Yttreia

Oh hey, I thought of another poll!

Whoa there, Yttreia, what are you doing making yet another poll???

Yeah I thought of another poll, what should I do with the Arcanine hybrid's heat?
-or whatever I should call those "heat" things. Hmmmm..... Another poll idea???

Anyway, yeah, Arcanine. Heat. Effects. I figure she'll have a body type where it looks like she drags semi trucks down the road a mile so she can work up an appetite and eat it. Heck, I googled this kind of stuff to try to get some ideas about...

Polls are all complete, I think.

I might be out of things to run polls for, so here's a quick summary of the results:

-Arcanine hybrid followed by a Ninetales one. Might be interesting to make a big burly woman right before making a slender, elegant one.

-Tools and anything else held by you, the viewer in the animations whenever applicable will just float. I might still use transparent hands if I really need it, but that's situational.

You.

[MULTIPLE CHOICE, PICK ANY/ALL YOU LIKE]

By "you", I mean the "you" that stars in my animations. I want to know what people think about how "you" should be presented in these POV situations that you might find yourself in. I know there's a lot of ways of doing it (based on years of lewd porn games, ha.) so I need to find out what kinds you like best. The only rule, I think, is that "you" are 100% ambiguous in gender, age, build and skin tone, so no bodies or faces.

Basically, I ne...

Poll complete, running a mini-poll, too.

Sneaky sneaky, I'm probably not going to advertise this one all over the place.

Effectively, the last poll was a five way tie. I'm giving Arcanine a winning slot, since it was suggested at a few different sites (assuming they weren't all the same person, ha) and I kinda like the idea of a huge, bulky fire dog woman hybrid.

Anyway, the other four will be narrowed down a little further through this little poll. I'm disabling the multiple choice option this time. Now that we're at a ...

Nnnnext!

(Multiple choice poll, vote as much as you like!)

I've been winding down with the Pikachu Libre and as you know, I've tinkered a bit with Latias again, too. Like I said before, I'm running this poll so you can help me pick out what's next. You gave me the oversized pile of different potential hybrids, now you get to shrink the list further. I'll take the top choices and make hybrids out of them.

As you can expect, the end result will be some kind of hybrid girl, like always.

Navels. Yea or nay?

Someone in a Discord server has been pointing out (whining 😜) that the hybrids don't have navels.

My theory is that because they're lab grown in a chamber, just GLOOSHING up from a puddle of gray goo (with some data from another universe and a few sequences of human DNA,) they wouldn't have been born in a conventional method, thus wouldn't have an umbilical cord, the main reason we have navels. Then again, bellybuttons are nice to look at and a nice navel on a nice abdomen c...

Writing a little lore...ish

  I know people aren't really going to flock to read those little lore story/file things I've been writing, but they give a little backstory and framework for what's going on, and should also allow for more types of content in the future. Hybrids, AEC, touching other dimensions, etc., just some fun little backstory stuff for anyone who might be interested in following what's going on a little. Thankfully they don't take too long to write and I'll just slip one in every so often.

Happy New Year!!!

Hello and welcome to 2019, the year of, well, inflation.

I have the long new years resolution post from before, but here's some short term goals, in no particular order:

-More body types and shapes
-Flesh out the lore I've been running in the background, maybe actually render something related to it
-At least one non-Pokemon model
-Make a couple reusable objects, like a bike pump, a chair with a strategically-placed hole, some kind of restraint, etc.
-Actually go throu...

Merry Christmas! (AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!)

New Year's Resolution(s), AKA, the things I want to do at least once over the next year:

-At least one video, lewd or not, that's LONGER than a minute or two. I hope it'd contain one or two scene transitions.

-An experiment involving voices and/or lip syncing. Probably just something sorta dumb, I don't plan on doing voices much, ever, but it'd be fun to do it at least once.

-One video that's completely disconnected from Patreon, Paypal and Ko-Fi that is 100% lewd, like,...

What to focus on:

I'm going to be away from my computer tomorrow, so I figure I could throw a poll here for people to pick what I should do when I get back.

GPU Update

Thanks again for helping pay for a better GPU!
Having messed around with it for the last few days, I can definitely say that renders are faster and smoother, which lets me be more comfortable rendering at higher resolutions and other quality upgrades without having me complain about long render times as much.

GPU has arrived!

There was a delay at the post office, but it managed to arrive only a day late. It's installed, and I'm using it for a series of pictures right now. It seems to be helping quite a bit, although I should've recorded some render times beforehand so I can make comparisons.

Anyway, thanks for funding this purchase, I hope it helps me learn and render faster.

Aaannd SOLD!

Alrighty, I went and bought a new GPU. I splurged a little and got one with dual fans, just in case I want to overclock it later and get some extra oomph out of it.

Total cost was $249.99 and the tax brought it to $272.49. I thought about buying a cheaper one, but I'd feel kinda dirty if I was asking for GPU upgrades from you guys every other year.

Still waiting...

It's like playing the stock market, I'm watching prices on GPUs as they go up and down, checking about 3-4 times a day. Hoping to time it right and get the best deal. If I miss it and the prices go back up too high, I'll just hold off until Christmas sales instead.

Black Friday Sales:

I'm still eyeing the sales as they run, it's still a little early, but prices have been dropping steadily.

Right now, I'm mostly looking at the 6GB version of the GTX 1060, priced somewhere around $210 USD. Every so often, I'll take a peek at something a little stronger, but it's currently one of the best bang for the buck GPUs on the market. I think I'm probably going to buy a GPU somewhere between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I'll keep checking the prices and see.

