Saftkeur

Mara wip1

Finally, some actual, solid progress on my cow-lady character, Mara! Who I apparently haven't posted about, yet. (Or if I did, I didn't tag it properly.)

She's been on the back burners for quite some time, and it's only now, with the new PC's capabilities, that I've started to make progress on her in 3D. She's been around for a little while in just idea form; some little story scenarios, some chat topics in the Discord channel, but not much visual progress aside from some very ...

Molly, Umami, and Aya (profile updates 2020)

Time for another batch of character updates! I've been working off-and-on over the past couple weeks, and now Molly, Umami, and Aya are the next bunch to get updated. Molly as part of a commission project (private for now; some album art), Umami and Aya because the urge simply struck me!

Of the three, Umami and Aya proved the biggest challenge, for varied - yet similar - reasons. In Umami's case, it was the vibrancy of her hair color; I wanted to keep it close to how her images have alw...

Scenery experiments

Hope everyone's staying happy and healthy! May I offer you some more WIPs in this trying time?

A bit more experimentation, again, as I continue to explore into all of the new avenues I'm suddenly able to venture down. Scenery, for example; detailed scenery, with water and sunlight and dense shadows, unlike the more simplistic stuff I've managed to put together in the past. I'll admit, I've gone on a bit of a shopping spree for a bunch of newer content; what you're seeing here i...

Amelia (profile update 2020)

Happy birthday, Amelia! I can't remember how many years old she is now - I think I made her at least 4-5 years ago? - but she's been due for a treat for a while, and the opportunity to update her on her birthday was too much to resist! ^^

I'm really enjoying seeing these characters revamped like this, and getting into a rhythm pretty well. Amelia needed very little actual attention here, though I'm happy to have fixed up a few smaller details and generally tweaked her design; nice and b...

Kuchi, Lissa, and Mabel (profile updates 2020)

The character updating has been moving (relatively) fast with the newer setup, so I'm experimenting with putting more of them together rather than spamming with posts every couple of days. The latest three are, conveniently, all sporting mostly-matching horns! Unintended theme, but it makes for a nice lineup. :3

I'm really appreciating some of the features in the newer software, especially the smoothing modifiers, which let me fit clothes onto characters a lot more closely. Usually that...

Sanae (profile update 2020)

I'm going to try not to spam these too much, but now that I'm starting to settle on preferred shaders and settings, it's going to continue to get easier to update my roster like this. Now for Sanae's turn!

Same as how I started with Momiji; rendered in a larger resolution now, using Iray, and taking advantage of some of the improved features and power I've got to tweak and fix a few smaller details. Better-fi...

Natsume (character profile)

Hello at last, Natsume! I've been wanting to finish and render her design for some time now, but her tail in particular was a bit too much for my old computer to handle. It's still a bit slow on even the new setup, but far, far more reasonable! So much floof...

...A-Anyway! This is Natsume, a Paeran kitsune (fox-girl). Mischievous, playful, gentle... Natsume loves to pamper and to tease, making lil' cuties squirm and blush from her affectionate attentions. Some of these attenti...

Momiji (profile update 2020)

And so it begins!

I didn't think I would end up transitioning from the comfort of 3Delight to the unknown of Iray quite so quickly, but the results are just so good and it's proven a lot easier to learn than I'd expected. And so it begins; Momiji is just the first as I hone in on the settings and shaders I like most, a new generation/iteration of my character renders. :3

As a part of this update, I've decided to start rendering at a higher resolution as well; sticking wit...

Natsume iray wip

More work in progress! This is a character design I can't remember if I've shared here before; Natsume, a kitsune, who I've had in the works since before the new computer but she unfortunately needed to be put on hold due to her tail-floof being just straight-up too much for my old computer to handle.

But now? I'm really glad I decided to be a perfectionist and wait, rather than trying to cut corners or change her design~

Still a lot of little refinements to make and tech...

