- I spend so much time
trying to like maneuver different parts of me
to make it look more like me.
And I just can't get that in The Sims.
- Hi, I'm Marti.
- Hi, my name's Herrine.
- Hi, my name is Sara.
Today, I'm going to be making a Sim that looks like me
which I've never done before.
- If I'm being completely honest,
I just recently got into The Sims
and I'm still trying to figure out
how to make me look like me.
- I've been playing The Sims
since I was a kid.
- I played The Sims a lot when I was younger,
like when I was seven.
Actually accidentally killed my Sims
by putting a fireplace in their bedroom.
- I spend so much time
trying to like maneuver different parts of me
to make it look more like me.
And I can never get to a point where I'm satisfied
- When I played The Sims and when I make my Sims,
it's not usually myself.
I find the features
like to be either too harsh or like Eurocentric.
- Like when I play these games,
I never try to make a character look like me.
So this is going to be interesting.
I guess we'd start with the preset.
- I mean, I usually start
with like a generically Asian looking face.
- I don't really feel like I look like any of these people.
Okay, we'll start here.
- I have a oval-ish
shape head
with kind of prominent cheekbones.
- I guess is the closest, I don't know.
I mean, again, I never ever try to make myself,
so this just feels a little weird.
- I've always find it's like difficult to find exactly
your undertone from the neutral and cool stuff,
You look a little dead.
- I think I'm going to go back into the skin now
because it's not exactly my skin tone.
- Filipinos can also be like quite tan and have bigger eyes.
And I'm more tan than like other people.
- Even if I'm going through the spectrum
it's very golden undertone that doesn't really look like
my skin color.
- Eyes are definitely off.
- Okay, we're starting with the eyes.
That's probably the most difficult thing for me.
- Like I would say this is my go-to set for eyes.
- I don't know, I always feel weird
like looking at eyes, I guess.
Like picking out eyes and I feel like stereotypically,
a lot of people think all Asian people have like really
slanted eyes and stuff.
- As a Korean American, I have in Korean (speaks Korean)
which is like a crease, but it's not like a European crease.
My crease kind of starts at the inner corner of my eye
and then narrowly kind of fans out.
And that's what I'm going to try finding here.
- 'Kay, I have a little bit of a hood,
but like none of this looks correct.
- I feel like this looks like my eyes
when I'm not wearing makeup.
The next order of business, my nose.
- My nose is quite small.
So I always have trouble with that.
- Her nose is very sculpted right now
and my nose only looks like that
when I use a lot of contour.
- They're very prominent that's my one word,
they're very prominent.
Especially like the bridges.
Personally, I don't have much of one.
- I'm looking for a nose that isn't completely prominent.
I do have like a higher this part.
- That's my main issue with like making myself.
Like this one's fine.
- I actually don't like looking
at my nose that much anyway, so...
I have memories of like my mom
telling me to like hold my nose out more,
in hopes that it would grow out.
- I gravitate towards custom content
'cause I feel like for the face and stuff
and the noses, I feel that there's so harsh
in terms, in some ways.
- Just going off of what is presented right now,
I feel like it's pretty Western.
I'm really hoping that this mod will make me, more me.
'Cause I guess I don't know anything about my face.
Okay, I think that's the closest I'm gon get, so...
moving on.
- Brows. Brows are fun.
- All these eyebrows are like so dark.
Like this is the color of the hairs that are all my brow,
but they're just not that bushy.
- They're just very clunky and they're very bushy.
- I've had people make fun of my chin.
So I know that should be less prominent
than this is right now.
- As I'm going through this,
I still feel like I look very
not myself.
- Oh, that's as far as we can go.
Okay, great.
- Okay. How do I fix this?
Because my face don't look like that.
- I have like a more rounded chin,
but it doesn't like stick out.
Like these all look fairly sharp.
Hey, that's better.
- My lips.
All right, small mouth, let's go.
- See lips.
Actually these lips all look really cute.
- Lips, I feel like there's so much volume.
- Is there a way to like raise the mouth up.
Oh, there's like so much space
like between her nose and her mouth,
but like if I lower the nose that looks off.
- The hair could be better, obviously.
I have a lot of hair,
so I don't think I can capture the true length,
but that's okay.
I don't know if this is actually a thing,
but I feel like I know a lot of Asian girls
that go through this period
where they have really, really long hair.
That's actually one thing
I've always been very proud of.
Like Asian hair, like I think our hair
is so beautiful and silky.
All right, that's fine.
- Even if you make your Sim heavier,
your face can still look really slim
and then you zoom out and it just looks a little strange
proportion wise.
There always is a realism problem
with The Sims, but like in terms of like body shape...
Yeah, that's fine.
- This actually feels pretty close
to like, I guess what I think look like.
Yeah, I guess I'm okay with this.
- It was interesting to like make myself,
but figure out things that I wish The Sims had
to make myself look more accurate
or like more accurate to like my culture.
Yeah. It was fun though.
- I feel like even though I toggle
with the different characteristics,
no matter how many times I slide
to the right or to the left,
it still doesn't look like me, like a Korean American.
- I don't know, I felt really insecure the whole time.
And it kinda like triggered a lot of memories
of people making comments of like,
what's wrong with my face,
on what makes me Asian I suppose.
- Hi everyone, I'm Keanu.
