#i hate gif/photosets formatted as text posts

[niieve]

i fucking hate beta editor jfc

[usermoon]

Story Process Challenge

this challenge was created by @herpixels​ and i kept seeing it floating around and really wanted to do it even if no one tagged me cause it looked so fun so thannkkkk yoouuu @kscriba for tagging me and giving me the final push

this is super long so 

1. Your writing process - show us a part of your script or explain how you write your scenes. Do you write in screenplay format or novel format? Etc, etc.

sometimes i know exactly what i want to do with dialogue, it’s written in novel format and everything. other times i just have a vague idea that ends up coming together somehow. i have a lil google doc that i put ideas in and it pretty much just ends up looking like this

whenever i post a scene that includes any of these notes i put a checkmark next to it to make it easier for my brain. some (most) of these are more vague but i usually know what i’m talking about when revisiting. 

2. Scene building - show us you in the middle of scene building through pictures, gifs, or a video. Explain what is the best thing about scene building and what is the worst!

oop hate,, i’m really shit at building and like kinda halfway decent at decorating but sometimes it just feels really empty to me so i try to just not show the surroundings,, i’ve gotten slightly better though (i downloaded more clutter and stuff which helped to liven things) 

3. CC/Pose Making - do you make your own cc/poses for your scene? If so, what is your process like to create? Do you just go off the top of your head? Do you use reference photos?

very rarely do i make my own poses just cause i’m not great at it and i usually find something that works enough. when i do make poses though i use the sunflower rigs v2 by shibuisims and it makes the process so much less terrible (it does take some adjusting and getting used to). with cc i only ever do like personal recolors, i can hardly use blender for poses and will never understand mesh making. 

4. Getting in the zone - What do you do to get in the zone to work on a scene? Examples include: show us your playlist you use when working on a scene, what’s your go-to scene snack/drink, etc.

deadass i just like get into bed with my laptop and do things,, i really don’t need like perfect concentration or music i just kinda play whatever but i can’t work in silence. 

5. Screenshot folder - give us a look into your screenshot folder to show us just how much goes into ONE scene for your story. (Scrapped pictures encouraged!!!)

not too chaotic, i take 2 or three most of the time of one photo only cause i use reshade and alpha hair so i need a photo with dof + mxao and then one without the dof and then without both and then i mash them all together in photoshop with layer masks 

6. Captions - are you a caption on the picture kind of storyteller or captions in text box type of storyteller? Why? Do you do both?

i only ever do caption text boxes if i needed to fit just a bit more dialogue orrr if i think my original end of the photoset is just too abrupt and needs a lil bit more. otherwise i just do text on the photos cause i think it looks nice. sometimes ill add some lyrics but its only if a song is really screaming to me,, i used to do it a lot more often in the beginning. 

7. Editing!!!!! - explain and show us your process editing a scene through a video, gif, or picture. A Before and after will suffice if you aren’t in the middle of editing a scene as you answer this.

oh god my editing is too weird and long explanation to add in this post but if you’d like an editing tutorial just ask and i’ll whip something up eventually. here’s some before and after though!! 

8. Throwback-  show us an ANCIENT story scene you did in the past and explain how you would do the scene differently today!

honestly i can’t decide which to choose cause there's a lot with the same problem: no indication that people are conversing other than dialogue text. like it would literally just be someone's face and i thought if i just never showed the outward angle or tried to hide it well then you couldn’t tell that sometimes sims were like hardly even looking at each other,, in the beginning i also didn’t have so many emotion/reaction poses so i tried to rely off of ea’s animations but it makes story telling harder and less predictable +++ it looks really like silly and immature which is really not what i’m going for with br 

[nyctoheart]

I saw your posts about the new update and it feels like part of it is a desktop version of one that’s been on mobile for ages now. Regarding gifs being rendered as text posts I mean. I’ve tried to go back into my blog and edit tags for a lot of posts and it defaults back to the OLD format when I try to for a lot of posts that are 3-4 years old or older, but gives the weird pseudo text post format for posts typically newer than that

I really hope to god gifs aren’t being posted as text posts.... One of the things I love most about photosets is being able to CLICK on the image to view it in full size, you can’t do that with text post images on desktop. God I fucking hate what staff is doing so much.

Literally why are they doing this. Why. Why. What is the point.