Build-n-Share #45--City Girl

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Welcome to the Build-n-Share Weekly Challenge!

The Build-n-Share challenges will be posted Wednesday of each week and run through the following Wednesday. Results will be posted approximately one week after all entries have been submitted in the Winner's Circle thread.

The benefits:
First place will be awarded at all levels. If there are at least eight entries in a category, up to four places will also be announced.

Weekly challenges also create an opportunity for community on the forum site. We get to know one another’s names, share news, builds, and positive words. This is a chance to get your name out there, and hopefully make a few friends along the way.

What makes this challenge different from all the other ones I've seen?
We have been hosting this weekly challenge since the first week the game was released. We have many levels of builders in our community and welcome them all. This group is truly a product of all its great members!

Within the first few challenges, our group was recognized by the gurus that be, who have helped the weekly challenges gain even more popularity be stickying both Build-n-Share threads. Since then, we have had at least one featured creation almost every week, and our list of featured members continues to grow.

With 3 successful collaborative neighborhoods (Gnomelandia, Summer of Love, and NYC) just about completed, Build-n-Share hopes to bring more creative challenges and new neighborhood ideas to the community with the help of our dedicated participants who willingly contribute and help each week to make sure each challenge runs smoothly.

The rules:
All entries must be original work. Any competitor who submits another builder’s work will be disqualified and banned from any future Build-n-Share challenge. These competitors will also be removed from the Builders' Boulevard related websites if they have chosen to join (membership to the site and the Yahoo! group are not required to enter a Build-n-Share challenge).

Please announce your official lot posting using the entry form below. Make sure to leave the "Official Entry" label big. If you need to reformat it, you can do this by highlighting the desired text and then selecting "Big" in the font box above. This will help us see the entries in a sea of posts with no pics to guide us.

Entries must be submitted by the deadline, 7 p.m. Wednesday evening (eastern time, USA).

A description of the three major level categories:

Beginner--I have a little experience, but I'm still figuring a lot of things out. I would not call myself an official "builder" at this point.

Intermediate--I have been building for awhile. I know the basics and maybe a little more. I enjoy building, but it is not my primary focus with the game.

Advanced--I know the Sims, and the Sims knows me. My name is familiar to a lot of veteran players, and I've competed in and won some building challenges and maybe even been recognized in a community showcase or two. I know most of the cheats AND I know how to use them.

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Two additional opportunities:
Love to build? Come join us at http://www.buildersboulevard.com . The site offers an additional forum for advertising lots, share tips and tricks, and participate in collaborative neighborhood projects!

We also have a Yahoo! Group for builders. It can be accessed at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/buildersboulevard/ . You do not have to be a member to enter. This group will be used primarily as an announcement center and for some of our more complex polls, and possibly, databases

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This week's specifics...
Deadline: Wednesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. Eastern

You can tell the second she walks through the door this client is not from Sunset Valley. Raine is quite businesslike as she sticks out her hand, but avoids your eyes.

“Thank you for meeting me today. I’m driving back to the city tonight. I just want to make sure that the timeline is OK. You said you can have my loft ready in a week? I figured things would move slower out here, not faster,” she smiles a little at the apparent joke.

“Yep, we usually make pretty quick work of things. I promise it will be ready.”

“Wonderful. Well, as I mentioned on the phone, I’d really like to capture the feel of the city. I think it will take some adjustment getting used to things around here, and some familiarity would be nice. I’d like a kind of industrial look: lots of brick and stainless steel. And I definitely want high ceilings with large windows.”

“How about number of rooms, or any other special requests on size?”

“Nothing too big. I don’t plan on having children, and I’m not sure I’ll ever settle down, either, so I don’t need a lot of extra room for future growth. I would like a separate room for an art studio, though. Some place to throw the paint at my canvas, you know? It’s nice to just be able to close the door in the rare case I have a visitor.”

“I’m also hoping for modern appliances and nice conveniences like a dishwasher and microwave. I like to spend most of my energy on my art, not on pesky things like cleaning or cooking. I would like the place to be well appointed with art, but not so much I won’t have a place to hang some of my own pieces as well. I don’t need much for exterior; I spend most of my time inside, so I’d rather spend the extra cash there. Not a huge fan of flowers and such.”

“This will be a different assignment for me. I’m looking forward to it. You said your budget is 40,000? That should be enough, I think.”

