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Officially On Hiatus

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Okay guys, guess it’s time to announce that I’m ‘officially’ in away mode and on a movie making hiatus, since to be honest, I don’t have this much desire left to be dealing with Sims 2 anymore. This includes pretty much everything, movies, hacks or even just playing..

Now as for the sims 3, yes i can’t wait to play it, i really hope  the game play will feel more realistic and more advanced, esp when it comes to sim ppl AI’s.
Now as for the movies, like seriously, i think it won’t be after a year after the release before some decent movies could be made with it. Hope I’m wrong, but this is how it was with sims 2. First people got into playing with it, making custom content, and developing hacks and just after that, movie makers had at least some tools at their disposal…
At this point I can’t even say for sure if i will be making movies with sims 3, as well, I’ve no idea what the moviemaking aspect of the game will look like. But what i really really want is making my own 3d animated movies and not be limited by game platforms anymore. currently i’m learning to use 3d editors, so we’ll see what happens.

So to sum this all up, I’ll be in ‘away’ mode.. so I won’t be spending too much time on the site, meaning i may take a loong time to reply, so if you are looking some ‘help’ you know this is not the right place, kay.

Now another small update, if you go to my about me page, you wont see an empty space anymore. I just had this plan of making an awesome page with lost of scripts going on but guess i was too lazy for that so i just put together a brief intro n stuff…

I also remade the mp4’s of my movies, now the the format is more suitable for iPods, so here’s the mp4 links for all of my movies again:


EDIT: These and movie file downloads will no longer be offered, as i had to remove them due to copyright crap

Helena Censored

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Just so you know, I’ve uploaded a less ‘violent’ version of Helena to youtube today. This version also has the trailer in the beginning. So if you were unable to watch/fav it from your account, you can do it now :)

Movie youtube page here

And here is the download version. (Trailer+ original movie unedited)

Oh and by the way, from now on I’ll be watermarking my movie files. Never thought I’d end up doing this, but so many people are reuploading my movies all over the web without linking back here, not to mention even using my clips for their own so called ‘productions’ so seems like I just have no other option here…

Put my movies on your iPod!

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

is no longer an option sorry!

A Yearbook and a Rose…

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I’ve made these for my Helena movie and I’ve been asked about these objects many times, so I’ve decided to upload them here..

Yearbook can be found in Decorative/Misc and rose is in Decorative/Plants

You MUST have Nightlife EP installed, as I cloned these objects from nightlife reward rose…

Extract the package files from zip archives and put them into your ‘My Documents/Ea Games/The Sims 2/Downloads’ folder

Download:

Yearbook

Rose

 Have fun!

Helena - Random Facts

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Well I thought I’d make at least some update, cuz the site has been real dead lately.. Anyways I thought this one would be fun, so here’s some stuff you had no idea about or always wanted to know but were too afraid to ask lol

  • The storyline was inspired partially by the original video, as there was the funeral in the church and I got some associations with weddings and partially by the short story titled ‘The Ghost’ that I started but never finished writing(bathroom and bedroom scene)
  • At first I was deciding between Gerard committing suicide and getting killed, just the 1st version seemed way too pathetic and the 2nd way too brutal to me.. just when i heard “Not A fashion Statement…” song I knew that the 2nd option was the right way to continue the story
  • At first I wanted to build the exact same church as in MCR video, but I couldn’t quite make it, but you still can catch some resemblance in the church layout
  • White is Helena’s ‘color’.. you can see her wearing sth white almost in every scene
  • I was deciding between blue and green eyes for Helena for 20 minutes. Still, I went with blue ones because they felt ‘right’ for the character
  • The woman in red dress is the typical rich girl stereotype and she is contrasted to young Helena. When I was shooting the 1st scene, I expected it to be a bit longer than just 13 seconds, so according to my original plan, Helena was supposed to look at her with jealousy..
  • In the very beginning when you see random shots made in the park, you see the back of sb’s jacket that says ‘how do you sleep’ which sorta refers to Gerard being in a coma… impossible to notice in the movie, but still a pretty cool thing
  • “Don’t stop..” words are not what Gerard wrote in yearbook at the very beginning. Helena actually never found out what exactly he wrote there because she was way too excited about the upcoming date with Jack
  • When Helena falls on her knees you can see the star shoot.. this was made on purpose, as the song contains ‘every starfall brought you to tears again’ lyrics
  • In the same scene you can notice one thing that I overlooked.. she doesn’t have the ring on.. but that’s because I was using another sim and had forgotten to marry her.. I’ve found out about it when sb pointed that out on sims forum :P
  • The words on the mirror and in the yearbook were taken from other MCR songs
  • There is an ‘alternative’ ending scene where Helena walks out of the house and gets into the taxi.. which actually inspired me to make the actual ‘very last scene’ which I thought was working way better for the story
  • I meant to make a happy ending scene where Helena leaves the house and meets Gerard on the bus station, but it all didn’t seem ‘right’ to me, so I gave up the idea
  • All events occurred during 1 year: spring/summer when they were still at college, autumn when Helena said goodbye to Gerard, winter when Helena married Jack and spring/summer when the main action was taking place..
  • There were 1600 files in my Movies folder when I finished the project (I usually delete the most unseccessful ones)
  • I had to make over 50 recolors/objects with changed properties (not counting bodyshop recolors)
  • I really wish the movie was 10 minutes long
  • There will be no Helena sequel :) Sorry bout that.. many ppl actually were asking me about it, but if you think, the story IS over, everything is clear (at least after you read my explanations lol) yep the final ‘happy ending’ scene when Helena meets Gerard again is not there, but I doubt it would really fit in.
  • Helena Won Best Movie of May at Sims99!

