More Awesome Than You!

I was looking through some screencaptures of Edward Scissorhands when something caught my attention.

Lookit this screenshot:
http://terryxart.com/Ed%20Scissorhands%20039.jpg

On the mirror is a picture of a girl in a police hat.  Doesn't she look like a TS1 Sim?

Yes, yes she does. Same face and everything.


Edit : How did I do that? I need to start reading my posts before I click post. :P

Sorry, I know it was just a typo, but "everythong" gave me a Beavis and Butthead type giggle.  :D

Brynne!   :D

I see sims everywhere, not real ones, but I find myself studying people's face structure and thinking about creating them in my game.  Especially people with very distinctive looks (Kiefer Sutherland, for example, after watching the most explosive 4 hours on TV.  Ever. Sunday and last nights)

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I only wish I knew exactly what that picture is of, though.  She obviously isn't a Sim - Edward Scissorhands was released in 1990, long before The Sims was ever released.  She looks sort of like she might be a doll of some kind, but the face looks too symmetrical.

But boy, she sure does look like a Sim, especially those from the promo art.

I find myself occasionally looking at people and thinking, "That person looks just like a Sim!" or "That person would be easy to Simmify." Yes there are certain facial structures that lend themselves to being easily duplicated in the Sims. Others, not so.

The other day I was trying to determine how many "elders" really have *white* hair. Not really that many. Most women seem to still dye their hair until they're really getting up there (around 75-80?) (Speaking of which does anyone know where to get more realistic Elder hair textures? Like salt-n-pepper or streaks of gray, etc?)

My grandmother still dyes her hair - a kind of pale-ash blonde, and even though she just turned 75 I doubt she'll stop any time soon. She used to dye it the colour it originally was, but the paler colour suits her more than the darker would as her complexion has changed with age and health.

Anyhow, SageSims (formerly Simply Skintastic) has some good hair - http://www.sagesims.com - and so does Mermaid Cove.

One of my grandmothers dyes her hair chestnut brown and the other keeps a nice ash blonde rinse going that makes her hair an undefinable yellowish-gray.  The only older women I know who go white or gray are those who can't be arsed into covering it up and those who embrace it.  My boss is salt and pepper and I covet her hair like nothing else. 


Funny that you saw that "sim" while looking at Edward Scissorhand stills.  I think that many of the "goth" sims found on the Exchange are creations straight out of Tim Burton's mind.

I'm doing a story with characters based on real people (but not real situations) and some of my nearest and dearest are so fun to turn into sims!  My mom and my boyfriend especially lend themselves to amazing likenesses because they have nice, proportional features and generic bone structure. 

"Baby, you have the most proportional features and generic bone structure I've ever seen. Can I buy you a drink?"

Weirdest pickup line EVER.

Not so weird, Brynne, could come from an artist/art student (who are weird in and of themselves but I digress). Now, tack "...You'd make a GREAT Sim" onto that and you have something to make them back sloooowly away.  ;D

Yes, there are people who simmify much easier than others.  Some people're nearly impossible to recreate, while others... it's nearly instant.  I've found, though, that it helps drastically to blend different pre-set features together when trying to create some of the more difficult ones.  Thataway, you can capture some of peoples' more unique features.

How about this creepy-est ever pick up line "  Hey baby you're hot, I'll make you a sim in my game".




I downloaded a set a few weeks back named "aging gracefully"  I can't remember where it's from.  I think it was TSR It's a set of salt and pepper hair for men and women that would suit a middle-aged sim perfectly

Edit :  Found it http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/search_aging

more elder stuff at : http://www.hairfish.com/mermaidcove/html/2character.html


I always avoid doing that, because I find that the resulting offspring simply don't look right.  That's why I avoid downloading famous look alike.  They don't reproduce well.  Beside it's just creepy ordering Brad Pitt to use the toilet.

Creepy?  Creepy?!  The only thing funnier would be to order Alicia Silverstone to wear a fur and leather ensemble!   ;D

The trick behind celebrity lookalikes is to get them to where, basically, they're a Sim-stylized version of themselves.  It can be kinda hard not to get them to the point where they start looking overworked.  If you can, however, make them look like a cartoony version of the real person, your odds of having a more genetically-compatible Sim seem to be much higher.  (Near as I can tell from Create-a-Sim testing, anyway.)

I don't know so much about picturing people as sims, but I do regularly notice sim-like behavior in my real-life surroundings.

I was at a meeting today with several other women of varrying ages.  There were two men in the room, but they are at every meeting, and not particularly good looking.  A social worker from another agency came into the meeting to discuss one particular case.  I'd never met this social worker before, but he looked to be in his mid-twenties, a good looking young man.  The next thing I know, a few of the "professional" women were about a heart-beat away from sitting in his lap!  I was picturing him coming into the room and all those women reacting with either a romance-sim "swoon" or a cloud of hearts erupting from their thoughts.  LOL  Yes, my name is Kristal, and I am a Sims Addict.  ;)

So I guess it's safe to assume that you've never been hit on at the bus stop by a guy with a black marble instead of his left eye (backstory, "the aliens took it") who told you that he thought you could need him. ;)  Once you experience that, your standards for wierd are pretty high.

