Mod The Sims - "Casting Call" - Sim Talent Contest

Contestant	Judge A	Judge B	Judge C	Total
EileenJ	77	66	81.5	224.5
Eternila	86	89	84.5	259.5
Sunnaie	65	66	64.5	195.5
Hanechon	91	96	86	273
charmedqueen	73	73	88	234
Sim-ple	79	82	82	243
xrebellia	88	91	94.5	273.5
minimogut	73	68	77.5	218.5
dangerouskilljoy	74	90	76.5	240.5
Shhh	94	95	81.5	270.5
Starfish_Niccles	71	70	71	212
sleepalldaypartyallnight	80	89	86	255
booalaska	68	73	75.5	216.5
missy harries	91	85	96.5	272.5
naiyasfury	84	98	85.5	267.5
Aree	90	84	91.5	265.5
Dazro	83	87	85	255
daniandan	67	62	77	206
crdroxxpl	69	72	62.5	203.5
Buckley	95	97	93.5	285.5
dangmal	81	73	72.5	226.5
Tamlyn	80	85	86	251
Joe213	72	63	83	218
thera.	89	92	97	278
wizkid770	64	48	73	185
SimmieGoddie	78	74	78.5	230.5
liujiaxie	73	75	76.5	224.5
heaven	90	96	90.5	276.5
megan_perry106	67	79	78	224
Boydy	80	85	82	247

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	18	8	6	7	4	15	10	9	77
Judge B	13	9	10	7	4	13	10	10	66
Judge C	16	9	9	9	1.5	19	9	8	81.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	21	9	8	8	5	18	7	10	86
Judge B	22	8	8	8	5	18	10	10	89
Judge C	19.5	8	8	7.5	4.5	20	7	10	84.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	16	6	5	4	2	17	6	9	65
Judge B	13	8	5	5	1	18	8	8	66
Judge C	5	10	5	3	1.5	20	10	10	64.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	23	9	8	9	4	18	10	10	91
Judge B	23	10	10	10	5	18	10	10	96
Judge C	15	10	10	10	5	16	10	10	86

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	18	7	6	6	3	16	7	10	73
Judge B	16	8	9	7	2	17	6	8	73
Judge C	25	10	6	5.5	3.5	18	10	10	88

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	17	6	7	8	4	17	10	10	79
Judge B	14	10	10	10	4	14	10	10	82
Judge C	16	8	6	10	5	17	10	10	82

She is a lovely sim. You gave her a life state of a genie but only talked about her being an elven queen I wasn’t exactly sure where the genie part fit in with the story. Nice job on the third the shot. Solid entry!

I don’t think your character would have needed to be a superhero from before, as the movie part will eventually make her into whatever you would like. I would have prefer a more realistic backstory seeing your sim’s look. The movie description is really good though. Your sim is pretty, but she doesn’t look very Chinese to me. Maybe half? The elf costume is lovely and very thoroughly done and I really like the staging!

As a human she doesn’t seem that unique but her transformation to an “Elevin Queen” she looks absolutely stunning! The pixie hair cut flatters and shows off her subtle bone structure and the crown nested in her hair was a nice touch. It is the red skin and coloring that really makes her stand out! With the sims 3, it is understandable the limitations on creating a true Asian & ethnic likeness, however, it takes a lot more than just the rotation of the eye slider upwards and giving her black hair. Fortunately, if you continue to work on this likeness, it will most certainly result in a more unique sim, even if she still doesn’t look Asian. The scene and props used add interest to picture and the fog was nice touch. Unfortunately, noticed in starch contrast to the amazing setting you constructed, the pose chosen does not connect or fit with the scene at all. Partly this was due to it being an awkward high fashion model pose for an actor driven scenario, the lack of eye contact and having no purpose in the scene or storyline. That could be easily solved by letting her interacting or posing with her props or the setting you painstakingly set up. Even if she were simply warming her hands by the fire it would have seemed more intentional, allowing the viewer to connect more with the subject (your sim).