    Thursday, June 1st, 2006

    Today I found out about it even before I managed to visit sims99, as I usually check my mail first. So I received several gb comments telling me that I won again!
    Wow! Thank you guys for all your support, nice comments and just taking the time to watch the movie :) also what really amazed me is that it even had the highest percentage of votes in all sims99 history :)

     

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    Helena and Gerard Available For Download

    Friday, May 26th, 2006

    I’ve uploaded 2 main characters from the movie as they’ve been requested several times. Not all the original parts were allowed to be redistributed so I had to look for replacements.
    Hair meshes are not included, you need to follow the links that I gave in description

    Well I was changing their facial expressions all the time while making the movie, so they might look a bit different from the sims in different parts of the movie

    Helena: ::Download (9mb)::

    Well of course I’d LOVE to upload her as a bride… but most of the content on her was from Pronupsims site, and they’re totally against sharing their files.. so I guess I’ll have to upload her as a ‘beaten housewife’ lol… She will look slightly different, as I couldn’t include the hair and makeup.

    Here’s custom content credits:

    Hair: Mesh: reflexsims, recolor by me (ok I know I need to practice more. I just made this recolor because the original texture wasn’t allowed to be redistributed.. so just download the original and feel free to delete the crap i made)
    GO GET MESH
    First you’ll have to agree to their terms, then go to downloads -> specials -> page 3. Scroll down and you’ll see it(it’s Hair 2).

    Wet/messy Bangs by me

    Eyes: by me. not the same version that i have on my site. I’ll make more recolors later

    Makeup: by Helaene (I modified the liner to give the running makeup effect)

    The original makeup:
    Eyeshadow: Serasims.de - Makeup -> eyeshadow -> page 1 -> set #6(at the bottom)
    Lashes/tears: Simderz -> bits ‘n’ bobs -> 1000 lashes with tears

    Eyebrows by Helaene

    Face scratch by me (will work only with this skin)

    Lipstick or whatever that is.. by me

    Nightie by me

    Skin tone by SimsCribbling< - is this site working anyway?

     

    My Sim Version of Gerard Way: ::Download 4mb::

    Well, he doesn’t really look like Gerard but still he’s a cute sim sorta inspired by his looks. I couldn’t include tears and his original makeup

    Hair: MESH

    by Kavar
    Recolor by me (well the alpha is from simcribling hair and was modified by me, and I used some parts from texture by Knightskykyte @ MTS2)
    Bangs by me

    Eyes: by Tuulia

    Makeup: by Helaene modified by me
    eyeshadow: by s2l

    The original Makeup:
    Tears by Simderz -> bits ‘n’ bobs -> 1000 lashes with tears
    Eyeshadow (same as Helena’s :))Serasims.de - Makeup -> eyeshadow -> page 1 -> set #6(at the bottom)

    Eyebrows by me

    Outfit by by kettleblack61998 @ sims2.com

    Skintone: by SimCribbling recolored by me (Well I’m not actually sure if i’m allowed to do this, but I thought it was ok to recolor it, I’ve seen lots of recolors of this skin on mts and they are pretty strict about redistribution/modifying rules)


    Have Fun!

    Making of Helena blog Entries

    Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

    I was writing down some of my thoughts while making the movie . There’s not everything, I deleted like half of it. So if you are extremely bored and don’t have anything better to do, you can check them out. I’ve decided to put them on a separate page   HERE

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