Makeovers: Gender-Bender Edition

You nominated, I procrastinated. With no further ado, some genderbent Veronese for your viewing pleasure:

As requested, a friendly duel between Goneril & Lady Catherine. (Everyone was going to get an opposite-gender name, but my brain is dead.) Goneril's male backside looks good in this outfit, which is good. The rest of her is not so pleasant. 

Lady Catherine has a somewhat masculine face to begin with. I wasn't that surprised that she made a decent-looking man. Lord Catherine isn't very special, but certainly passable. 

Lord Goneril here is probably my least-successful makeover. I spent a lot of time trying to walk the line between making sure he looked like Goneril and that he looked decent. In the end, he looks more lumpy than anything else. Those Maxis face scuplts can be brutal. 

Miranda's makeover was much more to my liking. It's reminiscent of Miranda, though the male version looks more sad than arrogant. Maybe the lack of consequence lets her insecurity pop to the surface. If she chooses to have kids, I wouldn't be sad if her sons turned out like this. 

I had way too much fun playing with Nix's amazing invisible dueling dummies. 

Ariel might be my favorite sim to have in a photo shoot. However, her makeover was unremarkable. The face stayed very similar and her hair is somewhat short to begin with. Still, one of the best looking Maxis sims (genderbent or not), in my opinion.

Desi makes a good-looking man. She has a much more forgiving face than either Miranda or Goneril, and the coloring I think of as the 'classic' Capulet look: golden hair, gray eyes, creamy skin. I may have been channeling Joshua of Carico when I dressed him up, though. (Oops.) 

Hal spends enough time as it is in front of a mirror. Lady Hal, enjoying her status as the heiress, lounges on a throne all day examining her good looks in detail. If Hal ever decides to wear dresses, they'll be in that Orkney color scheme.

Back row: Desi & Hal Capulet, Catherine de Bourgh, Goneril & Miranda Capulet.

Front row: Ariel Capulet

Juliette makes a good-looking man and escapes an overdose of the Capulet chin here. However, if you were thinking she would be the better-looking of the recently married pair, you're wrong: 

Fitzwilliam is the winner of my "I was not expecting that" award. I know for a fact his genes aren't always this kind to girls, but the straight-up genderswap is beautiful. 

Good looking in either gender. And speaking of... 

Lady Mercutio does not have a typical face, but she's stunning. And she looks like her other self, too, which I was happy about. 

Like Goneril, Tybalt did not translate well immediately. I wanted the sims to look like themselves and to look like they would fit into my game. I couldn't get Goneril to that point, but a little fiddling (that boxy zone around the Capulet nose is going to be the end of me) and the right makeup helped Tybalt to get across the line. The conversion was a lot kinder on distinctive-looking males than females. 

Girls will be girls, I suppose! 

Two of the least surprising makeovers of the lot. I knew George would look similar to Fitzwilliam, just a bit older. Anne looks good, too, but very much like herself. I love how they turned out, though.

I think the men are still winning the race on best makeovers.

Front Row: Juliette Capulet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Tybalt Capulet, Mercutio Montague
Back Row: George Darcy, Lady Anne Darcy

I adore Bottom as she is, but this makeover is a favorite of mine. This Bottom seems like a big troublemaker - not a villain but definitely a scamp. I can see him playing pranks left and right on people, when he isn't fixing that impossibly styled hair.

Puck came out very pretty, and I'm torn about whose red hair his daughter is getting. It was going to be Molotov, like Hermia's, but I'm really torn after seeing this. I think I like Puck better as a boy, though. Some of Puck's sparkle is missing.

... probably because his parents stole it all. Titania scores huge for the female-to-male team here. (Water balloon fights were also abused in this photoshoot.) She makes a gorgeous man. It's a shame her grandkids can't inherit those good looks.

Oberon is no slouch, either. I picked that hair to show off the Fae ears and then chose this angle. Stupid.

I think this is my favorite photo of all. Why did you two have to adopt? Why?

Left to right: Puck, Oberon, Titania, and Bottom Summerdream.

And with that, the gender-bender makeovers are finished. Thank you to everyone who voted and nominated characters! This was a very fun project, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

There won't be an update before January, so Happy New Year to one and all!