Status Update 12/31/14 and Happy New Year!

Hey again. I have been working on the character bios for the various characters I have already made as well as a handful of new ones that nobody has seen yet. I hope to get the initial ones finished within the week, and I plan to post previews on Patreon of the newer characters before the set(s) featuring them is/are posted here.

Speaking of Patreon, I have posted a new poll up there for the $5 tier and up. The poll is simple, it asks which of the many things listed do you want to see come together (pun definitely intended) in a mini set. (It may be a full set if a lot of people vote or if I get carried away again.) The top two choices from the poll will be put into a mini set for Patreon. (Obviously at least one of the top two needs to be a female, if not I will use the top choice and whoever the highest voted girl is.) There are a variety of choices on the poll, including all the girls I have made so far, all the monster options from the set seven poll, as well as options for a random female slave, either human or elf. There is also one new monster option: a Cerberus! This poll will be up for the month of January, and may even be used twice if there are a lot of votes. (i.e. one mini set for mid-January with whatever is winning at the time, and another for February with the ending winners.)

This is a far more generous poll than I intend to usually do, as it has basically everything that I have done/offered as an option. So if you want to see some specific combination from that list, this is your chance. You also get to help support my work and get access to the Patreon content for the appropriate tiers that is already up! (Such as the last two sets I made.)

Anyway, keep voting on the polls here on the blog as well and watch for the bio pages being added here within a week. (Hopefully.) Finally, Happy New Year to everyone!

EDIT 1/2/2015: I also posted a new poll on Patreon for the $15 tiers and up giving a choice of heroines for my first attempt at a VN/choose your own adventure game. Most of my girls so far are available as choices, as well as options for a random female elf and a random human girl. If one of the random girl options wins the vote, things can get... darker... as far as story twists/content go. (Since they would [probably] be one-off characters, they don't need to get out of the trouble they get in...unless maybe you really want them to.) As far as the character bios go, I am done with most of the writing, I didn't want to put too much in this early. I would like to get pictures up on the page to go with all the text, but it isn't behaving so far. Hopefully I can sort this out over the weekend.
 

Big poll two discussion, side project discussion, and two new polls up now!

Hi again. So it's time to go over the results of the last two polls, I will start with the side project poll.

This post is huge so I am putting a break here, the discussion is after the break. Before that though, two new polls are up so vote away!

Set seven posted to Patreon!

Hey everyone. I managed to finish the seventh set and I am posting it to Patreon right now. The name of the set is "To catch a Minotaur", for obvious reasons. It is 31 images and features Helenya the succubus and of course, a minotaur. I think this turned out extremely well, as hopefully shown in the preview images below. The set will be exclusive to Patreon for a month or so before it is released free here. If you want to help support my work and get access to it right now, it is available for the $5 tiers and up on my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart. The archive posted there has clean and comic versions of each image in the set.

I am way too tired right now to go over the polls and post new ones, that will have to wait until tomorrow morning. Constructive comments on the previews are welcome.

Here are four preview images:

Set six - "Curioscity and the Catgirl" free release!

Hi everyone. So the seventh set will almost certainly be delayed and therefore not put out today as I had hoped; but because of that I am posting the sixth set publicly today instead of on friday. I also posted the set's title in the post title, they have had names for the last few sets but I kept forgetting to put them here. Below are the four preview images from before, as well as two new preview images on the bottom, not linked to the rest because I just put them up. I think this is a very nice 24 image set with both clean and comic versions, and hopefully you will like it as well. It has Lucia the catgirl, tentacles, double penetration, and some nice cumshots/creampies. Constructive comments/feedback are welcome and very helpful, and if you really like it; check out my Patreon page. (http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart)

I will wait and change the polls/discuss the results on friday, so two more days to vote.

After looking over the seventh set, it looks like I might as well wait and rerender it tonight, if I do it during the day I can't do postwork anyway so it will have to wait until friday assuming it works this time. I still have no idea why that one prop didn't render right last night, but it seems fine now.

EDIT 12/26: Holiday stuff ran over into today, I will see if I can find enough time to finish the postwork on set seven today; hopefully I will. Two images need fixed, after that I should have time to start the postwork, there have been a few new images added from all these rerenders, so this is good.

Here is the download link, the password is still redleatherart
https://mega.co.nz/#!GwMGzDQb!r6TuArXM4IbQ4eSK0GoyttJiKz3_uh0jCqeVPBBNo3U

25k views and Patreon revamp!

