This post is for all patrons, as will be the potential follow-up poll on the subject. It kinda depends on how the discussion in the comments here pans out.
Here's the situation:
I have a fully animation-ready rig that I can use in Maya to animate Mari, or anyone else for that matter. It exports out anything else that is attached to the character, like the genitalia setup in the picture above. It gives it bones, weight maps, UV's, shaders, everything. Completely ready to go.
I've always done futa with balls + pussy. But as some of you might've noticed if you studied my renders closely, the cock I've always used is a separate prop. It's not part of the girls' main body, but something I just put near it. Then with smart camera angles or some photoshopping afterwards, I make things look seamless and do a 50/50 job of it in my opinion. It's certainly not workable for animation: I don't want the seams to be visible, but I also don't want to photoshop hundreds upon hundreds of animation frames individually.
The gens as you see them in that picture would resolve this complication for me, because they attach to the mesh. They're instantly animateable. The problem is just that you have to choose: balls, or pussy. I've tried to avoid having to make this choice by working together with other people in attaching a separate dick after exporting the rig. But that's been causing us more trouble than we currently know how to deal with.
If we want an animation ready character, the simple fact that we currently have to concede to is this: when we export her to Maya, she has to come out of Daz Studio ready to go. It all has to be there. Anything we try to add after the fact breaks the whole character down and makes it unuseable. There's an argument to be made that there is a solution, we just don't know which one. And that we'd have to work to figure that out. But there's a limit to both my budget and our time, and I'm eager to move forward.
So, let's look at the pros of going no balls:
1) It allows for some more variety. There's no saying I wouldn't be able to add balls to other futa girls in the future, so certainly as far as animation goes I don't want to concede here and say that it's never going to happen. You have to master the technology, not let the technology master you.
2) From a narrative PoV within Lust Unleashed itself, Carter Aesthetics could technically make anything. If you walk in there and you wanna be a futanari goddess, the choice is all yours right? It'd be sillier probably if only pussy + balls dickgirls existed.
3) The current character lineup is four dickgirls, two girls. That lineup might expand soon, but no promises yet. It'd be nice if between the dickgirls there was a bit more variety as to what they were packing.
The argument against no balls is probably that Mari has always had em, but honestly I do feel that to try and get balls right is a more interesting project for the second animation than the first.
Where do you guys stand on this? Because personally I just really want to move forward with animating, and the whole genitalia situation has really been the main holdup the last year. But the above picture is how I could export Mari out right away, no further adjustments required.
Let's hear the pros and cons from all of you.
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