R-Lo's Photography Corner

[R-Lo]

Sorry for being unsociable lol, I lost a few hrs... ?

 

Here's my dancing cuddle finished for now and something that I got a bit carried away with... 

Something to replace my first Solo Toy animation..?

[Hentaiface]

I've finally found a way out of this weird Situation with Charlotte Delanque being imprisoned. So...

 

 

The thing with Archibald is; He is a douchebag who steals Semi-Autonomous Sex Robots and kidnaps Green-Haired Sluts to make them work for him, but he is a not a very smart douchebag who steals Semi-Autonomous Sex Robots and kidnaps Green-Haired Sluts to make them work for him. Because he is also horny. Very horny. So he starts to break his own rule to not fuck the Robots when he gets bored, as Charlotte has been kinda annoying him lately with all this annoying stuff, like "Buying her Food" and "Treating her like a human being".

 

 

Spoiler

 

Also, for mysterious reasons, his Henchmen haven't shown up lately. Maybe it's because they realized that Kidnapper/Illegal Porn Director Henchmen have a surprisingly low number of Unions. This, in turn, allowed Charlotte to walk around in Archibald's Mansion a little bit.

 

"Let's see what the Police has to say about Kidnapping and Sex Slavery..."

"Perfect. Now, let's have a little fun while waiting..."

"Now you're programmed to tell me how much you love me, Slut."

Charlotte: "Hey, uhm.... Archie. The Toilet is broken again..."

Archibald: "Wait... How did you...?!"

Archibald: "You fucking whore! I don't know how you escaped your cell, but I will teach you to behave for interrupting me while I'm in the Middle of a fucking Threesome! Are you completely brain-dead to do something like this to a man?!!"

Charlotte ran down the Stairs of the mansion, with the nude Archibald desperately following her.

Archibald: "You slut will never try to break out again, even without these morons guarding you!"

(By the way: This is what the Bots are programmed to do when no one needs them. Constantly. Non-stop.)

(When I say constantly, I mean constantly)

Welcome to the Show: 'Things you should never, ever say again when a Cop can hear you.'

Archibald: "If I ever catch you breaking out again, I will have you raped by stinking, old Orangutans for hours!"

Andrew: "What was that? 'Rape'? That sounds very interesting... And it definetely looks interesting."

Andrew: "My friend, what you're doing here sure looks like I could arrest you right here and now!"

"Wow...." Charlotte thinks...

"....Yup. I'm definetely gonna have to fuck that guy."

Anyway, Charlotte heads back home first. Her wife has been waiting for a month.

"Come here, Baby. I am more thirsty than ever for some wet Pussy!"

"Oohhhh.... I've missed you, Charlotte.... You and your tongue...."

 

 

 

[erplederp]

@R-Lo Amazing! I think you should consider applying at MAXIS as an animator ?.

 

@Josua1970 Thanks for the links, I checked them out. I like the looks of the holster gun belt (very faithful to the original game), but unfortunately it clips during animations... I also downloaded and considered the neoprene diving suit, but in the end went for a more usual swimming suit as the first outfit in the swimwear category. It could surely be used as a nice alternative though (ideally after a bit of retouching - it is missing any visible hems on arms and legs which gives it a cut-off look).

 

 

Anyway, I spent an unreasonable amount of time putting together all Lara's outfits. For her everyday outfit, I opted for something more practical (although I kept the iconic shorts & tank top outfit as an alternative in the category). Her party and formal outfits are a little bit fancy (esp. the one with the tiara), but I think she can pull it off. Here's the usual line-up:

 

 

Facial features:

 

 

And here are some additional screenshots:

 

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Everyday alternative outfit (also features jade pendant, navel piercing and accessory bottom)

 

 

Everyday alternative outfit (beat-up edition)

 

 

 

Accessories - sun glasses and watch

 

 

Matching jewelry - dog tags and double earrings

 

 

Matching jewelry - amber earrings, tiara and ring

 

 

Matching jewelry - jade earrings, ring and golden choker

 

 

Tattoo - dragon

 

 

 

 

 

[2cool4u_1]

@erplederp Great job on the outfits.? When / if you upload her, I may try giving her the iconic blue top --I'm assuming it won't suit her, but I still have to try it, just because. I have to say, you've really given attention to detail with these outfits. I can tell you are a fan too; the camo bikini, the blue & black swimwear, the little black evening dress. I also noticed that you made her left handed, as she is in the later games (which matches this version of Lara). You leave me salivating! ?

