Freezerbnuuy's Sims 4 CC-making and Storytelling Tutorials

As someone who writes written tutorials, seeing written tutorials being put behind paywalls has spurred me into action to re-write some of the tutorials that were lost when I deleted Tumblr (the 2 non-accidental times and the 1 accidental time). ERROR EDITS: - 22/05/25 - Accidentally referred to a LOD 3 when there isn't one. I meant to say 'LOD 2'. I used SimmerKate's tutorial to learn how to do this, so this tutorial will have a lot of similarities to hers - but this tutorial covers a fair few differences - some fixes for issues I had because I did it using a vector image as opposed to turning text into a mesh - that don't appear in that video, and this also covers decimating the mesh to keep polycounts low. I also know some people get on better with written tutorials hence why I am making this, but most of the credit to what appears here goes to this person's video. Anyway, enough with the long intro, it's starting to get like one of those cupcake recipe ...

The reason I'm writing this is so you can make your own deco gryphons, and this might possibly work for some other video game conversion creatures you might come across as well which is another reason why I'm writing this.    NOTES! - These gryphons are about 30-35k polys altogether so only make and use these if your computer can handle it. - SAVE FREQUENTLY and save backups as you go in case you make a mistake!   EDIT: 02/03/25 - This has been edited to show how to get rid of the backface culling on the wings.   This requires some basic knowledge of how to use Blender as well as Sims 4 Studio, and it helps to know in some level of detail how to make poses , but I'll quickly and roughly go over the dead basics of pose-making here. It took me ages to find a good quality model with a working rig that didn't massively deform the model, and that only had 2 textures.     YOU WILL NEED:  - Blender (I use 2.79) - This model - Art processing program (Optional...

 I know there's already a lot of tutorials out there about this, but this is a request from a good friend who, like me, hates video tutorials, and they were confused by some of the other tutorials for this. UPDATE: 25/07/25: I have had at least 3 hits from ChatGPT on this blog. If this is a result from one of you running this through ChatGPT to summarise it - DO NOT RUN ANY OF THIS BLOG THROUGH AI. I explain things at length to ensure CLARITY OF INSTRUCTION. If you screw up your project because you let your misinformation robot friend summarise the thing I spent HOURS writing, don't come crying to me asking for further help. And don't ask your misinformation robot friend for help either - READ THE DAMN TUTORIAL.  WARNING: DECO SIMS CAN BE PRETTY HIGH POLY! 1. Putting our Sim into a chosen pose 2. Turning the Sim into a Deco Sim object YOU WILL NEED: Blender (Download this one specifically, 2.79 since it's what I'll be using.) SimRipper (We'll use this ...