If we think your work is good enough you may be invited to join either our Select Artist or Featured Artist teams. So what does it mean being a TSR Select or Featured Artist? Here are the benefits in short:

Select and Featured Artists have the following benefits:

• You'll have your own minisite with all options available (if you don't have one already) to promote your creations, blog, galleries and more.
• You are listed on the Select/Featured Artist lists, making it easier for visitors to find you and your minisite.
• Your creations can be filtered out in our downloads archive by viewing SA/FA creations only.
• Your creations will be featured more often on the frontpage than regular Artists.
• VIP Access to the site. As an active SA/FA you will always have full VIP access to TSR with no advertising and access to the Download Basket and Quick Download features.
• A unique SA/FA badge on your minisite indicating your status.
• The option to choose a publication date for your creations and no need to wait for approval of your submissions, they are already approved and will be published automatically on the site.
• The ability to edit all your creations at any time without having to go through us.
• Early access to our tools as they are developed and become available for beta testing.
• Access to private forums where Select and Featured Artists can socialize and share ideas, get feedback from other Artists and more.

Select Artists have the following SA only benefits:

• All your work will be better promoted throughout the site and on our Facebook.
• You may be considered for a Featured Artist position if you continue to submit high quality creations regularly. Becoming an SA does not automatically mean you will become an FA, please remember this, but we will keep an eye on your work and your progress as an Artist. To become an FA you must (in most cases) become an SA first, so this is the first step towards becoming a Featured Artist.
• Access to an SA only private forum where you have direct access to TSR staff.

Featured Artists have the following FA only benefits:

• Payments for your submissions. We pay fixed fees based on the quality of your work (there are three tiers) and the type of creation you are submitting. The fees are paid upfront after you have submitted something. You can at any time withdraw the money available in your incentive account and it will be paid out to your Paypal account. All your work will still remain free for anyone to download at all times.
• Even more promotion of your work in selected spotlights throughout the site, such as the frontpage upcoming items section.
• Private FA only forums where you can interact directly with the staff here on TSR as well as other Featured Artists.
• Last but not least, the honour and respect that comes with being chosen a Featured Artist here on TSR!

So how do you become selected you might ask?

It's quite simple: submit your work to TSR. We've been looking at Sims creations for the last 14 years and we know what is and isn't good enough to make the grade. Select and Featured Artists are handpicked by TSR's Artist Panel. Invitations are sent out by mail and private messages. It does happen on rare occasions that we go outside of TSR and invite Artists to our teams at both levels.

What are we looking for?

We will be looking for all types of Artists as Custom Content creation evolves. Initially we will invite a handful of exceptional Pattern, Sim and Lot Artists. Further down the line there will be positions open for Clothing, Hair, Objects, Make-up and basically any type of Custom Content you can create for the game.

When we review an Artist's potential we look at several factors. A good creation that works well in the game is essential of course, but it is also important to create beautiful previews for your creations - this is overlooked by many exceptional Artists, so please take your time with this! Having your own unique style as well as a popular style is also important - there is room for both (take Cyclonesue's original Rust and Industry series or Cashcraft's massively popular Victorian series as good examples). Last but not least it is also important to present your creations with a proper title and description - understanding what your creations are in a search result should be obvious, not hard.

All in all, consistently submitted high quality creations that are presented well with beautiful previews, meaningful names and proper descriptions are what we will be looking for - are you up for it?

How do you apply?

Simple. You don't! By submitting to TSR you've already started the process and we have already begun reviewing the many quality uploads pouring into our databases,. If you are good enough, you will be noted. So don't hesitate to submit your own quality work today, tomorrow or whenever you feel ready for the challenge :)