It takes patience to get everything good looking. No way to get everything right in the first shot. Even if it’s just in tiny details.ĭuring this whole process I constantly make tiny adjustments to the shape of the animal. It makes the animal much more natural and believable.īack and belly should also have slight differences left and right. When working on the face, I try introducing some asymmetry into it. I always compare back and forth between my animal and the reference images. I pay close attention to size of dots or stripes in the fur pattern. I also try to vary the shades and nuances of the main colours a little.
With very bright colours, I even use 1 to 10% most of the times. So I never paint with the transparency slider way up to the top, but rather a much lower value, like 50% or even lower. It’s very important to achieve smooth transitions between the colours. I always save a lot, especially when transitioning to a finer pattern size. Then I work my way up from rough colour patterns (like gradients) to increasingly finer details. I begin with trying to get the primary colour as close as possible to the reference. Next up and a very important step is painting the fur.
In the case of the cheetah, I decided on a very short kind of fur, which is also not too bushy on the tail, face or neck areas. How big is the belly, the head, the neck or the legs and how large are they in relation to the rest of the body? Only when those general sizes match, I try finding a nice fur for the animal. Once I’m happy with the head, I switch to shaping the general body volumes. I work on the eyes, ears, nose (size, form, offset and proportion) and general proportions of the face. So when I start shaping the animal, the first thing to adjust is always the head. This way I can constantly check, what parts already look fine and what areas still need tweaking. When creating in The Sims 4 I keep the game in window mode, so I can always have my browser window with the reference images right next to it.
So I do some Google image searches to have a good collection of images showing the animal in a lot of different poses from a lot of different angles. When trying to get as realistic as possible, it’s always paramount to gather a lot of references. It might sound counter-intuitive but since I wanted to get the size right I went for using the big dog as the base model. Still a good laugh though.įor this example I’ve decided on creating a cheetah. Is it even possible to achieve the animal within the Create A Pet mode? If you´re not sure, why not just give it a shot? I once tried building a pig, which turned out hilariously horrible. My first step is always to decide which kind of animal I’m going to create and which kind of anatomy it has.
#THE SIMS 4 CAT AND DOG SHORT LEG HOW TO#
In this tutorial I’ll show you my approach on how to create totally different kinds of animals out of the cats or dogs using the customization tools available in the new Create A Pet mode. But what if you want a totally different kind of animal as your personal fluffy companion? The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs Expansion Pack adds the long-awaited option to finally have a cat or a dog in your Sims household.
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