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Soft HDRI

Over the last week I've been playing around with new lighting set for more realistic daytime scenes - this is the opposite of the super contrast tentacle test posted earlier. Turned out ok I think, most of the light is backlit with enough ambient lighting to make it believable. 

Youth

Some people were asking me to make the girl slightly younger so I did. New version is the one on the left. It's not so simple as just scaling down, but changing body ratios. 

Story Assets - Devices

Just some of the things we'll be playing with soon. Should be pretty interesting. Story will probably kick off in 2 weeks or so.

Story kickoff

I've been pretty busy over the last few months working on other things not Patreon related. A lot of the pictures you may have seen have been all over the place. I do that for a reason, it's to assess what people gravitate towards and prefer. So far the most popular is the Witchcraft in Salem series. So that'll be the topic for the next story. 

I'm still pretty busy and doing a lot of work travel, I should be mostly finished by the early November time frame. So around then, I'll do...

Kitbashing a summer dress

I saw a dress a while ago in a photo and tried to replicated it in 3D. Of course, none of the vendors had anything close to it so I had to cobble together parts from separate clothing. The textures were all wrong too so I had to create my own shaders and textures. 

I'm done with clothing design for now, so getting back into creating more poses and peril settings. 

Schoolgirl design

Back when I was in high school, some chick came to school wearing white thigh high stockings and black mary janes. I think some admin must have told her it was too "offensive" because she never did it again. Anyways, i tried to model this outfit to be somewhere in between cute and slutty.

I thought the western halloween-style schoolgirl outfits that show the midriff and microskirts were a bit too slutty. And the Japanese knee socks + flats were a little too tame. So I went with somethin...

Cabin light and dark

Made a new environment for activities. The light version might be good for testing poses and textures to see how they'll reflect in sunlight. The dark version - I'm sure you can imagine what the dark version will be used for. Other than that made some minor model adjustments. 

Body comp

I feel every once in a while I need to reshape her body ever so slightly and render in different lighting. 

This time around I reduced head size slightly, narrowed waist, increased hips. It's probably difficult to tell cause we're dealing with 3-4% changes at most. But hey at least the shoes are different now. 

New background

The previous background I made worked better with tentacles but had too many polys for it to render correctly, so I made a smaller one that actually works this time. Dungeon looks pretty damp - we can fit a lot of devices in there. 

New Outfit

I customized an outfit to go with the usual lingerie. Getting the textures and morphs right on the dress was a nightmare and a half, but turned out ok after much experimentation.

Design Requests Batch

Mainly for Innocence who requested these. They're all part of the attachment.

Please keep in mind that these were created 3-4 years ago, which means:

1) The model has since evolved / deprecated.

2) Transferring them to a new model is not straightforward and takes days of effort.  

PC13 - aka dForce Day 3

I think I'm pretty much done figuring out dForce for now. I added some stockings and changed the lighting to bring out more shadows. Maybe one day I can find some longer hair that works well, until then...

dForce - Day 1

I finally got around to playing with dForce in DAZ. It's kinda like the Unreal engine in that it takes into account gravity, wind, materials to provide collisions - but instead of being in real-time, it takes 10 minutes of processing for one piece of clothing to fall into place. 

In application it means that longer dresses, sleeves, and chemises can finally be posed without them looking strange - providing a more realistic render. The community hasn't gotten around to applying dFor...

Some words from your artist

Unlike some artists, I don't make poses or pictures in batches. I make each pose or picture individually and on the day of posting. While this seems benign, it is a benefit to the community (you!). 

This dynamic way of creation allows creative input from the community that can drive what happens in stories. So for example if you want to see a story or a pose go a certain way, now you would be able to control that through polls. Don't like hardcore bondage? Don't vote for it. Want the next...

Design for story

Probably gonna go ahead and use this outfit for the story. Casual enough.

Old Design #2

I updated this one from a while ago as well. 

Old design #1

I made this a while ago, it's been updated for the latest model. Looks like a clubbing outfit in a modern take. 

Requested Street Design

Also included 2 variations on shoes. 

GS15 public version for download

So I took her out of the design dungeon and so now she's chilling on a mountain or something. 

All done with the fairy design

Finished tinkering around with last bits of accessories and materials. I tried to add more stuff but decided to keep it relatively simple due the nature theme. Next up lets take her out of the dungeon for the usual conservative photoshoot. After that, in keeping with the fantasy theme, let's transform our favorite old dude into a hobtroll or something, or maybe we should just use the tentacles from 2 weeks ago. We have choices! 

Also it looks like the patreon goal has been met so I plan t...

Early concept - Fae

Haven't posted as much because I've been working on a new outfit. I heard faes are still popular. Anyways, this is just an early concept, I'll get to finishing all the accessories and materials soon, then we can stick her in a better environment. 

Community driven future work

Hi! Thanks for subscribing! Usually I just post whatever comes to my mind here, but since there's been an uptick on the number of subscribers and activity, I thought I'd leave it to you guys to decide what I should do next. So whatever get decided at the end of the poll, I'll go ahead and work on in the future. In the meantime I'll probably finish out the PN3 series. 

Ballet (Pink)

So I got these newer shoes for even more money. I imported the ballet outfit from G3 and it was a huge pain to rig everything up. Anyways, I guess outfits are OK at model posing but not really all that great at ... other types of poses, so I probably ditched it later. 

Face / Body work

I started tackling some of the issues I mentioned in previous posts. Got most of them straightened out but that's how it is sometimes. The most annoying thing with creating a new body type would be trying to get generic poses to fit.

Portrait

Here's a closer look at her face. When I first imported Minto into DAZ there were a lot of things that were off. Skin textures were too dark and didn't reflect the promo pics. Face shape was too long with and overextended jaw/chin. The freckle skin didn't work with makeup versions so I had to manually go in photoshop and layer them on. I looked for a way to reduce iris/pupil size in G8 but couldn't find any. The eye textures and shader could probably be improved a little more for additional r...

Updated lighting

I guess it only makes sense if I have patron specific posts! I took a look at the previous render and thought something was off. It actually ended up being a bit too dark - it's good for playing around with shadows but ended up darker than I expected. So I spent a day playing around with various HDRIs and lights to see if I can make daylight a thing. Turns out it worked decently. Also I spent another few days creating the skirt textures to match the rest of the outfit among other material edi...

Genesis 8

I stayed with Genesis 3 for a bit, but found some of the morphs and dials either incorrect or limiting. Rarestone recently released his character Minto, so I thought I might as well upgrade from 3 to 8. Overall I found the dials easier to play around with. Here's an initial cut at my version of Minto with updated textures and dials. 

DAZ dForce

One of the exciting things that will be coming to DAZ studios soon is dForce, a plugin that will help with dynamic clothing. I'm a long time user of DAZ studios and one of the main issues with these renders is that the solid bodies (such as humans and architecture) have evolved to such an extent that they are considered to be decently realistic. Shaders, lighting and rendering engine have all been updated to such an extent that if it was just a naked body in a scene, sometimes it gets very di...

This is a test!

Something something something. Patrons only I guess.

Some stuff I've created in the past

https://gm7k.deviantart.com/

https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=14509322

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/?uid=813560

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