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	22	9	8	9	5	17	8	10	88
Judge B	24	10	10	8	5	18	10	10	91
Judge C	23	10	7	9.5	5	20	10	10	94.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	16	6	7	6	3	18	7	10	73
Judge B	10	8	6	10	3	16	9	6	68
Judge C	10.5	10	6.5	7.5	5	18	10	10	77.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	19	8	6	6	3	16	6	10	74
Judge B	20	10	10	9	4	19	9	9	90
Judge C	14.5	10	6.5	7.5	5	16	7	10	76.5

You have a lovely sim and I enjoyed her story. The lighting, while being bright made your end shot a little sterile looking. I liked the color combinations you chose for your sim but felt she got a little lost amongst it. Great start!

The sim looks very lovely. I would pick a more neutral eye color for the everyday look the next time though. She’s got that bad girl look on her which I really think suits the part as a action heroess. Her costume is cool and so is her pose. Try toning down the hair color only. Too bright sometimes make it look to cartoonish.

There were slight inconsistencies with your sim’s bio. Your age time line you gave for sim doesn’t add up: by the time she had four kids , finished university (getting a BA I assume), and worked for six years after, she would be a lot older than twenty four years old.
Your sim needs a tad bit more sculpting. You could start by raising her lower eyelid height and readjusting her upper eyelid height accordingly, making her nose bigger and wider, lower her eye socket height, give her slightly more cheekbone curve, and lowering her brows slightly. I like the outfit & hair color you choose for her alien costume, its nice combination of colors. However, the blue shades you CASTed on her hair gun, buttons, and make-up are far too to bright and remove he detail of the objects. It would have been also better if you casted the was and furniture to match. A pick a consistent color scheme for your CASTing throughout the whole scene not just one or two objects They seem just placed in the scene without any connection to each other.
The pose you had could have connected better to scene as well because she just seems to be boldly standing in a clutter of objects. Partly this was due to it being an awkward high fashion model pose for an actor driven scenario, the lack of eye contact and having no purpose in the scene or storyline. That could be easily solved by letting her interacting or posing with her props or the setting you painstakingly set up.
The blood was nice touch. But where did it come from? Why is there? Fallen enemies behind her would have given the picture more impact and purpose.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	22	8	9	10	5	20	10	10	94
Judge B	23	10	7	10	5	20	10	10	95
Judge C	17.5	10	7	6	5	20	9	7	81.5

Really good sim! You made the expected unexpected and brought "A Bards Tale" into the 21st century! Loved your take on it and through the photos you made me believe it. Wonderful job!

It’s nice to see a sim without the perfectly proportional nose for once. It gives the sim more uniqueness. You’ve taken some lovely photos, but the two close up photos should probably look more neutral to see her features more clearly. The lighting and movie pose is lovely! So is the description you’ve made for the movie.

It was hard to judge the originality of your sim because how you took both close- up. In the first picture, using that side-glance alters the shape of one’s eyes, so it makes it hard to access them. And in the second picture her hand is obstructing her face. In addition, it was hard to view in both pictures having her head sideways. Her nose is large but unique, I would suggest lowering her nose definition slightly so the ends of her nose blend better into the skin. Also adjust the eyebrow curve to make it less straight (this would be more harmonious with the rest other features) and overall work on the sculpting the jaw and chin more. I think its really creative that you’re the only one that took inspiration from using phantoms and poetry, makes for a really beautiful story that I wouldn’t mind it turning into a movie in real life! The third picture really suits the story, however, I did have to take points off for not taking a full body picture of your sim as required by the rules. Regardless, always remember to never cut off a person feet or hands in a picture. I love the idea behind the picture. I can see you were going for a strange girl - weird vibe. I would suggest to try to get direct eye contact with the viewer, and play around with using a light beneath her to emulate a flashlight under the face look. I like the use of writing on he walls and your use of skin in for when she was in character.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	17	6	6	6	3	17	6	10	71
Judge B	18	8	5	5	2	20	5	7	70
Judge C	19	3	5	5	3	18	8	10	71

The hair and costume you chose was cute, she sort of reminded me of a mum and was in-keeping with your flora and fauna story. Good job, very cute!

I like that you have made a child sim as it’s not that common. I do know it’s a bit harder to make them unique, but I think you have done a good job here. I think she looks more unique as her normal self though. Her backstory is really well written and you seem to have put a lot of effort in to it. Some things you have to work on are posing and lighting. The frontal photo could be closer up and show less body and your movie shot is too ”dragged”. It’s also a bit dark.

