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Pleasant SimsVille
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By Heather
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Pleasant Simsville
The Pleasant SimsVille Theme (working Title "Silent Movie Theme") stemmed from an idea by Rainman to create the Charlie Chaplin Set. Charlie was created last year around September and has gone through several revisions during that time, due to knowledge discovery in the art of meshes. Feeling Charlie shouldn't be alone and should have a place to live that would be fitting to his setting, a theme was born.
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Electronic Objects! |
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By David
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Rainman created Charlie's co-star Edna Purviance and some little
children and the house was bare-boned ready. But what about neighbors.
Eric Campbell, another co-star and the villan from those old silent
movies was an obvious choice, so Rainman added him to his list.
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Furnishing Objects! |
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By PJ |
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The base house was built around November of last year, and nearly
became the house for the Victorian Christmas Theme (You even see
it in screenshots for this theme in its early days.) since it
was already sitting around and in the right style, but the house
was cancelled due to time constraints with that theme and plugged
back into the Silent Movie theme.
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Paintings! |
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By Dorien! Frame by Heather!
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With all of this completed, we still only had a few objects worthy
for the theme and Jerry left us one very talented object creator
short, as he went off to dig for dinosaur bones and artifacts.
(Miss you Jerry!) While he had already created some of the fabulous
items for this theme in 3D, I was left with the transmogrification,
which is the process of converting the items to the game.
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Rose Bedroom! |
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By Stine |
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David was creating some really great items as well, some of which
we gave early releases because David had spent so much time and
effort working on them, I hated to hold out on them for so long.
They were released when we received requests for similar items
or at David's beckoning. But as for furnishing, I really wanted
something a little more spectacular.
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Walls! |
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By Heather! |
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During this time in the skinning...the Three Stooges went into
creation, the theme could no longer be silent and while still
under that working title, we went through several different names
that didn't really sound right or work. We realized that no matter
what we did, color would have to be a necessary evil at some point.
After all, when the mailman, maid, gardener and newspaper girl
come, they are in color. We knew could overwrite the original
skins, but we felt that wouldn't be acceptable to the public.
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Floors! |
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By Debra |
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However, I loved the movie Pleasantville and it seemed an obvious
solution to our problem. It really was somewhat of an inspiration
for me. Ahn had some time freed up after her graduation from the
University of San Diego. Congrats Ahn and yay! for us. Ahn agreed
to do the Pleasantville cast and with the future release of SimsVille,
a new game title coming from Maxis, a theme was born "Pleasant
SimsVille." Together it embodied everything we needed from Color
to Black and White from older to newer generations of objects,
creating a perfect setting for a variety of styles.
Stine arrived during this period with her lovely Rose Bedroom
that she's been holding out on you all since she joined the team.
I know it had to be killing her, as it's a great creation. Debra
also contributed with her gray Victorian floors that she had been
holding onto for a while. Finally rounding it off, PJ created
the Golden Damask Loveseat and Chair, in addition to the lamps
she had created also in Victorian Style. Dorien and I created
what I consider some of our best paintings with some beautiful
frames. (I am biased!)
All the time we put into this theme, and the end drawing near, the design for the website began and Ahn and I devised the Split screenshot method to cut page views down. The house was complete at last, but we only had one color and everything else was available in both color or black and white. And so, I copied the house, built a new family and dupicated it in color. This ran into a few problems because not everything we had in b/w was available color, so we had to back track a bit and replace a few black and white items, such as rugs, from the original house. Josie and I went back through the rugs, as I did the final touches on the house and voila!
We hope you enjoy this theme as much as we enjoyed making it.
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Silent Movies! |
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By
Rainman & Jerome
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Slapstick Comedy! |
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By
Rainman & Jerome
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Colorized! |
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By
Ahn & Jerome
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Fionn
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