TS3 Warrior cats shenanigans

Illustrated journal of the Sims 3 warrior cats challenge

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Hi, Hello and Welcome

Call me Chris or Crisis, I'm a She/They hobby artist and a Warrior cats fan since childhood

During my free time i tend to doodle cats and play TS3, especialy warrior cats challenge since i find it much more chaotic than normal legacy challenges

and through many years the game has only proven me right in that regard, especially in my two newer saves which made stories I had very liitle narrative control in

I've already exhausted my friends with updates from those saves and so I've decided to turn to the internet to share them as well as practice my skills

On the side I've also started a project to create an ideal wc challenge world, wich i will ocasionaly post updates about

Mostly however this blog will be dedicated to my work on character designs from translating ts3 cat models to 2d stylized art as well as my own ocs

Post her will be sparce due to lack of time, but I'll try my best to keep it consistent

English is not my first language so I apologize beforehand Thank you and hope u enjoy my weird game cats XD

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some screenshots of enviroments in game on that first try on world creator that i'm pretty proud of

they are ~~ moonstone/moonpool mixture from the inside and outside, the ark forest home lot/training grounds(love the way it looks as if the earth split), one of the clan camps and just some cute views from terrytories

yes i use reshade for pretty pics, who doesnt't xdd thou i've yet to settle on my fav as they're either too dark or too close to just the game look so it's a mish-mash

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My two beutifull girls

a little doodle in my more usual style in celebration of pride month of my cutest couple ingame

in the other save that i play in i've somehow created the most beutifull she-cats in sims history, that being Tiger(on the left) and Echo(on the right) and they ended up falling in love

they are genuinely so cutesy and precious always acting lovey dovey and interacting with each other

as of now they are called respectively Tigerprowl and Echowisp but i still call them their og names

also Tiger is actually bi as she had at some point a male mate and although it's just the game doing it's thing with pairing random sims~ Echo's ex was a she-cat so she's undeniably a lesbian xdd

idk if it's just my game or it's a rule but torties and calico's ALWAYS turn gay

as of today i've had 7 seperate torties, from diffrent saves and even computers, be lesbian, two of them being medicine cats too

it's a silly coincidence but it's kinda funny nontheless

i've also tried recording the whole process but missclicked and eneded up with just the coloring...

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Babies!!

well, one way or the other Longwhisker pulled through and cut out two little kittens out of Blackfoots dead body and Sandbelly was more than eager to adopt those little rascals

Marigoldkit♀, Darkkit♀, Sootkit♀ and Amberkit♂, the four unrelated siblings who end this weird story in meadowclan, at least for now because for some reason this game hates me and these poor she cats of meadowclan

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Mourning a friend

Blackfoots death definetly took a toll on the entirety of Meadowclan but especially on the other queen Sandbelly

She begged Longwhisker to do something, anything really, to at least save her kits

unfortunatly it was too late.....

or was it?

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Haven't drawn or played much these days so here goes worldbuilding rant i've been meaning to post XD

so as i've mentioned in the pinned intro i've been working on creating my perfect ts3 warrior cats challenge world

after doing this challenge for quite some time ive come to fully understand my prefered play style which is highly dependent on the world i play in and how much... i struggle with customizing the existing and custom made worlds

not as in its difficult but its limiting in the things i can and can't do

more specifically ~~ in most worlds there's not enough free unused space due to cities taking a lot and if there seems to be more its either locked or the terrain just wont allow placing custom lots and as much as i love arbor vale for its emptyness, the lack of streets deletes one of the most nervewracking challenges of the challenge as in ewading those bloody cars xdd

so i took it upon myself to learn the mystical create a world

and i actually managed to make one ... it has a lot of issues xdd (one is on the picture above) but they are just a learning experience

for examples

its too big as i used the large preset, i place a lot of decor and trees and enjoy having a lot of npc like badgers and rouges and with the mods i use and the general heavyness of the game my computer just can't handle all that xd

the city is a mess, i had no idea how hard it is to plan a city so i reworked it a lot of times with some lots being alredy placed and it lead to them um... flooding xd

the spacing beetween clans is too big for my prefrence

i will be posting screens on some other occasion from that world as despite all that there are quite a few things im proud of

and the birds view does't look all that bad xd

as i said the large preset is too big so the next try will be on the medium one which is around 15 64x64 lots and 1 30x30 lot wide, yes i measure them with the largest lot size available

but that size comes with its own issues

i'm quite a greedy person, ideally i would like to have in a world

a farms for sheep, cows and horses as well as barn cats and dogs

four distinct terrytories fo the cats

a fully functional city so you could play normally on it as well if you feel like it, but mostly for house pets to roam around and perhaps even storyline for cats to wonder through the city for some reason

a river with bridges and an area somewhat based on stepping stones (i somewhat figured how to make one) so cats can walk across it as well as a swampy area as it one of the things i made once and want to recreate because it is very pretty

mountains and a beach area where difrent npc colonies reside (i really want tribe cats in the mountains)

beavers

which is a lot

especially since i prefer the clans to be close to each other to make sure theres as much random interactions and invasions as possible so that the borders change from time to time

i've come to realize that for that to be the case the perfect setup of lots is a small lot, i use 40x40 because decor takes space, for the camp, honestly the smaller the better cause it makes the cats leave camp more often by themselves to hunt insted of hunting in the nursery so often and at least one 64x64 for terrytory because its the best size for hunting patrols, and the full moon meeting spot is also 64x64 for obvious reasons, space is key for good pictures xd

but i also like to add territory specific places like big trees or abandoned houses, dino bones (yes they exist in the game i love them) and the like so through rough calculations i'm left with..

