Uniqueness

Quality Guideline: Uniqueness

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Possible Assessments

Category	Title	Description
Pets - Animals	Pet needs more work	While this pet has been altered from the default breeds, it needs some more changes to be more unique and interesting.
Pets - Animals	Pet pass	This pet is unique and interesting, with the sculpt and coat both well designed.
Sims	Sim needs more work	The sim mostly resembles the default faces. Some adjustment to the face is needed to make the sim truly unique.
Sims	Sim - not realisitic	While the sim certainly has some unique and interesting-looking features, sadly, the face-anatomy is simply not realistic enough.
Sims	Sim pass	The sim is nicely unique, with all features well sculpted to make an overall interesting look.

General Guidelines

Real life-based sims:

Sims that are based off actual celebrities or models or even your best friend, all need to be carefully sculpted to really look off the person you've made.

Custom sliders can really help with this, as well as particular CC, but keep in mind that custom skins with a celebrity's face on a default face preset will be rejected.

Just sims

Any "other" sim, not based on an existing person or character, must have a unique, interesting face sculpt with all the features sculpted, not resembling the default faces.

Sims with not-so-human-like faces
However, with 'unique' and 'interesting' we definitely don't mean a sim that looks like mashed potato, or anything that's just not possible face-anatomy-wise. Obviously, Sims that are meant to be non-realistic, such as aliens or non-humans, don't necessarily count towards this guideline.

Our tip to create an amazing sim: Take all the time you need! Don't just work on a sim's face for 5 minutes, but 30 min to an hour (or more! ;)). Then, do something else for a while and come back to it again to see what still needs checking. Some fresh eyes really help!

Meanings:

Default face presets: Face options that you can choose or default sims made by EA in the game's sims bin.
Facial presets: Pre-made noses, eyes, jaws, etc that you can choose and are made by EA.
Default faces: Sims with faces that EA made or faces you can choose from the default face presets. Also counts for sims that are made by EA.

Section Guidelines, apply in addition to the above General ones.

Pets - Animals

Any "other" pet (one not based on an existing animal or character), must have a unique, interesting sculpt and coat with all the features developed, not resembling the default breeds. It should be something that downloaders could not make in 5 minutes themselves, but something that shows good effort.

If making a fantasy pet, the design should be deliberate and well thought out. It should also be something that downloaders couldn't make themselves in 5 minutes.

In the Rubric examples section, we've listed all the default face templates that we use to judge the uniqueness of a sim.

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Examples