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Thursday, March 12, 2015

New site done, phasing this blog out as much as possible.

Hey. So the new site is done (redleatherart.com/wp) and I am closing up this blog more or less.

If you are here reading this. chances are you found an old link or looked at one of my old renders with this URL on it. This was the home of my work until blogger attempted it's various anti-adult content shenanigans. As if the original attempt at banning adult blogs wasn't enough, this blog got taken down for about a day a while back for no reason whatsoever by some automated blogger anti-abuse system, but it is back up now. (There was literally no reason for it, they sent me a message saying that it was apparently an accident and reinstated my blog here.)

I had already planned on keeping my new site, but this last thing with blogger deleting my blog for no reason whatsoever was just the last straw. If you are someone who hosts adult stuff on blogger, I urge you to move elsewhere before any of this happens to you. I am hoping that this blog will remain up as a forward to my new site, redleatherart.com/wp, as I know that people will continue to come here as they find old renders of mine.

There will be new votes up there and all sorts of awesome new content soon enough, so check it out if you haven't already. This blog will still house all the old posts, and other things that I didn't bother porting over to the new page. However there will be no new content posted here, so head over to the new site to see all my new, fancy stuff!

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

New site: redleatherart.com

Hey again. So I am still working on the banners and a few other images for various things, but the new site is up, and it is redleatherart.com/wp. It's taking longer than I thought it would, but I am trying to make things look really nice and give it all sorts of functions that I want/need. I have cloned the polls, so to the five people who actually voted, please revote over there. I also reposted all my old content (yes I know I could have imported the entire old blog but I wanted to start over as much as possible) and I posted the latest new set over there! (Set eight.) Sets 1 and 2 are also available in an archive download for the first time ever! Even though the site isn't totally done yet I wanted the handful of people that actually check my blog to see it first, so go check it out and let me know what you think!

If you are one of the people I have traded banners with on this blog; I plan to attempt to correct all my existing banner exchanges to the new site once I finish making the new banners. (So give me a week or so.) I will update all my links on deviantart and such once the banners are done. My Patreon page has been redone yet again to reflect the new situation, any and all support is appreciated and will help me to continue to do what I am doing. I still am not sure how long to extend the Patreon set exclusivity, so that is still in the air. (It probably won't get decided until the end of this month when I post the next set.) I am supporting this old blog until the end of march when I plan to leave the abandon ship message and move to the new site, so update your bookmarks and RSS links with new ones. (RSS link above the search bar on new site.)

Friday, February 27, 2015

Well shit; Google backed down.

So funny story. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31659669

APPARENTLY THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS.
(After I paid for a site already; hilarious. Good for a lot of other people though.)

This is good news of course, but I m not risking this shit happening again/for real. I already paid for the new site anyway... so I might as well use it. I also don't have to deal with many of the blogger/google restrictions on what I post on the new place anyway. (There are theoretical restrictions on what you can have on these blogs, or so I have heard.) So the current delays are still current, I hope to resume production sometime next month... I have no clue what to do with this blog now, there is no point in maintaining two pages and yet it apparently can continue to exist. I will probably just leave it up as a redirect as planned... No reason to not use the new site really; it should be better in every way once I get everything situated/figured out. I did not expect google to change their minds on this, especially not so quickly. Also: vote in this poll would be appreciated: (http://www.poll-maker.com/poll242101xEe5a41Bc-9).

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Situation Update - Edited 2/26

Ok so I have a website, but I need time to set it all up. I am doing the best I can considering my web skills are mostly ten years out of date. I hope to have this done shortly, then I can begin moving the actual content from this blog to the new one. I plan to leave this blog up as a redirect, after I wipe all the images from it. I also plan to remake all the site images and banners, my skills have come a long way since I made those and they needed updating anyway...
 
