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Happy New Year everyone, Alice here! 🧣🧤🧊⭐

Today, Lina and I would love to show you the animations we made recently! You can watch this little showcase at the top of this Patreon Post. ⬆🎥 

🎥 The Animations in the Video

1. Pick Up Toddler From Floor 

2. Put Toddler in High Chair 

3. Toddler Sitting in High Chair - Idle 

4. Toddler Making a Mess with Food 

5. Toddler Eating Food in High Chair 

6. Toddler Refusing to Eat Food in High Chair 

7. Toddler Crying in High Chair 

8. Pick Up Toddler From High Chair 

9. Put Toddler on Floor 

10. Put Toddler in Bath 

11. Wash Toddler in Bath 

12. Pick up Toddler from Bath 

13. Toddler Throwing a Tantrum 

14. Adult Hugging Toddler

15. Adult Tickling Toddler

16. Toddler Watching TV From Floor

17. Toddler Dancing

18. Bonus: Toddler Going Up the Stairs 

19. Bonus: Toddler Going Down the Stairs 

If you missed it, you can find the first part of the Toddler Animation Showcase in this Patreon post. The music in today's video is another version of Andrei's music called Inner Child. We initially shared it in this post here!🎵 

☀️ A Few Words About the Animations 

We had a lot of fun working on these during the past few weeks! Lina has just finished the last of the toddlers animations (at least for now), so I added them at the end of the video as a nice little bonus. On my side, I’ve been switching to kids animations!🎈 A bit more brainstorming is planned to test which animations we could reuse from the adults, but we are veeeeeeeeeery excited to work on this life stage. 🤸‍♀️  Regarding the visual effects, like the missing water and bubbles for the bath animations, they will all come later this year! 🛁 

Finally, please note that everything shown today is still a work in progress and might change and evolve in due time; some of these are already being reworked as we speak. ✨

That’s it for today, we hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the new animations! As always, we will be more than happy to hear your feedback. And please don’t hesitate if you have any requests or suggestions regarding kids’ animations, we would love to hear them! ✏️

Have a great day! ❤Alice (◔◡◔)/ Edit - April 17th, 2025: This post is now public, feel free to share it!

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pekeniax

These animations look awesome! Would be nice if they didn't return to the "base position" when there's a qeue of interactions, for example when they hug and then comes a "tickle" interaction the mother could go from the hug to the tickle without standing up in between, that would be much more natural.

Alysia Fleming

I swear, it’s the tiny details. Just Sasha’s focus on trying to blink while trying to eat.🥹

bonkybon

You guys are fantastic animators!! I'm so excited to play this game 😭

Julio Saliba

I hope to see more toddler interactions, like toddlers playing with pets or other toddlers!

Morgan

This looks sooooooo cute. I can’t wait to play this 🩷🩷

Cesar Amaya

That was so cute 🥰 I can’t wait!

Trisha

Aww, this is all so adorable. Thank you for showing these off. They look so sweet. Is there any chance to get different variants of some of them? Like tickling and hugging the toddler while holding them or sitting with them? I'm loving this stuff so much. It feeds my dreams of family gameplay. ❤️ For the kids animations some suggestions if possible: Running out to greet parents/older paras who come home from work or school Kicking their feet while sitting on a chair An option for them to skip when walking sometimes Standing on their tip toes to reach higher objects Holding the hand of an older para when out with them Cute dance animations with other kids and paras of different ages Climbing and jumping on furniture

Fran Smith

Awww...the toddler animations look very cute! I particularly loved the dancing in front of the TV and the tickling ones1

BooDotBoo .

The toddler having a tantrum looks just like when I have a tantrum. 😂 But, seriously, I have two nieces who are right around this age, and I’ve seen them do a lot of these, so it’s pretty on point. Good job!