Miriam (vore day 2018 - Iray revisit - high-res)

High-res version of the revisited scene, for $5+ patrons! The original only had one medium size, so I figured why not give it a proper high-res version while I was revisiting it. :D 3570x2550 resolution at full, as usual there's a downloadable attachment if you want to save the full size.

Miriam (vore day 2018 - Iray revisit)

It begins :D

For context, this is - was - my vore day picture back in 2018,  and after a few people brought it up as a favorite of theirs, it's now the first scene I've decided to go ahead and re-render on the new computer. Rendered in Iray, compared to the original being done in 3Delight, and the difference is pretty huge! I had actually thought it might not be so noticeable, but I was ...

What should I revisit?

It's not 100% running on all cylinders - still need to install some more programs, get my settings worked out, etc - but the new PC is up and running, and 3D content is at least mostly transferred! And oh, how nicely it works now. ^^

So, as sort of celebration / breaking it in / getting acclimated to the new rig, I'm thinking it might be fun to go back and re-tackle some older (or even a newer) piece, render it again with new settings and render engine and all that fancy stuff I now hav...

The new build

"What have you been up to, Saft?"

This. I've been up to this

Actually a bit beyond this now, I took this photo this morning, and - many hours later - it's built and (mostly) functional! With a fair bit of work to go, still, getting the drives installed and recognized, getting Windoze installed, getting *allllll* of my drivers and software and 3D content sorted... But the computer part of ...

Yulma (profile update 2020)

An update for one of my oldest designs, Yulma! And a happy birthday to her as well; I only just realized her birthday was yesterday. :D

Yulma is a long time coming for an update like this, a full refresh of her design. She's still the same Yulma, but now she actually looks the way I've imagined her; a little more mature, a striking set of horns and tail, slightly enigmatic - but still friendly - look...

Despite how long she's been in my roster, I don't think she's gotten ...

Castle Lady - squish (high-res)

As usual, but slightly different! The high-resolution image for patrons at $5 and up, for your downloading and viewing pleasure. 3400x2550 resolution, attached below.

And for the slightly different... It's been de-noised and postworked, but you'll probably be able to see all the noise still present in the image when you're viewing it at this scale. The unfortunate limitations of my optimization skills and of my PC's capabilities, but hopefully something that over time will get less and ...

Castle Lady - squish

Aah, it finished! Not perfectly, but yet... It also came out just perfect <3

A simple title for a simple piece. She's "Castle Lady", and here she is, just going... squish. It's one of the things she does best. Perhaps you've caught her interest, or perhaps she just felt like it, who can tell?~

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A good majority of the time spent on this was spent just doing research on how to make Iray work, how to understand the shader settings, basic stuff like making her li...

2020 mini-update

So just a quick update/sum-up on where things are at this year, projects-wise!

I'd like to get back on track to finishing at least one project per month, so my current aim is that "castle lady squish" piece; in theory, it's ready to go on rendering, and with the amount of detail in Iray renders, postwork can be far more minimal. The issue is that, quite simply, Iray renders are a bit taxing and I have no idea how long one will take, nor am I all that good at figuring out the settings ye...

Ruri+Lissa+Kuchi wip2

February 7th, 2019. That's how long ago it was when I posted wip1 of this scene... ^^; I could have sworn this was far more recent, but oops! I'd forgotten that 2019 was a year.

In any case! I'm still alive, and back to working on this piece again after all that time. I'd said in the first post that "maybe you can guess where this might be going"; well, probably even easier to guess now! Obviously Kuchi is mi...

castle lady squish wip

So I've been experimenting more with DS4 and the features within it, lately. And as it turns out, there's a particular feature available in there that lets you make things conform or collide with other objects, or if you tweak the settings a little, squish against other objects... <3

It's not quite a full softbody physics simulation, "squished" objects don't maintain their mass properly and you need to adjust that manually (in this case, I needed to make her chest bigger bef...

A belated happy holidays! +update

Hello everyone! I hope your holidays are going well, and have gone well. A brand new year and decade rapidly on the way!

