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Build-n-Share Weekly Challenge #35 - Winter Designer Showdown
Anjubee
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Welcome to the Build-n-Share Weekly Challenge!
The Build-n-Share challenges will be posted Wednesday of each week and run through the following Wednesday. Results will be posted approximately one week after all entries have been submitted in the Winner's Circle thread.
The benefits:
Each entry into the competition will receive an automatic rec (recommendation) and download on their entry lot.
First place will be awarded at all levels. If there are at least eight entries in a category, up to four places will also be announced. In each category, first place will receive 3 recs, second place will receive 2 recs, third place will receive 2 recs, and fourth place will receive one rec. Winners may request recs on a particular build/s by providing links to the related lots once results are posted.
Weekly challenges also create an opportunity for community on the forum site. We get to know one another’s names, share news, builds, and positive words. This is a chance to get your name out there, and hopefully make a few friends along the way.
What makes this challenge different from all the other ones I've seen?
We have been hosting this weekly challenge since the first week the game was released. We have many levels of builders in our community and welcome them all. This group is truly a product of all its great members!
Within the first few challenges, our group was recognized by the gurus that be, who have helped the weekly challenges gain even more popularity be stickying both Build-n-Share threads. Since then, we have had at least one featured creation almost every week, and our list of featured members continues to grow.
With 3 successful collaborative neighborhoods (Gnomelandia, Summer of Love, and NYC) just about completed, Build-n-Share hopes to bring more creative challenges and new neighborhood ideas to the community with the help of our dedicated participants who willingly contribute and help each week to make sure each challenge runs smoothly.
The rules:
All entries must be original work. Any competitor who submits another builder’s work will be disqualified and banned from any future Build-n-Share challenge. These competitors will also be removed from the Builders' Boulevard related websites if they have chosen to join (membership to the site and the Yahoo! group are not required to enter a Build-n-Share challenge).
Please announce your official lot posting using the entry form below. Make sure to leave the "Official Entry" label big. If you need to reformat it, you can do this by highlighting the desired text and then selecting "Big" in the font box above. This will help us see the entries in a sea of posts with no pics to guide us.
Entries must be submitted by the deadline, 7 p.m. Wednesday evening (eastern time, USA).
A description of the three major level categories:
Beginner--I have a little experience, but I'm still figuring a lot of things out. I would not call myself an official "builder" at this point.
Intermediate--I have been building for awhile. I know the basics and maybe a little more. I enjoy building, but it is not my primary focus with the game.
Advanced--I know the Sims, and the Sims knows me. My name is familiar to a lot of veteran players, and I've competed in and won some building challenges and maybe even been recognized in a community showcase or two. I know most of the cheats AND I know how to use them.
Official Build-n-Share Animated Siggy
Want to represent Build-n-Share in your signature? Here is our official signature. Just copy and paste [*img]http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab105/anjubee/bns_fade.gif?t=1251688153[/img] into the signature section under "preferences" and delete the *.
Two additional opportunities:
Love to build? Come join us at http://www.buildersboulevard.com . The site offers an additional forum for advertising lots, share tips and tricks, and participate in collaborative neighborhood projects!
We also have a Yahoo! Group for builders. It can be accessed at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/buildersboulevard/ . You do not have to be a member to enter. This group will be used primarily as an announcement center and for some of our more complex polls, and possibly, databases.
The Build-n-Share challenges will be posted Wednesday of each week and run through the following Wednesday. Results will be posted approximately one week after all entries have been submitted in the Winner's Circle thread.
The benefits:
Each entry into the competition will receive an automatic rec (recommendation) and download on their entry lot.
First place will be awarded at all levels. If there are at least eight entries in a category, up to four places will also be announced. In each category, first place will receive 3 recs, second place will receive 2 recs, third place will receive 2 recs, and fourth place will receive one rec. Winners may request recs on a particular build/s by providing links to the related lots once results are posted.
Weekly challenges also create an opportunity for community on the forum site. We get to know one another’s names, share news, builds, and positive words. This is a chance to get your name out there, and hopefully make a few friends along the way.