Jordan Ay'che

Ok these animations for the toddlers are so stinking cute. Love the throwing tantrums one and the dancing one. Can't wait for all of this to finally come together and we can get our hands on it! Have a great week everyone ✨️

Leonard Meagher

Going backwards down stairs is exactly what a toddler would do, so cute

Chiara

The toddler going up and down THOSE stairs alone is terrifying :-D

spunkyace

y'all are doing a great job!! i'm looking forward to playing this more and more!

emilygoneferal

i love these animations so far. i hope that you guys make the toddlers a little bit smaller!! tbh it ruins the immersion a little bit for me because this toddler looks about 4-5 years old already. i can't remember if gradual aging has been confirmed to NOT happen, but it feels like this would suit better as a stage in between toddler and child

Estrella Alfaro

Oh my goodness! They're absolutely adorable

Pan

I love the animations! The fact that the toddler was dressed when they were bathed threw me off a bit though.

BonaparteBardithion .

While the toddler's legs did clip through he adult a little in one or two spots (which is fine, especially at this stage), the animation of sliding into the high chair was very clean. Will toddlers have variable height or will they remain close to the same to size to simplify animating in small spaces like the high chair? As for kids, I'd love to see older preadolescents also able to pick up toddlers from or put them into furniture like high chairs, playpens, and such and also be able to give them food and toys. Helping out with younger siblings is very common and I was doing all that by the middle of grade school. It would also be great if kids could read to/with other children/toddlers younger than them to practice or teach each other.

Kindred Darling

Yesssss!! The toddler animations on the stairs. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 All the animations look wonderful, but the way the toddlers sit on the floor grabbed me the most. It's so cute and accurate to how they sit in real life. Wonderful work team! I can't wait to see the unique animations for the child paras soon. Excited!💖

Eggbeatersims

This is very exciting!! The team always surprises me with how natural the animations look! Super awesome!!

Wow Wat

This is soooooo cuteeeee

GalacticFrost

Heya Alice, I love the post and am glad to see the work and progress that the game is making. The animations look insane, and the attention to detail makes me love the game even more. I can't wait for the release this year. Speaking of detail, I noticed the parent washing the toddler off-centre. Is this just the animation or due to the curtain at the tub?

River

The tickling was the cutest thing! But the stairs animation made me so anxious!!!

Kimberly Schwartz

This entire team is so extremely talented. I am in awe every time there is a new post. I work in product development as a UX designer and I can't IMAGINE the work that has gone into this game. So excited!!!!

Danielle Snowden

I can’t wait for this game to completely take over my life once it’s released! Keep up the great work

Ryn

The toddler animations are adorable! I especially love the tickling animation, which is just so gorgeous. I do hope in future there will be some interactions between toddlers – like playing together, holding hands, fighting over toys(!) – but what we’ve got so far look amazing. As for kids animations, I would love to see kids playing together, or with toddlers/ babies. I also think it would be lovely to have kids holding the hands of older paras (teenagers/ adults) – and also maybe an animation for kids holding toddlers’ hands! One other animation that I would love (but I don’t know how feasible it is) is bedtime stories. I believe in the sims each child can be tucked into bed individually with a bedtime story, but personally as someone with siblings, some of my fondest memories are shared bedtime stories. I would love to see children curling up together on one of the beds to listen to a bedtime story!

TeaAddict

These are soo cute, and can we also talk for a moment about how adorable their house is?? 😍😍 A couple small things I noticed: the toddler pick up animation looks a little funny, like the movement of the toddlers legs and there's a small bounce they do and the end that looks a little odd? It would be funny / cute if when you're getting them in and out of the highchair, their feet get stuck for a second. I swear that happens every time 🤣 Getting the toddler out of the bath, would it be possible to have the toddler stand up and hold onto the edge of the bath while the adult bends down to them? I think that would look really cute 🥰 Toddler tantrum - very good, would be excellent to have a variation where they bend down to the floor and go into "child's pose" on their knees with their head pressed to the floor. My son (2.5) does this when he is super upset, it's always a heartbreaker 🥲 Seriously just love this game though! The stairs animations must have been SO TRICKY to get right, well done!!