Yay our first child star! She is very cute and very unique facial sculpt for a child sim It is a little controversial to put a child in a killing role. IMO she is too young is appropriate for adult story you provided. When choosing do that you must approach with caution and care when handling delicate situations where a child is forced to take on adult situations in story lines. Usually there is a focus on their innocence and a journey of mental and emotional lessons learned throughout the story, this can also involve a mentor or a sidekick friend. This is all to reinforce to the viewer/reader to see that the child is growing up before your eyes and not too fast. Also your story had no musical components like she said she desired to highlight her musical talent, funniness, or tomboyish charm. If you incorporated any one her talents into the story, it would have lightened the mood and gave the story more depth and reason for her actions to base on, thus giving context and making it more appropriate. The overall lighting could be brighter in all three pictures especially the last because of the dark background. Your close ups are backlit and could be more zoomed in. I suggest using more lights and putting the light source in directly in front, beside or behind your sim, not directly above. I don’t understand what’s going on in the third picture, is she flying? Flying where? What does it have to do with the theme or story? If nobody told the viewer the story would they be able to know what the movie is about? Will props help? These are questions to consider next time when creating a scenic/or promotional picture. A tip is to next time choose the setting of your story, planet Fauna, as a backdrop or background in your picture. In the third picture each pose you choose should have some overall purpose in the scene your making. The outfit you with the leaf embroidery is very good but could have been CASTed a brighter color to show up better against a black background. You got major points for your fearlessness to go outside the box and your originality.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	18	8	7	8	4	19	8	10	80
Judge B	20	8	9	9	4	20	10	9	89
Judge C	17	7	9	8	5	20	10	10	86

Pretty sim her eyes really drew me in! I liked how you used the custom content to show us how she was aging, good job in bringing the story into your pictures. She did have to compete a little with other stuff in the photo and got a little lost in it. Nicely done!

First of all this is a lovely sim. I like her backstory and the movie plot aswell. Lighting is good, but the movie shot could be a bit lighter. I think the darkness sets the theme well, but it is a bit hard to notice the details.

I love how your presentation is so neat and tidy. You can tell how everything from colors to prop position was chosen so carefully and intently. Your sim is very nice and pretty, but I find she is missing something, although I can’t put my finger on what. Perhaps her features are too perfect and symmetrical. Just choose to make one alteration of one feature or two features a bit imperfect and that just might make her go from ordinary from extraordinary. Don’t touch her face shape though, its lovely. An adult or elder woman would be more fitting for the role and story your trying to tell, especially in full costume, this more apparent. Instead of giving her grey hair, why not use an older woman.
The setting and the moody lighting were executed perfectly. The scenery behind the windows adds further quirky interest to the picture, for example I noticed how both windows sunsets don’t match in color. You have managed to compose one of those types of scenes, that every time you look at it you can find something different. I would suggest adding some more furniture like a table or cauldron to he right over to fill the empty space. It would be slightly more interesting if you turn her slightly more towards the camera, so we can see her “ghouly” expression. If you do that you might have to add more lights on the left of her to lit her face more.
Your story fits the tittle of your movie so well, good job!

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	18	6	5	5	3	16	5	10	68
Judge B	17	7	7	6	3	16	9	9	73
Judge C	16	7	6	4.5	4	20	8	10	75.5

Good job on your first time out. The pictures can tell your story. Play with the camera and lighting, make sure the sim is the focal point of photo. Nice work.

It’s nice to see a male sim in work. His face sculpting is very good. He didn’t really drag much of my attention as a movie character. I think the movie shot is a bit too small of him and you can’t really ”feel” him. I do love the setting around him though. It suits the plot of the movie. Also there is a bit too much shadow in his frontal pictures. In the next round you might want to try putting some lights all around to make that go away.

