January '23: Behind the Scenes (Patreon)

Hello my dear patreons to another behind the scenes.

So what have I been up to?

Next month's patreon exclusive will feature Lori in her own Virtual Seduction outing going 1 on 1 with the fiend.

Rule34 stuff is also happening. I prepared the Dimitrescu Family for their AlphaDAWG Chris outing and worked on the next Cyberpunk thing (Claire having a bit of a 2 on 1 with Evelyn and Judy). Not sure when they will release as they're still wip, but things are happening ;) .

Jane BBC Set
I know some of you are very much into the whole interracial thing and while I like to dabble occasionally -because contrast makes for fun images - I am always hesitant to do too much of it, because without any offense to anyone - a lot of that fandom is really horribly racist and I don't wanna touch that with a ten foot pole. There is a reason why any interracial piece on Slushe has comments turned off, because I dont want to subject myself (or anyone else really) to questionable roleplay or outright "discussions" about race. Can we please leave out the politics when dealing with nsfw stuff? It is, what it is, fun contrast, there is no agenda behind it. I try to incorporate all sexes and ethnicities into my stuff and present them equally exagerated because in the end all we want to see is rendered characters bumping uglies! Weird rant aside, you guys get a 22 image strong Jane set with her getting surprised by a well hung gentleman in the shower. Feels like I could have said that earlier ^^. 

Upcoming possible Commercial Sets
I am also doing a bit of RnD on the yet to be named and yet to be confirmed as a premium set, Catburglar/Mastery set. As mentioned a couple of months ago, I want it to be light on story, so that any narrative can be told without text bubbles. Still trying to nail the visuals. Have a look at the freshly genderbent detective (used to be  a male character, but I thought, a female detective would make for fun "interrogation" techniques.)
I also started pre-prod on Club D'Envie 2 which will be most likely the next commercial release. It is a daunting task, because the first one already nearly broke me, and now people actually have expectations about how I continue with this ... so yeah. pre-prod most likely will be a bit longer than normal, Not sure if I will start actual production in February yet. Club D'Envie is narratively the most involved series I do, so I want to make sure nothing bites me in the ass on a technical side up front, because I dont want to do re-writes mid production.
Upside though: Once Club D'Envie 2 is out of the way, all ongoing series are done (Multipass continued to sell poorly, so that series is dead for now) and we can do new things going forward.
Also from the poll I learned, that you folks on patreon favor the sci-fi setting over the fantasy stuff, so I might schedule some sci-fi patreon sets going fwd (maybe some Twitch stuff?). Need to think about it, given how shit Multipass sold I didn't expect that at all. This is why I do these polls, to figure you guys out. ^^

Talking Shop
I also decided to give you a bit more of an insight into the technical side of things (feel free to let me know if this bores you). I have been trying out various female gen products for G8, because the one I use (called Golden Palace) has some persistent bugs - especially with bigger insertions (which you know, I do occassionally need ...) and I always have to spend a big chunk of time working around that issue (be it during posing or in post). Unfortunately so far the other products don't cover 100% of my needs either. Some of them just look unappealing, the more promising one has way better visuals and textures, but still suffers from bugs, deforming the thighs (especially for more thiccer characters like Violea). Most likely I will end up combining the various products depending on the shot. But for that I have to do some RnD to see if I can get the textures consistent across all products in use. The aforementioned Jane set is trying out one of these new gen kits (part of the reason Jane gets "stress tested" ... wanted to see how far I can push the morphs), so if you could let me know if you like what you see, or if you think the old gens looked better, that'll help out as well.
Just a bit of a "Behind the Scenes" to show you, that not everything I do results in a tiddy render you guys get to see.
Also since some of you asked, for the foreseeable future I will not make the jump to Genesis 9, because it involves a whole bunch of transfer work (textures, poses, characters, gens etc.) and so far I haven't seen anything G9 related yet that makes me go "I should upgrade" ... plus my backlog of unused assets/characters is big enough as it is. Also I feel like DAZ is just pushing new generations on artists to keep the less tech savy artists spending more money on assets (you can make pretty much anything gen8 work on gen9 and wise versa if you know how, but a lot of people starting out don't know that yet). The amount of useless stuff I bought when I first started out with DAZ that can be done with a couple of clicks inside the program anyways ... well I guess it is a business model, just not one I need to support.

So all in all slowly getting back into it after the holidays. Also wanted to let you guys know that I will most likely have to move places sometime this year, so most likely I will pause the patreon in the month when I do so (will keep you guys updated if the timeline becomes more concrete), but just so you have heard it from me first.