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Cheap Tricks 42 Teaser

They've grown.

They evolved.

They got over the top.

Only to look down on you!

And you love it!

Everything goes upside down IRL, and I'm producing a chapter while still learning the new rendering engine and didn't had a week of vacation, but fuck it, it is more fun this way!

The main objective is slowly returning to GTS content creation and work on the final evolution of my comics: physically based rendering (a.k.a. iRay).
My new card is able to ren...

Heating the engines: final Phoebe

New skin, works very well on her.

Scene 1 part 2 looks good!

Today's recipe: add more pepper.

Karina iRay looks good to go too.

Testing the environment.

Ignore the woman, she just want to show off.

There it is, Snake. Is it big enough for you?

:P

More unused assets... big assets!

I had this Eden here somewhere...

CT House update.

Considering drafts and story ideas, I updated Vanessa's house keeping that "improvised" looks, after all they live in a pretty extreme situation, despite of having money. 

Somehow I think this suits better Cheap Tricks.

I turned the house more "livable" and tested some fixed lights. The girls have proper beds now - after all they're successful businesswomen - what will also serve for more plot stuff. 

I'm fixing render batches 1 and 2 and preparing for entering on ...

Friendly Warning: BILLING ON PATREON FOR MARCH IS ON!

Friends, the bet is on!

I'm preparing for going back to Patreon creating content and, hopefully, finishing the next chapter of Cheap Tricks in the new rendering engine until the end of March (the base version).

The first batch of renders is finished and the 2nd batch is rendering, meaning we shall have at least half chapter ready for the first weeks. Most characters of this chapter have also been updated and my knowledge of the rendering engine is a lot better.

The object...

Salvaged renders from DV18

This is one of the projects I re-rendered partially a couple of panels, just to fix Isadora's name, and these were 2 hanging in the base-renders folders, so I rendered them again.

Those were optional 2nd covers or even covers, I don't remember, lol.

Rendering the first batch of CT to test that thing I plan to do in March, things are still going.

Fixing old scene

This scene has a lot of potential, but was used just once. After being reintegrated into the University (it lies by its main building side now), it had a little revision and is ready for action! 

Fabric of problems...

Different to lights, that I now have some control, I'm struggling a lot with clothes materials. 

Different to 3Delight where I had full control of the material - though a little limited - , on iRay I'm still struggling to reach "basic" results because of the "thousands" of controls...

At least I'm improving and choosing the shortest way to reconfigure an old texture into the new system while improving it without needing to lose half an hour on each fabric.

DeeDee's dres...

Juicy Sunday - Phoebe's iRay

Everyone's favorite sweetheart is ready for action.

I guess...

Actually her skin is not looking good, she looks a bit too aged as you can see in the iRay reference, the same goes to Audrey's skin whose legs are too tanned...

I'll test it again soon.

Character revision: Stan

Fixing Old Stan (actual) based on the muscle one (20 years ago). Yes, the face has just a little bit of "old" and the build is just "less bodybuilder", but the base remains: an old athlete who can't define his muscles anymore and has that timeless look thanks to dyeing beard and good genetics.

Unwanted Bonus

Found the oldest version of DV chapter 3 lol

Anyone interested in this fossil?

Eden's friday

The remake I did of her first version, for height chart and flashbacks, measurements, etc.

Random tests

Materials and scenes I've been messing with these past months.

Nothing very meaningful, from time to tive I review the assets and test scenes capable of some plot developments. Also it takes a lot of time, I use to lose track of time when I'm doing those.

Unused stuff - fairy Jana

IDK if you know, but this was the first idea. Did I show this before?

Audrey seems ready to go :P

She looks very healthy, but somehow serious in her iRay renders..

It simply works

Test I did in one of my biggest scenes of all time, a raw render.

Despite of no sky dome, the rest of the scene is all there: city, stuff inside the university, cars, etc, and the 3090 renders it!

This makes me happy: it was a bit hard to the system to deal with it but it's not every day I have a scene this big to render, so, all the rest will go good.

