DD4 in progress, possible new frontiers ahead.

The Disco Dragon part 4 is coming along nicely, and I'm very proud of how its turning out. I cannot show anything yet... in fact I'm not even sure what to show because its all going to be spoilers!!

But for real guys, I just skimmed through parts 1 2 and 3, and eesh, the Disco Dragon is almost a record accounting all the developments I've gone through in Poserland, and with the DD4 I can now see that things have finally settled down for me, but I'm not quite sure in what way yet, and this could lead to bigger things. 

I started the Disco Dragon in 2015 right when I stupidly chose to take the Poser bull by the horns and make my own figures. The DD1 still showcased my highly modified V4 rig and it wasn't until the DD2 that my hybrid Project E rig started to see some action. My main girl base, the Erogirl, first started to make her debut towards the end of the DD2 and the beginning of DD3. And now, thankfully, its all Erogirl and everything is a breeze now. The only thing holding me back is the CRAZY NUMBER OF GIRLS in one scene...

But I won't lie, while I like complex story lines, I'm afraid that the Disco Dragon was borne from times when I could afford to be crazy ambitious, with having loads of characters with their own story track while posed in all kinds of complex sex positions. With Poser pretty much dead in the water, Poser content is just not selling well enough for me to sustain any kind of ambitious projects. 

So when the DD4 will come out, I will be focusing more on manageable storylines with more-one-on-one or at most two or three-on-one action. The set pieces will probably still be very elaborate, that's not that hard to manage. I will however market the fuck out of the Disco Dragon Series once its complete. I've been looking forward to that for years. I really want lots of people to read this comic.

For the future, the comics I have in mind, as you all know by now (at risk of sounding like a broken record), are Sen's first comic, Lali Sutra, a black desk comic, and probably Professor Brown. Stories like Siren 7 might have to wait a little bit. I have some simple comic ideas of Laila, Rox and some dude getting it on, and a story about Lali through the eyes of an outsider that falls in love with her. 

Beyond that as some of you might know, I have free series going on over at Deviant Art. They've become quite elaborate with almost a thousand renders by now. For a long time now I've been planning on compiling some of them into proper comics. The plan now is to use them as setups for side-comics or spin-offs that are more like my official sex comics, with larger renders and detailed sex scenes. These series are very elaborate, but much more manageable in scope, size and story than the DD.

 



Yes I do post a lot of stuff mostly over at Deviant Art, but that will change too. With the release of the DD4 I will feel as if I can breathe again, now that I will have something recent to show for. I'll probably resume posting at Rotica, VoD and a few other places. i might even finally get a patreon going. Deviant Art is fantastic as its got such a wide and varies community of good artists, and I wanna avoid getting stuck over at erotica-only sites. Modern society is still so immature about sex (#tumblrocalypse) that 'normal' people still see sex sites as seedy by default, and this mentality does actually invite extreme seediness to those sites as a result... seediness that even I don't like. Sex is kind of an important mechanic to our survival as a species in this harsh universe, and like food & cuisine gets unnecessarily celebrated, so can sex... yet sex is seen as some kind of big moral problem. Its dumb and immature. I don't want to marginalize myself because of this immature mentality. Erotic art is just a genre of art, no matter what childish moralistic bullshit one believes in.

In other news, as some of you might also remember, for a long time I've been looking outside of Poser for a better and more stimulating software environment. I've obviously long considered DAZ Studio, but DS is just a different version of Poser to be honest, and there are many things about DS's design I really don't like (like the stupid shader system). So not really a great leap forward imo. I've checked out C4D and although the software is pretty cool, great UI, the pricetag is pretty stupid and the community did not make me feel very welcome. I'm still thriving off my old 3dsmax license but that's also getting old now, and max is not exactly designed for animating sexy women. Plus the pricetags for both Maya and Max are insane, and the subscriptions are very claustrophobic. 

Now there is Blender. I've had blender in my sights for well over a decade now, in fact I remember seeing one of the first iterations of blender back in 2000, and it looked like alien technology. I remember me standing around a PC back then with a few other guys, and we were all trying to figure out what the fuck was going on. Since then I have seen blender improved a fair bit, but it wasn't until the Blender 2.8 beta hit the internet that I started to get very excited. 2.8 is out now and its official. The UI makes fucking sense now and everything works as smooth as butter. I've already imported Lali and downloaded a few plugins to help with the shape keys. I've also imported a few scenes and I will be honest, this might be it. The blender community is very open and chilled, there's actually a fair bit of blender porn out there, and it feels like I've found a new toy.

However I cannot afford to mess around too much yet, I still wanna complete some comics before I make that jump. I also wanna see what Renderosity has in store for Poser, but I fear it might already be too late for me. I wanna make comics and fun stories, I'm bored of software determining for me what I can and cannot do. I wanna go back to the days where I just had a pen and paper, and just wrote stories, and not worry about the type of pencil or paper I need to use. Blender just might let me do that again.