Patreon WIP Overview #1 (Patreon)

Hey everyone, as mentioned in our last post, we’re going to give you an overview of the projects currently in the works. We'll focus on the Patreon image sets and animations today, and tackle the main production later. Before we jump into that, however, we want to clarify the production process of our image sets.

Our early Patreon image sets were created using the animation software Maya because the animation tools are a major step up vs what we used previously. As we experimented with Patreon, and found image sets would bolster our content offering on a more frequent basis, we decided that a robust software like Maya was overkill for image-focused content. So we decided to move image set creation to Daz Studio. The reason we chose Daz? Availability of artists. It’s usually a bit difficult to find new artists to join our team since the combination of talented, porn-friendly, and Maya proficient isn’t as common as you might think. Swap out Maya for Daz Studio in that list of requirements, however, and suddenly there’s a huge pool of talent to tap into.

So that’s what we’ve done. We’ve recruited a number of artists, some you might already know from their solo work on the Affect3D Store and Slushe, and created a small team just for Patreon image set production. These artists work separately from our main production team, and will handle everything from character posing to the setup of the environments, lighting, and characters. One or two lookdev artists lead the creation of the base files, with oversight from miro to ensure they’re interpreting the script in a way that fits the A3D visual style.

And since we mentioned the scripts, those are created by a few different writers we selected earlier this year. Just like with the lookdev, miro provides oversight to ensure the action fits with the A3D narrative style.

Anyway, we wanted to lay that out for those of you concerned that image sets were taking away from the main production. Their existence does mean miro has a few more things to approve or provide feedback to each week, but overall the amount of content we can deliver to patrons and non-patrons goes up. Additionally, we expect the image set team to become more independent than the animation team overtime, just because the animation requires a lot more hands on work to get polished up to our standard. So with that said, let's go over what’s currently in production.

Sayako Cock WIP Pt. 2 - We'll release this on the 30th.

Your Ass is Mine 1000 Patrons Anal Sex Animation Winner -- We were planning to release this today, but we’re having to re-run some cameras, so we'll post it as soon as we can. Early next week at this point. After we post this, we'll also do some variations as usual. We'll poll you for the variations you want to see when the clip is released.

The Seed of Rebirth image set - We’re close to starting the release of this image set. Part 2, 3, and 4 are making good progress, but part 1 is lagging behind. We need part 1 to kick the whole thing off, so just need to wait a little longer. The reason part 2, 3 and 4 are ahead of part 1 in this case is due to different artists in the image set team working at different paces.

Circle of Love 1000 Patrons Oral Sex Animation Winner - This is in the finishing touches stage, meaning miro just needs to make small adjustments to the animation to get it looking just right. When he finishes that, he’ll release a preview render without audio, with the final render and audio coming after, plus variations. Here's a little gif preview of an early stage camera test.

CyPunk 1000 Patrons Vaginal Sex Animation Winner - This one is also in the finishing touches stage, and has the same trajectory as the oral sex animation. Included another gif preview (it will look more raw because it's only a port preview)

Circle of Love 1000 Patrons Double Penetration Animation Winner -- We have a first draft of this, but it’s too early stage to show off right now.

Additional Lady in the Tower animations - We were adding some cum to the deepthroat and hard landing animation, but cum still needed to be finalized. Unfortunately, we're most likely going to scrap this one.

Pure As Sin animation - This clip has given us a lot of trouble cause, probably unsurprisingly, wings are hard animate.  Here’s what we’ve got so far.

AS06 Lady of the Tower fail

A little bonus clip of a lady of the tower animation which we quickly abandoned mostly because bald is so out of fashion.

AS10 - Super Heroes Image Set - Remember these outfits you voted on? Those were for a super hero image set that was in look dev at the time we asked you to vote. The first base file has since been completed, which means our first artist can start posing. One thing to mention -- we may push back the posing on this set if look dev is finished on time for another image set we’d like to release before AS10.

The following image sets we have less to say about since there's no visuals to preview at this stage. You’re welcome to speculate what they might entail, though.  😉 

AS09 - Japanese Image Set - Script complete (awaiting lookdev)

AS11 - Star Image Set - Lookdev in progress

AS12 - G4E Image Set - Script complete (awaiting lookdev)

AS13 - Princess Image Set - Lookdev in progress, environments nearly done

AS14 - Gaming Image Set - Lookdev in progress

AS15 - B&W Image Set - Script in progress

And that's the bulk of it. There's other stuff like porting characters or customizing certain assets, but they mostly fall under one of these projects.