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Some Amy teasers

Basically as soon as Amy unzips her jacket we go to this.

For some reason, this type of transition (not kissing ➡ deep kissing, making the chest press tighter) always seems to go better with Amy than it does with anyone else. Even though I can swap Amy's head for Julie's pretty easily, I'm not sure it'll look quite as good (though I would also do some subtle changes to the rest of the body too). Maybe I'm just getting better at it and Amy's the one I've worked the most with lately. 2023-06-20 23:20:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Status Report (A lot of Amy stuff done)

Phew! Got quite a lot done in the first half of this month. Secretly, I'd been hoping I could release the camping update by the end of this month, but it's clear now that there's just no way. As a rule, I don't like vocalizing deadlines, but I'm really shooting for having this out by the end of July instead.

There's a lot of content in this update, because it features a sex scene with all four ladies (Stella, Amy, Kelly, Julie). You can't see all four in one playthrough...

Commission #26: (Samantha | Kelly) Tent Panic

The narrative is that while frozen in fear, they decide to quietly keep going at it anyway.

It's Eric walking by outside, which wouldn't really have the same impact in the Samantha version, but since Samantha's version isn't canon anyway we can just imagine that it's her fiancé Greg walking by outside (or something).

For the final shot (where they resume fucking), I may do a lil' something to give it some oomf or velocity, but I'll see how the text turns out first. In general, th...

Camping Event plans (behind-the-scenes workflow)

As we approach the end of the month, I thought I might give you a glimpse behind-the-scenes of how I go about writing/programming a scene.

I find when writing, a good approach is to get a rough skeleton down first. It can be difficult to get started, but it's much easier when you put less pressure on yourself and say "alright, all I want to do right now is to start writing out some basic ideas of what I know I want."

(The following may be hard to read, which is why I've included a...

Julie Cosplaying as Jessica Rabbit (3/3)

And getting fucked.

These are both recycled, though the second image is recycled from a Julie one I haven't used yet.

Julie Cosplaying as Jessica Rabbit (2/3)

Could I have made Flin cosplay as Roger Rabbit or Eddie Valiant? Sure.
Did I feel like it? Fuck no.
The only problem with Jessica Rabbit is there are no hot dudes she gets shipped with (no offense to Roger or Eddie (or Bob Hoskins), they're great).

As far as I'm concerned, Flin's convinced Julie to enter into some cosplaying contest, and whether or not she wins, the two of them celebrate afterwards while David calls to see how it went. But Julie will be too busy to pick up.

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Milestone Goal: Julie Cosplaying as Jessica Rabbit (1/3)

Yeah that's right, you guys thought I forgot, didn't ya? Or you forgot. Or you didn't know...

I'll explain.

Once upon a time, earlier this month, Patreon had this "milestone" or "goal" system. You as a creator would make promises to your patrons to do certain things whenever your page reached a certain $$$/month threshold.

They got rid of this system permanently a few days ago.
But, wouldn't you know it, my page broke $100/month a few days before...

Commission #24: (Samantha | Kelly) 1st-person Cowgirl

I'll admit, kinda struggled with this one for a bit. You'll laugh, but a problem I've always had with Julie's (and Amy's) 1st-person cowgirl shot:

...is that her boobs don't seem quite as big as usual 😆. Capturing that "squish" around the arms is tricky, and in her and Amy's case, I used Gimp to edit that squish in. But it's not an easy thing to draw.

This time, I bounced back and fort...

Version 1.5.0, "The Sound Update," Released!

​At last.

Love, Lust, and Rock 'n Roll now has sound!!

Available on Itch: https://flinpaltwell.itch.io/love-lust-and-rock-n-roll

MUSIC

Every scene in the game is now fleshed out with music! Nearly every song is split into separate tracks that layer in depending on the dynamics of the scene (so the music gets more intense as the scene gets more intense, etc.). 2023-05-04 16:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Songs on Soundcloud

Hey guys, my bandmates and I have cranked out our first five songs together, now up on Soundcloud! I hope they don't mind that I'm just uploading everything under my name instead of our band's name.

Our band:
"Background Music" (name not subject to change, Kelly)

Piano/Vocals: Flin Paltwell
Guitar: Kelly Kirsten
Bass: Stella Starsen
Drums: Eric Bradenfield

No vocals ...

