Artistic Directors
Contents SILC Review
6
Gothic Beauty
10
Featured Photos
14
Custom Animations
20
The Kingdom
24
World Review
26
Get Set - macabre
32
Well Composed
36
Strike a Pose
38
SIFF Special Edition Insert
43
Editor
Minraed Arzhel Staff Contributors
Sylent Whysper AAShleySEG Bzanna Kazee
official host of SIFF http://simatography.webs.com
Letter from the
Editor
Minraed Arzhel There is always so much happening at Simatography that we wanted to share more than just SIFF updates in our magazines with this issue we explore an expanded format that includes a taste of the many other exciting happenings at the Simatography site. We have put together this autumn issue with a dark, macabre theme that suits the season with Halloween coming, but will be of interest anytime as horror, apocalypse, gothic and macabre themes are always popular. You will notice a special SIFF insert as well - which will also be published separately - where you will find the announcements of the SIFF winners as well as some special SIFF features. If you enjoy the magazine, be sure to drop by at our website and get to know us. You’ll find tutorials, inspiration, challenges, and a supportive community that will help you create the very best machinima, photos and stories possible.
cover photo - Sylent Whysper
Minraed Arzhel
SILC has just wrapped up it’s very fir
Though just a small number of storywriters much excitement building for anothe opportunity for Sims3 storywriters, both ne learn from one another, inspire each o include not only stories, but
Drop by the official SILC websit
www.officialsi poster by Micky
We had no idea what to expect from the first SILC, but despite that we all did our best to promote and keep up with the conference. I am sure each successive one will get better and better, and hope there will be many more to come.
Sherry 1968
The biggest thing a
it has been a learn
Every post, picture
we made was a ste territory.
banner and photos by Kaleeko
rst season and is off to a great start.
s were involved in this first season, there is er cycle later this year. SILC is a great ew and experienced, to come together, other, and share their creations which t posters, photos and more.
te to read the fantastic stories.
ilc.webs.com poster by Bordelinski
about this is that
ning experience.
I always wanted to be a writer since I was very young but the Sims actually gave me the outlet to create. Participating in the
e, and challenge
Sims International Literary Conference was a challenge that I
ep into unknown
found inspiring and very enjoyable. I am glad I had the
Micky
experience.
Seaweedy
Storywriter - Seaweedy Don’t miss this beautiful and touching short story with a nostalgic Film Noir feel. A heart-tugging story that also showcases some beautifully creative photos. Black and white photos , interesting camera angles, convincing set design and costumes all working together to create a truly vintage feel. A unique approach for a Sims story, and an enjoyable read for this first ever round of SILC To read these stories and more be sure to visit www.officialsilc.webs.com/bibliography
Be sure to read this funny little story featuring some of the staff you know and love from Simatography. A sweet dream, or a horrible nightmare? It all depends on your perspective. The story was written especially for SILC as a show of support. I hope that SILC will see even more great storywriters participating in future rounds.
Featured Simtographer When deciding who to showcase for this issue we could not resist Gordana’s Gothic Beauty photo album for obvious reasons. She has a flair for the fashionable and sensual side of the Gothic theme.
“Goth means many different things to many different people...to me: Goth is beauty. Those that are Goth are tender, sensitive, passionate , courageous. Goth is choosing life when death is a seductively tempting option. “
Miss Gordana
photo by Gordana
by PistolKitten
by SuperPogimon
by Cupcake
by Bzanna
by Bzanna
by
y SuperPogimon
by Sylent Whysper
We are always looking for ways to showcase the talents of our members.
We looked through the entire collection of amazing photographs in our member’s photo gallery at Simatography and selected a few examples of the use of goth and horror themes.
Warning The photos on the next page are the scariest of the bunch, so view at your own risk.
by SuperPogimon
by PistolKitten
by PistolKitten
by Ms McNeely
A perfectly creepy little town for your dark-themed machinima and photos get it HERE
World Showcase
Silent Hill by Evincryg
This sleepy, creepy, seemingly-deserted town is a perfect setting for your darker-themed photo shoots, stories, and films. This foggy town is full of the broken-down remnants of what was once a thriving town.
We learned about this world when we discovered the video which the world was created for. Watch it HERE on YouTube.
Check out some of these great sites for the perfect props and set design for your next horror, thriller or otherwise macabre photo shoot or machinima project.
