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CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
edited September 2014 in The Sims 4 Sims and Modeling
Hi! I thought I'd go ahead and start a thread to put up some of my Sims. I'd love any feedback or suggestions - I have been known to go back and adjust Sims even after I've put them up on the Gallery.

I might post Sims in progress here to see if anybody has ideas of how to improve them before I upload them, too, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you have any requests, let me know and I'll decide whether I can make a Sim of that person! Also, if you have any questions about how to do certain things in CAS, please feel free to ask. I love to answer questions like that.

So, in no particular order, some of my Sims! First, some of my celebrities:

Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes:
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Martin Freeman as John Watson:
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Lupita Nyong'o:
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Debbie Harry (from Blondie):
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Stephen Colbert:
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Abe Lincoln:
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Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor:
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Dolly Parton:
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Spike Lee:
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Supernatural - Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, and Castiel:
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  • Carewren123Carewren123 Posts: 2,658 Member
    I absolutely love the Steven Colbert sim. Some of the expressions you captured were just perfect. All the others are great too, but that was my fav.
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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    I absolutely love the Steven Colbert sim. Some of the expressions you captured were just perfect. All the others are great too, but that was my fav.

    Thanks so much! He's one of my favorites too, although not that popular on the Gallery for some reason. My daughter and I are huge fans, and as soon as I got him done and we started watching him do the animations, we started cracking up with hilarity. The animations that look so weird on, say, Sherlock, look perfect on him.
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  • Carewren123Carewren123 Posts: 2,658 Member
    When I get the game I will have to remember to go download him.
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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    edited September 2014
    Here's a good example of why the lack of content in the base game can be painful. I wanted to make some Wizard of Oz characters.

    The Wizard? No problem. He worked pretty well - and this is with only the demo, so he's actually a young adult:

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    The Wicked Witch of the West? Not so great - yup, she's wearing a lycra jacket and sunhat. Still, though, at least she's recognizable:

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    The super frustrating one is Dorothy.
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    Yes, be scared, my little pretty. You're about to become Miley Cyrus... and almost like it.


    I've got two choices - hair with ponytails and bangs, or hair without bangs but no ponytails. With bangs, she somehow just doesn't look like Dorothy:

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    Without bangs, you can see that she really looks a lot like Dorothy - but that hair is just so wrong!
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    So... now it's just a waiting game until all the expansions and worlds come out and give us everything we need to make everyone we want to make.
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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    Next up, my Firefly/Serenity Sims.

    If you haven't seen the series Firefly and the movie Serenity, you should really do so. In that order. Right away.

    First and forever, Joss Whedon:
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    Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds:
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    Zoe Washburn:
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    Hoban "Wash" Washburn:
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    Jayne Cobb:
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    Inara Serra:
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    Simon Tam:
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    River Tam:
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    Kaywinnet Lee "Kaylee" Frye:
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  • rosemowrosemow Posts: 163,519 Member
    It is great that you have set up a showcase thread for your sims :) Each of your sims are great! Your simversions of the characters and real life people reflect each of them so very well! It looks great how you have done the shapes of their faces, their eyes, and their hair styles to create them as a sim. Each of the sims will be great to play in the game!
  • MadilanlonaMadilanlona Posts: 123 Member
    Oh my god that is great! Especially Lincoln. I have a special request for you if you won't mind, can you make me a sim looking like Cristiano Ronaldo? Here is a picture of him.

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    I'd be so grateful.
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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    @rosemow, hi! Great to see you here! And thanks so much for the lovely comments.

    @Madilanlona, thanks! I like Lincoln too - every time I look at his profile, I'm like, "He looks just like a penny!" Ronaldo is a great idea, I haven't done any athletes yet. I think there's hair like that, too. He looks doable. Look at his little tiny tilted back ears, lol. I wanna make those. I'll check to make sure he hasn't been perfectly done already first.
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  • MadilanlonaMadilanlona Posts: 123 Member
    Cogitotoro wrote: »
    @rosemow, hi! Great to see you here! And thanks so much for the lovely comments.

    @Madilanlona, thanks! I like Lincoln too - every time I look at his profile, I'm like, "He looks just like a penny!" Ronaldo is a great idea, I haven't done any athletes yet. I think there's hair like that, too. He looks doable. Look at his little tiny tilted back ears, lol. I wanna make those. I'll check to make sure he hasn't been perfectly done already first.

    @rosemow Awesomeness, I will be waiting for Ronaldo. Just mention me when you finish him. Thanks in advance :)
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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    (25 minutes later...)
    @Madilanlona, here he is so far. I'm guessing you know him much better than I do - what do you think so far? Or anyone else? I also wasn't sure about traits. For his aspiration I went with Fabulously Wealthy, then I made him Active, Self-Assured, and Ambitious. Does that sound reasonable?

