Various Thoughts
Mar. 26th, 2012 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chick-->Finished the cartoon adaptation of Soul Music the other day. Thoughts: a pretty good adaptation overall -- I especially liked what they did with the tour -- but I was kind of disappointed by the ending. It felt rushed, and they skipped over a lot of the more important bits (like the fact that killing the music just might end the universe). But at least we got the motorcycle. :D Also, they got Ponder Stibbons wrong -- if I remember, he's one of the few THIN wizards, and has no facial hair. This one was rather plump with a goatee-like beard. *shakehead* Ridicully and the Dean looked great, though. Now I just gotta check out Hogfather's adaptation.
-->Yes, I know I still need to post pictures of my new minimate DeLorean. I've been distracted by other things, sorry! ^^; I'll try to get one up tomorrow or the next day.
-->Got hit with a major inspiration boost for "Secundus." We're finally into the climax! I just got Victor captured. I actually rewrote part of this scene -- originally, Victor was captured by some of the Queen's tentacles. But looking up one of Alice's quotes when she first meets the Executioner got me to thinking -- why don't I write him into the story? So I did. This also means I gotta work in the Epic Footsmash -- I'm thinking Alice grabbing some defective "Eat Me" cake that allows her to grow, but only for a few minutes.
-->I promised you some pictures of Restful Springs, and so I shall deliver! Behold!
The little town of Restful Springs. It's based off the Takemizu Village template -- which, as you can see, is rather small. I picture it as an isolated sort of "resort" town -- only instead of vacationers, they get crazies. XD
I actually tried to make this little subhood look like an actual town. Those two blank lots off by themselves are going to be the Houndsditch Home for Wayward Boys and the Rutledge Asylum for Wayward Girls. Nearer the town square are the mansions and rich estates, and the road near the ocean is the middle class to poorer area of town, including the one apartment lot (Bella's Townhouses -- I like their look). There's also a town square, complete with neighborhood decorations -- including alleys and billboards! Amazing! I think the overall effect is pretty nice.
Most of the stores are premades from the lot bin -- Nerissa's Own Clothing Store, the BV General Store, 3-in-1 Bookstore, Cafe Petite, Pepe's Pets, and Planetary Pet Park, along with Little n'Local and Mercantile Mart hanging off the edge -- with a few tweaks made to them. But I designed the other park, Restful Woods Park, myself.
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And this is Restful Woods Park. I tried to make it look as if the surrounding woods were enroaching in on the park. There's a barbeque area, a playground, a lake, some dartboards, some chess tables, and a basketball hoop. Something for everybody. I think it came out nicely. :D
Hope you enjoyed that look. Next time you should see the finished asylums. God, doing this challenge is going to be hard for me. I'm going to want to control the other Sims sooo much. . . . But hey, hopefully it'll be funny, at least. And have a happy ending for Victor and Alice.
-->Yes, I know I still need to post pictures of my new minimate DeLorean. I've been distracted by other things, sorry! ^^; I'll try to get one up tomorrow or the next day.
-->Got hit with a major inspiration boost for "Secundus." We're finally into the climax! I just got Victor captured. I actually rewrote part of this scene -- originally, Victor was captured by some of the Queen's tentacles. But looking up one of Alice's quotes when she first meets the Executioner got me to thinking -- why don't I write him into the story? So I did. This also means I gotta work in the Epic Footsmash -- I'm thinking Alice grabbing some defective "Eat Me" cake that allows her to grow, but only for a few minutes.
-->I promised you some pictures of Restful Springs, and so I shall deliver! Behold!
The little town of Restful Springs. It's based off the Takemizu Village template -- which, as you can see, is rather small. I picture it as an isolated sort of "resort" town -- only instead of vacationers, they get crazies. XD
I actually tried to make this little subhood look like an actual town. Those two blank lots off by themselves are going to be the Houndsditch Home for Wayward Boys and the Rutledge Asylum for Wayward Girls. Nearer the town square are the mansions and rich estates, and the road near the ocean is the middle class to poorer area of town, including the one apartment lot (Bella's Townhouses -- I like their look). There's also a town square, complete with neighborhood decorations -- including alleys and billboards! Amazing! I think the overall effect is pretty nice.
Most of the stores are premades from the lot bin -- Nerissa's Own Clothing Store, the BV General Store, 3-in-1 Bookstore, Cafe Petite, Pepe's Pets, and Planetary Pet Park, along with Little n'Local and Mercantile Mart hanging off the edge -- with a few tweaks made to them. But I designed the other park, Restful Woods Park, myself.
jpg image hosting
And this is Restful Woods Park. I tried to make it look as if the surrounding woods were enroaching in on the park. There's a barbeque area, a playground, a lake, some dartboards, some chess tables, and a basketball hoop. Something for everybody. I think it came out nicely. :D
Hope you enjoyed that look. Next time you should see the finished asylums. God, doing this challenge is going to be hard for me. I'm going to want to control the other Sims sooo much. . . . But hey, hopefully it'll be funny, at least. And have a happy ending for Victor and Alice.