[Guest]

@erplederp She looks amazing my friend ?

[R-Lo]

12 hours ago, kortjakje said:

@R-Lo: so much better with the hands more natural bent. 

Agreed haha! I enjoy paying attention to the fingers in my animations as it's a small detail that goes a long way! 

Normally it's something that I will leave until I'm certain that I'm happy with the placement of the hand and movement of the arm, 

Sometimes I get a little over excited and can't wait to show it despite the fact its still probably too early stages and there are obvious things to add or fix ?

I was quite taken aback when Redfaction said his project was in development for a year before teasing anything... 

I'd be itching to show off the very first move or code I produced ?

I wondered if I needed to mature in my ways a bit but I've been reassured and happy that some just create in different ways, 

 

But on the whole I've noticed when doing animation it's a good idea to make certain moves or positioning before some of the more detailed ones as it can be a headache when trying commit to some details early on incase something needs to be changed or adjusted ?

[R-Lo]

11 hours ago, erplederp said:

Amazing! I think you should consider applying at MAXIS as an animator ?.

 

Woah ?I'm very grateful for that comment! Maybe one day... (dreams) ?

Admittedly I'm surprised myself at the results! 

I cleaned up a little bit more and attempted to loosen her up some more, the feet kinda bugged me a bit, 

While I was at it, I've made it work the living room too ?

 

 

 

[2cool4u_1]

Nice! The feet do look a lot better. As for working at MAXIS, I agree. The first peek at the slow dance in the nightclub looked great, but the NPCs (aside from being terribly dressed as you pointed out) looked very awkward. Their animations looked particularly "clunky" next to yours. Unfortunately, I don't think MAXIS would ever hire you, as that would be doing something that makes a lot of sense, which seems to be against their general philosophy.

[erplederp]

@2cool4u_1 Thank you! And please let me know if you ever find (or make) the top for her after she's uploaded - I'm slowly getting to that, I just need to update/split a few mods she uses so they don't mess up peoples' CAS (too much).

 

I wanted the outfits to match her personality/history so I tried to put some thought behind one, exactly as you said. The everyday one would be what I imagine being a realistic outfit for her outdoor adventures while keeping the style. The camo bottom felt obvious once I had a tough character who wears the dog tags too. There's also a matching camo bra! The black mini dress sort of calls back to the outfit she worn in the Tokyo mission in TR:Legend. The swimsuit looked almost like one of her diving suits to me, complete with the zipper partly undone. I'm probably wasting words here since you know all this... I also specifically chose amber accessories because of her profession (deep, I know ?). I blanked out on the athletic outfit, so it looks somewhat generic even though I feel it suits her, especially with the sun glasses like that. I might end up deleting the outfit and simply moving the shorts & tank top look to the athletic category... Or maybe recolor the leggins/sports bra details blue because she likes the color ?.

 

The left handedness is a complete accident though (if you tell that by the accessories) because I had no idea Lara was left handed. I just use the first fitting watch, ring or bracelet available, left or right ?.

 

Also, nice MAXIS burn ?.

 

@MrSimur Thank you, I'm inclined to agree with you ?.

 

@R-Lo The stuff you said about animating the broad strokes first makes a lot of sense. Also, your last iteration of the animation is so perfect, thanks for sharing! I think the way she props herself on her feet is now my favourite thing about it ?. As someone who has done a only few poses and one simplistic and rigid animation total (added breathing, blinking and a subtle arm sway to a pose, think posing for an art class kind of stuff) I can only imagine how much time and effort it takes to make them natural like that (my guess is a lot ?). I am excited to share too - if we share early we may get some encouragement and useful feedback, so at least we've got that going for us which is nice ?.