Things haven't gone as smoothly as I'd hoped they might, this year. But I can't deny the fact that it did go well; the support from you all has only grown, even despite slowness on my end. And I'm so incredibly grateful for that. Thanks to all of you here, I've been able to more freely add to my library of 3D content, I've been able to pay for new equipment, ...

Chelsea's birthday (high-res)

This project's high resolution file for all $5+ patrons, in full 3400x2550! Original file is attached below.

Chelsea's birthday

Happy birthday, Chelsea! <3 Who's that there on the cake? Are you there to deliver her a birthday gift... or are you the gift?

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Well, I'd hoped to make this a first of many Iray renders, but sadly, it'll have to settle for being only partially an Iray render. My poor computer just isn't quite up to snuff for such big things, yet, and a two-hour render still only gave me something too grainy and rough to salvage... It was a promising start, though! And computer upgr...

Chelsea's birthday wip2

Very rough, since it's still in the "figuring out how these lights work" stage (also in preview render mode). But we're off to a good start here, I think!

Perhaps it's biting off more than I should so early, but I'd really like to render this scene in Iray; the ability to make the candles cast real light, the increased realism with shading... I don't think I'll go quite so dark on the final image, a few more lights should improve the scene. But I like where it's going so far.

With...

Chelsea's birthday wip1

Some of you might remember this scene from waaay back! It was a WIP I originally had intended to use for my own birthday - since Chelsea is lowkey still my favorite character - but the whole thing ended up not happening. Well, I still had the scene saved, and Chelsea just got an update, and her birthday is coming up... (December 17th!)

My rough plan for this is to keep it relatively simple, but maybe we'll take a jump up into Iray render territory for a bit of fun experimentation with t...

Mabel (character profile)

 One of a new pair of Paeratopa characters! This one is Mabel; a playful, mischievous cow-girl, always delighted to tease and torm- play with tiny folks. She's ultimately harmless and well-intentioned, but she just can't resist joking around and teasing amusing reactions out of people.

Being more cow-like than most others, Mabel can ruminate, and absolutely loves to abuse this. Don't want to be eaten? She's fine with that, but to her, that just means don't digest ...

Penny (character profile)

One of a new pair of Paeratopa characters! This one is Penny; a friendly, energetic dog-girl, airheaded at times (read: 24/7) but incredibly sweet and affectionate. She can't help but to get excited over things! Meeting new people, meeting old friends, eating new people and old friends...

She doesn't always eat people intentionally, sometimes - well, a lot of the time, really - it's just accidental, due to enthusiasm and carelessness. Friendly, affectionate licks are one thing ...

Chelsea (profile update 2019)

Did she need an update? N...no, not really. Did I want to give her one? Absolutely

(also I'm only just realizing now that her last update was over a year ago, how does the time go so fast)

But yes, Chelsea. <3 She still holds a sort of special spot for me, even though it's increasingly difficult to put a finger on what exactly it is that I like about her. But I know how to give her improvements; subtle and not-so-subtle changes to body shape, smoothing her out a bit, giving her...

Update dump! (November 2019)

About time for another update, right?

I've been working on a bunch of projects off-and-on lately, a lot of which are (in my opinion at least) just a little too rough and unfinished to post here without potentially overloading people with notifications. That said, they're still worth sharing, and since Patreon allows for uploading image sets now! Well, here we are.

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First image is the most recent, and also the biggest thing here. I've been getting more and more f...

Kuchi - candy surprise (Halloween)(high-res)

The usual! Full resolution file for all you $5+ patrons. Be sure to check the attachments for the original 3400x2550 file!

Kuchi - candy surprise (Halloween 2019)

A slightly belated Happy Halloween to you all! And this year, we have... Kuchi and Ruri! Both in the midst of their celebrations.

...Well, Ruri is in the midst of her own celebrations, and Kuchi is seeming like she's about to put Ruri in the midst of hers. I'm sure Ruri won't mind. Probably.

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I'm sorely tempted to write a bit more of a blurb for this one later, a short story of sorts. Not sure if it'll actually happen, but I'll be sure to edit it into here if I ...