Status Report

For the final leg of this update, I'm doing two things: adding sound effects to every H scene, and revamping some old imagery.

When I reached Amy's second study scene (where you write a biology report together and spend the night at her place), I remembered I had done a commission a while back that involved Amy and Flin studying together, and thought it'd be nice to incorporate that. The above image is one piece of that sequence. The scene had to be re-written a bit to accommodate this,...

Commission #23: Camping, Julie sneaks into Flin's tent

Some clear parallels with what I did for Amy, and there'll be some overlap with Kelly when her time comes. Of course, all of them will have more than just this.

It's nice to be getting a head start on the next next update while I plunk away at the sound stuff! Most of what remains is simply coding sound into every scene, with some occasional polish to the sound files. There are also some revamps I'm still considering, but it's safe to say I'm more than 80% done with the sound u...

Status Report (with NSFW audio sample)

Well, gosh, here you go! The fucking courage it takes to share this shit.

This is a little sound sample from one of the scenes where I fully implemented audio. It is essentially a final draft, the culmination of months of work.
I thought about making it a video, which might help give a context to why some of the audio sounds a bit disjointed (since I'm just clicking rapidly through one scene), but I wanted this to be easy to listen to. You're getting a smattering of a fe...

Commission #22: Samantha in a Wedding Dress

Okay, the veil might not have been worth the effort, I dunno. I used some cool cloth physics tricks to help make it, but it still turned out kinda fucked up.

So while I was making this, I thought it would be funny if Samantha (or hell, even Greg) decided to hire Flin's band to play at their wedding. Perhaps THAT would be when Flin could bang and impregnate her one last time before she starts her life with Greg.

Still open to the possibility of her being an actual marriage...

Commission #21: While camping, Amy sneaks into Flin's tent

Let's drop the "digital" from "digital commission" from now on, shall we?

I wasn't about to do the entire Amy camping sequence in a few days, so you just get a few snapshots. There'll be more stuff in between, and some things will get more detail added later.

The tent setup is like this: Eric's in the light green tent over to the left. Stella, Amy, and Kelly share the larger tent up top. David and Julie share the tent to the right. Flin's in the sea green one at the bottom. This w...

Digital Commission #20, Cowgirl Kelly Animation

The history of this image: First, I made a static image of this over a year ago that was used in Kelly's 3-day sequence. Then, some time later, I made a post where I animated that image, but since the boob grab curves were added in Gimp, I couldn't easily animate that so I rendered the animation without any outlines. This time, I went in and 3D modeled those curves so they could be animated, and that brings us to what we have now: an animated version with full outlines.

Digital Commission #19: Julie car handjob, then Julie/Flin sex while Stella sleeps

For posterity: I held a poll, and two ideas tied. I hate being the tiebreaker, especially when one idea is mine and one isn't. So I just went ahead and did both, but don't expect me to get into the habit of doing this 😂

But, you could imagine how the first idea eventually leads into the second, haha.

The car handjob was tricky. It's easy to express an idea with words, but sometimes you realize that the literal 3D posing you need to do may not be as easy as it sounds. I...

Music Complete! Next Challenge, Sound

That's right, I've gone through the entire game and added music where I want it. It was painstaking sometimes, but I gotta say: it is satisfying how it changes seamlessly to match the scenes in a lot of cases.

This also means I'm done composing music for now. I don't know if the entire rest of the game will be able to ride on the back of just 4 music tracks, so I'm willing to compose more if it gets too repetitive, but for now I think it stays varied and interesting enough over...

Brief Status Report

Never make a post without sharing something, anything! Julie in underwear!

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Alright, I feel I should communicate how hectic the past week was for me and my current status now, just so you all know what's going on.

Several days ago, one of my absolute best friends (a supporter of this page, in fact) got married, and I was his best man!! Naturally, I was fucking thrilled, and the wedding was AWESOME.

The trave...

Digital Commission #18: Samantha and Flin's Climactic Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

I wasn't sure if Greg's blank, blue silhouette face would really get across that heart-wrenching feeling, so I added a mouth and eyebrows to get some expression in there.

I also did some more experimenting with quiver lines, which I've only used in Flin and Amy's lotus position climax so far. The process is tricky and a bit tedious, but this shot seemed like one that needed a bit more "oomf." Mainly because Flin and Samantha quivering from an earth-shatterin...

