I have pics at home that I took last night, but I know that I have a rather specific way of making female sims. More often than not, they will have:
- A strong nose
- Olive to dark skin
- Small/proportional eyes
- Full, plump lips
I think my male sims tend to follow the same guidelines. Even right down to the lips. And born-in-game sims that I like the most fit into at least one of those categories.
Anyways, I guess to see what I tend to do, I made three female sims from scratch last night. Not really trying for anything:
Multiple screenshots so you can get a better idea of how I dress my sims too. I like patterns.
But what about sims I created before thinking of showing people what I like to make in sims? Here are three from my bin:
And to top it off, here are two born in-game sims who caught my fancy when they appeared. The one on the right has the strong nose I like, and the one on the left has small/proportional eyes:
I don't use any CC on my sims except for store items, but I can still make them look their part - narrow faces, soft or wide eyes, and the men are usually very buff, women slight with endowments. Sometimes I make a fat sim with glasses, or ones that have only one colour palette (a totally grey, black and white family). It really depends on what I feel like - I create them for myself.
I have a tendancy to play historical themed families and it's really hard to get the "feeling" right - moreso than the sims themselves. So for one of my current families, which is set in a Victorian sanitorium, I've combed through a ton of vanilla clothing and recoloured them, made sure the hair is suitable, the furniture and decor just right ... it's difficult to match a sim with a time and place. So whatever I think can work with a Victorian sanitorium, usually satisfies me.
This is an 18th century Rococco couple, long gone, but I was meticulous with them. I used the Versailles store set.
I always like high cheekbones and expressive eyes. This is my current sim. Apparently I don't have any pics yet of the rest of her clan.
Also, like Pr0x1ma I tend to favor strong, squared jaws on females, but my males tend to have softer features.
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I don't really care about "pretty" or not. What I want is! Not normal Sims. I love occults and the rainbow or colored skin tone sliders. I love colored eyes... Pink yellow, things like that and hair color. Urgh! I can't stand Brown and black hair or eyes, it's soooo boring. That aside don't care about much else. I'm trying to get into the clothes thing... But I'm not into it in rl either so.
I usually like really round faces but try to steer away from that at the moment to avoid all my sims looking the same. I definitely like big model like eyebrows on my sims, and clear skin. I usually choose quite a flat, round nose. I wish I could steer away from the things I typically like to make every sim look different, so recently I've been giving my sims lots of freckles, square faces and big noses!
That Rococo couple is absolutely great!
I think a lot comes down to personal preference. I'm not very fond of the pudding face look myself, but they do have a really sweet, friendly look. I can understand why someone would prefer that in their game. And I prefer them to the default sims I get in my Sims 4 game.
I loved playing those characters:
I'm really attached to them (even when I played them years ago sometimes), also because of their backgroundstory's I must add).
But although I'm content about the way I created her, I'd never want to play her. She just isn't my kind of sim:
Playing them and feel a connection is more important to me than whether they are pretty or not.
@JoAnne65 , do you always quote a post where you included Silas and Elijah to copy the links?
I... am afraid I don't follow you What do you mean? (I didn't quote nor link)
edit: I didn't mean a face has to be pudding to be sweet, I meant puddingfaces look plain but also friendly to me. And I can understand why people would like them because of that.
@JoAnne65 , do you always quote a post where you included Silas and Elijah to copy the links?
I... am afraid I don't follow you What do you mean? (I didn't quote nor link)
edit: I didn't mean a face has to be pudding to be sweet, I meant puddingfaces look plain but also friendly to me. And I can understand why people would like them because of that.
-_- In topics like this, you always post certain photo's. Mostly of Silas and Elijah. You post them more. So, do you just always quote another post like this, copy it, and paste it here?
But why should you want ugly puddingfaces if you can have the same effect of kind-of character that isn't pudding. That's what I mean.
@JoAnne65 , do you always quote a post where you included Silas and Elijah to copy the links?
I... am afraid I don't follow you What do you mean? (I didn't quote nor link)
edit: I didn't mean a face has to be pudding to be sweet, I meant puddingfaces look plain but also friendly to me. And I can understand why people would like them because of that.
