Let's hope someone mods some of these romance animations into the game because it's really stupid for EA to not implement these.

These animations just remind me how many missed opportunities there are

13:08 Child: sits down Toddler: starts floating like a malicious presence is handling them Infant: time to break dance

That front flip animation gives me hope that maybe someday we could have a gymnastics skill in the game

They should have added in childhood crushes. It just seems realy cute how kids can be romantically stupid and wholesome at the same time since they dont fully understand what love is yet or how to approach it. Though i would say that i hope that some day the future, they would do one sided romantic relationships where only one sim has a crush and the other isnt interested.

The range of motion animation looks like something to test clothes

The fact that children having crushes was scrapped is kinda sad but understandable

13:20 THE INFANT DOING VOGUE 💅💅💅💅

my sim wont STOP SHOWERING IN THE RAIN I NEED THE NEVER NUDE TRAIT 😭

This is kinda cool to watch tho because you realize how much testing animations need to be added to make just a couple simple animations. As someone studying game design and development this was interesting to watch. Love your content Abi!!

THE CHILD ROMANCE IS TOO CUTE, kids play family all the time and whatnot. I wish they kept those animations🥲, like the child sims can get married" to their best friends and have a sentiment like "child sweethearts" or "first loves" or something like that. Hopefully the rumored romantic pack coming, there will be ALOT more actual good romantic interactions with sims, children included. I would def like to see more before animations like the sims 2, those were great

I miss the interactions on bed too. On a positive note, I see a lot of new (to me) and fun animations, while I play a werewolf. When they fly into a rage, things get wild. :)

theory on the front flip animation, it might have been used to test animations that change a sims location once the animation ends, making the portal part of the name make a little bit more sense. i don’t know why it’s a front flip though lol, probably just a developer messing around

The sound test looks like how you react when you have your ears tested at a hospital, giving a sign everytime you hear a sound. My guess it is from an unused feature from the Get to Work doctor's career.

I love your choice of the Super Smash Bros. Brawl trophy gallery music as background for this. It's like a gallery for the things that *almost* made it into the game.

The baby to toddler aging up by itself is so sad looking 😭😭 I had forgotten it was my sims baby’s birthday and it literally happens to her that interaction and I just felt so bad about it! Poor baby learning to walk by themselves 😭

I don't think the animations are broken. I think that the mod you use for it just separates the code for multi object/Sim animations and since the reference to the other is removed, the location to snap to is lost. For example, the code for touching the shoulder gets confused because of the mod, seeking out "shoulder" but the only shoulder available is your own. It's too complete an animation to be a bug made by EA prior to scrapping. And because there is no doorbell to touch, the Sim's arm doesn't lift at all.

oh my god the infant at 13:16 make me laugh so hard, little guy was dancing his heart out it looked like

The Doorbell animation likely doesn't work because it expects a target for the inverse kinematics to be specified, since it can't find one, the animation fails. This is the same for those bed animations, it doesn't know the other sim exists when you force the animation, whereas in the actual game with actual use it would.

Really interesting video. In most, I can only offer speculation. However, in 5:08 part, the animation (at least how it seems to me) isn't unused as children who have A in school can brag about their grades. They use this animation when doing so. 5:19 This one is called "Give Cold Shoulder" or something like that. That interaction can be used to reduce the romance bar, so yeah, in the end, this goes unused. Get Together's unused animations are interesting. After all, this expansion pack came with emotional texts and used to have the interactions to influence relationships (now it has been brought to the base game). It seems like they were going for more phone interactions (wanting to bring back break-up texts from The Sims 3). Remember, one of the things they were thinking of bringing to the pack was phone covers (seen on the cover), but they didn't make it in the end and eventually came with a base game update. So, either the interaction wasn't completed or they feared that the phone menu was going to be very cluttered. Plus the Test Reconciler Junk, it seems like they were going to add in some interaction where sims tries to mediate a fight between two sims as for me, it looks like they are near a fight. It's interesting indeed, as influencing relationships, as I told, was part of the pack. Trying to fix bad relationships eventually came with Parenthood, but it didn't include active reconciling. "Test Animation Portal" on 12:02 is random, but I have a theory. In previous games, when a NPC sim tried to get to a place they couldn't, they'd just teleport. The Tragic Clown in The Sims 1 even has an animation where he puts a hole on the ground and jumps into it to teleport. In The Sims 4, they don't do that. So, unlike in previous games, you can get a repo-man go away without taking any items by removing all the doors allowing them to enter inside the house. It's base game after all, so my theory is simple: this one could have been used by NPC sims to teleport. That would make repo-people even scarier! Oh, they have no access... Oh no! Chess ones, I feel like sims could have been able to clean the board without sitting down. But yeah, cool video. And even those I though have to be in the game were quickly debunked, so good job on that too!