not much free space or at least it feels like it

so yeah i just wanted to share some thoughts so that the blog doesn't feel so left out

i will be trying to work on more art later this week as i would love to go back to telling the story of Spot and Little one but i must show them kits of meadowclan firts

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Fun fact regarding Blackfoots death

because she was pregnant, despite technically dying, the game couldn't actually kill her

and so she remained, as a ghost, haunting the clan until her ghost body gave birth to her kits

i was unaware of that as it was the first time a situation like that occured so imagine my suprise when after a few days of not playing the game and moving on from that ordeal, I get the notification that a dead cat gave birth XD

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Finaly an event I was waiting to share

the assasination of Blackfoot the queen code breaker

I still remember the day that during my casual gameplay with Spot and Little one, when that very cursed notification popped up that anyone who's played with echoweaver's pet fighting skill knows and dreads

"Blackfoot has fallen in battle"

I imediatly stoped what I was doing and pooped into their territory to see, I kid you not! Cricketwish covering behind Stormtail as Hawkeye proudly walks away from the fight unscathed

that was when i started to pay more attention to the mess that was that clan

right after looking up their relationship statuses i concluded that what had unfolded was a suprise confrontation after Hawkeye reaveled the secret that his brother carelessly shared with him to Stormtail who at last had snapped and entered her villan era and decided to bring order back to the clan with fang and claw, starting with a clear message

killing the code breaker before she births the half-clan spawns

Cricketwish from this day onward is ridden with guilt as not only was he the cause of his friends death, his own brother dealt that blow

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felt unreasonably uninspired over the last couple of weeks as well as tired from work so as a artistic masochist I've tried to push myself out of the slump by drawing some of the eniviroments of meadowclan and um..backgrounds are... hard xD

either way somehow ended with a a very loose drawing of them cats interacting

mostly Hawkeye rambling to Stormtail about how terrible of a leader Goldstar is while she's aiming to gather up cats for the sunhigh border patrol

in the back is Goldstar with Flamejumper, one of the more background cats in the story

I like Flamejumper a lot, he has yet to do anything problematic unlike the rest of his clan XD

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Time for Stormtails introduction~~

Meadowclan's debuty, chosen by Goldstar as the most appropriate choice rather then his prefered one

Simply said they don't share the same values or opinions, but undeniably she fullfills her role extremly well despite disagreeing with her leader

there's not much to say about her other than that she's a very big and pretty girl, towering over most existing cats in the game besides Brindleglare

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Sharing some secrets among friends~~

at some point during Blackfoots pregnancy she brought out he courage to tell her dear friend about whos the baby daddy of her litter is

Cricketwish however wasnt very happy to hear of her code breaking romance with a cat from another clan

He held onto that secret for a while but he could not last that long and finally after enough pressure from his brother he broke and opened the absolute chaos of the pandora box that was about to unfold

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Hawkeye and Cricketwish

brothers with not so much contrasting personalities as morals, for both are great and loyal warriors that would do anything for their clan

although for Hawkeye that anything is truly a broad definition and for Cricketwish those ideals of following the code will come bite him in his behind

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Longwhisker and Goldstar

Meadowclan(yes very original xd) Leader and Medicine cat, one of the many messy relationships this game had given me

for you see the sims for some reason chose meadowclan as the most problematic clan in the valley despite me specifically putting evil cats in the other clan from wich brindleglare was from cause no, this pair of fobidden lovers arent the most code breaking things that happen there, and always, when they're not the active household

although as rarely as i do put them in active its the only reason most cats from there are still alive, because i need to manualy make Longwhisker do her job of curing illness and injuries as all she ever does is BE LOVEY DOVEY WITH GOLDSTAR GIRL YOU GOT A JOB, CATS ARE DYING LEFT AND RIGHT XD

ive used that mode for truly, many saves, and this is the only clan that keeps getting this sick all the time and especialy next to the other clan from that same save wich barely ever gets more than a singular sick cat, wich is why i've come to the conclusion that its her, it simply has to be xdd

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Brindleglare and Opal parents to the siblings yes they look nothing alike i dont care xdd

Brindleglare as the name suggest was a clancat at some point but got banished and while he stroled through the forest debating about what to do now as he'd lost all he cared about, Opal, previously a spoiled kittypet crosses his path and to his disapointment stays by his side as she becomes imediatly smitten with this big boi they had two litters of wich only spot and little one survived Both are absolutly not fitted to be parents, Opal being too young and careless, for yes the game decided that for some unknown reason both of them needed a giant age gap to make things worse, and Brindleglare was a father that ALWAYS needed to go buy some milk and it always took exactly the amount of time for them kits to grow up they are an absolute mess and i adore them for that

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Brother and baby sister duo Spot and Little one I started that specific save with them so its only appropriate to start with them here as well I love their in game apearance but it's got a lot of details which is why i decided to challenge myself with a far more stylized artstyle then my usual one, mostly inspired by old disney and the warrior cats animated as i need to work on my shape language and their designs are just sooo good in that regard

Their story is as simple as can be Spot sensing tension among rogues they've been staying temporarily with, decides its in their best intrest to leave, especialy with his mother that had just given birth to his sister, she hovever refuses stating that they need to stay and wait for their fathers return, in the end though fighting ensuses and they get separated, leaving spot to raise his baby sister all on his own and yes he named her because hes bad at it, and its not like i simply had no idea what to name her, not at all~~