Kapow ! Bang !

I'm in the process of watching as many noir as i can get my eyes on and i try to get the gist of that high contrast light. It also informs me on the tropes i want to explore and mess with. I dont really want Aletheia to be a female Philip Marlow - thats already very well done with Jessica Jones. And even tho this narrative maybe a little more than what i usually do, i should remember that i playing the erotic gamble here.
I tried to fog the scene above, tried to have the ceiling lamps cast some nice rays down with no success so far. I really want that foggy atmosphere, its part of the genre, blurs the background which in turns outlines the main subjects... But i dread the render times, making a long set even longer to produce. Maybe i could go with an episodic format ?

new toys ! (octane 4)

finally updated Octane to v.4 and my ! there are a lot of new buttons to press & knobs to tweak.
It also feels faster and i wanted to test that volumetric fog thing again.

the test above is still very grainy and took 15 min to render (the character mostly at their lower definition).
i'll try some more & hopefully get some clearer result without eating too much render time - otherwise, well, the story will have to do without it.

ms smith

its often happens while working on the scenes that some interesting, nice or plain weird shots/angle/artefact manifests. i usually giggle & go back to work - it also sometimes becomes part of the set. here is one instance in Zbrush that i caught. Ardente looking like a Matrix like Ms Smith.

Spacer

still doodleling with the new g8f convertion of Cyprine - retextured her eyebrows & nipples.
Also returning to UE4 - maybe this figure will be easier to port ? In any case, before the eye candy, i should probably get some systems ready - put all these nebulous ideas into neat code - stealing from Cioran: "its like writing a love letter with a dictionnary".

daylight

g8

Fooling around with the g8f figure, i've made a 1st draft of a converted Cyprine, along with a new skin shader that i quite like.

Our Winter

76?

quick draw

Panta rhei

is in store !

pour Neis

Anaides

by the way Anaides is a real word :

source

next release

Faunette's set will be in store Sept. 20th.

nymphs

Patreon page is back !

while we wait

+27th june: got feed back - as expected some page i had made public contained nudity; also, the banner is too revealing. I had in mind to change it anyways so, off to work on it !
+ 25th june, still no feedback... patience
+ as of today (19th june) still no news from Patreon Trust+Safety team. *sigh*

censorship

the patreon page is currently disabled.
sorting things out with the powers that be.
thank you for you patience.

as of 15th june, still no news from patreon staff...

Cellist

next image set is underway !

a Rose

the day after

grapes

some me time

archives 2013-2017

I've gathered all my old stuff and .rar'd it for cloud storage. most of it is available somewhere on the net and, as archives go, its older, less proficient stuff. Anyways, if you want to have a look-see, its 1.5go and can be downloaded here.

in space 2

a crappy ui...

in space

dressed up (!!) a scene, played with light and reflections.
i just need a UI that doesnt look to crappy and some clothing & poses (anims ?) 

where is the fish ?

meanwhile

i've reopened ue4 & been traficking blueprints & mats - i've manage to overcome some of my past challenges, but only to see more hurdles pop up.
i'll finish this simple dress up thing before returning to Resolve.

there are also some legal licensing issues that i need to think about - check the pricing of daz interactive license and see what i can afford.
in any case, i wont let that prevent me from making this lil thing.

tied up

lil sun

Manifest

is out !

Jessica Bones

I'll post her different state undress on various sites, catch them all ?!

Gaze

coming soon

available march 15th

another one ?

recreated Cyprine for g2f, again...

Simple joys

la carte du tendre

pink top

vfog

here is side by side a 5000 samples render (about 30 minutes) & a 32000 samples render (some 4 or 5 hours).

 

5000 samples

 

32000 samples

The 32k is a bit less grainy, its still not as nice as i'd like; plus those long rendering hours dont fit the bill in the making of a set for me.
This is why i need a second machine to render while i would keep on working with my main workstation *sigh*
In any case, i'll keep on working the set, it's just probably gonna take a lot longer than i had hope for a release. And if i want a second machine, i need to release sets... so i'll be working on a smaller scope stuff to in parallel that i can put in store before spring.

heart in the night

more testing with volumetric fog.
this one looks a lot better (in terms of grainy-ness) but it took a 7 hours rendering.
i'll need to check with a scene from Resolve, overnight, if it reduces the grain the same way, or if its an entierly different problem.

how about...

reworking the lighting of Resolve, i'm trying to play the film noir feel.
here is the previous version next to the reworked one:

previously

new version:

i'm not yet done with the volumetric fog but i like this new look that fits my idea of the narrative.
next will be to fit Ella in all this dark mess without loosing her in the shadows...