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  • MadilanlonaMadilanlona Posts: 123 Member
    Traits sound great. For facial looks, I suggest you make the eyebrows thinner, skin more white and hair is dark brown not black. His current haircut is also found in the panel and it would suit him more than this. Here it is

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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    edited September 2014
    @Madilanlona - Thanks! I was changing some of those things as you wrote this - eyebrows (can't go much thinner and have the right shape, though) and hair color especially. I had taken pics of my most recent changes and just added one with the haircut I think you're talking about. I'm not sure about it though - really? It looks kind of, I don't know, businessman or military guy to me. The other one may not be his newest but it's super classic Ronaldo. I'm also a bit reluctant to go lighter on his skin tone, because he's so well known for tanning outrageously.
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    Hmm, I think I should give him 5 o'clock shadow, too, now that I look at him again.

    ETA:
    Okay, even newer. I think I'm happy with his face. Here he is tanner with the old haircut and less tan with the new haircut.
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  • zorba2357zorba2357 Posts: 6,103 Member
    edited September 2014
    @Cogitotoro, I actually think your "Dorothy" is really good. The bangs with the ponytail don't bother me so much. I could see her having that hair I guess. The "Miley" hair I don't like. Debby Harry, and Dolly Parton also capture their facial features and expression. Some of the other celebs I'm not so familiar with. I've enjoyed looking at the thread though.

    One thing I've noticed IN GENERAL with sims 4 sims is that even when the nose looks like their nose, it just doesn't - does that make sense?! Maybe noses are difficult on some faces to get right.
  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    edited September 2014
    @zorba2357 thanks for the nice words! I agree with you about the "Miley" hair on Dorothy being all wrong, but it was really the only haircut without bangs to show her in. I find that I actually am missing all the great options for styles of clothing, hair, and hats I've gotten used to with Sims 3 and all the expansions more than I'm missing CASt, although I definitely miss that too.

    ETA: noses are tricky in Sims 4 because they come in presets, and you can't always get the mix'n'match nose you need. So for instance you might need a nose with a really thin bridge, an outward arch in the middle, and long sticky-out nostrils; at that point you find that every nose with two of those characteristics lacks the other one. It's a bit frustrating to find a nose that can be made perfect in every respect except one... over and over, with different noses and different problems.
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  • rosemowrosemow Posts: 163,519 Member
    Your Ronaldo sim reflects him very well! :) He looks great ! The shape of his face and how you have done his eyes looks very nice!
  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    Okay, Cristiano Ronaldo is done and on the Gallery. I went with old hairstyle for some outfits and new for formal. He's reenacting his famous underwear ads for sleepwear!

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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    Here are some of the Simselves I've recently made for people requesting them on the forum! It's really fun to make someone who can't quite get something they're happy with on their own.

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  • rosemowrosemow Posts: 163,519 Member
    Your simselves of the simmers are great! :) You have reflected the people in the pictures so very well! They are very nice sims!
  • PIumbobPIumbob Posts: 36 Member
    Amazing Sims! Love your Benedict Cumberbatch, I'm a cumberbitch (nothing rude I promise, just the name used for his fans!) and think the likeness is uncanny! :D
  • SimzSizzleSimzSizzle Posts: 433 Member
    your Abe Lincoln and Spike Lee look so close to the real people ! nice.
  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    Thank you all so much for the compliments. I like thinking of people having someone like Abe Lincoln or Spike Lee just wandering around in their neighborhoods, and I think there will be a lot of weddings involving my Sherlock! He has been downloaded I think around a couple of thousand times so far, so he should be in a lot of relationships around now. :)
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  • rachelt405rachelt405 Posts: 1,533 Member
    Oh wow all these creations are fantastic, you are very talented, love all your sims :)
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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    I started working on an X Files household, and got hung up on Scully. She's proving really difficult! Here she is so far, for what it's worth.
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    I actually scared myself silly with her this morning. I woke up and while my coffee was brewing I went to pull her up and work on her, but accidentally hit the button that put her up on the Gallery! She's totally not done, but even more hilarious was that I hadn't changed anything but her top, so she was wearing this ridiculous outfit:
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    Don't worry, I snagged her right back off.
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  • CogitotoroCogitotoro Posts: 1,401 Member
    I love how you can make Sims of all different ethnicities and heritages with TS4. Early on, I made this household called "Global Women." If I were playing the game, I'd plunk them down in my town just to make sure there were women this diverse wandering around. Maybe I'd change their clothes so they didn't look so much like a cult, though.

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    Subira (East African), Abeni (West African), and Mitali (Indian):
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    Hadiyah (Middle Eastern), Lien (East Asian), and Carmen (Hispanic/Latina):
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    Fiona (British) and Kristen (Scandinavian):
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    (lol, I typed "this household called 'Global Women' of women from around the world" before realizing that was totally redundant.)
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  • rosemowrosemow Posts: 163,519 Member
    Your household of women from around the world is very special. :) It is a very nice household. Your simversion of Scully reflects her well! It looks great how you have done her eyes, eyebrows and her hair ! She is a great simform of her!
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