Yay our first male contestant! Your sim could be more unique if you reduced jaw width slightly, raised his nose bridge height and widened it, and worked some more on his eyes & eyebrows. It’s really just his eyes and eyebrows that don’t look much different than the usually TS3 sims and that is his downfall. I could see a little Brad Pitt resemblance The two close-pictures were great and also commendable lighting! The third picture, the lighting from outside is bit unflattering, but its not your fault it’s the TS3 lighting engine. My advice is to take picture at sunset or sunrise on sims 24 hr day to get the best lighting possible. I could see where you were going to set up your scene with props. You should never reveal your pose player breaks the immersion of the viewer connecting with your picture. The pose you chose did not connect or fit with the scene at all. Partly this was due to it being an plain standing pose for an actor driven scenario, the lack of eye contact and having no purpose in the scene or storyline. That could have been easily solved by letting him interacting or posing with the props or setting you painstakingly set up. Even if he was simply sitting on a work bench while looking at the viewer or working on his tool bench it would have seemed more intentional, allowing the viewer to connect more with the subject (your sim). In general, you need more action poses, poses where he doing something. The picture could be zoomed in a tad closer while not cutting off his body. I suggest for your set you create a enclosed space, whether it an outside alley way with a brick wall and chain-link fence, an hectic junkyard filled with scrap metal and robot parts, or inside his robot workshop, any would have helped the scene and add further interest to the picture. IMO it would be better if you choose to use an inside set because you have better and easier access to better lighting.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	22	10	9	8	4	18	10	10	91
Judge B	25	8	10	10	5	10	9	8	85
Judge C	25	10	10	10	4	20	10	7.5	96.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	21	9	8	7	4	17	8	10	84
Judge B	25	10	10	10	3	20	10	10	98
Judge C	17.5	7	10	7.5	3.5	20	10	10	85.5

Liked your sim nice job on him, he has a lovely mouth. It would have been interesting to know how he got those scars. All in all a solid job!

The look on this sim is really amazing. It’s easy to see how much effort you have put into him. One of my favourites so far. He looks really good in his role aswell. Very epic. The lighting in the movie shot makes some part of the picture a tad blurry. Maybe some lamps in front of the character will do the trick the next time. I do love the posing though!

Your use of CC is amazing! Especially your CASTing with his costume and make-up are really awesome! The pores, scars, blood, blue eyes, long hair, facial hair, color of hooded costume-they all do fit harmonious and perfectly to an epic hero- warrior theme. That being said noticed in starch contrast to the amazing make-up and costume you chose, I feel he doesn’t really fit the role. This is probably mostly in part due to his innocent, almost child like eyes. Because of that I cannot take him seriously as a ruthless bloodshed warrior as you intended because your story didn’t necessarily paint him as a unlikely or anti – hero. This is mostly due to his facial sculpt but if you & defined sculpted some areas of his face a little bit more that could asily be addressed. Tweaks like defining his jaw more slightly, defining his nose a little, lowering his brows and making them straighter, making his eye apex more centered instead of all the way left, etc.
The lighting in the first two close-ups pictures are really good and adds to the overall mood, however, that same lighting impact was not in your 3rd promo shot. The lighting in the 3rd picture is way too dark but its’ not your fault it’s the TS3 lighting engine outside. My advice is to take picture at sunset or sunrise on sims 24 hr day to get the best lighting possible. Also play around with the use of outdoor lighting.
The pose you chose was very strong but a change of scenery is needed. It could have been in autumn where the snow isn’t cutting off his feet. Next time I suggest centering him in the center of the picture and take the picture from below, looking Up: Taking pictures from below your subject (your sim) puts your viewer in an inferior position to the subject. This is excellent if you want to portray a sense of power - place the camera as if you are kneeling before the subject. For portraying movie stars, divas, kings, etc., placing the camera just a bit below your sim can make your character seem larger than life.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	15	8	8	10	5	19	10	9	84
Judge B	22	9	9	9	4	18	10	9	90
Judge C	17	10	10	10	4.5	20	10	10	91.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	20	10	7	7	3	20	8	8	83
Judge B	24	10	9	8	2	20	9	5	87
Judge C	18	10	10	8	3	20	10	6	85

Loved your Princess Popoff! Lighting in your every day shot could have been better. I would have liked to have been able to see your sim. I deducted points in rule adherence for picture size and her age was not stated. Nicely done!

Your writing really makes me laugh, which is a good thing! I find it funny and interesting that you are not trying to make the ”perfect” sim, but rather want to take a twist on it! The part about the bluescreen is such a funny detail. Some things you might need to think of are the picture size and lighting. The first frontal photo is a bit too dark and your pictures are too small. Remember this for next round. You also just need only 3 pictures here.

