Posing and Scene Compositions: The Question thread

[simtopi]

Behind the scenes on Chapter 29 (I don't take many of these). It looks like amochan8878 's Tavin is asking Adrian to dance.  Doesn't look very threatening, but when all is said and done, he just wants to eat his brains. :p (and no I haven't been keeping up with the dorm landscaping!)

 

I've mentioned in some past comment threads that I would do a Q&A about my posing and scene compositions because there seemed to be some interest in how I compose some of my shots and getting my sims looking the way I do. Unfortunately, I'm really bad at getting any behind-the-scenes shots as I actually pose a chapter, so I figure this is the next best way for those who might be curious.



Before I go on, I will say that my posing isn't overly complicated. I don't download every pose box in existence and most of my posing are Maxis animations.  I do spend a lot of time looking through the animations for the right frame though. It can be tedious but its rewarding for me (and I guess for the readers ;) ) when the scene comes together. Notice I do cheat quite a bit using camera angles.

Secondly, please do read, if you haven't already, Veron_Asher's tutorials about posing. I cannot recommend these tutorials enough. She goes in depth (with pictures too!) on how to use game animations and a few hacks to get great poses for your scenes. She also gets into overlay animations which in my opinion is huge. If I did an animation tutorial, I'd pretty much be repeating everything there, so I'm not going to. Instead I'll insist you follow the link.


And here's how the above shot looks finally published:

Please go ahead and ask me anything you like about posing and scene composition, for example how I set up a particular picture, and I'll do my best to help you out by recreating the scene step by step with screenshots, including the hacks, mods and cheats that I use.

Questions will be screened and answers posted in another post. Anonymous questions are welcome (I don't do IP screening, so no worries for your privacy). If no one asks, that's totally cool, I'll work on chapter 34 instead. :D

Comments

[simtopi]

LOL! I watch reality TV, you don't need brains to dance anymore :D

[amochan8878.livejournal.com]

Too true. Too true.
When I saw you mentioned he was asking to dance, the first thing that popped in my head was Deborah Kerr and Yul Bryner singing :D And that's when you did need brains for dancing :D