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Use your creativity to showcase your sims in a shot fitting for each month of the year. The picture should be a scene with sims in it representing the "feel" of a particular month. Have the family gathered for Christmas dinner? Beach party in June? Romantic dinner for two in February? We'd love to see what everyone can come up with for this year's calendar. Please use northern hemisphere seasons.Season expansion pack and use of seasons holidays (Love Day, Spooky Day, etc) not required.
Rules
1. 1 picture per entry. You may only enter a month one time but may enter 2 separate months. (If you enter twice, you need to submit two different posts)
2. Only 15 entrants per month. Please no place holders. Each spot is only filled once the picture, that meets all the rules, has been submitted.
3. CC is allowed. However, please make sure to follow MTS rules for CC; no pay content.
4. Pictures must be 1000 (width) x 750 (height).
5. Minor photoeditting is permitted to create weather effects since TS4 does not have anything to simulate weather at this time. Your picture must still look like a game picture though so blurring, drawing onjects/accessories/etc in, adding borders, etc is not permitted. For further details, please see the info button at the bottom of the rules list.
6. When posting your picture, please make sure to include the month it belongs to.
7. Sims 4 only. For Sims 2 version, please go here and for Sims 3, please go here.
8. REMEMBER: This is a PG-13 Forum! Your entries may not include adult content, pornography, or other inappropriate content.
Typically these contests do not permit photoshopping but since TS4 is still brand new and doesn’t have all the fancy in-game advantages that TS2 and TS3 have, we’re gonna alter that rule a little to help you with your seasonal stuff. So, you may edit your image to add seasonally appropriate weather effects. This could be as simple as adding a few faint white dots to look like gently falling snow or as detailed as hand painting storm clouds with lightning bolts or drawing orangey-red leaves to trees. You may also adjust the lighting/brightness, saturation and perhaps add a faint tint to your image if your chosen weather effect isn’t suited to the day-glo green scenery of Willow Creek. Remember you can also experiment with taking your picture at different times of day for different lighting effects.
The important points to note are:
- Whatever weather related edits you make should blend well and must look like it’s part of the game. That means no copy and pasting a sky from a real life photograph and if you plan to fiddle with the brightness, saturation or add a tint, it must still look like a game pic, so shouldn’t be too washed out or neon etc.
- No photoshopping of the actual sims please (except if you’re doing something that edits the whole image like adjusting brightness).
- No photoshopping anything that can’t be described as a seasonally appropriate weather effect. That means no adding objects, accessories, borders, or text etc.
- This is absolutely not a requirement. If you can make your image without adding outside weather effects, you’re more than welcome to do so and you won’t be judged any differently.
This quick before and after example is intended to show you what effects can be added and how they can be used. It’s not perfect (excuse the wonky rain!) but should give you an idea of the levels of editing that would be considered acceptable. If you're unsure, please just ask.
Effects Used:
- Brightness/contrast
- Slightly de-saturated
- Slight tint/colour change
- Shaded clouds
- Drawn on rain
How to Enter
1. Pick a month and take a picture to represent that month.
2. Upload the picture to any image host - Tinypic, Photobucket, Flickr, ModYourPanties, etc
3. Start a new post on this thread - click Go Advanced, and you can click the little "Insert Image" icon in the toolbar, or just copy-paste the image location into some [img] tags. Make sure to include which month your picture is for.
4. Submit your post - doing so will submit your entry.
5. If you want to do two entries, you need two separate posts.
Duration/Time Period
The contest begins November 1st, as soon as this is posted. Contestants will have until November 30th to post pictures. However, if a month fills up before that date, that month will be closed for new entries and judging.
Contestants
15 per month maximum
Judging and Scoring
Judging will be done by a panel MTS Staff and these are the things that the panel will be looking out for when entries are judged.
- Theme - Does your picture represent the month you chose?
- Creativity - Originality of idea
- Style - Use of space, props, is it pretty?
- Rules - CC adherence, no editing, inclusion of month
Prizes
A sticker for both winners AND participants, like these.
A calendar will be made for download with each winning month.
And, of course, the blue ribbons for each month’s winner.
Questions
Q: I already entered 2 separate months for TS4. Can I compete in the TS2/TS3 calendar as well?
A: Yes, you may. You're more than welcome to submit for all the contests, giving you 6 chances to win!
The picture you post will be your final shot - make it good. Posting a random picture of a christmas tree, easter bunny, yourself, etc to reserve a spot is not allowed and it will be deleted.
Once your post has been added to the table, it may not be changed. Do not change the picture, you may not delete it and enter a new month instead, etc. If you choose to delete your entry, you are removing yourself from the contest and no further entries will be permitted from you.
If anyone is notified that they have used pay content, their entries will be disqualified. The spots they had will NOT be held.
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Christmas Morning
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I'm glad I managed to participate in this contest this year; I always love seeing what everyone comes up with.
good luck to everyone!
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Both of your entries have been added to the table.
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May the fourth be with you!
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@truffelschaf you are absolutely correct. Official content: expansions, stuff packs, game packs, etc are not considered pay content.
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this shot were easter, flowers, the first warm days and spring love. It's my first time entering and I hope I did everything right. The image seems
to have dropped in quality from what I see ingame, sorry about that. I don't think I can fix it. I'll enter a second month as well, just not sure which one.
All objects in this picture are by ea and the Harpers are my legacy family. No editing
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April Fools!
Edit: I am unsure of what to do, I have not edited my original screenshot other than cropping it. I have made another post about this, but it appears to not have been seen.
Just like everyone else.
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anymore, they just collect the crops with a swoosh of their hand) and I also wanted to include the outdoors, bonfires, the last warm days and autumn rain
in the picture, I hope I achieved that. This entry includes weather editing (the rain) and an orange color layer. It was also shot in the early hours of the morning.
PS: The cowplant is supposed to represent actual cows which at this time of the year are brought down from their summer meadows in the alps.
Why u no have farm animals, sims? This was lots of fun, I even plan on making it a monthly challenge for next year. And you guyses pictures are amazing!
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@Cherpi @Chax @truffleschaf @Glouryian @Zagy and @AyeeltzZoe - your entries have been added to the table.
@Mai2008 - your entry looks to have been photoshopped beyond the weather effects editing we've permitted. Please replace your current image with one that has not been edited other than the specific effects mentioned.
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I posted a fully edited version of the september picture here, I hope that's alright? If not I'll take it down. I... Kinda liked the base and just went mad in photoshop. Sorry
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No uhm... You made a typo in september :P |
Haha! Oh! That's not an issue with your username, that's just me with chocolate truffles on the brain. Whoops! It should be fixed now. Thanks for letting me know.
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