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The October Mega Update (With a surprise at the end)

Added 2022-10-17 15:53:43 +0000 UTC

Hi everyone!

Time really flew by and September, and the first half of October came and went just so quickly! Hope you all are doing well with the inflation and everything crazy that’s going on in the world!

As we are already half way into October, I figure we are overdue for another general update and there is a lot to talk about!

Subscription Model Change:

First thing’s first, the most important thing of all, Patreon recently introduced a new subscription model that changed when they are charging Patreons and since most of my updates are weekly based or “release when it's ready” with the rare exception of the comic collector tier ($30 and above), I figured there was more good than harm switching to it, and we did in October!

In this model, you are no longer charged at the start of every month regardless of when you make your pledge, but instead you will only be charged every month on the day of your subscription.

For most of the people who made their pledge before October, there is really nothing changed for you and you will still be charged at the start of each month, but if you decide to unsubscribe and come back later, you will be automatically using this new model and you can make a pledge without having to worry about what date of the month it is!

FaTerGD Comic Collection:

Speaking of the comic collector tier, we have something new for you for this month! This is one of my earlier works, a total of 6 chapters, more than 1000 pages of multi-size, giantess, growth and tons of actions - The Arena! The entire collection of all 6 chapters is already updated in the collector post here, with of course, the entirety of DHTG to date!

It is quite a large file to download so brace yourself, and hope you enjoy the chapters!

MGL Updates:

The MGL updates was going kind of slow, I have to split up some time to work on other things to expand the content I can share with you all, and I think it is going to be the same for the rest of October and the rest of the year, but don’t worry, there are some new things coming and it is exciting me! I will tell you more about it below!

Ella’s story is going quite well so far, definitely stretching a lot more than I thought it would (totally a trend lately for me) initially my plan was to end the story at about 300 pages and now I don’t even think I can get to the mission for 300 pages, so it is quite likely that I would split the chapter initially planned up into 2 chapters of 300 pages each and I will update it back to back, because the ending is very awesome!

The chapter, however, will get a bit gory and violent very soon as Ella started working on her job, and I will also be switching the render engine from DAZ to Blender after the current scene finishes. Blender has a much better ability to customize meshes, especially deformation, allowing me to sculpt right on the body and it will be very convenient for me to use that for the fight scenes, since Ella is really, really strong. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea tho, consider yourself warned!

Anyhow, it is still going to be updated with about 20 images every two weeks or so, and hope you all are enjoying the chapter so far!

Comic Series Updates:

I have to say, I am really enjoying making the first new series since quite awhile ago - the Legend of The Ten Rings! If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should! There’s already a good 240 pages for you to read right now if you are a Mega tier (10$) patron or above!

Blender had been a pain in the ass for me from the start, like every new software you try to get into really, but I also discovered the potential that comes with it and really enjoyed solving issues and creating a comic series that’s not done in DAZ3D, first time since the start of my career!

That being said, I have to apologize to those of you who have been waiting for the growth part of the chapter, it is certainly arriving a lot later than I planned due to once again, me extending a chapter from my initial plan and having too much fun with it, but we will eventually see some by the end of the chapter, and of course, the core of the series, one of those ten rings.

And speaking of growth, I can officially confirm that cloth tearing is finally coming to my comic series with the help of blender’s geometry nodes, something that a lot of you had been asking since the first time you saw those clothes grew with my characters!! I haven’t had a chance to experiment on it just yet, but I have seen quite a few videos on exactly how to do it, and am quite confident that it would work!

Anyhow, we will definitely still see a good 3-4 more updates for The Legend of the Ten Rings Chapter 1 before it finishes, hopefully not much longer than that!

After the first chapter of The Legend of The Ten RIngs, I am leaning towards continuing another chapter right away, followed by a new chapter of DHTG but this might still change as I get closer to the end of the current chapter so stay tuned for more!

Animation - Madison’s Footrest

I am putting aside A Demonstration for the moment because I feel like there’s much to improve after getting more and more familiar with blender, to a point that I may redo all of the WIPs I have made before and that’s gonna take awhile. This would mean, however, that my new short - Madison’s Footrest is now the first and debut animation for me!

After switching the look a few times, I’m finally quite satisfied with the render set up and post processing part of the short film, so all I need to do is to animate the rest of them (Much harder than it sound), throw it into the render queue and wait for the images to come out, so far It is coming along quite nicely with almost 2 minute worth of footage, thousands of frames (only 40 seconds of it is properly rendered tho, the queue is getting reeaaal long) but still got a lot more to do. Hopefully I can share more render passes this week and get close to the end in November!

I haven’t decided to put in sound for this one or not, but I am kind of inclined to despite knowing absolutely nothing about sound so that is definitely going to be a struggle for me, and I will have to let you all know more when I get there! Wish me luck!

Now, enough about the regular updates! It is time to introduce something new:

Goddess Among Us - The Goddess System Reborn

"With the magic growth pills circulating all around the world, amazons and giantesses became ever so common that we began forgetting those who were before growth was ever thought to be possible, those who has true power to change their size, or others at will, those who hold absolute power over humanity yet choose to remain in the shadows, enjoying their lives with their own entertainments. They walk among us, live like us, act like us, until one day they want to remind us, that you only need to be large to be a giantess, but you have to be powerful to be a goddess."

The last time I ever mentioned The Goddess System was when I just started working on A Demonstration, hoping that one day I would have time and the content to be able to revive the hit series from a long time ago, and now I have finally figured out how!

With the latest involvement of the new software, blender, I feel like it is the perfect time to introduce The Goddess System back to the world, and this time it will be very different than the ones I have had before!

"Goddess Among Us" will be a combination of The Goddess System and FaterGD cinematic render series, and instead of having series of images, this new goddess system will focus on individual, carefully crafted 4K images or short animations that will feature some of the goddesses that we have already seen in the comic series, and some new that we will introduce. Each of the goddesses will have a character card and of course, a dedicated page on my website!

It will be updated weekly or fortnightly alongside MGL series, animations and comic series, I'm planning to spend every sunday to create the best I can ever do, consider it a daily render challenge while I find way to improve my render, movements, colors, and realism even more!

The HD version of the images and animations will be released for free on my DA and Twitter (and potentially instagram), and you will be able to save those 4k, no watermark images as one of my awesome Patreon members!

Can't wait? Well I have already been working on the debut goddess for this new project, and I am sure you have seen her somewhere - hopefully not in person because she certainly likes to play with tinies, and even amazons that's barely the size of her hand!

Let's welcome - Goddess Amelia, aka The Dark Queen!

"Sadistic, Narcissistic yet a myth for many, Goddess Amelia appreciates her privacy in the ever growing world, with her throne hidden behind buildings that seems just like any other and a close knit cult that worships her size, and her power. No one truly knows the extent of her ability, as she almost always chooses to remain in the shadow, draws minimal attention and instead uses dark magic to slide into people's minds through her tricks and potions, giving them temporary power to change their sizes at will. In exchange, she turns herself into the puppet master, inhabiting one's mind and enjoys the satisfaction of violence and domination through the body of others with no mess to clean up, while leaving her own in the hands of her followers, ones that she deems worthy to be used."

And here is her character profile, hope you all enjoy!