EDIT 2/26: I have no idea how long this will take, but it is going to push things back two weeks at the absolute minimum. (So what was supposed to be this month's story set will likely be next month's instead due to unforeseen blogger circumstances.) New banners and such are looking nice so far, even in early previews due to octane. Side note, the Octane people sort of got back to me; still waiting on one message. Long story short, it seems like I have to manually do tattoos from this point forward due to Octane limitations. This isn't really a problem in most cases, it just takes some extra work to set up.

The only issue here will be for Salune's skin since she is fairly covered in tattoos, that one will suck to fix if I can even do it. There is the possibility that I may have to just edit the character down a bit to make this more doable, I will see how bad it is when I get there. (She has like... eight or so different textures that I will have to edit manually to get the tattoos working in Octane.) I will attend to that whenever I get the site setup, it is just one thing in a long list of crap I have to do before I get back to making sets again.

Even when I can get back to making proper content, now I have no idea what my new system will be like since now I have to pay just to host this stuff. Previously, I had planned to extend Patreon image set exclusivity for a month or two more, but now I don't even know what to do. Blame blogger for all this crap, I just hope other artists have some sort of backup plan as well... I can't even imagine how many people are getting screwed by this.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Status Update 2/23/15: Major problem next month and next set preview.

IMPORTANT EDIT: So I just got an email that blogger will no longer allow graphic explicit content as of march 23; (it looks real) which is a major problem as this blog is currently where I host my content. I can just remove all graphic content and give general previews such as this one, but I am not sure that will do it and this is still really bad. I don't get much of any real support from this yet, so paying for an actual website would be silly... Especially considering I just spent so much to buy Octane.  I have no idea what else to do other than wiping graphic content; other ideas/advice welcome... (And I thought things were going bad already...)

RE-EDIT: I am actually considering a separate website now, I have asked around and found some decent options, but this is still really shitty; for all adult artists on blogger, not just me. Any Patreon support would really be appreciated; especially now that I apparently am going to need it. I may have to redo my whole system due to this shit, I will see what happens. This completely fucks my schedule and I basically have to suspend further work until I figure this out. No point in making this stuff without someplace to put it...

Hey all. So I've been messing with Octane and trying to fix some problems that I've had with it so far. One major problem is fixed but the other I am still waiting to hear back from the Octane support people on. It has been a weird last week or so for me (it still is) and at best I may be able to finish the first part of this next set before next week. (The other half requires that tech support I haven't gotten a real response/solution to yet.) I could just render it with poser; but since I am building scenes with Octane in mind now, it would be silly not to use it. (It also takes literally a tenth the time and looks better.) Due to my getting Octane, I have to re-figure a ton of crap and do a lot of  things differently now; but overall it's much better. (At least for me as a creator, I am assuming the images look better too; I think so)

In any case, I did manage to get three figures working in an Octane scene which is nice because I can do what I was planning to do with this first part of set 9 and not the backup plan. Here is an early preview of part one of the next set; it will feature James and the two elf sisters from the last set. As always, this image may not be final; it is just a preview. I do not plan to release the set as part one and part two, but I may release part one on Patreon until part two is done; and then just post the full set. Even if the Octane people get back to me today, I still need time to finish all of this stuff; so getting everything done by next week is highly unlikely. Given all that's happened, I'd be surprised if I have anything done by the end of this week; but as always I will do my best. (Now highly unlikely to be done soon in any way due to blogger shenanigans, see above.) 

If people could keep voting in the polls, that would be nice... the VN poll still has less than half the votes of the one on the right for some reason. I guess pollmaker gets to stay on Patreon; people here like it even less than the normal polls. (http://www.poll-maker.com/poll242101xEe5a41Bc-9)

Thursday, February 19, 2015

So I got Octane, and it's awesome.

Hello again. Instead of going into details here, I will simply say that this project now potentially has a lot more of my time than it previously did due to impending real life changes. Due to that and a few other factors, I caved and bought Octane. It is amazing so far with a few issues here and there that need fixing but as the previews below show, it is quite nice. This also renders in minutes as opposed to the hours that poser renders take. The main problem there is that I am limited to small scenes with only about two figures maximum or else my gpu can't handle it right now. (I think I have ways around this but so far that is what I have found with preliminary tests.) That means that making stuff for octane renders is a bit more work for me right now as I need to make many small scenes as opposed to a large one with many parts. (This may be for the best.) Also yes, this was partially why I had that last poll about if people wanted fewer, quality images or not.

