Country Cottage

I have been watching a few "stop motion" Sims 4 builds on YouTube and was really impressed with what I saw.  The stop motion style of building is a lot easier to watch than a speed build and extremely artistic.  I didn't realise however the amount of work that is put into them.

I started watching some tutorials, again on YouTube and after "umming" and "erring" for a few weeks, decided to give it a go myself.

With speed builds, you have to video the build as you build it.  However, with stop motion builds, you create the building first then you take it apart piece by piece and as you do so, you take a photo.  As you move from one part of the build to another, you record a video.  Then you piece everything together in your chosen video editor, pictures first (putting in the last picture you took first and ending up with the first last) and then add the videos to where they are supposed to go, remembering to reverse them.  Basically, you are working back to front.  So the last item you take from your build will become the first photo/item in your video, building as you go.

All of this sounds very confusing but once you get started and get your head around it all, it's quite easy but very time consuming.

It took me two weeks to build this little cottage, take the photos and videos and piece it all together to make a stop motion video.  You may or may not be pleased to know that I didn't use any custom content in this build, so that it is more "user friendly", so to speak.

I am very pleased with how the cottage turned out and I think my first go at making this type of video came out pretty good - for a beginner!  I did make a few mistakes on the way but I think I've learned from those.

I really enjoyed building this cottage, even though it took me a long time but I am pleased with the end result.  I will be doing more but of course, this may take a little while.

Here's a small snippet of my stop motion video:

Click here to watch the full video on my YouTube channel!

- Minicart

We Need a Dirt Frog

Willow has learned quite a bit over the last couple of episodes and if you missed parts 4, 5 and 6, you can catch them over on my YouTube Channel.

Once you have learned a spell, you can cast it at any time provided you are not overloaded with charge.  Of course Willow can discharge either by casting another spell or "by accident", which is quite dramatic.  Lightening bolts fly from her whole body electrocuting her and she falls to the ground, blackened by the experience.

Potions are a different matter.  You need ingredients to make potions.  It's all very well learning how to make them but if you don't have the ingredients, you're basically stuffed.

Crystals, plants and insects are used in the creation of these potions and they can be found all over the world.  Of course you can grow your own plants and also buy them, along with crystals, from the shop in the Magic Realm.  Crystals can also be dug up from the little rocks laying around and insects can be caught from Granite Falls.  Fish can be caught by fishing or by buying from the fish stall and frogs can be caught from the little logs in various locations in the world.  There are however many different frogs to be caught and one that Willow needs remains illusive.

She has a striped dirt frog and a spotted dirt frog but in this episode she needs a dirt frog.  Will she find one?

Here is a clip of Episode 7 of The Glimmerbrook Witch:

Click Here to watch the full episode on YouTube!

- Minicart

Inferniate

 Episode 3 of The Glimmerbrook Witch shows how far Willow has come in her magical endeavours.

Fire played an important part of Willow's previous incarnation where she would put the Sim to sleep with a sleep potion and then set them on fire.  Her fascination with fire continues in her present life, especially as she has now learned the spell "inferniate".

This spell does what it says on the jar (or in this case, the spell book).  Of course, as with everything in life, you reap what you sow and this extends to Sims.  

Any spell can backfire and unfortunately for Willow, it does.  However, this lady's not for turning, or should I say, this witch is not for turning because no matter what happens to Willow, albeit through her own deeds, she will not be deterred from her evil ways.

Here is a clip of Episode 3 of The Glimmerbrook Witch:

Click Here to watch the full episode on YouTube!