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.

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.

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.

 

Fourth set free release!

Hey everyone. It's two days early but here is the fourth set's free release. I am very interested in comments for this set and the fifth one. I know the "story" for this set is on the light side as far as words/content go, but this was my first attempt at implementing a story. The set was also done at the request of a friend, so the story had to be retrofitted in. It wasn't even supposed to have a story but I wanted to try implementing a story into this one so that I would know better for the next, better story. (I think the fifth set is much, much better from a story standpoint; check the previews below for clean image previews or Patreon for the full set.)

I am also posting a sort of new poll to help get feedback on this set as it is the first set with text implemented. The poll just asks how you feel about the implementation of the story into this set. It is very similar to an old poll about how I should have implemented stories into my sets, but this time there is something to judge your previous choice with. I have already done the fifth set in this style, but we will see what you all think of this first attempt.

Please vote in the polls, they help me a lot and give you all a way to influence my work. Real comments would also be helpful as long as they are constructive.

I am not going to post the entire set to imagevenue this time as it is over 30 images, but here are the four preview images from before. The archive below contains a clean images folder as well as the comic folder.

As always if you like my work please spread the word, or even better; support me on Patreon. Patrons get early access to my sets (the fifth set is up there right now!) and the higher tiers get other stuff as well. Examples include: Patreon exclusive image sets and much more frequent special polls that directly affect some part of an upcoming set. Any support would also help my art get better, faster as it would allow me to get decent hardware to render things with and newer/better software to make better images with. My Patreon is http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart and there is also a button on the right of the blog.

password: redleatherart

https://mega.co.nz/#!Httw3QaI!VBTngRDlewTdFK5ODnRZgbfoU3QBMQV6Pbw5Hvq-Bxg

Fourth set finally up on Patreon!

Hey all, it has been a rough two weeks finishing this set. I initially took this on as a favor to a friend, who wanted to see a pregnant blonde get banged by two black guys. He also insisted that the blonde not be an elf for some reason; so I made one of the guys a half-elf, just because. I planned for this to be around ten images, a standard small set but it quickly got out of hand and became a whopping 26 images.

This was made worse by my wanting to test out a story on this set, which was... interesting. Please note that this story is the first I have done in a while and basically a retrofit, as I had the set half done before the story was made. (So cut me some slack.) It is also not representative of medium seriousness as far as story goes (this is low-minimal), as that poll was also done a bit over halfway into the set. Hopefully the story bits are at least decent to you guys, I think they are or I wouldn't have released it. As always constructive comments are welcome.

I think the images turned out well, and I am improving with each set that I do. I also tried to use an indoor scene for this set, which was kind of a mess. This is probably why most 3d artists use outdoor scenes. Either way I have posted not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR preview images for all of you! This is mostly because the set is huge, and also because I had trouble deciding which images to use. Note that the preview images are the clean versions. If you want to see the whole set and the story before next month, as well as support my future work, my Patreon link is on the right.
 
I am also putting up that special poll I talked about, but I will make a new post about that because I don't think most people will read this far down. 0_0