-_- In topics like this, you always post certain photo's. Mostly of Silas and Elijah. You post them more. So, do you just always quote another post like this, copy it, and paste it here?
But why shoudl you want ugly puddingfaces if you can have the same effect of kind-of character that isn't pudding. That's what I mean.
1. They're my favourites.
2. I'm lazy and see no point in looking for all kind of different pictures of the same guys. I just wanted to show some sims of mine I like; isn't that what this topic is about?
3. I post them by going to their own website, right click, copy the URL and paste it into attach image/file.
4. I don't agree puddingfaces are ugly, they just look a bit plain and identical. And friendly
@JoAnne65 , do you always quote a post where you included Silas and Elijah to copy the links?
I... am afraid I don't follow you What do you mean? (I didn't quote nor link)
edit: I didn't mean a face has to be pudding to be sweet, I meant puddingfaces look plain but also friendly to me. And I can understand why people would like them because of that.
-_- In topics like this, you always post certain photo's. Mostly of Silas and Elijah. You post them more. So, do you just always quote another post like this, copy it, and paste it here?
But why shoudl you want ugly puddingfaces if you can have the same effect of kind-of character that isn't pudding. That's what I mean.
1. They're my favourites.
2. I'm lazy and see no point in looking for all kind of different pictures of the same guys. I just wanted to show some sims of mine I like; isn't that what this topic is about?
3. I post them by going to their own website, right click, copy the URL and paste it into attach image/file.
4. I don't agree puddingfaces are ugly, they just look a bit plain and identical. And friendly
I like to have sims have really angular features (although for female sims half of the time they have round-ish faces), high cheekbones, well-defined jaws (especially male sims), smaller realistically sized eyes, big noses and/or distinctive looking noses. I've noticed that while I used to make a lot of pale sims, over the past two or three years most of my sims have been medium or dark skinned. I do usually make them be very thin (I guess since I am), but I'm trying to tone down on that, especially for the sims in the world that I'm working on. Hopefully the sims in the world I'm building will have a wide variety of body types. I also tend to make them look attractive to me, which I think I also need to tone down a bit (ugly/plain sims are okay and not everyone in real life is good-looking). I have a tendency to dress them in a lot of red, black, and grey.
The sims in my avatar is a sim that I made, but he's making a funny facial expression in it, so he's not the best example (plus it's a blown up picture so it's a bit blurry).
Prox1ma, she is stunning! Is she on your simpage? 'hint, hint'.
OP, you are great at making all of your sims so striking! Faces, clothes, everything! Good work!
That reminds me. Since starting to play again after a long hiatus, I seem to remember that I could change the pre-made sims body type. I tried the mirror (hair, make-up) and the dresser ( different outfits). Did I just dream this about the body changes?
Prox1ma, she is stunning! Is she on your simpage? 'hint, hint'.
OP, you are great at making all of your sims so striking! Faces, clothes, everything! Good work!
That reminds me. Since starting to play again after a long hiatus, I seem to remember that I could change the pre-made sims body type. I tried the mirror (hair, make-up) and the dresser ( different outfits). Did I just dream this about the body changes?
If you use testingcheatsenabled true and shift click them, then click "edit in CAS" you can. Then there is also plastic surgery.
I think the TS3 game lends itself very well to allowing so much variety. Not just in game options, but also introducing Custom Content and also improving graphics quality.
I create Sims and Lots more than I actually play the game. So part of what I do is always centered around finding better and better styles and improving my eye for detail.
This first image is the very first Sim I ever created and made available on my own website in May 2014
This second image is very latest Sim created in September 2014
I think we all improve over time and look to make better and better Sims as we refine the things we like.
This last image is the look and style of what I love most of all about this game. The Sim is my second last creation.
Clean makeup style and natural skins is my preference.
Just a quick fyi- I do have CC that she was made with, so she may not look exactly like she does in my game. But you are more than welcome to tweak her anyway you wish!