Also known as Luumia online
and I'm a 23 year old
Custom Content Creator for The Sims.
I've been making custom content
for The Sims for since it launched back in 2014.
I make a variety of mods and custom content
to improve the visuals of the game
and expand the customization options that we have.
I've been playing The Sims for as long as I can remember.
Recently, I actually got hired by The Sims team
as a Cinematic Artist.
But the beauty of custom content,
is that it allows us to customize our Sims
exactly how we want to.
We're going to be looking at recreating three Sims
with some amazing custom content
by some really talented Asian Custom Content Creators.
So let's go.
And this is Sara.
We could probably
change up the hair a little bit.
Let's actually grab a couple of different
custom content from different Asian creators.
One of them in particular is Marsosims.
She's a Filipino Simmer and her content is really cute.
Let's see what kind of hairstyle we can give her.
Most of my time spent in The Sims 4 is making Sims.
So I've kind of wasted too many hours
in this particular part of the game.
The eyelashes are kind of very blocky and thick.
So it kind of makes it look like you have eyeliner on.
You can see that the eyelashes here
kind of block the monolid
of this eye preset in particular.
So I think it would help
to have kind of like a thinner lash.
So for Sara here, let's see if we can find a thinner
lash.
Actually, she has a double eyelid.
So let's find one that has a double eyelid.
Something like this actually.
Generally for Asian Sims
we want a more like defined cheekbone
and we want a bit more of a subtle eyebrow.
So I have some custom content eyebrows here
from stretchskeleton, which are amazing.
Yeah, something like this.
So you can see how like it's a lot more wispier
and more subtle than kind of like the EA brows,
which are very thick.
So I have some really nice makeup from Crypticsim,
which is one of my friends.
The eyeliner and eyeshadow in particular
is monolid friendly
and he makes that a point.
I'm trying to achieve a certain look.
So I'm trying my best here.
Yeah, so let's look at some lipsticks here.
This lipstick is really cute.
I'll go for this and then you can turn your opacity down.
So you may know the recent update
where they added a couple of different
custom content creators' creations
into the base game.
I added this highlight by
I believe it's called Peachyfaerie.
I use this highlight on literally
every single one of my females Sims, it's so nice.
The nice thing about custom content
is that it kind of takes what's already in the game
and improves upon it.
Let's figure out some clothes.
I think I should be done with Sara.
This looks pretty good.
So let's move on to Marti.
I think they did a great job already.
It looks pretty similar to what they look like.
Try out some different, shorter hairstyles here.
Actually grabbed a couple of different ones
and I found this hair that looks
literally exactly like her hair.
The eye preset that they chose is already pretty good.
So let's just work off of that.
Yeah, this is basically what I do
when I go in and make Sims.
I just go through a couple of different presets here
to see which one looks the best.
Lower like that.
One thing I wish that was in the game
that custom content creators do really well
is actually adding like eye bags.
I'm kind of nervous of how they're going to react to this.
I think I can probably call that one done.
Let's move on to Herrine.
Let's see if I can find an Asian eye preset
that has nice eyelashes as well.
Herrine has more of like a longer slimmer face.
This eye preset that I picked here
I think is one of the new ones that they added recently.
Herrine's nose bridge is a lot more defined.
So I've try and find a preset that kind of matches that.
I really liked making Asian Sims in create a Sim
'cause there's so many different kinds of styles you can do.
I really like these more like furry looking eyebrows
in comparison to kind of like the more
blockier looking brows.
So these are more like, very like well-defined shapes.
These are kind of more like wispy.
If we're going to be using custom content lashes
we should pick a preset that doesn't have
the thick blocky lashes.
I really like using these eyes
cause they're really like cute.
And they look different from all the other
eye presets in the game.
There's a time and place for really like nice eyelashes.
They actually added a couple of different
nasal labial folds, I believe they're called.
So you can see here that there's different styles
of like these little wrinkles.
Like initially the game only had this,
which is very like very defined.
They added these three with the Snowy Escape patch.
and custom content does that really well.
Nathan, if you're watching this,
I'm using your makeup
on literally all these Sims cause it's so good.
I tend to make my Sims
have more like realistic proportions.
I tend to like make their eyes a bit on the smaller side
and their nose is a bit bigger.
Let's pick an outfit.
Okay, cool.
I think I am done for the most part.
Thanks for having me.
I had a lot of fun recreating these Sims
and hopefully Sara, Marti, and Herrine liked them as well.
- Wait, is this supposed to be me?
- Cute.
- Oh, that's so cute.
Oh my God.
The makeup is adorable.
The brows are so much better than what I did.
- He was very generous with the eyelashes.
I am very happy with that.
- I love this.
- I feel really good about myself.
She's so adorable.
- I mean, this is better than what I came up with.
So this is my foundation shade.
I'm shocked.
- The nose looked a lot better than what I have before.
- My nose, I feel like, is not as sharp.
- My nose, it's so cute.
- Keanu, you like really chose all the flattering
like ways to make me.
- They got like the hood of my eye,
like pretty accurate, wow.
- I've never seen a Sim version of me before.
I mean, I wouldn't even dream about getting this close.
- I think what makes this one look so like realistic
and impressive is all the little details.
Like from the eyelashes, to like each hair in the brow,
that just like really sold it for me.
I'm very happy.
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