I will do the best that I can with this and hope that this works out better than things have been; but either way I think changes are going to have to be made to my current system. What those changes are, I am not totally sure yet but fair bet the Patreon exclusivity for things will be lengthened at the very least. (I have been considering this for a while as people who actually read this know; this is a pretty good time and reason to do so.) So the Patreon mini-sets from here on will absolutely use Octane; it is perfectly suited to them as the below images show. I have no idea what this means in regards to main sets yet, I would like to use Octane for them but it would be weird if some images couldn't be done with it and some could, but I will try. As far as the game goes, I also have no idea if this will work for it or not, I will see. The problem there is that some scenes I want to include that I just have no idea how I would get it working in Octane given the limits I have with textures.

Here are those previews, feedback would be appreciated. The left image is an octane render of a Lucia image I had on DA (check there for a comparison) and the right image is the octane render of the mini-set 6 preview in the last post; the difference is clear. (I will re-render the rest of mini-set six and repost it as soon as I sort out one of the issues I have with Octane.) I also replaced the old character images for these two on my characters page with these for obvious reasons, the rest will follow as soon as I can get to it. As far as the next story set goes, this kind of fucks everything since I have to change a lot of it (basically break it into two scenes, maybe three) to try and work Octane in. I will do the best that I can, but I may have to break it into two small sets as opposed to the one large set I planned. I know that I also wanted to have the previews up around now, but this screws that plan too. I will try to get the early preview up in the next few days and a regular preview up sometime after that. Also this poll and the one on the right still need votes so check them out: (http://www.poll-maker.com/poll242101xEe5a41Bc-9) For some reason this poll has less than half the votes of the one on the right... no idea why this keeps happening.

EDIT 2/20: Early preview is up on Patreon, hopefully the regular previews will be done by early next week.


Monday, February 16, 2015

Patreon changes, mini-set 6 posted, new polls up now and previous poll results!

Hey everyone. I had some time yesterday after all so I did this month's Patreon stuff as well as changing around Patreon again. I have added in various access options to games I make and edited some other stuff. Basic game early access is lower now, beta game access is where it used to be. Higher tiers have been totally changed and more details specified for them. Mini-set 6 features four images of Helenya and is up now, along with a new wallpaper for all tiers. A preview of mini-set 6 is below. Construction on the next story set will start tomorrow. If you like my work, please spread the word and consider supporting me on Patreon to get early access to my stuff and other goodies (like these mini-sets): https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart. Any and all support is appreciated and helps motivate me.

In the mean time I have put up two new polls; one on the right and one in a link in this post. I am trying a new method of polling, to see if this gets better/more results. This poll asks who you want to see star in my first VN attempt that I am planning through in the general sense. This is not a special poll and so I will not necessarily use the winner of the poll, this is more of an interest gauge. If something wins by a huge margin though, there is a much higher chance it might happen. Be aware; the first three options will limit what I can do in the VN, as I need to get the recurring characters out of whatever trouble they get in to. The last three options allow me to do darker shit like bad ends and the like as the character will not be overly important and is somewhat disposable, including the last option for using (what I planned to be) a future recurring character. I can figure something out if I decide to use her but semi-harsh things happening to her is fine for reasons that may be revealed later if necessary. Anyway here is that poll, (http://www.poll-maker.com/poll242101xEe5a41Bc-9) so vote now and spread the word if you want to see your favorite character in that list in a VN/choose your own adventure game or if you want to see some darker shit with one of the unnamed characters! (I am not sure which I will do, maybe the second one if one of the darker options wins; maybe a bit of both) Comments/feedback welcome on this or the current slave training game. Note: I am not working on the VN game yet in any actual fashion, I am just gauging interest in what people want to see so that I have a better idea what to plan when I do start work on it.