As long I fix the surfaces, of course...

The old 1070 would never be able to do it.

It's friday.

This is part of my tests at iRay in 2022. I had this render series in 3Delight and it was lacking... idk... life.

This was even before I decided to buy the new setup, I spent weeks trying to make it work.

The final renders I'll show next month if I go back at Patreon (I'm not officially here, billing is off and the permanent patrons are not being billed), so I'll release the 3Delight public and the iRay ones here.

It was scary and rewarding... just letting this here 'cause t...

Another iRay test

This time with gorgeous Wendy.

This is another of the old tests, her skin has a lot of tan... so much to be fixed...

Gis-ray

Failed attempt to do Giselle's at iRay.

This setup is an old one but probably I'll need to edit her skin.

Flash response test: Fail...

The light moved on the first frame.

But for a fast response I consider it... acceptable.

Her thighs are at the limit of thickness in this render, can't go any thicker than that, but that's enough to her to get stuck.

As a result her ass is also much bigger, haha.

Lucky you, Ponsho.

Test run... Old Jana

Trying to post something every day again. 

This is how Jana looked before I changed her hair.

Found this while fixing the texts, haha.

This is very random

Just a couple of light tests. I think I'm almost there.

PS. Titeaser :P 

I'm a dick (yep)

Hey there.

My return is taking more time than I thought, so, thanks for all of you that are still hanging here.

As said before, the rebilling is off, so, permanent/lifetime supporters are not being billed. Before I'm back and reactivate the billing I'll tell you all.

Meanwhile, enjoy my last test. It is not perfect, there are issues here and there, but I'm happy with the results. 

There's still so much to be done I get lost... but if everything goes good we'll hav...

I'm not a dick (I am)

It's been some time since my last public render...

The reasons are that I'm still fine-tuning the "new" rendering engine thing, re-gathering content to update my scenes' shaders, and I had a little accident mid January.

I hurt both hands and one shoulder, making me unable to do even simple things - then I had a forced vacation...

The good news is that the skin healed pretty fast and the muscle/articulations injuries were not that serious, so, I'll be in one piece soo...

Light Setup Fine Tuning

I know I suck at iRay, I took months for setting up something I call a "satisfactory" light setup, even though I'm still fine tuning it.

Yes, outdoors have always been my base setup, just then I set the indoor lights per-scene, so everything must be working, like sky, landscape, reflexes and mirrors... but what a price?

Anyway, I promise I'll keep lying to you all in order to give you guys the best "dream" experience I can (see that the sun in the sky dome IS NOT the one drawing...

Tomboy assemble

Here's a quick one.

Minimum shader adjustment, old textures looking ok, 3delight shader now looking "okayish" with iRay... seems like I'm speeding up the process and having nice results already.

Probably I'll have to edit some character's texture skins 'cause on the shader results are not there yet, I mean, Giselle is washed, Eden is tanned, Audrey looks South-Spanish instead of mid-European tanned... and there's the blue sky that is bothering me a bit in the color bleeding to c...

It is all new again...

Hey there.

I'm still fixing stuff IRL, ain't back yet.

Got some time and thought about the Jessica GTS scene that was horrible to make: the excessive light and shadows were doing horrible, it was a workout making that happen.

There's a reason I'm having so much problems with dealing with iRay: outdoor scenes.

I need the sun, I need an okayish environment light and I can't afford using SOME extra lights the way I did in 3Delight because the rules are, well, different. 2023-01-13 17:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post

A small step for... wait, WTF?!

This week I finished updating Domina's Valley Series, an effort for polishing the series and facilitate me to check plot when I need to read them back and an opportunity to plant a couple of seeds for whatever I'm plotting right now.

It was a small step for a man... but wtf, it crushed me sometimes because my creativity lacks when I'm tired, but it was done, just like a whole lot of things I had to do last year...

Building the new rig that is able to do iRay on my biggest scenes, ...