Update and NEW Sims 4 Animations!

I am well aware that I have been very inactive over the past year, and for anyone who actually reads my blog and follows me for Sims 4 animations, I think I owe you guys a little explanation.

I won't go into too much detail as my personal life is, well, personal...

But I think a little explaining is in order.

A lot of things have happened this year since I started creating animations and other content for my channel - some good and some not so good.

For example, I got a new job that I really love!

However, the downside of this was that I had much less free time to spend on my hobbies. Also during this time, my health suffered a beating.

To cut a long story shorter, there was a long period of time where I wasn't able to do any work, and I wasn't able to continue with my hobbies at all, which was hard.

(I have a LOT of hobbies...)

I needed to take a bit of a recovery period and there was nothing I could do about that.

Anyway, with the depresing stuff out of the way, I am pelased to say that things are back on track and I have a more time, energy, and health to focus on the things I enjoy again. 🙂

I'm working most days now (I still love my job) so I'm still going to be busy, however I'm back at the gym, back to being a bake-aholioc making and lots of cakes, and back to making animations!

With that said, I now have a new project on the go which will require a LOT of custom animations.

It's been a long time since I did any animating, so I had to go back to basics a little bit...

My first set of animations will be a classroom animations pack which I am making as part of my machinima project.

And so I present to you the most basic animation ever created to get me started with animating again: A child sitting at a school desk.

 

These animations won't be available for public download separately just yet. I will release the animation pack when each animation is complete and I have a pack I am happy with.

I am however considering opening a patreon page where you guys can support the work that goes into making my animations if you would like to, with early access to any animations I make as a thank you!

Animations do take a lot of time and work to make them look as good as possible, so it's just something I am thinking about for the moment.

Anyway, as always, thank you for reading!

And well done to you if you made it this far! 😉

Sims 4 Classroom for a Machinima

Currently in the process of trying to make a classroom actually look like a classroom for a new Machinima.

I have such a hard time desiging sets in The Sims. I never feel I can make a set or environment look realistic at all and they never seem to look quite right.

 

Update in a short while!

Old Unreleased Slap Animation

As seen in my video here: 

I created this couple animation a long time ago but never ended up releasing it for download due to several issues.

Due to being outdated, the animation requires Sims to be manually positioned.

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Download Here

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How To Use:

- You need to make sure you have Andrew's Pose Player installed (Click here to download)

- Unzip the folder and place the .package file into:

"Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods"

 Once installed, clicking on your sim in game should bring up this menu:

Select "pose by pack" then select the animation pack as shown below:

Then select which animation within the pack you want your sim to perform:

And there you go!

(Note: I cannot solve any problems you have with installing the pose player and getting it to work because I'm clueless when it comes to mods)

Making A Sims 4 Machinima!?

As much as I enjoy making animations, (sarcasm) my real motive in learning how to make custom animations for The Sims 4 was so I could make some pretty awesome machinima. (I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, stay with me)

Anyway, I thought if I could learn how to do that, I could make great machinima.

Oops.

I spent last night learning how much time and effort ACTUALLY goes into making a machinima while I spent hours trying to film some decent footage, then over 3.5 hours editing video to produce a (still pretty poor) 40 second long intro.

I take my Sim-hat off to all you dedicated machinima makers out there. Not only for the time and effort you put into your creations, but for somehow managing to not throw your computers out the window or put a fist through the screen when your Sims can't behave for you. (._.)

That said, after all that I love seeing it all come together like this and I AM going to finish this with as much heart as when I started and join you all in the "machinima makers" club. (lol)

(Also I'm making a LOT of custom animations for this, so I'll probably package some of those up and make them available for download if anyone's interested in those)

I upload custom animations on youtube here: Link

Sims 4 Custom Animation in Blender (Pass Out)

I already said this on youtube, but although I don't have many followers, I want to try and post regular updates for the tiny follower army I do have. :)

However as I tend to work on several different things at once, it sometimes takes me a while to completely finish something, so I figure I'll post some of the things I'm working on now and again.

This one still needs work, obviously, but here's a sample of my new animation pack:

Feel free to comment on any of my posts, by the way!

Sims 4 Hospital Room

There may be bits and pieces of custom content, but I think I have managed to create an okay looking hospital room without any expansion, game, or stuff packs. I just need to see if I can find a more suitable desk / table to use as a bed table because this one doesn't quite cut it...

Sims (Machinima) Bloopers #1

You might be familiar with Henry, the kid who clearly dislikes my directing:

...but as I'm sure you all know, when we're trying to film machinima or get some good screenshots, disobedient sims come in waves. I thought it'd be funny to post some of the one's I run into now and again, so here they are:

I don't think you quite got that "sad and lonely" right

Annoying World Sim push-ups

Is he okay...?

"Is she okay...?"

..........

"Is SHE OKAY? O_o"

"We're watching"