Hi everyone. This blog just hit another important milestone; 25k overall pageviews! So I made this image for the occasion; there is a pg 13 version of it on my deviant art page as I mentioned last post. The image features Zayla and Salune posing with some of Zayla's various toys.

In other news I have rewritten much of the Patreon page; and shifted some of the benefits around, as well as changing some basic things. There are now more benefits/goodies available at lower support levels along with custom stuff available at higher support levels. I added a $2 support level which just gets you access to the Patreon feed where I post previews and promo images. There is also the basic $5 tier that gets you early access to my normal image sets as well. (The exclusivity period is currently a month, I may extend this in the future if need be.)

Considering that I now plan to work on animations and games as time allows, those have been added to the content list and are generally available (games get early releases/previews on Patreon, animations get high quality mp4/gif files on Patreon) for the $15 tier along with all the 'bonus" content now. (Early/unused renders and the like; this used to be on the tier above.) The $15 tier and above also get access to the Patreon polls that determine some part of a set each month and even help me decide what to make on occasion, as well as getting the Patreon exclusive "mini" set that I make each month, such as the one I made last week. (It was full size at 24 images with a comic version as well, but that was abnormal.) If you want to see something specific from me, there are tiers that can accommodate that as well. The top two tiers basically allow the patrons to ask for whatever they want for that month; so if there is something specific that you really want to see or have me work on, that is an available option.

Any and all support is appreciated; the more support I get for this project, the better my work will be and the more content I can make. I have two funding goals set, a low one to increase quality and the higher one being that I double the base number of images per set; which would be amazing. Anyway, I hope to get the seventh set done and posted to Patreon this coming week, and the sixth set gets released free at the end of the week as well so keep checking back for those.

EDIT 12/23: Construction on set seven is done, I plan to render it tonight. I think this one is really nice, probably because this is the first public set I have done since I actually got a rendering card, so now I can actually put props/scenery in the scenes. (The Patreon set two weeks ago was the actual first.) I am going to try and get all the writing/postwork done and ready today so that I can just slap it on the images tomorrow when the renders are done. So unless something horrific happens with the renders, I hope to have set seven posted to Patreon tomorrow. Also, I will probably take the votes down when I post the sixth set publicly at the end of this week; so vote now if you haven't already!

EDIT 12/24: So something did happen while rendering the seventh set, it isn't major but I want to redo it and I don't think I am going to have time to redo the images and finish the postwork today. The problem isn't horrific as I thought it might be (that was something else that I actually caught in time) but there is an important prop in over half the scenes that didn't show up right if at all for some reason that I need to figure out. I do not plan to work on this tomorrow because it's a holiday but if I can't finish it all today I will just have to release it on friday. Sorry for the delay again but I want this to be as good as it can be.

Set 7 Preview/Update and new Deviant Art page

Hey. I am working on the seventh set but progress has been slow due to real life factors. I just haven't had large enough breaks of time to do much because of the coming holiday, and this probably won't change until the weekend. This means the seventh set will be pushed back to next week, but this is an intentionally large set for once (the only public one this month) and I have put a lot of work into it already. Below is a low res but high quality preview of the two characters in the seventh set, a minotaur, as voted in the special poll here and a new girl I haven't used yet; Helenya the Demoness. (This is the one that has had a preview of her up on Patreon for a while; the one I said that I really liked.) This particular image may not actually be used in the full set, I just needed to make a preview image that had both characters fully in the frame and facing the camera that didn't give too much away. Long story short, the set is taking longer than I thought (as usual) but I think this will be really nice so I want to give it the time it needs. Constructive comments on the preview are welcome.

In other news I now have a Deviant Art page. It's actually been up for a while but I haven't really used it since almost two weeks ago now. (I made it two months ago to contact some people, but recently decided to use it for promotional reasons.) It has gotten a fair bit of attention so I am going to continue updating it when I can. There is a link to it on the right of the blog, and while much of it's contents are just softcore previews of the full sets available here, there are a few images that you probably haven't seen yet up there. So check that out if you want and watch me on Deviant Art if you have an account there to keep up with any updates I make to that gallery.

On a side note, there was a weird jump in the polls in the last few days; all of the side project votes went to the simulation game, but the ones for the fetish preferences seem more spread out (I think?) so I don't think it was stuffed; but it might have been. Maybe someone got friends to vote for them or maybe I just got a weird surge in votes. Whatever the case, more interest in the polls is good; keep it coming. Special information for those of you that actually read this far down; there will be another update here with a special image posted (not from the seventh set) sometime over the weekend, there may be a hint/preview on my Deviant Art page somewhere. (I think you need an account to see images containing nudity, but it's free.)