Congrats for creating a very quirky character and story, both combine to very entertaining. Even more kudos to not being afraid to use unconventional lead and narrative. IMO the make-up, props and the sim you used doesn’t look as bad as you think, in fact quite the opposite. In contrast to such an awesome descriptions, there is an expectation to have a sim just as original to match. I under stand she is intentionally not suppose to be the perfect fit for the part, like “crazy eyes” instead of authentically “ doe eyes”, but I feel you have gone to slightly further extremes with her facial sculpt.
The first close-up is too dark; it needs brighter lighting. Overall all lighting in pictures could be improved by using more lights. Capitalsims have ‘ film set studio stuff’ including functional lights that you could incorporate to light in your scene without looking out of place.
I liked how you chose to go in a behind he scenes viewpoint, using the back ground like a green screen. However you lost points for not following the rules by not including a full body shot in your promotional shot and using more than 3 pictures, which made it confusing on he one I was suppose to Judge. Remember to make sure you never cut off a person’s feet when taking a picture.
You’re a very creative and strong and story teller, this is surely a strength I hope to continue to see in next rounds.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	19	8	5	4	2	15	6	8	67
Judge B	15	5	6	6	2	14	6	8	62
Judge C	15.5	10	7	5.5	1.5	20	10	8	77

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	15	7	6	5	2	17	8	9	69
Judge B	15	8	7	7	1	19	9	6	72
Judge C	14	4	5	4.5	1.5	16	10	7.5	62.5

I would have loved to have been able to see your sim better. The pictures were dark, remember to take your pictures with the “C” button in tab mode. Your story while a good one did not seem to fit "A Bards Tale" for me. I did take off a point in rule adherence for picture size.

I really like your writing and the concept of the story. I don’t think there’s enough magical pirates out there. Your pictures are sadly a bit too dark and the movie shot is simply too small. The sim is quite good looking, so I wish we would have seen him closer up there. Remember this for next time and you will definitely make it better!

Your sim doesn’t go much past the average look of TS3 sims; he is not quite there, but with some more work on his facial sculpt he can be. For starters you could define his jaw more, change eye apex position, and give him cheekbone more cheek and open his lower eyelid height slightly more.
You never explained why he is blue. I am assuming that is because he is a genie – pirate, you put not mention of that in your story, which is a shame because I am sure that it would have added more depth.
It was hard to accurately judge the originality of your sim because your close-ups are taken in CAS instead in game. You combined your two close-up pictures into one, giving only 2 pictures overall instead of the required three pictures so I will have to take points off because of that.
All your pictures are too dark, making in hard to see your sim in close-ups as well as the promotional shot. You need to adjust your graphical settings and/or use better and more lights in your scene I have to also take points away for using pictures that are too small than the requirement which again makes it hard for me to see the detail in your sim and the potential lovely set you created. You could have also taken the picture slightly closer. The pose you chose did not really connect with the scene. I know he doing some type of magical action because of your description and the effects but if it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t able to tell just by looking that picture.
Next time choose a better or more obvious action based magic animation, so it will have more purpose in the scene or storyline. Thus allowing the viewer to connect more with the subject (your sim). In general, you need more action poses, poses where he doing something. The picture could be zoomed in a tad closer while not cutting off his body. If he was on a deck of ship it would be more fitting to story IMO. The scene you created uses a good series of props and your story was good.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	23	10	10	8	4	20	10	10	95
Judge B	25	10	9	8	5	20	10	10	97
Judge C	23	10	10	10	2.5	18	10	10	93.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	16	7	10	10	4	19	7	8	81
Judge B	10	9	8	10	5	13	10	8	73
Judge C	12.5	10	10	10	5	20	10	4	72.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	17	10	7	6	4	19	7	10	80
Judge B	10	10	10	10	5	20	10	10	85
Judge C	16.5	10	6.5	10	3	20	10	10	86

The sim was cute. I liked your story and would have liked you to bring in some element of the dark force you talked about. Nice job!

Emma doesn’t have the most noticeable and unique look, but her description is really well made. Same goes for the movie plot, and I don’t think it’s a problem with her costume as it really suits the theme of the movie well. It reminds me of something similar to Alice in Wonderland. A movie I would have liked to watch.

