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.

This Week’s Challenge Specifics:
Challenge deadline: Wednesday, April 28th at 7 p.m. (Eastern time)

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City Boy

There are two things in life Lawrence Wang is very fond of … fast cars and fast women. Having concentrated on his career most of his life thus far, he makes quite a good income to maintain his fast-paced bachelor lifestyle.

The only thing missing now is the perfect pad for his collection of cars. Preferring a more simple and easier to maintain house, he has had issues finding a smaller property with a garage to accommodate his precious vehicles, especially in the big city.

This is why he has hired you.

Your assignment is to build Lawrence his ideal home – a structure on a 30x30 lot which will house him and his 6 cars. Please keep in mind that he wishes to protect all of his cars from whatever elements out there, so they must be in a secure garage with no carports.

Lawrence’s style is “contemporary comfortable.” He doesn’t need a living space too large, but requests at least 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, an office, and a big media room. He prefers to have mainly neutral colors … nothing too colorful.

You have a generous budget of 150,000 simoleans (not including cars).

Some notes:
The challenge here is to make a structure that isn't hideous with a garage big enough to fit 6 cars on a 30x30 lot. The garage needs to be somewhat realistic, meaning even if you can fit 6 spaces in a large room, there should still be at least 3 garage doors so the cars can realistically get out.

Optional Challenge:
Create Lawrence as a sim. Based on what has been described, come up with the best traits, aspiration, outfits, etc. and take screenshots of him in his new space.

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:

If your judge has any constructive criticism about your lot, do you want them to share their comments when posting their results?

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 and Robb.

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!

Official Entry List

Beginner

Cimbles
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2281388
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=201777
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2281387

crain181
posted to asset http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2298545
link to media http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2298545
Optional Challenge:

Guitarz
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2298112
Link to media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVCW1o0oDfU
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

Joshoku
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2304276
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=204553
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2304277

kimwriter75
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2300506
Link to media (required): http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=203999
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2300500

kitty_186
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/194678.page
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: no

Kyki83
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2300954
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=204070
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2301021

Leabeejeebee
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2304341
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=204457
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: No

Lucindra
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=202167
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

scorpiophoenix
Linked to posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2299353
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=204278
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

skeletaleffect
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://s283.photobucket.com/albums/kk313/skeletaleffect/Sims%20
3/?action=view¤t=9ec61b82.pbw&t=1272502231
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2304895

Styxlady
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://styxldy.livejournal.com/4330.html
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

taffy87
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2284895
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=202263
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

XjStar
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2286037
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=202287
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

xxmccxx
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2292264
Link to media: http://creationsbyios.blogspot.com/2010/04/build-n-
share-46-city-boy.html
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2292270

zenflower
Link to the posted asset: http://el.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2292623
Link to media: http://el.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=203143
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: No


Intermediate

ciane
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2284465
Link to media: http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/ciane/new/Wang/?action=vi
ew¤t=aadcd11e.pbw
http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/ciane/new/Wang/?action=vi
ew¤t=1c0deb9a.pbw
Comment:
Optional Challenge:

Clovergoddess
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2290364
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=202785
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: no

golden_glow
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2289059
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/194507.page
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2289002

hugsforeveryone
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://hugs4everyone.livejournal.com/2010/04/22/
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge:

Jacqpinks
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2303149
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/myBlog.html?persona=jacqpinks
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media and http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2304336

Karima
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2305491
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge:

Kiarane
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2281303
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=201768
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

lizjordanuk
Linked to posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2290661
Link to media: http://s752.photobucket.com/albums/xx163/lizjordanuk/BnS%2046%2
0City%20Boy/?albumview=slideshow
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenges entered: see media and http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2304839#

Meccadapoet
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2288836
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=202725
Optional Challenge: see media

Rossbobs
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2287243
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=202374
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: no

Scoiattolo
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2295705
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=203540
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2291077

Simpixie26
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2282344
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=201860
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media


Advanced

addict1220
Link to the posted asset:
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2298474
Link to media: http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q259/addict1220/Asian%20Mode
rn/?albumview=slideshow
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

happyjme
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2302031
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=204200
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
optional challenge: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2301771

Freynas
Link to the posted asset: http://www.4shared.com/account/file/B9zcKUlL/House_of_Party.htm
l
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/180/151691.page
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

LKadas
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2285917
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/105/137595.page#235
1645
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: no

linday
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2294397
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/345/135517.page#236
2010
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

MeestorMark
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2302783
Link to media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baTbeaPJsD4
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: see media

ZYIsSims
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2300104
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=204001
Comment:
Constructive criticism:
Optional Challenge: no

Results


Beginner Judge: cameonet1950 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/960/47204.page

1st place - XjStar
2nd place – Joshoku
3rd place – Kyki83


Intermediate Judge: Tota http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/885/47204.page

1st place: Kiarane
2nd place: Clovergoddess & hugsforeveryone
3rd place: Scoiattolo



Advanced Judge: KitKat7147 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/1005/47204.page

1st place: Freynas
2nd place: MeestorMark
3rd place: Addict

Those Dang City Slickers! LOL
Trying to decide if I will do this or not. EQ

Hm...this should be interesting. I'm excited and I've got ideas buzzing around in my head already!

As always, an awesome challenge Anjubee!

I was so excited to get started! I started working on it about an hour ago and I already have all of the walls and floors in it! Also the doors. I love this challenge! I'm pretty confident so far.

Being a city boy myself, I love creating city styles for my sims. I'd like to participate in this one as well. I did the last one too. Im just trying to figure out how to make a house with a 6 car garage and on a 30x30 lot look like it belongs in a city. Normaly you wouldnt be able to find a house with that much space in a city. lol But Ill try to manage.

Oh, and what do you guys mean by no carports? But we need garage doors?

ok, I guess you mean no outside car ports. I gotcha! lol

OOOOOOHHHHH!!! FUN! FUN! FUN! I so hope I get time to do this!

i will be entering this one! (Promise!) you do like your city sims!

Regarding the garage.you said a realistic garage but it should have at least 3 doors. I made a large garage/carpark and the cars sit 3 on one side 3 on the other with a large(ish) space in the middle so that the cars would be driven up the middle and into the space( I have a screenshot to show what I mean if you like) so its not just 6 cars thrown in a basement but an underground carpark complete with sloping driveway. Wondering if that is within the rules as long as its realistic or if it has to have 3 garage doors.

Hope that question makes sense.