As far as the other new poll; it asks what kind of hair you prefer on female characters. Options available include long, medium, short, ponytails, braids, updos/buns and fancy/eccentric hair. (The last one is for the weird/complex hairstyles.) For a length reference, Zayla's hair would be medium; so longer than that is "long". The results from last weeks polls are that people seem to be alright with either quality or quantity when it comes to images, which is good to know; and that people want me to focus on the story arc, so that is the plan for now. Here is that preview of mini-set 6, and I will post again toward the end of the week (hopefully) with some previews of the next set. (Early previews should be on Patreon in a few days.)

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Status Update: 2/11/15 - So far so good.

Hi again. So almost all that stuff I said I was looking into panned out. I have some music and sfx to put in the game, and I got the semi-complex event triggers working. There is little else to do from a structure standpoint given that I want to keep this first game somewhat simple, so it is coming down to time and content. I want this game to have a fair bit of content/different scenes but the more I put in, the longer it will take. Each event for this game is basically it's own miniset, and each miniset usually requires a day or so of work alone. (This is just for the images alone, that does not include the writing/coding of either.) It is probably best that I do what I currently plan to do though, I personally hate it when a game has multiple scenes with identical images and only slightly different dialogue, so I want to avoid that. (As I said before, I plan to have 3-4 variations per training option, each one would be a different image/scene.)

Initial tests that I did have shown that having the in game timer at 30 days might work, but I can't know until a handful of events are working. (It may need more, which is no problem.) I wish that I had something visual to show for this so far, but since it's all coding that would be a bad idea. I have made a lot of progress this past week and have gotten almost everything I wanted to include working in the technical sense. (Still working on the gallery. Actually I have the gallery basically working now, at least for images. Apparently I was trying to do this an old way which no longer works, so now that I have used the new method it works.) I will be busy this coming weekend, so there will not likely be an update until next week sometime, when I will be working on this month's story set. If you want to support my work and help all this along, my Patreon is www.patreon.com/redleatherart. I plan to post a few previews of some events and such on Patreon whenever I get them done; and the game itself will be posted to Patreon a while before it gets posted here for free.

Ideas/questions/requests still welcome, now is the time for those things; before the actual content gets made.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Status Update 2/8/15 - Looking into some new features for the slave training game.

Hey. So I worked on some coding related stuff yesterday with the time that I had. I am still working through some extra things, trying to see what little extras and helpful things I can get working. I want this game to be nice, but I also want to keep it simple enough that I can finish it in a few months. There are many little things that I would like to include if I can; such as more variations, sound effects, music, and maybe a gallery.

As currently planned, each 'activity' is basically it's own mini-set, with 3-4 variations of one or two images each (more for the complex options) depending on how many times it has been done and/or Salune's stats. Once I get most of the coding situated I can work on making the scenes/writing. I know enough from previous small games and other things I have made to get all the mechanics right before doing content. Essentially the base coding is all situated, but the rest will depend on how many bells and whistles I can get working/find content for.

I still could use votes in the new polls, votes so far are really low for whatever reason. One poll asks if you prefer quality or quantity when it comes to images, and the other asks if you want me to focus on story sets. I do use the results from the polls, as shown in the previous post and prior polls so votes are appreciated. Questions and comments are welcome, just keep it constructive.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Patreon miniset 5 posted, previous poll results, and two new polls up now!

Hey all. I have posted Patreon miniset five, it features Zayla and some imps in a few images. Below is one one the seven images as a preview. If you like my work and want to support me, you can get access to sets such as this each month as well as helping to decide what goes into them (to some extent) most of the time as well as just getting my normal sets early. (I am still considering extending the Patreon exclusivity length.) Support also helps my side projects go faster; such as animations and games. Just in case you didn't read the update in the other post; I have also posted the two new bios on the character page if you are into that.


