The step by step process of concepting a scene

I thought I'd share something that I don't think I've gone into before: my creative process! I'm sure some of you are interested in how I go about the creation of a scene, and if you're not then this is still a great post with a whole buncha pictures in it :D But yes, now that I've settled on the final and definitive look for the release later this month, let's explain how I got there.

Step One: Chemistry!

The first version of a scene isn't usually that exciting, and sometimes it may take a long time to find. There have been scenes I've designed that required up to two weeks of trying before I hit the point that I call chemistry. It's the moment where something about what you're looking at resonates within you. Call it the eureka moment, haha. 

Usually it involves being aroused by what I'm seeing, but other times I can also just be impressed by the environment, the lighting, the outfit design, anything. In this case, because I'm a big fan of pink, I thought what I was looking at here was very hot and I couldn't wait to put another girl there to play with Mari a little bit. Since I was working off the wallpaper scene file, I already had all the girls loaded in with outfits, and mixing and matching was very easy.

Step Two: Harmonise the environment

Colours play a huge role for me in scene design. So when I added Kayla in, I realised that I had really upped the volume of pink present in the scene. I realised that if I was going to add in even more girls, which I wanted to, I would have to design the scene around the main colour theme in order for the background to not distract from the action, or for the girls' outfits to feel like they weren't making the most of the environment around them. So the first thing to change were the walkway edges, which were too grey.

Then I wondered if pink palm fronds would look good, and it didn't take long for me to decide that they did. What would they have used to treat those fronds? I figured some kind of spray. Why would they spray the fronds to begin with? From that question, a story emerges. Now I said that I didn't want to make this a story set, but I'm starting to think that maybe I do want it to be peripherally related to story. As in, maybe I could go with a grouping of girls that canonically could happen.

Step Three: Improve on what's there.

This is a sometimes a very quick part of the process, and other times it can take forever. Because sometimes improvements lead you to make further improvements, and before you know it you've strayed from the core essence of what you initially had. And what happens if you like it better that way? Then step three cycles back to step one. That does happen. In cases where it doesn't, you keep working. Sometimes you settle for what you have and accept that not everything can be a home run, but that it's still good looking objectively.

This set is not one of those cases, haha. After adding Tatiana and Marcella, I realised that this set mostly stood to gain from a lighting overhaul. The lighting in the first two images was too bland, and too surreal. This place needed a real sunny HDRI. So I tweaked light emission values and upped saturation levels. What I got was the shot above, which came alive in comparison to the previous shots.

Step Four: Tweak the details.

Even when you settle on that final lighting design, there are some itches left to scratch. In this scene, it goes back to two things: outfit design, and colour design. Outfit design in the sense that I didn't like Tati's outfit thematically. It also covered up too much of her body. I wanted her to be sleek and oily and with most of that hidden underneath a dress, it'd just be a waste of potential. So Tati got a new bikini, which I also took into zbrush to give some new morphs around the crotch area. This way I could get it to fit around her balls, and make her rock her cock with her thong still on.

Of course more noticably, both Tati and Marcella got hair colour changes. I've wanted to render them as blondes for a while now and this was a great opportunity to do so. With something like a cumshot special you can just kinda do the stuff that normal story sets don't give you the opportunity to do. I think both girls look great as blondes, and this is the final way the ensemble will end up looking.

So first thing tomorrow I'm going to start working on the cumshots themselves. I'll probably still add a piece of furniture for the ladies to get to work on, so thematically it'll be something that works in this scene. Maybe something glass, or blocky like the flower pots on the sides.

As of now, I still have no idea what the set might actually end up looking like. Usually it comes to me as I go. Stories I plan out, but this one is going to be very free form. I do have a list of fetishes and sex acts I want to include, so stay on the lookout for selfsucking and frotting. There'll probably also be more titfucking and anal, since I've grown to take a liking to those :D

Anyway, stay tuned! I'll be posting early access renders over the two weeks to come.

PS. Both versions of the final lighting design have been added as attachments incase you might want them as wallpaper and you have a preference for one colour of hair over the other. ;)