colours some natural some not.

I've only got pictures of the natural shades and one custom colour so far but the set should be finished, binned and up in the next few days.


Of course I am working on other things too but I'm in a hair mood today. :D

Date Posted: 30th Mar 2007 at 9:24 PM

Tomorrow I'm going home for Easter - yay! I get to see my dog, my brother, other siblings and the rest of the family...

But I don't have the sims on the home computer so no uploads from me for a couple of weeks - however I will check my messages and log in to plot what I'm downloading when I get back.

When I do get back I will, I promise absolutely, finish the set of outfits I've been going on about for ages.

I've also just discovered the perfect mesh for his hospital gown and so will be making a version of the Patient. Plus I'm working on the other 4 members of MCR Bob is 90% there and the others are starting to come together, but no pics today.

And speaking of MCR the gig was fantastic, the special effects were squeeworthy, and I'm incredibly jealous of those of you who are going to get to see them later this year when the amazing Muse are the supporting act.

Have a good Easter!

Date Posted: 16th Mar 2007 at 2:21 PM

...to go till I see MCR's tour squee.

In other news I now have Seasons but I'm not installing it until I've finished my Helena outfits which I'm being really lazy about. I hated how Frank's one turned out so I'm restarting that from scratch which is why it's taking me a while, well that and the fact that everyone I know seems to be having birthdays and it would be rude not to party.

Also I got featured again which possibly means the first time wasn't a fluke, but of course being featured is one thing...

However you really know your work is good when people put the sim up on the exchange having only changed the hair and claim that it took them hours to make - well at least they felt guilty enough to take it down and put up what I hope is their own effort when I called them on it.

To be honest I find it annoying because my policy is very lax I don't even care if you put up parts I've made on the exchange - which many seem to have a horror of. The only thing I don't want reposted is the facial sculpt that I made, and really what achievement do you get from claiming someone elses work. Isn't it rather empty?

Mini rant over - I have far more important things in the real world to dwell on, but hey your first time is special.

Sim world wise I'm working on Bob from MCR






He's getting there but is still not quite right, there's always a moment for me when all the feature click and I've not reached there yet. Also as you can see from the last picture Gerard is not entirely happy about having to share the mirror.

Date Posted: 4th Mar 2007 at 8:42 PM

I can't wait for uploads to come back it's getting a tad frustrating checking all the time to see if they've returned. But it should be soon and promises to improve things around here so I'm trying to remain patient.

On the plus it's given me time to improve my photoshopping skills behold the pics!


All the pictures are fairly obviously for my version Gerard who is going to be submitted as soon as is possible.

Also the Helena outfits I've harped on about should be finished soon - if not please hunt me down and kick me.

I also have future plans to sim the rest of MCR and since I tend to be a perfectionist over small details if anyone A) actually reads this and B) has any good pictures of the bands tatoos, especially Frank's newer ones could they please drop me a pm and pass them on.