I love the theme you have chosen for your movie storyline, very "Alice in Wonderland". I commend you for choosing to use a child and dyslexic child at that, it is that unconventionality that brings positive awareness and depth to your story. As a child sim she is very cute, however, it makes it very hard to assess the originality of your sim further because the two close-ups you chose to use was taken in CAS, not in game.
Your lighting could be improved in your 3rd picture by playing around the use of more outdoor lights. The lighting from outside is bit unflattering, but its not your fault it’s the TS3 lighting engine. My advice is to take picture at sunset or sunrise on sims 24 hr day to get the best lighting possible.
Your costume you picked was fine and fitting. Your use of props and plants in scenery is really good. I like how those lunar lake trees look like huge dandelions, making her look like she was shrunken tiny magically, further adding to the Alice in wonderland theme. That also put the viewer on equal footing, which aids make your viewer feel as if they are in the scene, and provides a greater sense of intimacy, which is what you succeeded to do I wish you had rotated forward towards the camera, so we could have seen her face and increased this impact. I can’t figure out what that red spot in the picture is supposed to be. What is it?

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	16	7	6	9	3	17	6	8	72
Judge B	12	5	5	7	4	17	7	6	63
Judge C	16	10	7	10	3	18	10	9	83

Cute sim. I felt she got lost a bit in the custom content. I didn’t get the feeling she could save her world, she gave off a more evil vibe like she would destroy it rather than save it. I liked the staging in the third shot. It looked like a world in chaos. I did deduct points in rule adherence due to picture size and the fact that you did not create the sim. Nice work.

Remember to only have one promo shot when the rules say so. I do love the effects and backgrounds in the ones you’ve got though. I don’t like the pose very much on the other hand. It looks more like a model job than a movie to me. Remember to make the right pose for the right setting. Also add a bit more lighting to your close up photos.

If she is born in game usually she won’t be the most unique sim because they use the game’s pudding perimeters. She has very interesting and beautiful coloring in the first close-up. I can see with few minor changes like moving the the eye apex right, rotating he depth more forward and slightly more cheekbone bone curve, she could be a really unique and beautiful sim. The scene and props used add interest to picture and the fog was nice touch. Unfortunately, noticed in starch contrast to the amazing setting you constructed, the pose chosen does not connect or fit with the scene at all. Partly this was due to it being an awkward high fashion model pose for an actor driven scenario, the lack of eye contact and having no purpose in the scene or storyline. That could be easily solved by letting her interacting or posing with her props or the setting you painstakingly set up. Even if were to stand with her hand boldly on her hips would have seemed more intentional, allowing the viewer to connect more with the subject (your sim). Your story is great and your typical incident where a superhero would use their powers. I had to take a point away for using 4 pictures instead of the 3 that a required as per the rules. I love her outfits, and colors you chose through very vivid and pretty. The lighting in the promotional picture is great, the close-ups, however, are a bit too back lit. They need more lights beside and in front of her.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	24	10	7	8	4	17	10	9	89
Judge B	23	10	8	9	5	18	9	10	92
Judge C	22	10	10	10	5	20	10	10	97

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	14	7	4	4	4	14	8	9	64
Judge B	8	6	4	4	4	10	5	7	48
Judge C	14.5	10	6	5.5	5	20	7	5	73

Cute sim. I think you could have brought out the diva in her through your pictures a bit more. Staging and lighting can go a long way to portray what you want. I did deduct a point in rule adherence for the small picture size.

You forgot to pick a movie title, which is a part of the contest. I also think your description of the character and movie is a bit too short and lacks some depth. The sim is pretty, but not really unique I would say. She looks like one of the random in-game sims. I would also try to take a pose shot without a huddle over the sims head. I might be a bit harsh here, but the contest has many unique sims and you would have to put more work in to the next round. I know you can do it!

She is not unique from the regular look of the TS3 sims, but she is very pretty and not mention cute! Next time work focus on sculpting the jaw, eyes, and eyebrows more. She reminds me of princess peach in the dress you choose for her. In the third promotional picture, the pose you chose did not connect or fit with the scene at all. Partly this was due to it being an plain standing pose for an actor driven scenario, the lack of eye contact and having no purpose in the scene or storyline. That could have been easily solved by letting her interact or pose with the props or setting you painstakingly set up. Even you turned her around to simply “gussy up” in front of the mirror and you took the picture behind her( it would be “mirror on the wall”) it would have seemed more intentional, allowing the viewer to connect more with the subject (your sim).
Besides her being dressed as princess, the story didn’t really tell the sorry you gave. Never photograph your sim thought bubbles, unless they add to story as symbol comic speech bubble. Which it didn’t here because you it cut off half way.Your bio and story description are too short and thus did not follow the rules, so unfortunately I had to take points off.
Excellent lighting. Great job for first try, follow those suggestions and I’m sure you’ll blow us away next round.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	17	8	7	7	3	17	9	10	78
Judge B	12	9	8	10	4	12	10	9	74
Judge C	10	10	10	7	3.5	18	10	10	78.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	15	7	8	7	3	17	7	9	73
Judge B	13	8	9	7	4	19	9	6	75
Judge C	5	10	10	9	2.5	20	10	10	76.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	24	9	7	7	4	20	9	10	90
Judge B	25	10	10	7	5	20	9	10	96
Judge C	21.5	10	8	8	3	20	10	10	90.5

