That’s the reason why it’s almost impossible to perfectly recreate a real person face in game, even if you find plenty of photo, the face won’t have exactly the same shape on every photo. Keep this in mind : depending on the angle or the distance, a face can be distorted on a photography. Using references can help you to achieve that.

Try to create older or younger sims, sims with different origins, create a male sims if you usually focus only on female sims.

Using references can be a nice way to get out your comfort zone ! Humans of New York or Humanæ can be nice places if you are looking for inspiration (if you know any other website, don’t hesitate !). If you already have some basic ideas about your character, it can help you to find a model. Your model can be anyone, a actor or an actress, someone you personally know, or a complete stranger. Or focus only on a specific facial feature.Įspecially for the last point, it would be better to find a face with significant/pronounced features you can try to reproduce.Recreate a face, and then keep it like this or use it as a base for your character.Only reproduce the general proportions, to have a more realistic base.

This advice applies for almost everything, creating sims, building houses, working on poses ! When working on a sims, you can use reference pictures for different things : Sometime, a simple concept is enough, or maybe you only want to focus on the appearance first and then, imagine your character story. This will influence all my creating process.īut you don’t necessarily need all that. Most of the time, before opening my game, I think about the character I want to create, what kind of person it will be, some basic ideas for a personal story. I hope everything will be understandable, as english is not my native language ! There is no perfect method to achieve that, I can only give you some tips, based on how I create my sims. This is a quick guide to help you create realistic and/or diverse sims.

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