Revamped Kelly Animation (and Status Report)

You have no idea the effort I went through trying to improve that rippling boob action compared to the first version. I actually used a pretty neat technique I came up with to get that to work. I'll elaborate on it sometime.

I'd like to recycle this work for Samantha's version of the same animation, but that'll take a little doing. Not much.

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Alright, as the month reaches a close, I would like to cover where I'm at.

I went through and implemented music almost everyw...

Music Demo 3, "Heartbeat Pulsing"

In this video, I show you the second lovemaking song for LLRR, "Heartbeat Pulsing." If you follow the link, you can stream it without downloading it.

The previous song I made took a ton of effort. This time, it just...went by so much faster and smoother. Still a lot of effort, but less than half of the last one. And personally, I'm much more pleased with how this one turned out. That's just the way it goes, sometimes.
To be fair, it is a shorter loop than the other song.

With t...

Digital Commission #17: Flin and Amy dancing, pressed together by the crowd

For Patronese! Phew!
Put some extra effort into this one, thanks to a few people who recently gave me a free pass on their commissions. Might put this one into the game someday.

I imagine this scene happens before Amy and Flin have ever done anything together. So if it were to go into the game, it'd replace Amy's scene at the second rock band gig (the only early rock band gig where it's possible to have sex).

I struggled for a little while trying to come up with a nice way to h...

Kelly image revamp and status report (where I talk about AI bullshit)

I've included the original image. Hopefully it's obvious which one is the old one.

I mean seriously, there are still a number of Flin/Kelly images in LLRR where Flin's hair is black. These primarily show up in the very first achievable sex scene with Kelly ("Smoking makes your kisses taste terrible, you know"), so it's easy to miss them if you're not on an ascension run. But those have been in desperate need of a revamp for a while now, so I'm gonna chip away at that while working on t...

Digital Commission #16: Amy & Flin in Lotus Position in Stella's Closet

...While Stella listens to music nearby.

I know it was my idea, but this shot ended up being a lot more challenging than I expected 😅. Framing the shot to include the closet with sufficient space on the bed to show Stella was tricky, and I ended up kinda having to cheat it a bit and scooch the bed closer. I was gonna have Stella leaning back against the headboard/pillows, but I wanted her a little closer.

Anyway, I can see a few ways this winds up being incorporated into LLRR. ...

Music Demo Video 2 (NSFW)

Wow, great thumbnail.

In this video, I show you what I spent all of November composing: LLRR's first lovemaking song! It came with a whole slew of challenges, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

It's a Dropbox link, but you can just stream the video in Dropbox. You don't need to download it.

I think it took about two hours to fully implement the song into Amy's 3 days, which is a bit of work but not too bad. That's a very long sex sequence, and I think it i...

Progress Report

The picture is just something I made long ago that I never used. It was intended for the scene where Flin and Julie go jogging, but I changed my mind about the direction of the sequence.

It has nothing to do with anything; I just figure every post is an opportunity to share a pic ^^

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Alright, well, I really wanted to have the song I've been working on finished and implemented into the game to show you before the month was over, but it's clear to me now that I'm gonna need...

Digital Commission #15: Running into Samantha & her boyfriend at the beach

So to recap:
Patronese commissioned this and kindly gifted it to everyone (which, to be clear, I'm allowing to be shared in all tiers right now because sexy content releases are gonna be slow while I work on the sound update).

I ran a poll, and Samantha barely won, same as last month (with the close second being Amy instead of Julie this time, interestingly).
I ran a second poll, and it ended in a tie between bikini and pregnancy.

It being a tie, I chose the idea George came...

Music Demo Video

The above is just a screenshot of the video.
I thought I'd be able to use Patreon's new video hosting service for it, but apparently it's not ready for NSFW content creators yet, regardless of the actual video content.

Instead, if you wanna see/hear the music in action, you'll have to follow this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pln2o3rvyvgbi1/Music%20Demo...

Happy Halloween!

"Oh, hey Flin. What a crazy circumstance that I'm at this Halloween party with you wearing a very revealing costume that's a counterpart to yours and Stella doesn't find that strange at all. Do you think she'd mind if we went upstairs to the bedroom and 'hung out' for a couple hours?"

This is why it's fun to just make images sometimes without worrying about putting them into the story. I don't need to come up with some contrived circumstance; you can just invent one on your own.

A...