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Emilis Borealis
@emilisborealis.bsky.social
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🚀 ​Artist, worldbuilder & solo game dev making a 2D scifi game in GDev5 about cool starships and lesbians in dapper uniforms. I also make Sims 4 cc & mods sometimes.

🌌 AuDHD, Queer Lesbian, late 20s, Swedish 🇸🇪
⚓ likes scifi, tall ships & horses 🐴
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I return from the dead to announce I've got TWO new Boreal Vibrance sets up, for mermaids and CoL animals!
...only a few more parts to go now (before the fairy EP drops and gives me even more work lol) 😂

www.curseforge.com/sims4/create...

www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/b...

#sims4 #ts4 #ts4cc
A sims 4 cc promo with a title ontop saying "Boreal Vibrance Ocean" and 6 distinct sections; 1. a pale green-haired mermaid with orange and turqouse octopus-like eyes, text says "Handpainted Maxis Match Eyes. Mermaid Defaults + 8 Addons". 2. A tan female sim with vitiligo and black curly hair and orange eyes with purple swirls in them, and a dark grey-skinned mermaid sim with black hair and a big scar across each eye and eyes that are black with a faint grey outline. Text says: "6 unique variants to create all sorts of mermaids". 3. A dark-skinned blue-haired mermaid with blue watery/shiny eyes and a greyish pale-skinned grey-haired sim with light grey reef shark eyes. Text says: "Bonus cuttlefish, shark & drowned variants". 4. An east-asian black-haired mermaid with watery amber brown eyes and a koi fish tail visible in the back, and a pale white mermaid with coral red hair and blue eyes with swirls in them. Text says: "17 vibrant swatches in total!". 5. A light tan mermaid with blond box-braided hair laying down on the side, she has one purple and one golden eye, both with w-shaped pupils and colored sclera like a cuttlefish. Text says: " Heterochromia & contact. Optional addons. Found in skin details & face paint". 6. An in-game closeup of the dark grey mermaid with the black eyes, showing a slight sheen on them. Text says: "custom subtle specular for a pretty & more natural eye gloss/shine". A sims 4 cc promo with a title ontop saying "Boreal Vibrance Oats" and 5 distinct sections; 1. A brown and white-spotted cow with brown eyes. Text says: "Handpainted maxis match eyes, Cottage living animal defaults". 2. A black and white-spotted cow with brown eyes, a brown rooster with amber-yellow eyes, and a white llama with brown eyes. Text says: "vibrant & rich eyes for cows, llamas, chickens, rabbits & foxes". 3. A fox with yellow eyes and two rabbits; one white with pinkish red eyes and a black, white and tan-spotted one with one brown and one blue eye. Text says: " Species accurate designs. Realistic pupil shapes, accurate colors & side-facing herbivore & chicken eyes". 4. A blue llama with dark blue eyes and a rainbow and white-spotted cow with dark blue eyes. Text says: "15 unique eye swatches in total, across all species and their color variants". 5. An in-game closeup of a fox showing a subtle sheen to their eyes. Text says: "Custom subtle specular for a pretty & more natural eye gloss/shine".
June 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I did figure out a good method of dynamically coloring the horse tho after a lot of trial & error tho

I'm now trying to re-rig the neck and it's once again making me cry

Horse necks are CURSED
The same horse model but now with all body parts detached. The horse is a copper chestnut color with pale eyes.
December 6, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Current mood
2d horse model in spine. Neck and head is detached from the body, also there's a second head peaking out behind the first one. It's a little cursed.
December 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Anyway my spotify wrapped and it's like a very weird mix and mostly kinda obscure artists apparently 😅
Spotify wrapped. Top artists: Iniko, first to eleven, derina harvey band, renaeiry, cornelia jacobs. Top songs: jericho - shiloh cinematic remix, i turn to you, run to me, jericho, self control. Amount of listening minutes: 22 897.
December 4, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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Nala got a new winter jacket :3
An apricot mini poodle in a peach winter jacket sniffing around in the snow
December 4, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Been working on my 2d horse Spine model again & redoing the rigging now that ive imported the shaded sprites.
I'm also starting to consider making a little spinoff horse game with it, as a first game

...2d scifi horse stud farm sim, anyone? 😅
Spine screenshot of a black 2d horse model. Left frontleg is bent backwards. Four Spine screenshots of a black 2d horse model's face making various expressions.
November 27, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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Not the most proffesional job but I've finally given Nala her overdue haircut 😂