 

 

Lara news: I recolored/edited an almost MAXIS-matchy shoulder holster thingy with minimal clipping (unfortunately for a right handed person, haha) and a matching gun! I now have three variants of it - with weapon holstered and spare ammo on the side, with ammo on the side and no weapon (presumably drawn), with no ammo and no weapon. The weapon is a separately equipped item. Maybe I should make the gun make strangers around Lara tense or something. Shame I don't know enough about the sims scripting to allow killing some "henchmen" sims with it on a whim... Now I feel like I'm having way too much fun putting Lara together ?.

 

There's only enough water for one of us, mister! And it is going to be me!

 

[R-Lo]

2 hours ago, 2cool4u_1 said:

Nice! The feet do look a lot better. As for working at MAXIS, I agree. The first peek at the slow dance in the nightclub looked great, but the NPCs (aside from being terribly dressed as you pointed out) looked very awkward. Their animations looked particularly "clunky" next to yours. Unfortunately, I don't think MAXIS would ever hire you, as that would be doing something that makes a lot of sense, which seems to be against their general philosophy.

 

Thanks haha! I'm really pleased that it looks nice in contrast to the vanilla stuff, maybe if I get brave enough I'll see if I can replace them ?

MAXIS ethics aside, I also think it would be quite restricted in terms of what I get to make and although I have some things that are non sexual that I'm dying to try, I don't think they'd take too kindly to my shoving dildo in characters hands ?

It's more fun to work with modders and I'll keep an open mind towards collaborations

 

[R-Lo]

@erplederp nice job on Lara! She looks as if she should have been pre-packaged in with the Jungle Adventures ep!

The little black dress was an absolute must too ? that was one level that I was gutted to complete ?

Im currently looking at trying some script stuff in the future, like custom interactions for a custom trait or something like that, if that works out well then I might try something with guns, I've heard there is a target range for sims (haven't found it yet) and that it's non functioning, just for buffs... I'd like to change that ?

Im not really one for extreme violence shootings but maybe I could try setting up a target practice for her iconic dual handguns ?

[swordofthesun]

I felt like sharing some more. ^_^ Below the spoilers is some more making out cause I really liked it. 

The animation is called "Hot & Bothered" by Error404Phillips. 

Really wish there were more animations like this

 

Spoiler

                                                    

 

[Josua1970]

20 hours ago, erplederp said:

@R-Lo Amazing! I think you should consider applying at MAXIS as an animator ?.

 

@Josua1970 Thanks for the links, I checked them out. I like the looks of the holster gun belt (very faithful to the original game), but unfortunately it clips during animations... I also downloaded and considered the neoprene diving suit, but in the end went for a more usual swimming suit as the first outfit in the swimwear category. It could surely be used as a nice alternative though (ideally after a bit of retouching - it is missing any visible hems on arms and legs which gives it a cut-off look).

 

 

Anyway, I spent an unreasonable amount of time putting together all Lara's outfits. For her everyday outfit, I opted for something more practical (although I kept the iconic shorts & tank top outfit as an alternative in the category). Her party and formal outfits are a little bit fancy (esp. the one with the tiara), but I think she can pull it off. Here's the usual line-up:

 

 

Facial features:

 

 

I am glad that you have been helpful, the truth is that I do not remember very well all the outfits that Lara has used through their stories, apart from the classic, with the variation of the jacket, the suit of biker and the one of Diver, which is quite similar.
I have to clean mods, if you want to give me some image of what you are interested in for Lara of costumes and I set a sim just to import clothes.

 

The character is really good, I like it, it reminds me a lot I do not know if it was the Chronicles, in which you also handled it as a child.

[2cool4u_1]

On 4/24/2019 at 12:04 PM, erplederp said:

Lara news: I recolored/edited an almost MAXIS-matchy shoulder holster thingy with minimal clipping (unfortunately for a right handed person, haha) and a matching gun! I now have three variants of it - with weapon holstered and spare ammo on the side, with ammo on the side and no weapon (presumably drawn), with no ammo and no weapon. The weapon is a separately equipped item. Maybe I should make the gun make strangers around Lara tense or something. Shame I don't know enough about the sims scripting to allow killing some "henchmen" sims with it on a whim... Now I feel like I'm having way too much fun putting Lara together ?.

 

There's only enough water for one of us, mister! And it is going to be me!

