Does anybody want to do me a favor, pretty please?

[Samantha]

So for about a week, I've been working on making an alien skin tone to match my favorite skin set, and I can't decide if I actually like what I've come up with (I can't decide if the skin looks alien...or like a sickly human).

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The alien skin and the skin that I used as a base for it.

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The skin on a few Sims that I extracted from Strangetown. Sorry for the massive pictures. I didn't resize.[/spoiler]

What do you guys honestly think? I know I posted about this already on my Tumblr, so one or two of you maybe have seen this already. I don't know if it needs to be darker, perhaps more bluish, or if it's okay how it is currently. The color comes from an action, and I know it's slightly pixelated, but there's not much more that I can do for that besides go in and gaussian-blur the offending spots.

As for the favor, would anybody like to throw this skin in his/her game and look at it for me? Pictures would be nice (so I could see how it looks in someone else's game), but all I really want is some feedback. You can grab the file here.

Thank you!

[Caitlin]

I think it looks really good for an alien skintone. I popped it into my game and I think it looks really nice one my random CAS Sim I created just for this:



EDIT: Sorry for the short little comment there, but last night I was working on an essay and right now I have to get ready for school! I agree with Zoe, though; maybe try out a blue and see if you like that one, or maybe even keep both the green and blue? Also, I was just wondering which skin set this is.

[Zoe]

I really like it, but I honestly think that maybe a bit more of a bluish color would suit it better. Not so much that it's entirely different, but... just a little.
But seriously, I think it looks awesome right now. I think I'll throw it in my game and check it out before decided if that's my serious opinion. Expect an edit of this.

[Samantha]

Thank you guys for doing this.

Okay. I can try to give it a slightly more bluish tint (I am actually thinking about making a few different recolors--green, blue, and purple--because I'm currently using a blue default in my game and I really like it. But I haven't found a good blue alien action for that sadly, so I don't know yet what exactly I'm going to do). I can fiddle around with the green skin, though. I'll post some pictures once I have time to open up Body Shop/my game.

Caitlin, the original skin set is Anva's Skin for Your Bones, though the base for this alien skin is one of my edits, so they don't have any lashes.

[Caitlin]

Sorry for getting a bit off-topic here: but ohhh, they're very nice, and I like your lash-less version. Have you made a Gen+Town. version?

[Samantha]

Not yet. I am planning to do so, though; I just haven't had extreme amounts of time to sit down and play my game in a while. I'll probably do some sort of genetics dump at my LJ, since I have these alien skins, possibly an alien eye, those gen/town. skins, and also a gen/town. set of eyes. So...soon. (And thank you; I'm glad you like my lashless version.)

[Zoe]

Oh hey, I just wanted to point out that my installation program can't unzip .package files. Is a there a program that can, or could you maybe upload it as a .zip or .rar file? Thanks.

[Samantha]

.package files are the files that the game recognizes. You just have to throw it in your downloads folder as is. I didn't bother putting it in a RAR archive because it was only one file. Sorry about that!

[Zoe]

Oh, oops! That's what I get when I try downloading things at one in the morning. I guess my brain wasn't working.
Okay, well I'm about to open up Body Shop, so I'll take a look at the skin in there and then I'll take some pictures of it in-game.
Thank you for helping my slow brain along!

[Laura]

I will have a look at it in-game too, if you don't mind. I rather like that shade of green, though I do understand your 'sickly human' fears. I prefer more 'coloured' alien sims myself, but it's your game, your aesthetics and I do think this would pass as an alien or supernatural skin tone.

Edit: Here's how it came out in my game!

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*Large* Face shots | *Large* Body Shots

Female has make-up, male has none, and all shots are unedited. I think it definitely functions as a alien skintone, though I do think it could do with more blue tones. The pixelation is pretty clear also, in the bodyshots, but it's not too bad from far away. I think this is a cool project though, and I'd definitely be interesting in downloading the finished product (products...?) if you settle on a recolour you're happy with.

[Samantha]

Thank you, simey.

I tried looking into making a bluish-green recolor today, but the pixelation was really bad. The issue is that Anva's original skins already have a certain amount of pixelation to them (which I don't mind because, in my opinion, they're beautiful regardless), and any dark recoloring brings it out like whoa. Ugh. I don't know. There used to be a tutorial on recoloring darker skins, but the link's dead.

Me and this skin need some time apart from each other right now, I think. Hah.

Thank you, everybody! I appreciate the feedback. I'll have updates on this...eventually.

[Samantha]

It's been something like eight months, but I've finally gotten around to finishing up this alien skin recolor. It's exactly the same as the one I shared with you guys, but it's got a thumbnail on the custom version and even a default option. It can be found here, if anybody's interested. Thanks again to all you guys who looked at this in-game for me.

[Caitlin]

Once again Samantha, I am obsessed with your Sims!
I love the skin; I may have to break my rule about only having Pooklet skins in my game just so I can get this one...

By the way.. do you know where you got those freckles from? I've been looking for some decent ones lately.

[Samantha]

Thank you so much.

Anva's skin is really pretty, hence why I've put so much effort into fixing it up. I've never really found another skin that I like as much as these; all others have been too grayish for my tastes, even Pooklet's.

The freckles that I use for most of my Sims come from jesstheex's many sets, here, here, here, here, and here. I use others sometimes, but mainly these. She has some really great sets. If you're in the market for other make up as well, I would also recommend looking through the rest of her LiveJournal. There's some really nice eyeshadows, etc.