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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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

Set five posted to Patreon!

Hey everyone. It's a bit late but I stayed up to finish this tonight. This has been a messy last few days working on this, but that's what happens sometimes. Regardless, I finished the fifth set and posted the link on Patreon; it ended up being a massive 33 images. I want to emphasize that this is way over the 20 that I am for in a large set and is not normal; I just keep going overboard. If you want to see it before a month from now and help me make my images better and faster, check it out. The higher tiers on Patreon will also get to vote on fairly regular Patreon exclusive polls about things that go into my future sets. My Patreon is http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart and there is also a button on the right of the blog. The $5 Patreon tier and above get early access to any sets that I make in addition to other bonuses, check my Patreon page for details.

The set features Zayla as she won the previous special poll and also features Salune, a new character I made a while back. She was made to cater to the futanari crowd out there, which according to the current poll is substantial. Not necessarily my favorite thing, but if people want it, what can you do. Sorry about the delay on this, but if I had decent hardware at home to make this with stuff like that wouldn't happen. (And if it did I could fix it in hours instead of days...)

There is also a substantial chance that I made some minor errors in final construction of the fifth set, as I have been working for hours to get this done tonight and am really tired. I will check again as soon as I can and correct any issues that may be there. I also know I meant to talk about the big poll and post new ones, but that can wait until tomorrow. So I will post again then; in the meantime I hope you all like this new set. I think it came out really well and the the story part is hopefully good too. The story is more serious than the fourth set but still not quite up to the fairly serious level that people seemed to want from a previous poll. Quality is also improving as I get back into writing, and will only get better.

As before, the archive on Patreon features a clean folder and a comic folder. These preview images are from the clean version. Constructive comments are welcome, and as always spread the word about my blog if you like my work.

Second Set Posted

Hello again everyone.

My second set is ready, and ended up being a lot larger than planned, 15 images! It features a cute elf playing with a lucky and well endowed ogre. I think it turned out pretty good, but I would like to hear what the rest of you think. As before, constructive comments are welcome, spam and troll comments will be wiped.