Tom and Annabelle Comics

I am still working on the next story post, but here's some Tom and Annabelle comics from FaceBook to tide you over, in case you missed any :)

"Colors"

 

"Jolly"

 

"Experiment"

 

"Remembrance"

 

 

"Photographs"

Featured Item: Party Animals

If I was one who went "squee" I probably would have done it when I logged into the Sims 3 page today. The second family I've ever created, this rowdy group of party animals you see above, was picked as a featured download by SimGuruHydra on the exchange!!! I got a badge and everything!

W00T!

You can get the family here: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=4382342

Thanks for all the people who've downloaded it!

Guess who's coming back?

Verena Tozal and Elliot Coen Jr.

Tyler Coen

Elliot and Annabelle Coen

John Kethrin and Jamie Leone

 Yep, after a few month hiatus the story is coming back soon. I plan to have a new post as soon as possible, and I thought I'd share with you some of these pics of the 60's characters in their new looks.

My PlantSim idea

I am working on my next story post but this is something I wanted to share. It's a concept design I did for a PlantSim, something that I did within about five minutes to draw, color, and take a pic of with my computer's camera.

Now I know what you're thinking: "PlantSims look like humans, they mutated in the second game because of fumigating too many trees" Well, this isn't the second game, and there is a reason they don't look human so hear me out.

My idea for PlantSims is relatively simple: After mastering the gardening skill, you get a special opportunity to find a series of objects, much like with the inventing skill and the SimBot.

The objects you need to find are:

*10 special seeds of any kind.
*A heart-shaped Blue Sapphire.
*10 life fruit
*10 apple seeds for male PlantSims or 10 watermelon seeds for female.
*A new diamond for whatever EP this creature appears in called a "Sun diamond".
*One omni-plant seed.


After finding all these, you bring them to the science facility where they give you a large incubation chamber of some sort, which you take back to your house and put it inside or outside. You water the incubation chamber, and tend to it like a regular garden, where after a few days a small pod grows out of it. After a few more days of tending to this thing, the pod grows to a huge size and then splits open, and this creature steps out of it.

A PlantSim would have the same motives as a regular Sim with three exceptions: instead of "Hunger" it would be "Water", the bladder motive would be covered in vines, and the "Energy" motive would be replaced with "Sunlight". The water motive is filled by drinking water at the sink, playing in the sprinklers, being outside in the rain (if it's a Seasons EP), swimming, and others. The "Sunlight" motive would be filled by being outside or using a special sun lamp.

OTHER IDEAS


GENERAL
*They move faster on terrain.
*When on terrain, they can "root" themselves and gain Sunlight and Water by standing still like any other plant.
*They have mouths, but this is just a formality because they don't need to actually "eat", in any case the inside of their mouth looks like the inside of a venus fly trap.
*They have the ability to touch the ground and create a pod, which grows into an infant PlantSim a few days later.
*They are attracted to parks and fishing spots.
*They are hard-coded with the "Green Thumb", "Eco-Friendly", and "Loves the Outdoors" traits.
*You can buy an incubation pod as a Lifetime Reward Object.

DEATH
*They catch on fire and burn faster than a mummy.
*They are nearly impossible to drown.
*If they run out of water they start to turn brown and wither until they are a pile of mulched leaves. Sims with the "Super Green Thumb" LTR can bring them back to life like any normal plant, after coming back to life the PlantSims get the "Horrified" moodlet for a few days.
*They don't like carrying Death Flowers around, and will try to take them out of their inventories because they are creeped out by them.


HUMOROUS INTERACTIONS
*They can socialize with plants in the same way a Simbot socializes with appliances.
*They will think Rubber Tree Plants are creepy.
*If they see a Sim eating a raw plant they will get the "Horrified" moodlet.
*If they grab a plate of Autumn Salad or any plant-based food they will look at it, get the "Horrified" moodlet, and run out of the house screaming.
*They can "mooch" fertilizer off of plants.


It wouldn't be too hard to do, and it would kinda be interesting.

Coming back in the next week

Year is 1962

New Tom and Annabelle comics

"Kid Stuff"

"Get a Clue"

"That Sinking Feeling"

"Boldly Going"

These a new (one old but slightly altered) comics featuring my two favorite Sims, Enjoy!

Tom and Annabelle: "Boldly Going"

It never occurred to me to use the camera found in Generations to make one of my comics before now. I don't know why. When I had this idea to make a Star Trek parody, I looked at the camera feature added into the game and and thought "why not use it now"?

Tom and Annabelle comics

Ah the "love to annoy/want to kill" relationship has become quite popular it seems in the world of Facebook. Even one SimGuruPopTart said she loved the comics (made me feel good). Well, here are some old and new ones I made (makes sense for the title of this blog :p ), you can find them on FB as well but they are a bit shrunken. As always, click for a larger image:

CHILD

TEEN

 

 YOUNG ADULT

 ADULT

"Getting Along in the Years"

Here's a new Tom and Annabelle comic where Annabelle subtly gets back at Tom for all the green jokes.

Well ain't this an interesting little diddy?

Last night I manipulated a picture I had taken from my game using the GIMP. It was a picture of Annabelle Kethrin using an Unleash Animale Spell, as you see below: 

 

Below is the edited version, where Annabelle is shooting an unfortunate desk with a fire spell. The image was created and posted on The Sims 3 Facebook Page where the original caption was:

This is photoshopped but it represents an idea: wouldn't it be awesome if there was a spell that catches things on fire or makes them explode?

A simple idea on a simple pic right? No harm done?


WRONG!!!

Here is where things start to get interesting. I wake up and I see that The Sims 3 Facebook page uploaded new photos to an album called "Sims Casting Spells". Rather than skip past this because it is clearly photoshopped, and says so in the caption, someone did something or some-ish or another, and the photo not only showed up on the album as a pic, but on the ALBUM COVER IMAGE as well! Well, the funny part is people were talking about actually getting the spell book because of the image in the comments, so there is enough egg on my face to throw in some flour and call me a cake.

So sorry to all those who bought the item thinking you can shoot fire :/

Anyway, after a few hours it got me thinking: Why would they not only take that image, but put it on the album cover as well? Well, after some clever deducing using my own clever (yet strange) brain, my brain and I came up with the idea that they are working on a spell for the spell book that shoots fire and maybe, slightly, could have, used that as an unofficial teaser to advertise said fire spell.

Though they could have just picked the image because it looked cool.

Now while I have no evidence or anything pointing towards this deduction, I must say if they used my pic to secretly advertise a fire-shooting spell then frankly the awesomeness of that would make my head explode into confetti. But, it could just be a pipe dream eh? What do you think: Honest mistake? Clever advertising? Pipe-Dream by a dreamer in a pipe? Time will only tell. All I know is that if they did take my image to tease more spells then they had better give me SimPoints to buy them (please) :P

I'll keep you updated :)