Monday, 6 November 2017

Extra: Big family portraits!

I take family portraits of my sims all the time but about 10 game years ago, inspired by other simmers, I did a whole bunch of big family portraits. Generally, they are grandparents, their kids and partners and all their grandkids and partners. Or not-yet-grandparents and their grown kids and partners. I've decided to redo them every 10 game years, so I can see how they've changed and rather than throw them in at the end of my regular updates one by one, I thought I'd put them all in one big pic spam post instead!


The Jacobsons
Claudio and Virginia:
          Miles and Matilda:
                    Phoebe
          Alice

Miles and Matilda tried for a baby while I was doing this pic - no dice but I'm not expecting much from them. She's 39 already. 


The Sitkos
David and Kirstin:
          Camilla and Charlie Benton:
                    Everett
                    Grace
                    Eliza
          Lila and Connor Novak:
                     Jonathan
          Adelaide and boyfriend Sebastian Gentry
The Royce-Nihills
Kit:
          Zaria and Max:
                    Josh and fiancee Elspeth Romilly
                    Jessica and boyfriend Declan Romilly
          Asha and Luc Lane:
                    Ruby
                    Marcus
                    Felix


The Romillys
Finn and Victoria:
          Declan and girlfriend Jessica Royce-Nihill
          Caitlin and boyfriend Mitchell Carmody
          Keira

The Novaks (A)
James and Madelyn:
          Aaron and Calvin Clarke:
                    Amy
                    Natalie
                    Curtis
          Ethan and Maia:
                    Willow
                     River
                     Wren
          Connor and Lila:
                     Jonathan

The Novaks (B)
Naomi and Owen:
          Adrienne and Amar Hamilton:
                    Beau
                    Elisa
          Malcolm and Hope:
                    Mason
                    Caroline
The Novaks (C)

Jace and Magdalena:
          Lia and Gordon Nott:
                    Annabel
                    Georgina
                    Gabriel (forgot his girlfriend Bianca!)
          Ethan and Maia:
                     Willow
                     River
                     Wren
The Nihills
Steve and Olivia:
          Ramona
          Jacinta
          Theo
My smallest "big" portrait! I forgot that I really didn't need anyone else in this pic apart from Ramona but seeing I was already on the lot, I went ahead and took it anyway.

The Morettis (A)
Caleb and Cara:
          Nick and Sarah:
                    Thomas
                    Ryan
                    Catherine
                    Alex
                    Richie
          Veronica and boyfriend Chris Draper
          Anthony


The Morettis (B)
Evan and Ione:
          Xavier
          Justin and girlfriend Louisa Gentry
          Bianca and boyfriend Gabriel Nott
          Aurora and boyfriend Brendan Lachance
          Francesca


The Lachances
Jonas and Tatiana:
          Dominic and Leslie:
                    Oscar
                    Stella
                    Baby Lachance #3 (in utero!)
          Audrey and Jack Benton:
                    Zoe
          Edward and Lucy:
                    Colin
                    Gwen
          Brendan and girlfriend Aurora Moretti


The Lanes
Linnea:
          Luc and Asha:
                    Ruby
                    Marcus
                    Felix
          Cordy and Eliot:
                    Tim and boyfriend Marius Stern
                     Matthew
                     Simon
                     Charlotte


The Kirbys

Trent and Megan:
          Victoria and Finn Romilly:
                     Declan and girlfriend Jessica Royce-Nihill
                     Caitlin and boyfriend Mitchell Carmody
                     Keira
          Claudia and Jacob:
                     Daphne
                     Iris
           Rebecca and Nathan Collins:
                     Byron
                     Noel


The Grays

Corbin and Pamela:
          Julia and Sam Whitney:
                    Penny (forgot Sam's son Zac here)
          Lucy and Edward Lachance:
                    Colin
                    Gwen


The Hamiltons

Amar and Adrienne:
          Beau
          Elisa
Zane and Chloe:
          Cole
          Cary


The Gottliebs
Athena:
          Wade and Amelia:
                     Sophie and Oliver Gentry
                     Noah and Brigit
                     Emma
                     Michael
           Joanna and Rose Draper:
                     Sylvia
                     Levi
                     Will


The Gentrys

Jairus and Vanessa:
          Oliver and Sophie
          Sebastian and girlfriend Adelaide Sitko
          Louisa and boyfriend Justin Moretti
          Eddie and girlfriend Lauren Carmody


The Drapers

Lake and Kendal:
          Rose and Joanna:
                    Sylvia
                    Levi
                    Will
           Patience and Rob Ashton:
                     Felicity
                     Patrick
                     Gemma
           Troy and Josie Clarke:
                     Jude
                     Andrew
            Calvin and Aaron Clarke:
                     Amy
                     Natalie
                     Curtis


The Carmodys (A)

Jesse and Abigail:
          Nick and Sarah:
                    Thomas
                    Ryan
                    Catherine
                    Alex
                    Richie
          Mitchell and girlfriend Caitlin Romilly
          Austin and girlfriend Nora Charvat
          Lauren and boyfriend Eddie Gentry