Actually, my boyfriend was freaked out by his self sim.  One conversation went:

Him:  Get closer to that guy dancing all crazy
Me:  (zooooooom)
Him:  Oh my God, that's ME!  Why am I dancing all crazy?
Me:  It's fun, you like it.
Him:  Who's that woman floating in the background?  She looks like Liv Tyler.
Me:  Uh, that's me.  I'm meditating.
Him:  You don't look like Liv Tyler.
Me:  I know I don't, but I want pretty sim babies, and with my threehead, cheekbones and huge nose replicated in this game, our kids would be horrific.
Him:  Cool.  Little freaks.  I still don't want to be dancing crazy, and can't you make me a little more manly?  If you can look like Liv Tyler, I wanna be the Rock.  And doing that eyebrow thing all the time!

 

LOL, Batelle!   ;D  Especially that last line!

ROTF!!!!  Now, wouldn't Liv Tyler and The Rock have beautiful sim children?   :D

ROFL that conversation was hilariious.

You are lucky though, my boyfriend is not even interested enough to look at the monitor.  And if I make him, he takes one look and then goes away saying geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek.

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Especially people with very distinctive looks (Kiefer Sutherland, for example, after watching the most explosive 4 hours on TV.  Ever. Sunday and last nights)
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Can't have been that explosive. How many explosions were there, anyway?

Oh, he gets annoyed sometimes (like when I promise to do my half of the housework and, uh, don't).  My sister is the only one who truly understands the addictive nature of the sims and she only has Sims 1. 

Chris, I study people I come in contact with all the time wondering how I could use that nose or those ears, etc. on my Sims. :D  Good thing no one can read my thoughts, they'd be so totally freaked out :D :D

Can't have been that explosive. How many explosions were there, anyway?
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Several explosions, two shot hostages, one blown up terrorist, several "taken out" bad guys, etc.  Definitely a Pescado-type show.  It's called "24"

eta:  Jack is like a young JM

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That's it? I've seen a much more explosive show, where the producers used explosions a lot because it's relatively cheap to do an explosion, as opposed to more personal modes of death. The movie consisted basically entirely of 2 hours of shit blowing up, with a 90 minute sequel consisting of 90 minutes of shit blowing up. Nonstop. Even the scenes of the dialogue had the characters shouting over the explosions and gunfire in the background. And the dialogue had a habit of being spontaneously interrupted as one of the conversing characters would get shot and die, often apparently at random. Because war does not respect "main characters". Best movie ever.

Well, this was explosive not just with cheap special effects, but also with the plot which also included an assassinated president.

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/me watches the Secret Service drag off Cwieberdink.

Heeeeeeeeeeeey I was an art student.  :P

Batelle, that little dialogue was so funny.

I know what you mean about the horrific toddlers. Sim me can make some scary ones, with the freakiest looking cheekbones ever. I finally tweaked her face into submission, though, and now she's producing normal looking offspring.

Don't feel offended, Brynne! I only speak of that which I know... I'm an artist. XD I definitely resemble my own remark.

LOL! Okay, then, you're forgiven.

And I'm afraid I also resemble that remark.  ;)

LOL  It wasn't my plot.  It was the plot of the show.  Hey!  What is that clicking noise on my telephone!  :o

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With a Sim of Johnny Depp I was working on, I finally gave up on trying to tweak him into submission and started afresh.  Upon testing, I discovered that his offspring - all from the same female - could either be ugly, pretty, or gorgeous.

I wish Maxis had given us more control over the ears.  There as I can tell, there are three types of ears in the game, and you cannot change them like you can other features.  It's really a pity, since I've seen all sorts of interesting ears in real-life.

I downloaded a Johnny Depp sim from somewhere and made him a Vanessa Paradis to live with.  Their in-game born daughter looked just like....Winona Ryder.  It was creepy.

I don't s'pose you still have that floating around anywhere, do you?  Because... I'd like to see that.   ;D

Vanessa Paradis kinda gives me the jibblies.  She looks much too much too much like SG-1's Osiris.  It's SPOOKY.

http://www.prisonpotpourri.com/ROYALSandCELEBS2/Vanessa%20Paradis%20arrives%20at%20the%20premiere%20of%20'Charlie%20and%20the%20Chocolate%20Factory'%20in%20Hollywood,%20Calif.jpg
http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s7/graphics/715_03.shtml

Unfortunately, this was pre re-install for University and all those sims got lost forever.  Johnny Depp was bugged.  I didn't like Vanessa (I agree with you on her, she's a little odd looking) so they split up and he ended up with a random CAS sim.  It didn't work out because every time they'd go to woohoo, he'd get the Cheating icon above his head and the memory said he had caught his wife cheating while her memory icons said she had woohoo's with Johnny Depp.  I don't know what the deal was.

To get more back on the track that I started, the other day I was going through the clothing.  I stumbled upon Mortimer's outfit... and I saw it in a whole new light.

It made me think of Vincent Price.

Too bad Mortimer isn't near as cool as Vincent Price.  Then, I think, Bella never would've disappeared.  Or maybe she would.  That chick in The Pit and the Pendulum was married to Vincent Price('s character) and she faked her death so she could run off with some guy with a face o' squidge.