Before I forget: (EDIT)

I need to delete the "overclock my CPU" goal, since that's irrelevant, now that I'm using GPU rendering. Let me know in the comments if removing it is a problem.

EDIT: I removed the goal and tweaked a couple. Overclocking videocards is possible, but it depends on which one I get.

Current game plan:

I'm going to carefully watch sales leading up to Black Friday. Since I'm using GPU rendering in Blender now, I need to look out for good deals on good video cards. My current GPU is the GTX 950, but I'm eying sales on the 3 and 6 GB GTX 1060 cards. I know the current budget isn't big enough to cover a new video card, but I'm probably just going to use some of my money to fill in the gap so I can futureproof, instead of buying a part that isn't much better than my current one.

If anyone sees an...

CYOA 1 The Remote Finale

You've spent days fooling around with your new "toy" and she loved every second of it. You decide to push the limits a little further and after some careful negotiation, she hesitantly returns the remote to you, asking that you're careful of which buttons you push. The implants were expensive and she doubts that a frisky, reckless lover is under warranty.

Now, uh, if you can remember what the buttons did, it HAS been a while...

(Press as many buttons as you want!)

Removing the voting tier soon!

Last call! I'm going to remove the $5 voting tier fairly soon, if you plan on dropping support or lowering your pledges, do it now!

If there's any goof-ups on my end or on Patreon's end, like a double charge or anything, let me know!

Money Info

As you might notice, I added a "budget" at the top of the page. It's total amount made through this Patreon page, donated by you, minus Patreon and Paypal's fees.

I mentioned my system once or twice before, but here it is again:

1. All money put in through Patreon is dumped into this pile.

2. I do not consider it my money, rather that it's a fund to go towards upgrades and repairs directly related to rendering.
-I repeat, the money can only be touched if it's ...

Cycles Engine and higher quality renders

As some of you may have noticed, recent renders have had better lighting and shading. I was tinkering with tutorials, how-tos and such and learned that there were a handful of settings that were incorrect, causing any renders in Cycles to take damn near millennia to render.

The settings are fixed now, and rendering still takes longer, but the end result looks nice enough that I'd call it worth it. I still need to tinker with things, and Cycles provides me quite a few new things to learn, but s...

Another PC, health and money update:

Like before, it's another one of those posts about my situation, good and bad.

Game plan for the Patreon money:
Currently thinking about either A: a much better CPU, so I can render better things faster in the regular Blender Render engine, or B: a better video card, so I can start rendering things in the Cycles Engine, allowing for much better lighting and shading. If I make a major purchase, it'll probably be around Black Friday or the related sale days.

A question ...

What project should I do before the end of the month?

Figured I should get this list down to make sure I get some nice goals to look at for the month:

(Friendly reminder: I'm pulling the voting tier at the end of the month. If you don't want to keep the donation going, make sure to downgrade your tier before the month ends.)

Adjusting the tiers again!

I'm going to remove the voting tier, I'll save that for when/if I get more popular. Seems kind of meaningless to have 2 or 3 people voting on things, it's not enough to matter.

I'll wait for the end of the month, then I'll pull it, just to make sure people are getting the full value of the amount they put in for this month.

Heh, comedic timing.

Posted my recent schedule to my pages, but here's the quick rundown:

-Birthday stuff (the good kind, not the bad kind)
-Worked on my bicycle and motorcycle
-Unrelated family visits
-Related family visits
-Ate at a REALLY old restaurant
-Yard work
-Got stuck waiting AT places, so I ended up watching the entirety of Batman TAS
-Other stuff

Either way, it was a short break, and it looks like it'll be another day or two and I'll be back online doing things in Blender
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Checklist of skills that I need more experience in:

In no particular order, and most of these will stay here until I'm confident that I have become reasonably proficient in it:

1. Animating. Like, actual animation; walking, picking things up, throwing things, running, etc. Might even look into mocap and lip-sync, just for the experience.

2. Particle systems. Smoke, sparks, blood sprays, splashing water, etc.
2a. Hair, both the individual strand kind and the solid spiky mess kind.

3. IK rigging. I still have this problem where I t...

Changing gears on content:

Took long enough, but I finally got some negative commentary (hidden in a location where I don't actually post my stuff, ha), and hoo boy is it correct:

I make too much stuff. Quantity over quality. Burying people in literal piles of quickly-made content; videos thrown together in a short time for the purpose of testing some little thing unrelated to the video itself, or videos that aren't much more than size A -> size B.

To resolve this, I have a little game...

THE IOU LIST:

Here's the list (in no particular order) of things that I owe people, content I promised at any time that needs to be done, but hasn't been done yet. I'll update this as I go, or make new ones as I make/fulfill promises.

1. Interactive animation
-A bit out of my current skillset. I have an idea about how I can do it, though.

Gimme some clothing ideas!

Here's another idea, Patron exclusive brainstorms. I need more practice with clothing and getting it to interact with characters' bodies as they change shape (or even just move, eesh). 

So, here's the thing, I'm looking for simple, but not TOO simple clothing to emulate and animate. Post it here in the comments and I'll add it to a little list of stuff I'll do. Drop as many ideas as you like, preferably with links to examples. Mostly looking for things that look good and continue to look ...

Poll results:

Alrighty, Patrons have decided, the (probably late) interactive animation experiment will be a simple "push button, get big" type animation. The way I see it, it'll probably run pretty similar to a lot of those "interactive [character] inflation" animations you used to see on dA and FA.

It's a big weight off my shoulders, since the other options might be out of my league and I was worried I was pulling a Todd Howard, promising things that are out of my reach. Like I mentioned in the other mess...