The Carmodys (B)

Kimberly:
          Nick and Sarah:

                    Thomas
                    Ryan
                    Catherine
                    Alex
                    Richie
          Susannah and Daniel:
                     Zac


The Collinses

Emil and Anna:
          Nathan and Rebecca:
                    Byron
                    Noel
          Hope and Malcolm Novak:
                    Mason
                    Caroline


The Bentons
Tate and Zelda:
          Josie and Troy Clarke:
                    Jude
                    Andrew
          Charlie and Camilla:
                    Everett
                    Grace
                    Eliza
          Jack and Audrey:
                    Zoe

Notes:

  • April birthdays is almost ready! I just have to play out Nick and Sarah's mini-update. 


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16 comments:

  1. Shana9 November 2017 at 03:29

    How fun to see the extended families together! Loved the pictures!

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    1. Carla9 November 2017 at 17:07

      Glad you liked them! I was very happy with how they turned out. :)

      Thanks for looking and commenting!

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  2. LittleBitSims10 November 2017 at 03:45

    Hi Carla,

    I'm currently reading Round 7 of Sullivan, and boy this hood has come a long way. Such beautiful families.

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    1. Carla10 November 2017 at 08:48

      Wow, Round 7! I don't think a single one of these sims was around yet in Round 7! Glad you liked the pictures. :)

      Thanks for looking and commenting!

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  3. Blackcat10 November 2017 at 06:23

    These look great! Really good idea, getting together the extended families like this.

    They must have taken forever, though... one of the delays with my blog at the moment is that I have to redo everyone's portraits for the new game. I can't imagine doing big extended family ones like this for everyone... I think I'll stick to my pick-one-family-at-Christmas routine :)

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    1. Carla10 November 2017 at 08:51

      Well, I got them all done in about a week, doing at least two a day. They're a bit tedious but they don't take me too long at this point. Still wouldn't want to do them more often than I already do though. ;)

      Thanks for looking and commenting!

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  4. Laura24 November 2017 at 04:06

    All of these sims!!! Wow. What a neat collection of portraits to have for your records and history though! I sometimes have fantasies about doing something like this for my families, then I promptly don't do it, lol! I like Blackcat's idea about one family a year at certain holidays. I could maybe attempt that. But posing capabilities in TS4 are awful compared to TS2.

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    1. Carla24 November 2017 at 17:44

      Glad you like them! I have no idea about posing in TS4 but I know I didn't enjoy it in TS3. I did one set of wedding pictures and never touched poses again. It didn't have the freedom we have with TS2, which I just found frustrating. :( I did like the pose player as a way to store all your poses together...though I'm not sure if that would have become a little cumbersome if I'd stuck with it for any longer!

      Just glad it's so easy and satisfying in TS2!

      Thanks for reading and commenting!

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  5. ShannonSimsFan24 November 2017 at 13:46

    Carla, it really is amazing how many full extended families you have in Sullivan and these portraits are really impressive.

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    1. Carla24 November 2017 at 17:45

      It's kind of astonishing seeing them all together, even to me, lol! Glad you like them. :)

      Thanks for reading and commenting!

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  6. Anonymous26 November 2017 at 03:30

    Didn't you forget Chris in the Drapers picture ?

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    1. Carla26 November 2017 at 08:01

      Damn, yes, I did! Thanks for pointing it out - I would have been really annoyed to realise it after I framed it and hung it up in the family's house!

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  7. Jen10 December 2017 at 08:50

    Wow, these are awesome! Love seeing the portraits shots of all your families anyway but this is very cool to see them ALL together. There are some big families in there. The Drapers and the Kirbys, oh my! ;)

    This must have taken you a while to set up? You've got some great poses for these types of shots, I always struggle and end up using the same for each family.

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    1. Carla11 December 2017 at 08:41

      Thanks, I love how they turned out. A bit bummed I'm going to have to redo the Draper one though! I would have to forget someone from one of the bigger portraits, of course!

      They probably don't take as long to set up as you might imagine. I have a pretty good idea of what poses I have and which of them work well for group shots. From what I've seen of TS3 poses though, they seem to have a lot that are great for story shots but not as many that are good for family portraits. Kind of the opposite of TS2! I could be wrong though, as I didn't delve too deeply into posing in TS3. I didn't enjoy it as much.

      Thanks for reading and commenting!

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  8. maisie27 December 2017 at 09:03

    This is great! I love having all these family portraits on one page, it's really fun to look through. Bummer on forgetting someone, it's really easy to do on the big families, which are the biggest pain to redo!

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    1. Carla29 December 2017 at 12:13

      Sigh, I know! I still haven't redone the Draper one! Maybe I'll do that to ease myself back into my hood in the new year. After doing that, playing a regular session will be a nice change of pace!

      Thanks for reading and commenting!

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