The animation that shows them cranking something goes back to previous Sims versions where they had an organ grinder, where an entertainment Sim would play a crank organ to make music, I believe it was in the original Sims and maybe in Sims 2, not sure about Sims 3, but since the animation is in Sims 4, perhaps they were going to have an organ grinder but changed their minds, also some of the range of motion animations are used by an exercise mod that lets sims workout to music on a radio, I recently got the mod and have been seeing some of my sims doing a morning workout doing some of those motions, I just never knew the animations were always in the game.

This was really cool, Abi, thank you for making it! All the scrapped animations for interactions that were in previous games just make me sad. I hope they fix and implement some of them, especially the bed ones.

I wish some modder could extract some of those animations or activate them for their mods, that would be very useful.

SUCH a shame they made so many animations but they got scrapped. What an absolute waste! How many times are players complaining about repeated animations and they've had this massive this whole time we had no idea about.

OMG. Plaese sims bring these in the game. These animations are mostly ready so they really should finish them and bring in.

That portal one is probably meant for exiting a portal, with the choppy-looking start being hidden inside an object

it still makes no sense to me, as a person who spends a lot of time reading in bed or laying around looking at my phone, why any sort of relaxing-on-bed related interactions (whether alone or with a partner) weren't included in the game. especially when sims 3 had a ton of them :/

Really appreciate your investigative skills in this one!! Would like to see more behind the scenes / back-end content like this 😮

children were planned to have crushes??? omg why would they get rid of that 😭

I always wanted an exact full single gameplay that will start from Sims 1 and to Sims 4. It will be edited in a single video to watch here. The gameplay will have all same characters, same setups and same choices. The comparisons and intrigued have me wanting to see this type of videos.❤ I know I am not the only one wanting to see. Thanks. A series of this will be amazing. I hope I explained this correctly. ❤❤❤

Idk if anyone will see this as I've commented 2 weeks after the upload, but certain animations (like the massage one) will look broken because the animation is trying to find the bone points for the other Sim, for example the animation for bed relaxing massages. This is also why if Sims are too far it'll look like the other Sim is breaking their bones. It'll only properly work if it's in an actual interaction.

I'm interested to see a part 2 and 3 or however many videos you'd need to make to showcase ALL the unused ones :)

Those bed interactions must be modded in someday since we basically got the prerequisites for it already, given the "Relax" Option and the animations for it.

13:23 **Donkey Kong Arcade death jingle**

its really sad that all of those animations didnt make it to the final game. they are so cool, especially the childs romance, its so cute, and its such a wasted potential to see those broken sims more alive.

Very well made video! I love that you provided a link to find these animations and included mods that provide the features being listed that aren't provided in the base game! Awesome job!

12:46 That toddler is huge compared to the infant!

13:41 my first thought was getting arrested? Get to Work detective carrer maybe?

I'm really counting on a part 2! I don't know why, but seeing cut animations from games really makes you want to find out more about them and what not!

Lets hope that a generous creator will take these hidden animations and make them functional for gameplay. amen

3:24 self love is the best kind of love

I really want the romance interactions. They would really help to add to realism in the game

This was very interesting, I hope eventually they put back some of the romantic animations, great video.

The cutest animation that I've seen so far is an infant's transition from sitting up to laying down on their back, and it it the cutest thing I've seen in my ENTIRE life.

I didn’t know that there are those animations :O that’s so cool

12:16 Maybe this was for the highschool years pack for the cheerleaders?

1st , I thank you for continuing these videos and for all the work and explorations and deep dives into contents. This is done along with your main aspiration in the medical field. Whoa!! All your videos are so humorous, entertaining, and educational. Love them all! I hope all stays well with you and you receive all you hope for. Great job, (again)!!

Number 13 is so creepy, like some kind of zombie robot cult that turns into jelly at the end...

The animation at 12:07 is probably just a test to see how the animation rig performs, but I believe that the animation is very similar to some of the animations in the trailers for the Portal games (which were very popular at the time of development), which might be why it's called that!

Didn't noticed bed relax animations were missing. Hope they bring that back.

I always love seeing new videos from you! You're my favorite Sims KZfaqr

gotta love the frequency of videos/shorts ❤

7:25 maybe they would tidy it up first before getting seated?

Wow. Impressive video, even by your high standards. So comprehensive, so much uncovered. Love it!