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	14	7	4	6	3	17	6	10	67
Judge B	17	8	7	8	4	17	10	8	79
Judge C	16.5	10	6	6	5	20	4.5	10	78

It was really hard to tell if your sim was original, the pictures unfortunately were very pixelated. The third picture was cool, but I felt your sim got lost in it. Good job.

For the next round don’t resize photos, it only makes them blurry. Try to use "C" to capture them better. When that has been said, I like your movie plot and the movie character. You might want to have just one photo and not a collage in the next round though. It’s enough. I do like your shots and the details in them, they suit the theme very well.

Please don't just take a small pic and size it up in your graphics program to get bigger pics - this only makes the dimensions larger but doesn't add any detail and just gives you a blurry, pixellated larger pic, not a nice clear one. It is clear you did this for first close- up picture.
You sim would be more unique if you shaped his eyes more and designed his jaw more. I noticed the geometric lines you used as accents from the lines in hair to lines on the wall. The color scheme of aqua and black you chose are very tron-esque and put take away from the picture because of its matchy-matchiness. The CASTing you chose for your sim in character clash too much and don’t compliment each other. Also they blend your sim too much into the scene and he tends to disappear, which is what you want to avoid. The brown floorboards board takes away from the picture.
Your lighting is very good. The pose you chose did not connect or fit with the scene at all. Partly this was due to it being an plain standing pose for an actor driven scenario, the lack of eye contact and having no purpose in the scene or storyline. Your set is very bare; you need to add more elements to your scene. And him being in that sphere, how does that illustrate the story what is he doing? Your going in the right direction by using animations that interact with objects in your scene, but chose actions that seem more intentional, allowing the viewer to connect more with the subject (your sim).
In general, you need more action poses, poses where he doing something purposeful to the storyline, basically acting out the story. He is an actor after all.

	Originality	Role Appropriate	Pose	Staging	Lighting	Presentation	Custom Content	Rules	Total
Judge A	19	8	8	7	3	16	9	10	80
Judge B	25	10	7	7	4	16	6	10	85
Judge C	19.5	8	8	6.5	3	20	7	10	82

Your sim is unique. Be careful with that, you could end up with something not believable. The custom content helped me believe the sim in that role. Your sim got a little upstaged by that adorable alien in the third shot. Make sure your sim is the focal of your shots. Good job.

Interesting look on your sim. Very unique. He might just look a bit too unrealistic for my taste. Like he is already a movie character before he puts his costume on. The yellow figure takes a bit too much focus off the main character on the movie shot. Be aware of this. I do love the funny characters you’ve made though!

I'm sure it was not your intention to black face your sim. This was unfortunately the effect I noticed you created by using that robber face mask. Fortunately, this can be easily fix by increasing your graphical settings found in options, set sim detail to very high, when taking pictures so textures don’t render dirty looking and pixelated.
Judging the originality of your sim seemed to be a bit controversial for me initially, because the extremeness of your sims features left me asking “is this sim unique “or is he making “a freakishly weird face with a huge nose, just for weirdness sake. I decided since you took a very high and fearless risk optimizing the use of sliders and there is some intentional harmony to his face, you should be rewarded for your courageous efforts. He is unique. I would just suggest moving up his brows a tad. Keep in mind you might be in for a surprise after looking at him with increased graphical detail. If favor overtly stylized cartoony look you can use "Team fortress" characters as inspiration, as their features tend to translate well onto Sims 3 faces.
You could use more outdoor lights in the third picture because of the dark colors and background. You also need more props and objects in your scene besides your neat little Martian sidekick and the car. Good use of action poses.

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