Sims 4 Stuff by Linnypig: animation

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Sunday, 15 April 2018

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! 😉

Thursday, 25 January 2018

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)

Sunday, 17 April 2016

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!

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Sims 4 Custom Dance Animation in Blender (Work In Progress)

So I gave up on Inverse Kinematics for now and started making a dance animation instead:

I'm not sure if I'm going to do anything with this or not because I'm feeling a bit lazy and I'm pretty sick of blender now...

Monday, 4 April 2016

Sims 4 Inverse Kinematic (IK) Rig In Blender For Easier / Faster Joint Movement - Progress?

So I've spent ages searching online hoping to find an answer to this question: Why are sims 4 models so tedious to pose compared to other models?

Maybe I'm just stupid and I'm missing something completely obvious. I'm a total noob when it comes to this animation thing afterall. But I just can't seem to find any answers...

So after watching several tutorials on rigging models on youtube, I've been playing around with the default rig from The Sims 4 Studio and I think I might have made some progress with it:

Here is a sample of default method we're familiar with:
(basically a bit of a pain in the butt)

And here is what I've managed to figure out so far:

It's still pretty horrible of course, but as I have no real idea what the heck I'm doing, I'd say it's not that bad... I'm learning things.

I've got a couple of other things I want to try, including learning how to rig an .obj model to see if I can make some progress there instead.

If anyone happens to know how to make this better, or how to properly use Inverse Kinematics on Sims 4 models, please, PLEASE do share! For the sake of all Sims 4 animatiors' sanity. ;)