Becoming a badged artist

We currently have the following badged creator tiers:

Featured Artists: these are some of the best and most talented creators in the entire Sims community
Select Artists: these are our new up-and-coming talent

Featured Artist (FA) benefits

payment for your work! The amount paid depends on many factors, including the type and complexity of the creation you're submitting, how in need of that creation type we are, and the skill level you have.
opt for early-access publishing for a small extra payment (creations are then made early-access at the site's discretion so that the customers who support us through VIP get to enjoy them before release to everyone)
top tier promotion of your work, including front-page prime spot featuring the best creations of the day, and featuring the best work on all our social media platforms too!
private Discord channel where you can meet, help, seek guidance, and collaborate with fellow FAs and SAs
exclusive access to special collaborative projects and one-off collections where your best work will be showcased to the next tier
self-approve and publish your own work, picking your own dates and planning your releases
edit and update your own work at any time without having to unpublish the original work and restart the approval process.
free and permanent VIP access to the site while you hold your badge
early access to our tools such as Workshop, and have a say in what they contain and how they work
listing on our page of Featured Artists where people can find you easily to look at and download your work
a unique badge to display on your profile

Select Artist (SA) benefits

a small payment for your work.
private Discord channel where you can meet, help, seek guidance, and collaborate with fellow FA and SAs
exclusive access to special collaborative projects where your best work will be showcased alongside FA work
free and permanent VIP access to the site while you hold your badge
listing on our page of Select Artists where people can find you easily to look at and download your work
a unique badge to display on your profile
the opportunity to be promoted to Featured Artist if your work reaches that standard and we need the type or uniqueness of creation you make (we cannot guarantee promotion - there are a lot of factors involved, but almost all of our Featured Artists started out as Select Artists first.)

What we look for

We look for creators in all types of creation.

When we review an artist's potential, these are some of the criteria we look for:

does your work meet with EA's technical standards such as polycount or texture sizes?
is it of high quality?
are the screen previews of great quality and do they stand out?
are your creations in any way unique?
do your submissions carry meaningful titles and descriptions, and is the submission form always completed fully?
and are all your recent creations consistent with the above?

Sometimes, we also need to factor in whether we already have too much quantity of a particular type of creation. If we do, it might take a while before we have a new opening available. Some have limited or no openings (such as walls and floors creators).

How do I apply?

In short, you don't! We have staff who quality control submissions to help ensure uploaded content is of a good standard and PG-13 appropriate. Our site staff spot talent as work processes through our uploading service, and will contact you if they think you should have a badge! Note that we usually wait until you've uploaded a number of times so we can see you're consistently at a high level.