Content Updates - Early July!

Hey! Here's an quick update on content - no big life changes here, at least not one's that don't affect content! First 4 images are from 'Streamer Food', next three are from 'Shrunken Sunday', last one is Character Creator 4.

I'm juggling a few projects and honestly having trouble deciding on which way to go. Since last month was mostly focused on feet, I've been planning on having a more vore-focused story this time, so I've got a vore animation I've been working on. This one (first image) is tentatively called 'Streamer Food', in which we follow a couple of people who are shrunken and teleported into their favorite girl gamer's breakfast cereal (I know...I just... really like cereal vore) and try to survive. This project is becoming pretty ambitious for the 3 - 3 minute short it was supposed to be, especially because I wanted to focus on in-the-bowl perspectives of being tossed around while she stirs the cereal, which has been challenging, but also because I wanted to add voice-acting...which has lead to some *significant* updates I'll talk about in a second.

On the other hand, 'Shrunken Sunday Part Two' is a lot of content originally intended to be part of the first part, but wasn't quite ready. My intent was to drop Streamer Food as a quick, fun thing, then finish Shrunken Sunday. But now, as is usual, Streamer Food is slowly ballooning into a bigger project and I'm scared it won't be ready by the end of the month (due to changes I'm going to talk about in like...a paragraph or two). So I could switch back to Shrunken Sunday and finish it in a few weeks since it was nearly completely....BUT

...a lot of the remainder of Shrunken Sunday is feet and in-shoe content, and since that was basically all I produced last month, I don't want to betray the people who like vore and other kinds of content. But the heaviest factor in all of this is...

I think I've finally found a software suite to switch to for animation. Over the last month, I've been giving iClone 8 and Character Creator a trial run, and I've been absolutely blown away by the possibilities with this software. It took me a few days to find easy ways to use my Daz Studio content in iClone, but once I got through that troubleshooting, I'm telling you...this is the most modern and easiest way to get into really incredible animation. I want to make a post about how difficult animating in Daz is just to compare it to iClone, and I might, but the difference is night and day.

There's still some bumps in the road...like my characters not importing with makeup on, and some of them just importing with their tongues literally hanging out of their mouths, floating in front of their faces, but there are fixes and workarounds, and I'm more than happy to deal with those than to keep fighting with Daz on something as simple as having a character pick up a cup for literal days on end. No, seriously, it takes a few days of work and rendering to get characters to pick up an object in Daz, and it usually just boils down to me animating the cup separately and timing it so that it looks natural. It's painfully difficult.

Another big change is how the affects Streamer Food. I looked into iClone because I heard that it does lip syncing really well, and it does. Incredibly easily, good looking lip-syncing options and facial motion capture with only the voice of my actress and a web cam...all the other tools are in the software....but there's a learning curve, and implementing it into Streamer Cereal is going to take longer than I was hoping. So...Im not sure how Im going to handle it yet.

Oh, and switching to iClone and implementing motion capture has already cost nearly $2000, so I'm just going to take a little extra time in this corner, crying over this huge financial commitment I've made. But I couldn't do this without all of your support, so thank you!

Anyway, while I keep crying over my flaming wallet and gushing over iClone's incredibly easy character creation, animation, and beautiful cloth simulation (something Daz can't do without days and days of extra work for each character...and mediocre results), please enjoy some recent WIPs and renders of what I'm in the process of, including Streamer Food, Shrunken Sunday, and a little iClone 8/Character Creator 4 practice. There's clearly a lot in the works right now, and I can't wait to bring it to you!