Post by mellowmaenad on Feb 13, 2023 8:18:50 GMT -5
Hi there,
I go by 'nacey' on Sims Resource and Mod The Sims, and I've been a Sims player since the first game came out. I did a few textures for things and make-up stuff back in the day, but then I got busy with my digital art and then I had kids so I didn't play The Sims properly for a long time. I kinda lost the CC flow with Sims 3 because the texture maps were so weird.
Last year I upgraded my equipment and I've been modding again for the first time in well over a decade. My iPad broke last year so I began meshing to fill in the gaps where I'd be sketching things. Life has been stressful for me so it's been a really welcome distraction. Because of my learning disabilities (ADHD), I never thought I'd learn how to mesh anything. I tried it once back in 2001 and I was so bad at it I never took it up again.
What started with pushing around a few vertices has now turned into a major obsession. When I'm not producing my podcast or writing my novel, I am meshing. I have a few big projects I'm working on for Sims 4 content:
- The Xena Project. Making Xena character Sims and outfits and lots, and hopefully, a set of worlds too.
- Xanadu Roller-Club. I am reproducing the Xanadu Roller Nightclub from the titular movie as a loving tribute to Olivia Newton John, one of my favourite singers and style icons from my youth.
- Cuter Kids Pack: Cuter newborns, cuter toddlers, cuter children. Chubbier cheeks. Better morphs. More baby.
- Pose Packs Galore: I am utilising my extensive experience as a traditional portrait artist and figure artist to create anatomically sensitive poses that evoke the fluid, dynamic movement of real people.
- Painting Packs: Default painting replacements that actually look like art. Not just cut-and-paste masters (which I adore and have in my own game, LOL), but unique pieces I have created to fit in with the aesthetic of the game.
- Face Kits For Everybody: Face Kits for varying ages, genders and skin tones. Mainly covering the neglected areas such as temples, foreheads, chins, naso-labial areas, hairlines (specifically kinky-haired hairlines which are rare as hens teeth).
I have lots of little pieces that I've already done, and I'll be releasing them on TSR and so forth imminently.
IRL, I am a mother of two kids (Girl is 7, boy is 4). My partner works in the health sector, and I am a stay-at-home mother who is also an active podcaster (Witchery: The Podcast). I am writing my first novel which is becoming a podcast already because I have ADHD and I am very impatient. I am a classically trained traditional artist and even went to art school and everything, like the old school poo without any computers at all. Paint. Clay. Charcoal. Graphite. Tools that can kill you in dusty old sheds in the searing Australian summer heat. Absolutely wonderful. I simultaneously worked at digital art in my own time at home. That was all 25 years ago, it was awesome.
I was nervous about making an account here because sometimes I need a little extra time to understand things related to coding and gaming, but I think my sculpts and morphs are of a standard that it's worth me pushing forward and trying to share them with the world. If I come across as dense at any point during my time here, just know that I don't meant to be that way, my brain just rejects things for a bit before it absorbs them. Like, the meshing thing took 20 years! LOL!
I go by 'nacey' on Sims Resource and Mod The Sims, and I've been a Sims player since the first game came out. I did a few textures for things and make-up stuff back in the day, but then I got busy with my digital art and then I had kids so I didn't play The Sims properly for a long time. I kinda lost the CC flow with Sims 3 because the texture maps were so weird.
Last year I upgraded my equipment and I've been modding again for the first time in well over a decade. My iPad broke last year so I began meshing to fill in the gaps where I'd be sketching things. Life has been stressful for me so it's been a really welcome distraction. Because of my learning disabilities (ADHD), I never thought I'd learn how to mesh anything. I tried it once back in 2001 and I was so bad at it I never took it up again.
What started with pushing around a few vertices has now turned into a major obsession. When I'm not producing my podcast or writing my novel, I am meshing. I have a few big projects I'm working on for Sims 4 content:
- The Xena Project. Making Xena character Sims and outfits and lots, and hopefully, a set of worlds too.
- Xanadu Roller-Club. I am reproducing the Xanadu Roller Nightclub from the titular movie as a loving tribute to Olivia Newton John, one of my favourite singers and style icons from my youth.
- Cuter Kids Pack: Cuter newborns, cuter toddlers, cuter children. Chubbier cheeks. Better morphs. More baby.
- Pose Packs Galore: I am utilising my extensive experience as a traditional portrait artist and figure artist to create anatomically sensitive poses that evoke the fluid, dynamic movement of real people.
- Painting Packs: Default painting replacements that actually look like art. Not just cut-and-paste masters (which I adore and have in my own game, LOL), but unique pieces I have created to fit in with the aesthetic of the game.
- Face Kits For Everybody: Face Kits for varying ages, genders and skin tones. Mainly covering the neglected areas such as temples, foreheads, chins, naso-labial areas, hairlines (specifically kinky-haired hairlines which are rare as hens teeth).
I have lots of little pieces that I've already done, and I'll be releasing them on TSR and so forth imminently.
IRL, I am a mother of two kids (Girl is 7, boy is 4). My partner works in the health sector, and I am a stay-at-home mother who is also an active podcaster (Witchery: The Podcast). I am writing my first novel which is becoming a podcast already because I have ADHD and I am very impatient. I am a classically trained traditional artist and even went to art school and everything, like the old school poo without any computers at all. Paint. Clay. Charcoal. Graphite. Tools that can kill you in dusty old sheds in the searing Australian summer heat. Absolutely wonderful. I simultaneously worked at digital art in my own time at home. That was all 25 years ago, it was awesome.
I was nervous about making an account here because sometimes I need a little extra time to understand things related to coding and gaming, but I think my sculpts and morphs are of a standard that it's worth me pushing forward and trying to share them with the world. If I come across as dense at any point during my time here, just know that I don't meant to be that way, my brain just rejects things for a bit before it absorbs them. Like, the meshing thing took 20 years! LOL!