Status Update: 12/15/14

Hey. I have started work on the seventh set but yesterday and today have been crazy, so not much has gotten done yet. I am shooting for next weekend, but we will see how that goes. There will be a preview posted here at some point in the next week before the set is done so watch for that.

As an update to the serious story situation, I have finished most of what I needed to do in preparation; I am just waiting to get reality 4 working if at all possible. I wanted to wait to start an actual story arc until I got a decent rendering card and/or reality working. Reality is mostly fixed but is still having some issues, and even if it was working I can't use reality for everything. Reality renders tend to look a lot better but take exponentially more time to make, time that I can't spare for normal sets right now. I have to render everything manually with reality, and it takes hours; so this will be for special images and mini-sets only until the situation changes. (i.e. I get a separate rendering machine and/or enough support to warrant the time/effort.) However the first story arc and initial characters are all set to go, I may just have to go ahead and start it up in January either way, (I was hoping to anyway) but we shall see. If all goes well I may have the character info pages done before the end of the month, but again I was really hoping to get reality working for those.

In other news, I went ahead and looked into making VNs and such over the weekend and it turned out better than expected. Below is a screencap of the tiny test game I made to check that everything worked OK. Obviously this is just a basic test but the execution was successful so this means that VNs, the choose your own adventure style game, and the actual adventure game options could be done at this point. The rpg maker game, dating sim, and simulation game would take a lot more work and research to do well, not to mention time. (I know how to use rpg maker xp but I am not familiar with VX ACE yet, also are few things I don't know about using custom content in rpg maker.)

The VN style things seem more on the level of what I can afford to do both with my time and current skill level with python. (These could be done in a week or two for smallish ones, the harder projects would probably take months of solid work which I can't do right now.) Animations are already in the plans and tested, as I posted last week. All of these things just depend on the time I can spare and the interest of people in them. So keep voting if you want any of these things to happen! More votes = more interest = higher chance of it happening. Comments and follows are always helpful as well. (Follow widgets are under the polls on the right.)

Set five free release!

Hi everyone. It's time for set five to be released free and I hope you all like it. This is a much better representation of what I can do both with the images and the writing compared to the earlier sets. It is 33 images total, featuring Zayla and her new friend Salune the futa elf. The archive comes with both clean and comic versions. I am still very limited by time and hardware/software, but I think this is still pretty good.

I could really use comments on this, it would help me improve faster and do more of what you guys like. I also still could use votes in both polls on the right, as both will help me decide what to work on. Here are two new preview images of set five, (the other four are from the original post) and this time I am posting the comic versions of two images.













Anyway, here is the download link, the password is "redleatherart". If you like my work please spread the word about my work/blog and consider supporting me on Patreon.
https://mega.co.nz/#!j0sEmZKL!szRY3BWGk7pHprbIRoPSmkK32_F3Sl5RFnq7P6QVWgU

Patreon "mini" set four finished!

Hey. I finally finished the new Patreon set, and it ended up being full size and quality. It was supposed to be a few small images, but I made a story for it and ended up liking it enough to go all in. It features Karen and a a homeless beastman who lives near the brothel where she works. The set ended up being 24 images, with a clean and comic version of each. I think this turned out pretty well and I think the story is good and very fitting.

This set will be Patreon only, it will never get released here. So if this appeals to you, (I hope it does) it is available to the $15 Patreon tier and above along with many other benefits. I have posted the set to patreon already along with the high quality mp4 and gif of the test animation that I made earlier with a much smaller watermark.

Here are four preview images of the clean versions of the images in this new Patreon set. I'm out for at least a few days now, this has drained me and I wasn't even planning to do it. Hopefully I can start work on the seventh set sometime later this week. I also have a few specific images that I need to make, I may work on those instead since there are only a handful. Constructive comments are always welcome and please keep voting in the polls on the right of the blog under the Patreon button.

Oh and set five will get released free in a few days, so check back for that.

Second special poll winner and new big poll up!

Hi again. I haven't finished the new Patreon set yet, it ended up being normal sized and will take another day or two to finish the postwork.  I think it turned out well considering that it was supposed to be five or six softcore images, and it will have a little story to go with it. (Which it wasn't supposed to have either.)