What makes this challenge different from all the other ones I've seen?
We have been hosting this weekly challenge since the first week the game was released. We have many levels of builders in our community and welcome them all. This group is truly a product of all its great members!
Within the first few challenges, our group was recognized by the gurus that be, who have helped the weekly challenges gain even more popularity be stickying both Build-n-Share threads. Since then, we have had at least one featured creation almost every week, and our list of featured members continues to grow.
With 3 successful collaborative neighborhoods (Gnomelandia, Summer of Love, and NYC) just about completed, Build-n-Share hopes to bring more creative challenges and new neighborhood ideas to the community with the help of our dedicated participants who willingly contribute and help each week to make sure each challenge runs smoothly.
The rules:
All entries must be original work. Any competitor who submits another builder’s work will be disqualified and banned from any future Build-n-Share challenge. These competitors will also be removed from the Builders' Boulevard related websites if they have chosen to join (membership to the site and the Yahoo! group are not required to enter a Build-n-Share challenge).
Please announce your official lot posting using the entry form below. Make sure to leave the "Official Entry" label big. If you need to reformat it, you can do this by highlighting the desired text and then selecting "Big" in the font box above. This will help us see the entries in a sea of posts with no pics to guide us.
Entries must be submitted by the deadline, 7 p.m. Wednesday evening (eastern time, USA).
A description of the three major level categories:
Beginner--I have a little experience, but I'm still figuring a lot of things out. I would not call myself an official "builder" at this point.
Intermediate--I have been building for awhile. I know the basics and maybe a little more. I enjoy building, but it is not my primary focus with the game.
Advanced--I know the Sims, and the Sims knows me. My name is familiar to a lot of veteran players, and I've competed in and won some building challenges and maybe even been recognized in a community showcase or two. I know most of the cheats AND I know how to use them.
Official Build-n-Share Animated Siggy
Want to represent Build-n-Share in your signature? Here is our official signature. Just copy and paste [*img]http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab105/anjubee/bns_fade.gif?t=1251688153[/img] into the signature section under "preferences" and delete the *.
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Two additional opportunities:
Love to build? Come join us at http://www.buildersboulevard.com . The site offers an additional forum for advertising lots, share tips and tricks, and participate in collaborative neighborhood projects!
We also have a Yahoo! Group for builders. It can be accessed at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/buildersboulevard/ . You do not have to be a member to enter. This group will be used primarily as an announcement center and for some of our more complex polls, and possibly, databases.
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Challenge deadline: Wednesday, February 3rd at 7 p.m. (Eastern time)
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Winter Designer Showdown
Calling all designers!
It is that time again! Time to let your style truly shine and compete in the Winter Designer Showdown!
We saw some amazing results and even some featured lots with the Fall Designer Showdown, so lets ramp it up this time and dazzle the masses even more with your designer magic.
Link to the Fall Designer Showdown thread: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/115346.page#1379038
This is the house!
Download from the Exchange
Download from Mediafire
Rules and details:
* You can change anything but the foundation and walls
* Yes, all walls and foundation must remain the same
* You can change and relocate any windows and doors
* You can designate the rooms however you like
* You can change the roofing
* You can add balconies and fencing
* This was built on a 20x30 lot, but you may move it to a 30x30 lot to add landscaping if you like, but this cannot be larger than a 30x30.
* The final cost of the house should not exceed 100k simoleans
* The theme is completely up to you. It does not have to be winter themed.
* You do not need WA to compete
* CC is allowed, but please list/link them when you submit so downloaders can find them!
Official Entry
Name:
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media (required):
Optional Challenges entered?:
Experience level:
Lot Name:
Lot address, size, and final cost:
Details and Rational:
Credit to any simmers for custom content you used:
To make it more searchable, we would highly appreciate it if you include Build-n-Share in the description of the lot.
Since judging will now be based on screenshots, we figured this would be a good time to go over some tips and tricks in taking good screenshots to help showcase your lovely builds.