Boy i never fail to be amazed how much goddamn fur this tiny dog can grow 😭
A newly trimmed apricot dwarf poodle
November 21, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Made all the swatches for the alien eyes as well yesterday, and started working on spellcaster heterochromia accessories today 😁
#ts4 #thesims4 #ts4cc
6 screenshots of the same sims 4 alien with different cc eyes; one with stars and a blue nebula in them, orange-yellow reptile-like eyes with slit pupils, blue eyes with three pupils, purple eyes with soft-edged black pupils and rims and purple sclera, black eyes with purple-indigo lines in a brain-wrinkle-like pattern, and all-black eyes.
November 14, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Working on the swatches for the spellcaster eyes, here's a small selection :3
6 different screenshots of the same sim with different spellcaster-themed eyes. 1st row: deep green eyes with a bluish tint, light green eyes with purple/indigo shading and glow-y magic runes in the iris, purple-ish dark blue eyes with stars in them. 2nd row: white iris with small pupils and a faint iris rim, black pupilless irises, pale silver eyes with an indigo tint and glow-y magic runes in the iris.
November 13, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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Woke up at like 5 am and couldn't go back to sleep so went and spent the morning making some friends for the L&D pet crow. Idk just felt like it 😅

#thesims4 #ts4 #ts4cc #ts4lifeanddeath #crows #corvids #modding
The sims 4. 6 pet crows in different colors, from left to right: albino, magpie, pied crow, original black crow, brown and hooded crow
November 11, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Got my brother the new sims ep for his birthday and drew this quick little thing so id have something to give him. Kinda proud of it 😅

Also i guess this technically counts as sims fanart 😂
A handdrawn note with an illustration of the bluehaired sim from the sims 4 life and death trailer yelling "niiiib!"
October 24, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Realized i forgot about making a default for the evil clone eyes

.....is it overkill to put a tiny little flame in the pupil.....
A WIP of a sims 4 cc eye swatch. It's bright red with a subtle, tiny flame reflection inside the pupil.
October 21, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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I DID IT
I finished all the textures!!

Here's the last six. Upper 3 are for aliens, lower 3 for plantsims!

#thesims4 #ts4cc
A collage showing 6 different fantasy eye textures for the sims 4, upper 3 are different types of alien eyes, the lower 3 are different plant-themed eyes.
October 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Back on my sims cc bullshit 😤

While i procrastinate on screenshotting the mermaid eyes I'm trying to finish as much of the textures i can that i have left.

Here's 3 spellcaster eyes in various stages of completedness + a seawitch eye replacement for the expanded mermaids mod (upper right) #ts4cc
A collage of handpainted eye textures for the sims 4, from left to right and top to bottom; a blue and purple eye with stars in them, a purple eye with a lighter squiggle in the iris, an unfinished pale blue-white eye with tiny pupils, and an unfinished dark grey eye with no pupil at all
October 19, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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I've done a fair bit of progress on my game rexently. Mostly backend/foundation stuff, but still :B

Most recently I've converted all the hud elements to the new prefab feature in #gdevelop which is soo much easier to handle.

Currently working on the narrative dialog window 😅 #gamedev #indiegame
A screenshot of a WIP 2d handdrawn sidescroller game made in GDevelop showing 2 characters facing each other in a fancy starship corridor and a big text window on the right with a sample narrative text in.
October 17, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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I FUCKING DID IT
October 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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It's just getting worse 😭
October 15, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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I tried asking an ai chatbot and idk if its bullshitting me or im if missing something 😭😭😭
October 15, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Thought i figured out my mistake but i actually just messed up even worse
October 15, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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cries in dyscalculia
October 14, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Downloaded a horse size slider and made my sims a shetland pony... it has a lot of rig/animation issues but man it's too cute and funny at the same time so 😂
October 14, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Gave them a new coat of paint so they're not all clones of the mom

Still not sure how to process this
October 9, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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My horse just had triplets help???? 😭😭😭
October 9, 2024 at 5:26 AM
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On a completely different note; I've started updating my little sims legacy blog over on pillowfort again after a long hiatus 😅

Currently posting my founder Ava and Cecilia Kang's very cottagecore wedding; www.pillowfort.social/Martensdotter

Here's some of the wedding pics, aren't they cute lol?
October 8, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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Bonus P3: Animal characters!
​Part of a bigger character chart. This one shows the mounts (mostly horses, plus some alien animals called ya'abarees) belonging to the planet explorer teams. ​Part of a bigger character chart. This one shows the admiral's guard's horses, as well as various working dogs, pets and service animals.
October 7, 2024 at 7:53 PM