I have taken down the old polls, a few hours before it was technically over but there have been no new votes in the special poll since yesterday so I figured it was done. (I also have something to do later, so I am writing this now.) The result of the special poll is that most people want me to work on the slave training game, so I will do that for the first half of February. If you have questions or want to ask if certain things will be in the game or make a suggestion, feel free to ask in the comments. (The scenes are still being planned so now is the time.) The other options in the poll got a fair few votes though, which is always nice to see that there are other things that I do that people like. The other polls are discussed after the break, to keep this post from being too large. New polls are up though, so vote on those! I am not sure when my next update will be given that I will be working on the game, but I will try to post something next week with a progress report.

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Set eight posted to Patreon!

Hey everybody. I actually managed to finish the set today though it took a lot more work that I thought. (It took over 30 hours total to render everything and about two days of spare time for me to finish the writing and postwork.) I need to finish the Patreon mini-set and post the two new character bios sometime in the next few days, but other than that I am drained until the current special poll is done. I tried to go over this set as best I could despite hitting the proverbial wall hours ago; but some small errors may exist if someone gets this before I double check it in the next few days. So apologies in advance for that if that happens, but I really wanted to finish this inside January if possible and I did so that's good.

Set eight is the first part of the small story arc "Road to Lithorca" titled "Taking a break". It features new persistent characters James and Tabitha, along with two elven girls and a big orc. This set is a massive 32 images with both clean and comic versions and there are SIX preview images below; although two are the same as before, just larger and actually finished. I am totally wiped right now and I will try to post the character bios in the next few days along with the new patreon mini-set. If you like the previews below, the set is on Patreon right now for the appropriate tiers; plus you get to support my work and help me make it better. There are also polls on Patreon to help decide what happens in some future projects, including my first VN attempt which I am planning through. Constructive comments welcome, also keep voting in the polls on the right. There are also feeds and follow widgets under those if you like my blog.

EDIT 2/2: I changed a few words on three pages of the comic version of set eight and re-uploaded it; not that it was wrong before, I just wanted to reword some things. I have also added James and Tabitha's bios to the character page up top, so check those out if you are one of those people that enjoy backstory and additional info.



Thursday, January 29, 2015

1/29/15 - Status Update and new special poll.

Hi again. So I tried to render set eight last night but once again poser queue manager decided not to work for whatever reason, so I basically lose a day of work. Even assuming that I can get the renders done tonight, I probably won't be able to post this set before the technical end of the month. (Re-renders and postwork takes a day or two and a fair bit of time which I may not have. I have it rendering now, but it takes over ten hours total [assuming there are no problems] and I can't work on anything else if it renders during the day.) This set will probably be put out next week, unless there are basically no rendering problems tonight. (Unlikely.)

I did put out the two animations this month already, as well as all the character bios; so there has been content put out this month. (Each animation is basically a small set by itself as far as work goes, and two small sets per month was my original goal for production.) I think I can finish the Patreon mini-set before sunday at least, but we will see about that as well. Long story short, don't be surprised if this stuff gets pushed back to next week. I would rather it be a bit late and done well than rushed and crappy. (I'm doing the best I can with no real equipment to work with, but I can't make it work when it doesn't want to.)

In other news, there is a new special poll up on the right side of the blog, under the other two polls. This poll was specifically made for those people that actually check my blog often and actually vote in the polls and even read what I write here. This special poll just asks what you want to see me put effort towards for the first half of next month, as many of the high end Patreon polls would. There are a few different options, not all of which will see immediate results. (Some options are simply putting more work towards certain things; they are the ones that say "work on".) The poll will be up for one week starting today, so vote now for your favorite choice.

Also, poll results for the other two polls are very interesting so far; though one does conflict badly with many previous poll results. I will check that out and discuss it when those are done though.

EDIT 1/30: I have had these images rendering for over 24 hours now including re-renders. I will do the best I can to get this posted before sunday, the Patreon miniset will be delayed a bit but whatever; I prefer to finish this main set if I can. There is a small chance I might be able to actually make it, we shall see.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Set seven free release!