1) Camera Man Mode - This is a must in taking good shots! You will have to be in live mode to do this, but just hit "TAB" to enter this mode. Once you are in this mode, you can use the mouse to freely control the angles and use "W, A, S, D" buttons to move forward, backwards, and side to side. "Z" zooms in, "X" zooms out. "Q" moves up and "E" moves down. "C" to capture the shot.
2) Find the perfect angle - With photography, it is all about finding the right angle. Spend some time in camera man mode to find the perfect angle. Get down to a sim's point of view to take the best shots of rooms.
3) Walls up - Most people play with walls cut away, but when you are taking pictures of your lot, try to keep your walls up to make your shots look more realistic.
4) No grids - Unless you need to show the grid for a specific purpose, make sure no build/buy grid is visible when you take your pictures. You can avoid this by taking pictures in live mode or by hitting the terrain paint button in build mode.
Ok, those are the basics! If you want to further your simatography skills, we highly recommend you visit http://simatography.webs.com for more tips and tricks and to see some excellent shots taken by professional simatographers!
Please try to keep this thread as photo free as possible and either create a story, a slide show, a separate thread, or use the stickied photo thread to post shots of your lots!
Your official judges are Robodl95, LKadas, and KitKat7145.
Freynas is the official organizational guru collecting entrants' names, levels, links, and results!
Judges will post their results in the winner's circle thread: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/47204.page
Look for results typically a week after the deadline.
Big thanks to our judges and helpers!
Beginner
dreamsong1968
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1941960
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=166712
Karima
Link to the posted asset: Can't upload!
Link to media: Same here! : (
Tristarin
Link to posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1937577
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=166729
xxmccxx
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1929360
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=165685
Intermediate
AlexKnr
Link to the posted asset: Can't upload yet - net is down
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=167494
ciaracaff
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1926279
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=165382
golden_glow
Link to the posted asset: http://gb.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1940171
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/167245.page
Nicwin0
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2057824
Link to media: http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/nicolawinston/Sims/?action=view¤t=a32a5c05.pbw&t=1265261956
Palebisi
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1922128
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=164951
Sherry1968
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1948489
Link to the posted asset No CC: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1953203
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/157830.page#2001802
Advanced
Freynas
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1932823
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=166237
LKadas
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1926283
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/45/137595.page#1977299
MomSonSimFun
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1936375
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=166329
Beginner http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/735/47204.page
1st Place: Tristarin
2nd Place: reamsong1968
Intermediate http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/825/47204.page
1st Place: Goldenglow
Advanced http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/750/47204.page
1st Place - Lkadas
Well I've never done one of these before but I'm excited to begin! I'm from Australia so it's a bit weird doing a "winter theme" challenge when its the middle of summer (it's 35 degrees celsius, which is about 95 degrees farenheit). I'm sitting here sweating but hey! Maybe this challenge will keep me cool...
Looking forward to the entries!!
P.S. It is currently 10F. So very cold and it is getting colder. *shivers* Perhaps I'll use warm tones. LOL
It's 35 degrees here too... celcius :P
Hopefully it'll work soon though, I skipped last weeks challenge so I'm really looking forward to this one!
Loved the last challenge like this so can't wait to get this started.
EDIT: Eventually got it to work, now to start decorating...
Also can the roof above them be removed? I know it says on the first page that roofs can be changed but just checking if I can remove it or not..
Thanks in advance!
MSSF: Welcome to the challenge!
gg: I'm going to have to say no. The purpose of this challenge is to shine on decorating. Since you can't move a bigger lot to a smaller lot without having to build from scratch, it sorta defeats the purpose. I built this on a 20x30 lot and used up most of the land on the structure itself. Anything smaller would leave no room for landscaping anyway.
PA64: Yes and yes.
Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with.
LandaX: You should be able to download and install without WA. The only object I used from WA was a window, which the game should replace with something else automatically. Let me know if you have any issues installing. I can always take out those windows and upload the lot again for ya.
EDIT: Yeah, it seems to be downloading lots without WA content just fine. Is it possible to re-upload? I would really appreciate it