Lali Lite... due next week!

Unless I get Ebola or something. 

Guys, this comic is fucking nuts! (so am I), but I'm through the thick of it. Editing, post-working and re-rendering some of the final images now and Monday-Tuesday. Gonna take the weekend off because my arm is fucked!

If I haven't replied to your email, or wondering why I'm so quiet, I locked myself up and I've post-worked 170 images in the last week (just the orgy), and re-rendered about 20 images. I now feel quite confident that this crazy comic will be done by next week.

PS: below are some funny doodles I made for AoD recently.

Pic below: 
Lali: meeehhh, this horse is broken... he doesn't wanna go!
Julie (off-screen): rock with your hips in the saddle!
Lali: I've been doing that the whole time...

Happy Valentines Day!

Laila: you know this is going online, right??

Update 10 Feb

Comic is now 96 pages 109 pages (2/3rds of the way through) and counting. Below is was proof. Definitely going to be WAY more than 120 pages... yeah don't ask...

edit (25 Feb): 134 Pages!

Anyway, in other news, I've been doodling around again on Art of Darkness in the 'Clothed and Sexy' thread, a thread that will not die. Its been going for over a year now (73 pages!!). Also check it out for works by other artists in that thread, its quite epic. Here are some of my recent entries:

Update comic and all that jazz

Hey guys, fellas, babes, boys n girls, so after that stunt at the lake I came back and carried on rendering. But feeling kind of defeated by the elements (curse you god of thunder) I began to dwindle off and found myself in a creative lull. I was on the last renders of the comic, and I just needed that creative edge to make it really fun... but it wasn't coming! 

Sooo what does erogenesis do to get himself out of it? renders the most RANDOM shit! Trust me, it helps! I went mad on Art of Darkness with some thread that TexBoy started, by calling out Lali. It turned out into a super-fun and completely insane thread with a whole bunch of contributing artists, namely: (in order of appearance) TexBoy1231, Shorterbus, LM Ant, Madbob, Freddy11, Apocalypse, Rstimpy, KristinF. I obviously went completely over the top, especially to keep Lali out of a Harem (something I wanna reserve for a later stage) despite some brave and original attempts made by Shorterbus. Damn I even pulled out the imperial fleet for that! What does that say??





These improvised render fits on Art of Darkness are good for a number of reasons: first I get the practice, and lots of experience. Second I sometimes get forced to make stuff I can use at a later stage. For ecample for that thread I made a small apartment, edited some freebee helicopter and AC-130 meshes, made a pilot suit, prepared some of Stonemason's incredible props for scenes, save some useful poses I made, made some materials and made some satellite image-based terrain I could use for future comics. I also rigged some less useful props but still fun, for example the over the top 3 tonne Battle-ready Mini Cooper (see above!) based on some vendor's model, and a 20km long Executor-Class Star Destroyer. I was close to rigging some Darth Vader mesh for M4...


Moreover, they help me get back in the game. It is a thrill to be able to concoct something in Poser and make people 11,000km away laugh their asses off. Very fun and inspiring.








Also, I went ahead and prepared more stuff for future comics, like Lali's house in Sierra Leone, some other locations in Africa, experimenting with props, and her super-duper mega big and powerful 80psi supersoaker. 

So anyway, comic. Well all the rendering is done, but I do have to repeat a few renders, and sometime I add a few if I feel something is missing. I compiled the first 50 pages and sent it off to some of my closest friends and fellow artists. So far, good reviews!! I'll let them do the talking :) I'm now at 69 pages (compilation!!). I expect it will be well over 110 pages long. Lite? yeah I know, but see it as an introduction to the lite concept. Its a step away from the more serious 'Adventures of Lali' where people get killed or kicked the shit out of. Lites will be about Lali's university years, dreams and anything else fun.

Edit Feb 7: 88 pages now. Rendered extra frames of conversation and the sex scene to make the flow more consistent. Busy with post-working and compiling the orgy scene now.



But now speaking of the other comic series, and this whole idea of getting Lali to a Harem, you might have noticed me saying that Lali will eventually get into trouble etc etc, right? Now, recently a fellow artist brought to my attention that there's actually such a thing as a 'Damsel in Distress' (D.I.D) genre in literature, or theme rather (never knew about that!), and that it actually has a big fan base behind it that are quite specific in what they regard as proper D.I.D. In other words, I have to be careful what I promise because the D.I.D crowd will otherwise be disappointed. So before that happens, let me quickly say this:

My statements about Lali getting into trouble in future comics are more warnings to the feint-hearted fans than promises to a certain crowd. 

What does that mean? In the story, Lali chose to work for an organisation that has its hazards, and that can result in 'distress', whatever that may be. Jim, the manager of Black Desk, profusely warned her about it in the comic 'CODE 10'. When it comes to this, I am not going to follow a specific formula and nor will I place any more emphasis on the distress than necessary. Its something personal that I cannot change. Any depiction I will make regarding a distressing situation, IF that happens, will be for the sake of the story, for character building, and not for the thrill of seeing the character in distress. It could be worse than you expect, it could be less. I have no idea. But Lali is generally speaking a happy girl, and her stories should remain a least a little bit fun.



Anyway, below are some of my renders from that AoD thread. Enjoy!!!