Kieran

You've all done such a great job these are amazing I do wanna say if you end up doing an animation where a toddler refuses a hug I kindly ask that they don't get hugged anyway. Ive seen an animation in another game where the toddler pushes away the other adult and the adult makes them hug anyway. Therefore saying the adult's autonomy is more important than the toddlers it's upsetting every time and kids get upset sometimes and don't want to be hugged so if you do end up doing that animation I just asked that adult in that situation does step anyway beautiful job I'm so excited for this game the animations are so cute thank you so much for all the work that ya'll do

Leah

This is amazing, my brother has twins that are in Elementary school and this took me back to when they were a bit younger. Quite accurate the way they climb the stairs too

Sophie Goodman-Merel

Cute! I love family gameplay! From my perspective as a preschool teacher, some of the animations feel too calm or adult like. Like a toddler idling is still very goofy, bobbing their heads around, talking to themselves, making silly faces, whatever they can to gain a sensory experience. Understanding where on the toddler age range would help nail down those animations. Are Paralives toddlers more like 1 year olds or more like 3 year olds?

ZLoves212

The wittle dance moves 🥹🥹 These animations captured Toddlerhood beautifully 💕 (Also the clutter & decorrr 😭😭😍🤌🏾)

Sir Trooper

Amazing animations, very adorable! Just a suggestion, but a nice pat on the head or a gesture from the parent when putting the toddler down on the floor/chair/bed would add connection between the child and parent. Keep up the great work.

Yassou

Les animations sont vraiment super belles et fluides !! J’aime trop comment elle danse devant la télé 😂 bravo pour tous les efforts !! Pour les enfants on veut les voir tirer la langue, montrer des dessins/leurs skills/faire des spectacles à leurs parents, écrire dans leur journal intime, se déguiser, faire des bêtises, casser des pignatas, jouer en se tapant les mains (comme « trois petits chats »), on veut de vrais enfants !!

Morgan V

I like how the toddler moves while watching the TV. Reminds me of the videos my parents took of me watching sesame street at that age ❤️

Nephie A.

The dancing is so real omgg!

Lauren R

And they stay in the high chair the first time?! 😱 You spoil us 😂🫶

Didde

can't you get the adults to put and lift the child into/out of the highchair from behind, instead of from the front? it makes it more realistic. I enjoy following the development, and I really hope that the game will be translated into Danish as well.

grumpy_muppet

That "adult hugging toddler animation" 🥹 🫶

Audle

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this. But would it be possible to have the Mourning dove coo sound put in the bird ambience? It's so nostolgic and nice to listen to

Clara M Johnson

Aww this was really cute, the toddlers look so cute. The thing I want to see with toddlers, is toddlers playing and talking to each other, also child Para's playing and talking to the toddlers, we've never had either one really. I also hope that both the babies, toddlers and child Paras, will have more to them then just as someone for the adult Paras to have to take care of. Like I don't want them always throwing tantrums just to make playing with the adults more challenging, like as a added challenge to go with them working and doing other chores around the house. I want all the kids types to be their own persons, with their own goals, not just there to annoy their parents, lol! I want more sweet moments with the kids, then annoying ones, since with The Sims is always been more like they were just there to annoy the adults, it's usually not until they become teenagers that we have anything really to do with the kids in a family.

I kinda forGoT

I LOVE how this game looks..gorgeous..so cosy.

Hustavo Hustavado

The animations are so beautiful!! 😍😍 You and Lina do an incredible job! Will babies and toddlers have interactions with some toys that appear in the scene before early access? And sorry for commenting so late on the post haha

RaeAnna

The little hand on the neck is too cute!

Montehammer

That attempt to swat away or hit in that temper tantrum animation was so real. I could feel the rage in her tiny heart. Clearly someone on the team has experienced that more than once lol. This is gonna sound crazy, but I hope there’ll be more interactions like this to balance out all the sweet, which is just gorgeous btw. Keep up the fantastic work everyone!

Cece

No way I didn’t comment on this post… whoops! These animations are so adorable! The game is looking so gorgeous, I am once again gonna say I’m so I’m love with your art direction, everything feels so intentional, just as art should be. I always felt despite it being “mismatched”, the environment and paras match/mix perfectly and this video is a great demonstration of that imo. Back on topic, I love how gentle the adult is with the toddler, the way the toddler put her hands on her mother’s chest as she was picked up, the way she laughs to herself and looks around while watching tv, i could watch this again and again! and I’m very excited to see the children’s animations!

Samari Prime

Aw this make me think of my son when he was a toddler, so cute 🥰 Y'all should try peek a boo interactions too.