Hey everyone. Here is the free release of set seven, "To catch a Minotaur", which features Helenya the succubus and of course, a minotaur. It is 31 images with a clean and comic version and I think this set is really nice; it is the first full set that I made since getting an actual rendering card so I can put more stuff in the scene and make it look better. The original preview images are below, as well as the download link. If you want to help support my work and get access to it earlier than the free release, that and many other goodies are available on my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart. Any and all support helps me make more content faster and better, as well as give me more time for side projects (such as the game idea a few posts back and the animations). There are also monthly polls on Patreon to determine some part of an upcoming project, like a special poll here would.

I am still working on set eight, and I should have a lot of time to work on it due to weather reasons today and tomorrow. Hopefully I can finish that and the mini-set I need to do by the end of the month. Comments and votes in the polls are appreciated; for some reason the top poll has three times more votes than the bottom one which is rather odd since they both went up at the same time.

Also apparently there was an update to the pussy prop I use a while ago that I didn't know about until yesterday. This means that pussies in future sets will look much better; especially for the darker skinned girls.

https://mega.co.nz/#!bslzmAZb!TFboNUzEW_N5RMeyZKByPXiUv3bEmuWk0bxYCYBhDdE

password: redleatherart









Saturday, January 24, 2015

Set eight public preview and two new polls up!

Hi all. Here is the public preview of the first chapter of the upcoming story set. There is still a lot of work to do but I hope to finish it this month. There are two images below, the left one contains the two new persistent characters, James and Tabitha. (Their bios will be put on the character page when the set gets finished.) The right image features two of the three non-persistent characters in the set; an elven girl and a big orc. These images are not final and certain bits of the images/characters may be tweaked, but they are good enough for previews.

There are also two new polls up on the right, one asking about breast size preference and the other asking how dark you like your content. So vote away and spread the word! Set seven will be posted here in a few days, so check back for that. I also posted a different angle gif for the animation in the last post earlier today, so check that out if you haven't yet.

As far as the previous polls go, it seems that Zayla is still the favorite character by a wide margin (I figured as much when I first made the poll); but all the other girls got a fair number of votes as well this time, so that's good. Regarding the most important aspect poll, body came in first place as most important with nine votes (I am guessing that this relates to Zayla); followed by personality, face, backstory, and sexual preferences all coming in second place by getting about four votes each. Hair got two votes, race got one, and nobody voted clothes as the most important thing, which I understand but I still find somewhat surprising since everything else got at least one. Anyway, I will check back in once I have something so post. Constructive comments  on the previews are welcome.


Wednesday, January 21, 2015

1/21/15 - Another new animation up! (now with two angles!)

Hey everyone. I've been pretty busy recently but I still hope to finish this next set by the end of the month; it's just really complicated. In the meantime I sort of got the other animation working. It isn't the angle I wanted, but I think it still looks good. The gif is below, and the high quality movie files are up on Patreon. Keep voting in the polls and spread the word about my work! Set seven public release is next week, so there will be that at the very least.

This animation features Salune and another elven slave girl, this time with actual sex. Comments/feedback are welcome, consider supporting me if you really like it and want to see more.

UPDATE 1/24: I have added the back angle gif of this animation here. The high quality files are on Patreon as well. The lighting is a tiny bit different  in the back angle gif because I had to remove a wall to get the camera angle I used, but I think it still looks fine. I am hoping to get a preview of my current set up today and change the polls, we will see how much time I can get to do that.


Thursday, January 15, 2015

Status Update: 1/15/15 - Set eight construction in progress.

Hi again. I haven't had time to do that much this week, but I have started construction on the next image set. (Characters/story done, I need to finish the scene then start making the actual images.) This one will be interesting because it is the first one that is part of a proper story arc, so some things will be a bit different in a few ways (such as more dialogue/non-sex images per set). This upcoming set also has five figures in the scene which is making things interesting to work on it.

