Transfer over, AMVs–The Sims music movies are what’s scorching proper now and Orange County ska band Half Previous Two is out to show it. Earlier right this moment, the ska ensemble launched their music video for “Curtain Name,” which was shot completely in The Sims 3.
The music video kicks off with a sim model of the band’s lead singer, Tara Hahn, using her bicycle earlier than kicking into the upbeat, pop-punk observe. What ensues is a complete lot of Sim-ly hijinks involving trampolines, bull-riding, and the sport’s notorious Dance Sphere.
Very similar to some other music video, this endeavor featured a director: Rae Mystic. Whereas Mystic has shot loads of music movies utilizing extra conventional strategies (together with a few of Half Previous Two’s earlier movies), filming one completely in The Sims 3 was a brand new and thrilling problem for them.
“I’ve been enjoying The Sims because the first technology of it and I’ve all the time needed to make a Sims music video, since I used to be a child,” Mystic mentioned in a press launch. “I posted on Twitter expressing my want and Half Previous Two was the primary band to leap on.”
“When Rae threw out the thought of making a complete music video in The Sims, I DMed them again instantly to allow them to know we had been in,” guitarist Max Beckman added. “I fully belief Rae’s creative imaginative and prescient and knew they’d ship a inventive, entertaining video, regardless of by no means having labored within the medium beforehand. I additionally acquired to breathe a sigh of reduction not having to plan a video shoot round eight members for as soon as!”
Nonetheless, without having to coordinate eight folks may need been a welcome change of tempo, Mystic added that there have been nonetheless loads of processes involved–and getting the members’ corresponding sims to do precisely what they needed wasn’t all the time easy. In the end, the challenge took Mystic about 13 hours to finish.
“I shot the music video like some other: I constructed a set in-game, custom-made the lighting, and, after all, made positive that I made avatars for everybody within the band. Creating and ‘filming’ took about 13 hours, not together with the modifying. It was difficult to power Sims to do what I needed them to do with the unfastened story board I had written down. Tara using the bike to start with was deliberate, Mark using the bull was not deliberate however appeared enjoyable to throw in!”
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