Holiday Event 2014: A Very Merry Simself Christmas

[Samantha]

Happy holidays, everybody!

This year, to keep the event small but hopefully encourage maximum participation, we're going to make holiday greeting cards of our simselves (self-sims?) and share them with the rest of the forum! (Unsure what I mean? Check out the greeting card I made for Caitlin for the Halloween event. Like that, only with your simself!)

After all, we're kind of like a small little family here at the forum, right? And the holidays are all about family and friends, so why not let our simselves mingle a little!

RULES

One. You have to use a simself. I assume we all know what a "simself" is, but just in case, a simself is a Sim created in your own likeness. You can use The Sims 2, The Sims 3, or The Sims 4 for this—and if you're really into it, you can even create "yourself" in multiple installments.

Two. You should use photo-editing software to caption your greeting card. Address the "card" to all of the Unofficial BBS, and of course sign it with your own name. Be creative!

Three. Your card can be winter- or holiday-themed. Obviously it doesn't have to be Christmas-themed. ("Christmas" just really worked with the thread title, okay? )

Four. You can make as many greeting cards as you'd like. The more the merrier.

Five. Please include a download link with your simself, and preferably package your Sim with CC. Why? I'd like to be able to download all of the shared simselves in order to put them in one photograph together. If for some reason you are uncomfortable sharing your simself publically, please do send me a PM with the link. (I only own The Sims 2, so unfortunately I will not be able to TS3 and TS4 Sims in my game—sorry!)

Six. Upload your greeting card(s) to a photo-hosting website and post them here in this thread by Sunday, December 28. That gives your just over two weeks to create your simself, take pictures, edit, and upload.

Signups are not necessary, but it'd be appreciated if you could indicate intention to participate! Just so that we can get an idea of how many people might be participating. A participation prize (TS2 only, unfortunately) will be awarded.

[Laura]

I will most definitely participate in this!  It'll take me a couple of days, most likely, but I'll try to get something up after or around the weekend.

[PlyPlay665]

So I made mine. I wanted to do a Hannukah related one, but then I realized I was running out of time. So I present you.. four greeting cards with my beautiful Simself in them.

I'll get back with y'all with a download of my Simself..

[Samantha]

Those are so fun, Ply! I love the last one with the Simlish writing.

Hopefully I'll have mine done soon too. I just moved my simself into her apartment last night! Just need to decorate now

[Samantha]

Got a couple done! I will have some more.

And I will also have my simself download up soon!

Here is the download link for my simself!

I am a Knowledge Sim and a Cancer.

[Laura]

Here are my Christmas cards! Uh, a little later than I'd thought they'd be, but it's still a pretty appropriate time to post, I think... it's just gone midnight here, making it December 25th.

Hope you all have a lovely day today/tomorrow, and a peaceful New Year.

Simself Download link || Alt
_{Pleasure/Knowledge
Scorpio
Film and Literature
Reach top of the Entertainment/Journalism Career
Packaged with CC, but uses maxis clothing}

[Samantha]

So one of my alternative reasons for wanting the download links is that I'm making individual gifts for you guys. So far I've only done Laura's (Ply, put up your link!), but I also have a little something that I made for my own simself.


[smear:3a7511]Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Thank You for Participating[/smear:e61818]



For my own simself:

So when my simself is in need, I tend to go all out. In this case, I hennaed my hair back in August and my old simself's brown hair no longer fit. Originally, I'd extracted a brown hair texture from an old Helga hair to match my own. This time around, I combined my "volatile" Helga texture with Pooklet's V3 volatile texture to create a texture shinier than my semi-Maxis-Match Helga texture but more matte than any of Pooklet's textures. And then I did a pretty substantial alpha overhaul to get the length and cut to match my own (this is what the original looks like).


So without further ado, I present an alpha-edit of Alesso Radiate with a V3-Helga texture in all of Pooklet's naturals plus Io's and Lilith's colors.

-Elders go gray (Pooklet's and Io's to mail bomb, Lilith's to ritsuko), grays linked to black, no separate gray files.
-Mel 3t2 mesh conversation included.
-Clearly labeled and tooltipped.
-Binned, familied, compressed.

Download Alesso Radiate or MediaFire

And I'm also really, really happy with the texture, which takes Pooklet's actions very well. So I'm including a download link of that: Download V3-Helga Hybrid Texture or MediaFire



For Laura:

I made two different things here for Laura: hair and lips. Her simself was wearing Lilith's Maxis-Match retexture of NewSea Overflow, so what I did was add some gradients to Lilith's retexture! I used AlfredAskew's "The View" colors because they're very pretty.

-Lilith's edit of Remi's extracted BG textures (all credit to Lilith for the retexture)
-Four colors, binned and familied, elders go gradient-gray (mail bomb/pipe bomb), gray linked to black. --
-Compressed, clearly labelled and tooltipped.
-All-ages converted mesh by Trapping included.

Download NewSea Overflow or MediaFire

Her simself was also wearing these Whispers Lips by Lilith. What I did here was give the lips a new alpha (mouseyblue’s Doll Lips' alpha, edited slightly by me) and then play around with the colors: there's now a "true red," "dark salmon," and "nude."

Download Lilith's Whispers Lips Edit or MediaFire

Remember: You have until December 28 to upload your greeting cards! I will be making custom "participation gifts" for anyone who does so by then!

[Laura]

Thank you Samantha! These are great! Nabbing swifly.  More broadly, thanks for the work you (and Caitlin) do for the forum. We are small, but you guys are the glue that keeps this place together.


I'd love to share some gifts too, now I have time to boot up the game. In the meantime though, thanks again. I hope everyone has a happy new year!

[Samantha]

You're welcome, Laura! I'm very glad you like the gifts.