I have the one preview up on Patreon of the two new named characters appearing in this next set, (it has been up for a while but I just reposted it with a better looking one) and I am posting a second early preview on Patreon right now of the other three figures in the set. Put the two previews together and you may guess a fair bit of what might happen in this next set. I will keep working on the new set, and see if I have time to fix that other animation over the weekend; but no guarantees there, this one is more complicated than the last one and has all kinds of issues. I also posted some new images on deviant art, so check that out and keep voting in the two polls here.

The current plan is to post an actual image preview (like a semi-final one, the ones on Patreon now are early previews because the scene construction isn't done) sometime next week to Patreon, then post it here a while later, so watch for that. If you don't want to wait, you can support me on Patreon now and see the early previews, or even vote in the polls at the mid level tiers for my upcoming projects/minisets as well as get access to all sorts of other stuff that I have posted for the different tiers. All support helps my work get better, faster as well as give me more time and motivation which enables me to work on this and my side projects more (like the game idea I posted before). The seventh set will be posted here towards the end of the month, so hopefully I can get this set done before that, but this one is complicated so maybe not. I also need to do a miniset for Patreon by the end of the month, so I have a lot to do.

EDIT 1/18: I did a bit of work yesterday on the next set, but didn't have much time today. There was a bunch of real life issues to deal with; hopefully I will have more time in the coming week.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

1/11/15 - New animation up!

Hi all. I finished one of the new animations I have been working on; it features Salune teaching one of Zayla's other elven slaves how to deepthroat a cock. It's short, but I made it to loop well, so it doesn't seem like it really. (Just to explain something: I can't really do much more than this for animations right now unless I make them without shaders/shadows, which makes it look fairly crappy. Making this short animation took over seven hours just to render it. That is why it took me a week to fix it, I kept finding new problems after I rendered it each night.)

This is my first real attempt with making a sex animation and I am still working out various problems. Below is the gif of the animation, a high quality video file is up on Patreon. If I can find time and/or if I am able to get the other animation working, I will post it here in the coming week; but I need to start construction on the main image set for this month, so I may not have time. In the meantime, keep voting in the polls here; and there are still fancy polls up on Patreon for those interested, also any feedback on the game idea in the previous post would be appreciated.


Oh and here is a bonus image of the complete scene, just to give you a better idea of what's going on in that animation.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Preview of slave training game early concept

Hello again. The thing I planned on posting today still is having issues so I am posting this instead. Hopefully I can get the other thing situated in the next few days. There are also still two votes on the right of the blog in need of votes, so vote if you haven't already! I did also manage to finally get page jumps working on the character page.

I had a lot of free time the last few days due to really bad weather and other factors so I looked into the slave training game idea. Apparently I now have all the base ideas and mechanics down and the framework in place, all I need is the time to make/put in the actual content. (And preferably some enthusiasm/encouragement from all of you.)

Below is a very early concept preview of what I have planned/made so far. It is a small slave training game featuring Zayla and Salune. (It will have numerous other people/monsters/fetishes as well.) I am going to try and get some animations/music/sfx in as well if I can. The basic idea would be to get all the stats as high as possible within a given amount of time. Notice: only a few options/stats and one timeslot are shown for various reasons, the real game with have more. This also does not guarantee that anything in the image is final or that this is what I will end up making for my first simulation game attempt, (though this is currently the plan) this is just an early concept/test run. 



If the concept here appeals to you, leave a comment letting me know that you like it. If it doesn't appeal to you, let me know why not. (Keep things constructive please.) I have no idea how much content I will be able to put in to this first attempt, but a lot of it depends on how much people like the idea and how much people want it. More positive comments will make this (or any other) game happen faster, since I will be sure that people like it and want it.