I wonder if these romance ones are going to be used in Lovestruck

i’m subscribed i love your content so much. never give up ❤️

Dude the kids taking pictures are so cute 🥺

14:47 this animation reminds me of using the meatgrinder

i had no idea that there were unsued animations! thank you for this video! this stuff is so interesting to me

amazing video as usual pls keep it up

Your Sim A-Posing and moving through the house is nightmare fuel, thanks XD

Awww, the animation of being broken up with by text is heartbreaking. I almost want it in the game, but then, I'd have to see the smile on my Sims fade... Maybe the standing chessboard animations are for cleaning up the table even if you have no intentions to play ? Something like "ok, playtime is over now, let's tidy up". That's certainly something I could get behind, homes are never messy enough for my taste in this game... Also, the children's "range of motion" animations would be cool, *if polished*, in a context where adult Sims teach kids to be active. You know, as a "look at what your body can do" thing ? I think active adult Sims could use that type of bonding experience with their children. Lastly : standing desks would actually be nice ! I had never thought of that, but I'm sure active Sims would love to not sit when they have to work on the computer ! They could get a moodlet from it, I'm sure. I really appreciated how you did research for this video, but also mention mods that come close. It's very interesting, and I wish more Sims video were so thorough and thoughtful.

animation at 14:58 could be an animation for a meat grinder or wheat mill, as those things use that kind of crank (also kinda looks like they're sharpening a pencil but i dont think it's that)

I almost forgot About this channel for a while And then revisit. Its a tradition! great video.

My Xbox once booted me from the game just because an update had been released 5 seconds ago… Though I lost over an hour of playing, I saw all my sims do this on reload. 0:20

Omg I would love to see the lists of animations for the other games too this stuff is so interesting

Awwwwww the puppy love🥺 I wish they’d done that in one of the games

Why in the world did they choose to not add the intimate bed interactions? Because it’d be too much detailed gameplay? Smh

That cas anim at the start might be good Also a new features about child romance also looks good (not mods)

The bed animations must be for the lovestruck dlc!!!

The portal test animation looks like the sims 2 ninja teleportation in my opinion 👻

Crush annimations would have been cute for the kids- but probably more appropriate for a pre teen life stage.

Im assuming those bed annimations are probably going to be used in the new pack thats coming out this july

The test portal animation kind of reminds me of the animation used to enter the entrance to the carnival area from makin magic in the sims one, but with a frontflip

I wanna do some animations I'm blender in the sims 4 and this gives me inspiration

It'd be disappointing if the intimate bed interactions won't be brought back to the game with Lovestruck.

Infant testing CAS Animations: FNF TIME

Your videos are fantastic! I loved this! Is there a way to get a list of all social interactions in game? Like the list of animations you have? I feel like there's a lot of individual interactions out there that I have missed and it would be cool for you to do a dive into some of the overlooked ones (like cross pack interactions and stuff).

The long range of motion animation with the kids was way funnier than it should've LMAO

Sooo Im thinking that animations probably are the new animations of lovestock

I asume some of These will in some Form come back im Lovestruck

Adding to the theories regarding the front flip animation -- I think it's a version of the animation they ended up using to have Sims get into boats in Island Living! Because Sims don't climb into the boats like normal people in the game -- they disappear and flip into the boat! So maybe it's related to that? Also, yes, can we please have some of the bed-related romantic interactions in the game, we need more cute romance content (that isn't made by Pancake and MizoriYukii).

I miss the bed interactions from the sims 3

Lol, the elevator music version of the Smash Bros Brawl theme threw me off so bad. It fits perfectly, but I didn't realize what was in the background until about 1:25.

i can’t believe we missed out on those bed romance interactions >:(

the bed animations would be so cute to have! :( I loved those in the sims 3

the portal animation looks like from sims2 bon voyage where the ninja has teleportation abilities

these animations are so cursed. i loved it

I think the standing chess animations are for when sims clean up chess tables, cuz I've definitely seen sims clean up chess tables while standing.

Now that i think of it, the bed intimate list of unused animation might have been added while developping the lovestruck ep, could be plausible since an ep normally takes 1 to 2 years of dev

The front-flip is my fave, wish someone knew how to use it to override the walking animation LOL 😂

This is so interesting

the 3d animator in me is particularly appeased right now :p

You know, I'm horrible, but I listen to this and think how maybe the game might run better if they removed these things that aren't used.

9:21 it is so sad 😞🥺😢😭

11:03 Isn’t that the sword fighting animation in one of the get famous acting gigs?

I haven't played Sims 4 in a while, but the child romance animations look a lot like the teenager ones, if not the exact same. Especially the "Go Steady" animation.

The alert missing age anim really makes me wanna know what it's for

13:51 Illuminati 😅

that front flip reminds me of entering the portal to xixam.