Spoiler

Even by accident, a perfect Lara. While she is now left handed, she was originally right handed. However, as you well know, when it comes to hand guns she is fully ambidextrous, and can be seen using either hand (on those very rare occasions that she's not using two). As for the shoulder holster, it's still accurate. That's what she wore in earlier games, and when they switched her handedness, they left the holster the same. It took some digging, but here's some pics to show it;

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Tomb Raider: Legend   (gun in left hand, holster for right handed)

 

Tomb Raider 2013   (gun in right hand)

 

A quote for you; "A famous explorer once said, that the extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are."

The way you do Lara, it really is extraordinary.?

 

[R-Lo]

I got a bit caught up and carried away ?

[kortjakje]

@R-Lo: did you know that you can use presets of the hands to make things easier? (oké you have to make them first). I learned this from BrokenSims and decided to make a tutorial and share this.

[R-Lo]

The cat princess is back ?

[R-Lo]

7 hours ago, Slick Clyde said:

@erplederp

 

@R-Lo Sorry for the stupidly late reply, but I checked out those PickyPikachu vampire teeth. They are nice. I wish I knew they existed before I made my own. They still kinda give me a "batty" vibe though, so I think I might keep mine around. Maybe I'll add sharp bottoms to them as an alternate since cats predominately have 2 fangs on top and 2 on bottom.
Oh, and your video editing is so good. I wish I could make vids like you. I have so many ideas! I started a video in October of last year themed around a spook-tacular pumpkin patch... its uh still in progress. I think my problem is I change my sims around. Then the video becomes obsolete because its no longer their modern design and I have to re-shoot everything and I lose patience with myself.

 

Hi Slick! It's no problem, when it takes time to make animation it's like living 30-40 seconds at a time and it flies lol! 

Maybe it's better you didn't see those first as yours looks better! 

I might have missed it but have you uploaded them? I totally know what you mean about the "batty vibe" 

Strangely I often got a vibe from it too but couldn't put my finger on it and you hit the nail on the head! Definitely needs to be more feline ?

 

Thanks for the compliment, I started to learn the editing through my simming and it's been a lot of fun, I got a ton of ideas too which I also keep having to go back on for similar reasons, making improvements does indeed abolish the previous look? 

I use filmora to do my vids and not too savvy with any other editor software but I might be able to give a couple of tips if you saw something I've done which you'd like to add to your vid, gimme a shout any time! 

 

2 hours ago, kortjakje said:

@R-Lo: did you know that you can use presets of the hands to make things easier? (oké you have to make them first). I learned this from BrokenSims and decided to make a tutorial and share this.

Yeah I did see that was an option but I didn't use it, instead I will sometimes append a previous pose and copy the fingers into it, 

Normally when I animate, I'll have one spare T-posed rig hidden, 

Sometimes when drastically changing the position I'll set the finger or limb back to default position and then work it from there, this is useful to help avoid unnatural twisting around the elbows and knees, 

Fingers are quite easy and quick for me, sometimes fun, 

If you bend fingers and limbs in gimbal mode it'll rotate bones in relation to the joints and not to the orientation of the camera, 

 

Your more than welcome to share your tutorial here if you like! 

[Julie J]

I've missed the cat princess - Lovely to see her back

 

Unusual pic I accidentally took the other day. Nicola transitioning into a bat

 

 

[kortjakje]

@Julie J: sometimes the accidental pictures turn out to be stunning.

 

 @R-Lo: good tip to have a T-position rig by hand. I know of the problems of twisted limbs and fingers. (I really hate that and try to avoid that, but sometimes it goes wrong because the pose/animation has gotten really complicated and it's difficult to see what you are doing)

Another good tip: your video editing program. Will check on that & see what the costs are. 

 

As for the tutorial: I have it in writing with screenshots and also as a YouTube video. Will share that in the morning. 

[erplederp]

@R-Lo Lovely clips ?.

 

Lara would certainly fit right into the Jungle Adventure, maybe along with an Indiana Jones sim? ? Good luck with the scripting! I wish there was a complete API description for it (not just sparse examples and reverse engineering being necessary), like a regular library. I would be very tempted to play around with it too then. As for the gun, I just thought it would be fun if it did something since it is such a distinct item, even just shooting in the air to make the target sim "Just Go Away"...

