Less Ick: Rescuing the Batavus Family Skintone

[mswn]

Interested parties may head over to my simblr to check out the (finally!) fixed-up Batavus faces. I'd say they are easily 90% less creepy than before! Bonus: you get to preview Piet's new, middle-ageish lookv (what do you think?).

Also, here's a link to the tutorial that I've used whenever I try to blend skintones/make face masks out of old skins

Comments

[lovelyxwow]

Congrats, they look great. :)

[mswn]

Thanks, Jessy!

[lvstndhrt]

I always enjoy learning how to do new things. Making skins is pretty time consuming. The Batavus family looks great now and they still look like themselves too. Great job!

[mswn]

I put it off for ages since I remembered blending skins as being kind of a tedious job when I last tried it (all those ages and faces and bodies!), but it actually went really quickly! I should have done it months ago! Ha, oh well!

[bacc_krow]

They look lovely, you've done a good job retaining the "Batavusness" and expelling the ick. Whoo!

[mswn]

Thank you! I was really concerned about maintaining their essential Batavusness, since when I'd idly try out different skins on their exported copies in Body Shop, they would look NOTHING like themselves. But a little bit of blending, and it all came out all right!

[maranatah]

They look so much better now! :) Good job! You also may just have inspired me to try blending some ancient skins that some of my oldest sims have...!

[mswn]

Haha, with all these comments I'm starting to wonder, "Did they look that bad before??" :P But I agree-I am much happier not seeing pores and and stubble on my sims now. Since there was so much kind of sculpting detail in their old faces, I ended up doing a 30-60% grey layer mask on a lot of the cheeks/forehead to leave that in while covering up the photoskin texture; full white on eyelids and ears to cover the painted lashes/weird ears; and then I left the noses and lips and (in this case!) the brows as is. I wanted to try making facemasks out of their distinctive features that I could just put on a new skin (like I did for Eustacia and Yves), but their skintone was so different from anything else that I had that this seemed the easier way to do it. With a little mattifying, their body textures weren't so terrible, so I think it all came out all right!

[susannag]

They look nice - and still like Batavuses.

[mswn]

Thank you! That was very much the goal. :)