Find a wide array of items for graveyards, stoc shipyards and more by the ever-dirty Cyclo http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/Cycl
Ravens and antique books http://www.thesimsresource.co
EA store and game items, and don’t forget the buydebug cheat fore even more
find potions, skulls and other such witchery at http://the13thsim.webs.com/
rats and spiders and so much more at http://lunasimslulamai.jimdo.com
Tarot and more grungy antiques by Baufive http://b5studio.blogspot.com/
ckyards, oneSue lonesue/
s by Cemre om/artists/cemre Garden of Shadows multi-artist site Find these torture chamber items and more by Gelydh at http://bit.ly/qgQmra
Photo by Maxim
The addition of the long-anticipated Pose Player has catapulted Sims3 photogr installed the Pose Player mod by Cmomoney HERE at Mod The Sims you will b working hard to keep up with the demands as they explore the endless possibil us about her experiences with custom content creat
Thank you, Traelia, for taking time to join us. What inspired you to start creating custom Well, when the Pose Player came out Cmomoney put a link at the bottom of the o own poses. Luckily I already had all the programs needed and decided I'd give it a try realized this was my chance to become an expert at one particular portion of CC. I w spirit of the Sims, I was addicted. As far as the themes, well I often go off of requests says. Strangely enough, I even sometimes dream the ideas.. I'm weird, I know.
What kind of impact do you think the Pose Player and cu Personally, I know that being able to create poses h knew much about the things that poses were going to makers who needed better looking ways to show off th poses for, like stories and machinima. I'm just hoping t have had a huge impact on many aspects of simming, never thought they would be this big, or that I would would soon be a well-known pose maker, I would hav
You've written a tutorial on making custom poses -what kind of tips ca I know it sucks that there's no magical cure to being good at po If you aren't sure that your work is fabulous than it's okay to not sha with some really kick butt poses. That would get you noticed real qu of real people to do poses when you're a beginner; if you're having to fix it; if you can't find pictures of someone posing how you'd like photo. And above all, just keep trying. Eventually something will clic
Find Traelia at her website http:
raphy and machinima into a whole new realm of possibilities. Once you have be able to start downloading and using exciting new poses. Pose creators are lities of pose creation. Traelia is one of those pose creators who took time to tell tion and how she became a pose creating super-star.
interview by SylentWhysper
poses? How do you come up with a theme for each pose pack? overview with a link to the tutorial by OrangeMittens to make your y. (I enjoy learning new things) After making my first pose pack, I went off making several packs in the matter of a week or so. In the s of my fans, or I get brilliant inspiration from something someone
ustom poses have on Sims photography and machinima? helps me out if I ever wanted to do any of that stuff. But I never really be used for. Yeah, I totally thought about the clothing makers and jewelry heir creations. I never thought about the tons of other things people need that the poses help everyone out, not just creators. I can see that poses especially the artistic areas, and I'm really glad I get be a part of that. I just be this popular. Hah! If you would have told me four months ago that I ve called you crazy.
an you share with beginners to help them create new poses? oses, but seriously the only way to get better at it is to practice. are it, but just keep practicing and then you can enter the scene uick. Some other tips I like to share are: always use references trouble ask for someone to look at your pose and tell you how to make a pose, then just do the pose yourself and take a ck and you will make something amazing.
://traelia.blogspot.com/
So many poses, so little time, but here are a few of our faves Clockwise from top left
Mrs Faraday at http://the-sims2.blog.cz/1001/blog Danzxncrd at http://danzxncrd.blogspot.com/search/label/pose Maximum at http://maximumsims.blogspot.com/ Spladoum at http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=39789 Dill at http://dill.pixnet.net/blog/post/34359333 Pamy at StudioStarGirls Ruki at http://tohrukyoko.pixnet.net/blog/post/27213594
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CONTENTS
ARTISTICDIRECTORS Executive Director Minraed Arzhel Senior Directors Sylent Whysper public relations
AAshleySEG media coordinator
Bzanna wardrobe and photography SIFF Behind the Scenes
46
SSProductions
Winning Posters
48
tech support
Playbill
50
Featured Machinima
54
Support Staff
Winner’s Annouced
56
Cressie Moon Pye
Staff Machinima
59
Ida No Really
Pippa Razzi’s Red Carpet
60
Super Pogimon Midnight
Interns Kazee graphics and advertising
Nebunedzar international relations
Winning POSTERS Congratulations and thanks to Kazee for creating the winning SIFF festival poster this round, and to AAShley - the fans voted The Music Box as their fave film poster, while these others by Nittens, Titus Linde and Stars to Shame fell close behind.
Winner
MysteryJack
MissAnne
Veritas
- Kazee
Nebunedzar
AAshleySEG
SylentWhysper
Fantastic Fe a Truly International Sel Se Films All I Need by Titus Linde Germany The Bad Seed by MJSimKat U.S.A. Aurora by CatKetty21 Mauritius Island
Featured M
Mom
My Secr
Nero’s Tran
Staff Submission
The Music Box by AA U.S.A. Leave the Past Behind by LitleTiger96 Germany Tea : Instant by Strange Victoria U.K. I’d Wait for Life by Katyshewan
The Priest by SSProd U.K.
estival Films lection of Machinima election
Machinima
ment by Nittens U.S.A.
ret Friend by Veritas Russia
nsformation by Anches Germany
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Music Videos Bizarre Love Triangle by Animevidnnt Mexico I Loved Her First by ShootingStarStudios U.S.A. Need You Now by Bordelinski U.S.A. Generations by Charismatic789 U.K. Bad Romance by Demeter1779 U.S.A.