“Good then. Well,” Raine looks at her watch, “I think I should probably start heading back. Thanks again for your time.”

“I’ll see you next week,” you say as she quickly strides out the door.

Optional challenges:

1.) Create Raine. Her traits are the following: Loner, Heavy Sleeper, Hates the Outdoors, Artistic, Dislikes Children. Favorites: Black, Indie, Yogurt Parfait.

2.) Decorate the apartment with works created by Raine.

3.) Write a story about Raine’s beginnings in Sunset Valley and her transition from the city life.

Please include the following info in your post:

Official Entry

Name:

Link to the posted asset:

Link to media (required):

Optional Challenges entered?:

Experience level:

Lot Name:

Lot address, size, and final cost:

Details and Rational:

Credit to any simmers for custom content you used:

To make it more searchable, we would highly appreciate it if you include Build-n-Share in the description of the lot.

Screenshots: Tips and Tricks

Since judging will now be based on screenshots, we figured this would be a good time to go over some tips and tricks in taking good screenshots to help showcase your lovely builds.

1) Camera Man Mode - This is a must in taking good shots! You will have to be in live mode to do this, but just hit "TAB" to enter this mode. Once you are in this mode, you can use the mouse to freely control the angles and use "W, A, S, D" buttons to move forward, backwards, and side to side. "Z" zooms in, "X" zooms out. "Q" moves up and "E" moves down. "C" to capture the shot.

2) Find the perfect angle - With photography, it is all about finding the right angle. Spend some time in camera man mode to find the perfect angle. Get down to a sim's point of view to take the best shots of rooms.

3) Walls up - Most people play with walls cut away, but when you are taking pictures of your lot, try to keep your walls up to make your shots look more realistic.

4) No grids - Unless you need to show the grid for a specific purpose, make sure no build/buy grid is visible when you take your pictures. You can avoid this by taking pictures in live mode or by hitting the terrain paint button in build mode.

Ok, those are the basics! If you want to further your simatography skills, we highly recommend you visit http://simatography.webs.com for more tips and tricks and to see some excellent shots taken by professional simatographers!

Please try to keep this thread as photo free as possible and either create a story, a slide show, a separate thread, or use the stickied photo thread to post shots of your lots!

Judges and Keepers of the Thread

Your official judges are Tota, Robodl95, and KitKat7145.

Your backup judges are Fidlerten, Robb, and Cameonet.

Freynas is the official organizational guru collecting entrants' names, levels, links, and results!

Judges will post their results in the winner's circle thread: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/47204.page

Look for results typically a week after the deadline.

Big thanks to our judges and helpers!

Details now complete!

Ooooh I'm soooo exited! Can't wait to get started

Ohh, I really want to build this! I love this style. I have a busy weekend ahead of me though, but I'm hoping I can do this one to get me back building!

Sounds fun, I'll give it a try.

I guess I'll try doing intermediate this time, even though I don't know how I did last time. But since I've been featured since the last Build-n-Share I've participated in that I should bump myself up a bit.

Congratulations, capturedmuse!!! It's so fun to be recognized, and we're very glad to have you.

Anjubee, I'm so happy to hear you'll try to enter if time. I'd kind of lost my Sims steam, and your challenge brought it back!!!! Hope mine can you back into building, too. I always love your work.

MsMcNeely, will be very excited to see your work. And your avatar cracks me up every time. Really cool.

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Results

Beginner Judge: cameonet1950 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/930/47204.page

1st place: kimwriter75
2nd place: Lucindra
3rd place: StyxLady

Intermediate Judge: Tota http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/870/47204.page

1st place: AlexKnr
2nd place: LandaX
3rd place: ciaracaff & NicWin0

Advanced Judge: Kitkat7145 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/990/47204.page

1st - BreannaStone
2nd – TIE! To Freynas and Linday
Honorable mentions: LKadas

Im a bit confused on how i enter.......I have only just herd of these and am not sure

It refuses to give me the tofu-dog >.<

bbcoolkid wrote:Im a bit confused on how i enter.......I have only just herd of these and am not sure

bbcoolkid welcome to B-n-S. You may want to take a look at our past challenge to have one idea of how it works (http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/189156.page), but basically what you have to do is build a house that your “client” is asking for (see This week's specifics on top of the page ) and post your entry here after you are done using the Entry form.
If you need any more help please let us know.