If you really like it and want to help me make it faster, the link to my Patreon page is on the right of the blog. Any support helps, and I will post this to Patreon at least a week or two before it gets posted here on the blog, for beta testing and quality control. (I also plan to send copies to certain people/3d artists to evaluate as well.) The $15 tiers and up on Patreon will get access to the beta test/preview version as soon as it's posted. They will also get to provide feedback on it, to fix any issues and possibly change a few things around before it gets released. I might even post an early playable alpha or something similar, but that depends on how development goes. There is also a poll up there right now asking who should be the heroine of my first VN attempt; which will probably be done before this. (It's probably going to be a lot smaller, simpler.) I take that back, this will probably be done first.

EDIT 1/10: The animations I am trying to make are still having issues that only show up on the final render, so I keep having to fix things. Hopefully I can post something in the coming days. I think at least one should be fixed now, I hope.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Luxrender attempt and Poser Pro 2012 comparison

So I put up the pictures on the character bio page, I just used good ones of the characters that I had made before with two exceptions. I think they look great and fit the page perfectly, and they are clickable for the full size images. (Still working out the html jumps, I don't think blogger likes them.)

Below are two render images I made this weekend, the one on the left is my luxrender attempt from the past 24 hrs, and the one on the right is the same scene in poser. I know the lighting is different; you have to use special lights for reality/luxrender for it to look good. The camera is also tilted a bit more in one image, but this was for the sake of lighting in luxrender.

The main problem here is that the one on the left has been rendering for over 12 hours (and still isn't really done yet) and it still looks pretty meh to me. (Karen kind of looks like a barbie doll to me in the left image >_<) The poser render on the right took around ten minutes and looks perfectly fine to me. In my opinion, the one on the right is a much better image overall, despite taking far less time and being done in a theoretically inferior render engine.









Now, it is totally possible that the luxrender image looks like crap because I have no clue what I'm doing yet. I actually really hope this is the case; because this is the only advanced render engine I can afford by myself anytime soon. The only other one I know of is Octane, (which looks AMAZING)  but the license for that alone costs over $500. (That is for one machine only and I would almost certainly need a separate render machine too.) The only way I could really afford that is if I get enough Patreon support.

I will keep trying with luxrender, but I posted these here to prove that I tried and explain why I have no plans to use this for actual renders in the near future. The luxrender image here took over 12 hours to do, during that time I could have rendered a full quality 30 second animation in poser or even designed most of a new image set. Rendering makes my only good computer useless for anything else during that time, so this is off the table until something changes to make it viable/worth it.

In the mean time, keep voting in the two polls on the right of the blog here and you can also sign up for my Patreon to vote in those two polls. One is very open ended about what patrons want to see in the next Patreon set(s), and the other asks who should be the main heroine in my first VN attempt. So if you want to help support me and directly influence what I try to do in upcoming projects, my Patreon page is http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart. I also just posted a preview image on Patreon  of the two new characters that I will use for the upcoming story, one of which is the first persistent male character I will have! (The other is female and also a persistent character.)

I may have something else ready by the end of the week, but there is no way to know yet, so keep checking back and spread the word about my work and the polls!

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Initial Character Bios Up!

Hey everybody. I finished the writing parts of the character bios ahead of schedule and have posted it all on the "Characters" page up there. Unfortunately I am still having issues getting reality/luxrender working right, or even get html page jumps working right, so it is just text right now. However if you are one of those people that like to know the back-story for the characters (stares at the results of the most important trait poll) then this page for you. I think I got the basics covered, I didn't want to go overboard with the initial bios; I can always edit/expand them later. (I planned to anyway.) There is one for each of the five girls that I have made so far up right now.

I spent over six hours so far today screwing around with reality and luxrender, and while I have made some progress; it is far from what I need/want in most cases. (And nowhere near worth the time/effort put in to make one image.) I think I am just going to have to use regular renders for the characters page for now; I will see about getting that in in the next few days.

Keep voting in the polls to the right, both help me a lot. Also remember there are two polls up on my Patreon page for patrons that will decide what goes into some of my upcoming projects, so if any of the things in the post below sound good to you, check it out.