Ashley
Day’N’Nite by Gabcexxx Lithuania
ductions
Back to December by StarsToShame U.S.A. Frozen by Eziopeep U.S.A. Pure Imagination by Hikari Creations Netherlands Someone Like You by Thea
continued...
Advertisements The ADVERTISEMENTS challenge is ongoing. Any submissions created and submitted between the end of one SIFF and the start of the next will be eligible. We hope to see more of these each round. They can be just about any theme, just like a real ad would be. It’s a great way to give machinima a try and showcase your work between SIFFs.
Occam’s Razor by Gissence Literary Series of Book Trailers by PhiliaFelice Love Has Never Been So Easy by Stilettos and Steel Diamonds by Gabcexxx Sweet Simsations by Hecategrrl Rib-it Rib-it Waterslide by AAshleySEG PayStation by FA Productions SIFF Entries Promo by Nebunedzar Berry Sweet Sims by Amymay Tulip
Find it HERE at Simatography http://bit.ly/nPW6Pv
Each SIFF the team of Artistic Directors chooses a selection A Featured Machinima Maker is one who has a history of camera work, editing, sound, voice, set design, wardrob
Anch
Nero’s traNs
Nittens Moment U.S.A. We had great expectations when we invited Nittens to be a Featured Machinima maker and he did not disappoint. Moment is a gripping and visonary film with outstanding voice editing and special effects.
Germ
Anches is well known by her YouTube Sims3 series, the Don Lotario Story. She exemplifi and Nero’s Transformation demonstrates a wardrobe, set design and more. It is truly a new machinima maker for years to come.
n of machinima makers to be bestowed this highest honour. great machinima making and shows exceptional skills in be and story writing. In short, they are our inspiration.
hes
sformatioN Veritas My Secret Friend
many
3 fans for the long-standing machinima fies superior machinima skills all around bit of everything - voice, subtitles, editing, film that has it all and will surely inspire
Russia Veritas has enthralled us with her Sims3 machinima and photography for years. We are honoured that she agreed to be a SIFF Feature. This film is filled with stunning videography, chilling imagery and an intense story line.
WINNING SU Viewer’s Choice - as
BEST OVERALL FILM SIFF Artistic Directors award Best Overall Film to one that meets high quality standards and demonstrates exceptional skill in various aspects of machinima skill including editing, story telling, camera work.
Generations by Charismatic789
and the WI
BEST SIF
1st pl
All I Need by
2nd pl
Tea:Instant by St
3rd pl
BEST NEW DIRECTOR Selected by the SIFF Artistic Directors, Best New Director is one who has limited machinima experience but shows exceptional potential . Among other criteria, this person has not submitted to SIFF before.
Hikari Creations for Pure Imagination
Leave the Past Behin
BEST MUSI
1st pl
Someone Like
2nd pl
Pure Imagination by
3rd pl
Back to December b
UBMISSIONS chosen by the fans
INNER is…
FF FILM
Viewer’s Choice Categories We asked the fans to vote for their faves and here is what they had to say:
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Titus Linde
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nd by LitleTiger96
IC VIDEO
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You by Thea
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by Stars to Shame
BEST FEATURE FILM Nero’s Transformation by Anches
BEST ADVERTISEMENTS AND PROMOS Diamonds by Gabcexxx Rib It by AAshley
BEST FILM TRAILER The Priest by SSProductions
BEST STAFF FILM The Priest by SSProductions
Special Recognition The new Special Recognition Awards were created because the SIFF team felt that while not all films would win awards, many were well worthy of being recognized for the efforts and skills that they displayed. After much debate we are excited to be awarding the following machinima makers for their exceptional efforts.
Outstanding Voice Editing Nittens, for Moment, Titus Linde for All I Need, Anches for Nero’sTransformation
Excellence in Editing and Effects Nittens, Charismatic, StrangeVictoria, Gabecexx, SSProductions, AAshley, Veritas, Anches
Exceptional Costume Design CatKetty for Aurora
Distinguished Set Designs Anches for Nero’s Transformation, Eziopeep for Frozen, Hikari for Pure Imagination, AAshley for The Music Box
The SIFF Artistic Directors look forward to participating in SIFF along with everyone else and we are told that the fans want our films included so that they can vote for us, but because we worried that there might be an unfair advantage or bias we have decided to only compete against each other. This year we had two fabulous staff submissions.
The Priest by SS Productions The Priest contains over 30 custom animations that I created. I often wonder if I'm insane for doing this but I like a challenge. My ship often sails far from the shores of normality and and of course, sanity. All aboard me mateys.
I started this film 2 days after SIFF Spring 2011 ended. I am still trying to figure out why it took me up until 2 days before Fall 2011 SIFF started to complete it...where did the time go??? At least I kept everyone in suspense for a long time...and not just with the film ending.