I prefer the super-realistic look for my Sims 3 sims, but even though I have custom skins and makeup, they just don't look really good like other people's sims that use cc. I don't know why! I'm running the game for maximum graphics quality, too. I wish I knew what I was doing wrong. My children and toddlers, especially, look... bad.
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Anyways, I guess to see what I tend to do, I made three female sims from scratch last night. Not really trying for anything:
Multiple screenshots so you can get a better idea of how I dress my sims too. I like patterns.
But what about sims I created before thinking of showing people what I like to make in sims? Here are three from my bin:
And to top it off, here are two born in-game sims who caught my fancy when they appeared. The one on the right has the strong nose I like, and the one on the left has small/proportional eyes:
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(Except the blondie on the end, her eyes are too big)
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I have a tendancy to play historical themed families and it's really hard to get the "feeling" right - moreso than the sims themselves. So for one of my current families, which is set in a Victorian sanitorium, I've combed through a ton of vanilla clothing and recoloured them, made sure the hair is suitable, the furniture and decor just right ... it's difficult to match a sim with a time and place. So whatever I think can work with a Victorian sanitorium, usually satisfies me.
This is an 18th century Rococco couple, long gone, but I was meticulous with them. I used the Versailles store set.
As soon as I saw this picture it reminded me of the movie Amadeus, which I loved.
He has a terrific expression!
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I ♡ Pudding
Also, like Pr0x1ma I tend to favor strong, squared jaws on females, but my males tend to have softer features.
I think a lot comes down to personal preference. I'm not very fond of the pudding face look myself, but they do have a really sweet, friendly look. I can understand why someone would prefer that in their game. And I prefer them to the default sims I get in my Sims 4 game.
I loved playing those characters:
I'm really attached to them (even when I played them years ago sometimes), also because of their backgroundstory's I must add).
But although I'm content about the way I created her, I'd never want to play her. She just isn't my kind of sim:
Playing them and feel a connection is more important to me than whether they are pretty or not.
And it's possible to make sweet faces that aren't pudding.
Alice Pistache.
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edit: I didn't mean a face has to be pudding to be sweet, I meant puddingfaces look plain but also friendly to me. And I can understand why people would like them because of that.
-_- In topics like this, you always post certain photo's. Mostly of Silas and Elijah. You post them more. So, do you just always quote another post like this, copy it, and paste it here?
But why should you want ugly puddingfaces if you can have the same effect of kind-of character that isn't pudding. That's what I mean.
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2. I'm lazy and see no point in looking for all kind of different pictures of the same guys. I just wanted to show some sims of mine I like; isn't that what this topic is about?
3. I post them by going to their own website, right click, copy the URL and paste it into attach image/file.
4. I don't agree puddingfaces are ugly, they just look a bit plain and identical. And friendly
It was meant as a joke.
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The sims in my avatar is a sim that I made, but he's making a funny facial expression in it, so he's not the best example (plus it's a blown up picture so it's a bit blurry).
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Everyone's got such unique sims! I must say that they're all very attractive.
OP, you are great at making all of your sims so striking! Faces, clothes, everything! Good work!
That reminds me. Since starting to play again after a long hiatus, I seem to remember that I could change the pre-made sims body type. I tried the mirror (hair, make-up) and the dresser ( different outfits). Did I just dream this about the body changes?
If you use testingcheatsenabled true and shift click them, then click "edit in CAS" you can. Then there is also plastic surgery.
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Everyone should take a 4-5 year break; everything is all new and improved!
I create Sims and Lots more than I actually play the game. So part of what I do is always centered around finding better and better styles and improving my eye for detail.
This first image is the very first Sim I ever created and made available on my own website in May 2014
This second image is very latest Sim created in September 2014
I think we all improve over time and look to make better and better Sims as we refine the things we like.
This last image is the look and style of what I love most of all about this game. The Sim is my second last creation.
Clean makeup style and natural skins is my preference.
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Thank you! She's not at the moment, but I'll definitely add her the next time I open my game.
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I had to upload her here
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Just a quick fyi- I do have CC that she was made with, so she may not look exactly like she does in my game. But you are more than welcome to tweak her anyway you wish!
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