 

R-Lo, if you ever feel like I'm spamming the place with this Lara stuff (even if I do try to include some photos), tell me please, I'll stop. Anyway, it shouldn't be much more of it as it is nearly done.

 

@Josua1970 I don't remember many outfits either - I really only played (and finished) the two TR games I mentioned. So I tried to capture her character rather than do exact re-creations of the outfits (a little bit of image googling helped though). Thank you for the offer to help, but just all the praise I receive here is quite enough ?. But hey, I did end up including the diving suit from one the links you suggested, so thank you! It turns out it looks really neat (I did add the missing hems):

 

 

I consider the current selection of outfits almost finished. Maybe I'll just add an accessory here and there - a classy handbag for the party outfit, an ear piece with a mic or a small backpack for the iconic look. Although I'm close to giving up on the last one - it may be impossible to find one which does not a) hover behind the character, b) does not clip or weirdly deforms during animations, c) does not have oversized hovering straps. The only additional outfit I'm currently thinking about is this winter one with cargo pants and a blue sweater (which shows her belly button ? ) :

 

 

 

@2cool4u_1 Thank you for your kind words! I was thinking exactly the same thing about the handedness - she dual wields weapons all the time, so she must be actually ambidextrous (and that's what I'll go with too ). Oh and here's a pic of the full camo set I mentioned earlier:

 

 

It's one of the swatches of the Lovely Lingerie by Kliekie, I only added the specular and shadow layers for more MAXIS-matchiness.

 

Also, you put a bug in my head when you mentioned the blue top, so I tried re-creating the classic look too:

 

 

 

As it turns out, all my three tops fit the look fairly well (so you may choose how revealing the outfit should be) and the only one missing Lara's usual color was the braless tank top above so I added that. The top harness is a bit simpler because its texture was drawn by me (I traced Klaxon's top for the shape though), but I like how it draws attention to the area ?. I've also tried giving her the round redish shades she sometimes wears in older drawings, but she ended up looking a little douchey instead of badass so I edited one of the base game glasses and gave her those with a light tint. I moved them too so they actually sit on her nose. The boots are a Get to Work item recolor, the shorts with straps are a Get Together item recolor.

 

 

@Slick Clyde Thanks! I actually modeled her face after the 2013 reboot (the outfits are admittedly more inspired by the older games), although I liked how she looks in the trilogy by Crystal Dynamics (Legend, Anniversary, Underworld), so it is possible it influenced me too without me realising. I based her initially on this sim which I kept modifying using mostly these as references:

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At the end, I used the direct front and side shots as an overlay over CAS to get the facial features as correct as possible. That being said I knowingly made her face a little bit rounder, her lips, eyes (and irises) a little bit bigger, nose a little bit thicker and the eyebrows a little less sharp because I felt it would be more in-line with the sims stylized aesthetics (which is coincidentally fairly similar to the Crystal Dynamics games).

 

 

As a side note, wouldn't it be better to quote without repeating the images, guys? I think it would let the new content stand out more then .

[2cool4u_1]

1 hour ago, erplederp said:

I did end up including the diving suit from one the links you suggested, so thank you! It turns out it looks really neat (I did add the missing hems):

  [ .....]

Oh and here's a pic of the full camo set I mentioned earlier:

  [ .....]

Also, you put a bug in my head when you mentioned the blue top, so I tried re-creating the classic look too:

They all look amazing! ?

1 hour ago, erplederp said:

I really only played (and finished) the two TR games I mentioned.

That's kind of sad. The three games are a trilogy (Legend, Anniversary, Underworld), and too short to play by themselves. You'll never know what happens. ?

To be fair though, I bought "Shadow Of The Tomb Raider" and haven't even started it yet.

1 hour ago, erplederp said:

As a side note, wouldn't it be better to quote without repeating the images, guys? I think it would let the new content stand out more then .

Sorry, you're right. I quoted with the image because it was directly relevant, but I moved it into a spoiler now (don't know why I didn't think of that last time).

[R-Lo]

Awesome pics @erplederp and don't worry, spam away!!

Im happy with that and thanks for sharing ?

[R-Lo]

[R-Lo]

A remake in progress for my Teasing Her animation ?