In other news, the second special poll is over, and it seems people want to see a minotaur in the seventh set; so I will work that in. Since there were no votes in the Patreon poll, I guess I'll just use the new girl I have ready for this set. (Probably, I might change my mind.) Production on this set should start later this week.

In any case I am posting a new big poll featuring some more fetishes that I could include in my work at some point. This is simply a gauge of interest in these things, it does not guarantee anything will happen but it lets me know what you all like. (I put threesomes on this one because I forgot it last time.) A few things on this poll I don't really care for and one in particular I really dislike. However I am posting this anyway to see how interested all of you are in these things. As before pick a few (3-5 things per person please) of your favorites, and if you really like some fetish that wasn't on either of the big polls, leave a comment saying what it is and why it is awesome and I may include it in future polls.

Animation test preview!

So I got kind of sidetracked while working on the new mini-set. The mini-set features Karen and a beastman creature in an abandoned area of the docks. I decided to try and make this animation, I know its not that great, but I think it's more than fair for a first attempt. (Especially considering the shitstorm I had to go through to get this to work...) Also this is NOT an actual quality render of the animation, this is a preview sample. These take about 2 minutes to render, real ones take over six hours... so yeah. I don't really know what I'm doing yet as far as animations go, but I think this is good enough to show you guys. I am going to try and render an actual quality render tonight; but in the meantime here is a little low quality gif I made. Consider it proof that I can/will do animations/movie clips. (Just in case any of you were wondering if I actually could or would do any/all of that stuff in the side project poll. I wouldn't offer things that I couldn't/wouldn't do.) Also hopefully I can complete the actual mini-set later today. 

Just to establish something: I will put small gif previews of these animations here on the blog, however; once I get actual quality ones made, they will be Patreon only. (I actually make high-ish quality mp4s of these, then convert them to gifs, I plan to host both on Patreon, if I can.)

There are only three days left on the current special/Patreon polls as well, there's still time to turn the special poll around if people vote. It looks like I'll get to pick the winner of the Patreon one.

Anyway here it is, I hope that maybe this will encourage more people to vote in the side project poll.

Constructive comments welcome. 

EDIT 12/5: I put up a preview gif of the real render version. I also shrank the old one and put it on the left. I think it's easy to see the difference. (The drip was already there, you just can't see it with no lighting/shadows. That's why the preview is made so fast, it skips all of that.) I think the real one actually looks pretty good, especially for a first attempt at an animation. Oh and I didn't have time to finish the Patreon set that this came from yesterday, hopefully I can work on that later today/over the weekend. The higher quality versions of this will be posted to Patreon with the set whenever I can finish it. (I keep wanting to make a full set instead of a mini-set, probably will.)

EDIT 12/7: I finished the 'mini-set', it ended up being over ten images and more of a normal set (The plan was for Patreon mini-sets to be solo/softcore sort of stuff.) but whatever, it's done now. I will render it tonight and do the postwork tomorrow. There will also be a comic version of this set because I already wrote it. (Normally Patreon mini-sets aren't this big and don't get comic versions.) It should be ready tomorrow, and I will post the better quality/less watermarked versions of this animation with it.

 

Status Update:12/1/14

Hey again. The polls are going fairly well so far, with plenty of time for things to still change. The special poll is fairly bent towards the first option, but a handful of votes could completely change that. So keep voting and spread the word, anything can still happen.

The side project poll is going along nicely, but still needs input as well. This poll is not a simple win/lose poll; I am gauging the desire for these various types of side projects. Unless something literally gets zero votes, it is at least an idea on the table for future plans. So vote for your favorite(s) and tell your friends; more votes here means a higher likelihood of it happening.

On the other hand, the Patreon poll has no votes yet. This poll asks which of my girls do you want to see star in the seventh set? (4 named girls so far and one new option, preview of her on Patreon.) I will have to choose the winner if nobody signs up/votes, so if you want the seventh set to feature one of my girls specifically, this is your chance; one vote could decide it at this stage. I have also recently redone much of the Patreon page and edited numerous things to reflect my current plans. (Some edits still pending.) Any and all support would help expedite those plans and make my work better.

Oh and new subscribe/follow by email widgets on the right of the blog.

EDIT 12/2: So my new hardware arrived and is installed and working great. I can render in half the time now, which is really nice. I am fiddling around trying to get reality to work right but having issues. I will update this again if/when I can get that going. So apparently Reality 4 has a ton of release issues that don't look to be fixed anytime soon, so that will have to wait. Also I am part way through making a Patreon mini-set (maybe full set, we will see), it should be done in the next few days, so watch for previews of that.