  

Erogenesis in 2014

Hey guys, just in case you were wondering whether or not I am still alive, yep I am. I sort of decided to keep quiet until the bloody comic is finished because every time I say that it's 'almost' finished, it just takes longer and longer. But anyway, I just wanted to share some of my plans for this year with you, some of which are concrete, others not so much. 

By the way, all renders on this blog, were rendered in Poser's Firefly.



Lali Lite: The Gentleman's Club

Yeah, I'm still busy with it, but it's like climbing the Kilimanjaro, the last few steps keep taking longer and longer. So perhaps you're wondering, why the hell is he taking so long over a Lali 'Lite'. Well, for several reasons. First of all I have to just admit that my powers of estimating utterly SUCK ASS, and that might be because I can change my mind quite easily if I see better options. I'll see an awesome shot, or pose, or angle, I just have to render it, or if I see an great opportunity for some cool sex position, I do it. So that's one reason I'm taking a bit longer, I let the story guide me a lot. The second reason is that I over-estimated my computer's processing abilities, especially when it comes to seven millennium figures having an orgy in one scene! It is VERY hard to pose when your PC is lagging so badly (especially since Poser seems to want me to select everything behind the limb I'm pointing at!). I have therefore learned a great deal about planning an orgy well in advance, and using pre-saved poses. Thirdly, since Lali's university time is a whole different world from her FIS time, I had to introduce new characters and environments, which in itself was quite a lot of work. I started buying other people's stuff because it was getting too much and taking too long to make everything from scratch. I will still make my own houses and land props, and I'll also tweak the hell out of other people's content, because I wanna keep some degree of uniqueness in my comics. But it was quite a switch in work flows.


Lite?

Many people have asked me what the meaning of 'lite' is since this comic is turning out to be larger than any other I've made. Well the idea still stands, it is supposed to be a series of small stories, also of 'lite'-hearted nature. I see this as an introduction to the 'Lali Lite' concept, much like the first episode for a TV series, they are longer than the rest. But the main reason why this comic is so long is because I feel guilty towards my comic fans, whom didn't get a new Lali comic in 2013, who have been so supportive of me despite my Lali Bits detour. So, an extra long comic for the same price as my other comics.

Anyway, in short, everything is rendered except for the last two orgy-related positions (~ 20 to 50 renders). I've already started compiling the comic, so that should not take that much time... like I always say... ahem...





Future comics





























While I am not tormenting my sex hormone glands by posing the orgy scenes and waiting for shit to get rendered, and also not to go completely MAD, I leave one PC free to go ahead with other projects, like future comics, environments and scenes. Mainly I am playing with purchased items by stonemason, Powerage, 2nd World and other great artists, I hope they don't mind me fucking their shit up to unrecognisable proportions :)

I'm also building the houses and locations for Lali's younger years in Senegal and Sierra Leone, and some African streets for future comics. I am about to start building a randy sex-club since Lali will also be getting involved in the more kinky side of the erotic art scene with one of the next Lali Lites, as well as the story with Christina and the 'Disco Dragon'. Lali Lites will also involve regular excursions into Lali's dream world, where she gets naughty with all kinds of... well-endowed... erm... beings...

For the next in the Black Desk series, I'm about to put together entire street scenes, a psychiatrist's office and a large office block with an attic and adjacent empty flats. I have been planning that comic for well over two years and it's going to be one action-packed story.










It also flashes back to Lali's freshman's years as she goes on holiday back to Senegal and talks to the psychiatrist about her first time.  

Subsequent comics will involve a military cargo plane, embassy antics, airport cargo terminals, containers, vast african landscapes, rebel villages and camps, military operations, helicopters, ships, Typhoon class Nuclear submarines, walking through the bush and camping, ambushes, capture and all the perils thereof ;)

Project E

For the hell of it, yesterday I was playing around with an old self-made figure from 2008 (based on Sydney G2) which had a very detailed genital integrated into the mesh and very detailed hand controls. I'll try get some renders up some time. But it got me very excited for the possibilities for Project E. 

I am going to be very careful about mentioning any time frames or dates when it comes to PE because I don't wanna make the same mistake as Hivewire3D did by producing an unusable figure in a hurry. I want to make sure PE is as generic as Genesis is, with all the added detail and hopefully not make create any more overhead than a regular V4... and I wanna prove it to myself first through comics! 












Project E's base is waiting in my runtime and is almost a working figure. I just need to take her back and edit some parts of the mesh that was causing problems. It will also require remapping of the torso. Thereafter I'll see if I can transfer morphs from my V4 Lali System. If that works nicely, then PE might hit the stores sooner than I expect... don't count on it just yet though. We have legal issues to sort out with DAZ first.

Along those lines, I was working on some reproductive system cross-section conforming prop just for the hell of it. I've managed to make it somewhat work with Lali's Bits, but Project E should have something like this fully integrated, and in full 3D, not a cross-section. For those that don't like the sight of flesh, there'll be other more 'cartoony' options obviously.









Tutorials

If I have time, I'd LOVE to make a few tutorials about using Poser, from beginner's level to whatever level, or stuff like posing, making frames for comics, and whatever you'd want me to talk about. I have already started a 'Poser for Beginners' tutorial because there are so many up-starts that will be missing out on a lot of simple but useful tools, functions and gadgets in Poser, especially because Smith Micro doesn't really make much of an effort to advertise all the cool shit they make in Poser, for some weird reason.

I'll also give you a peek into the details of my Lali System and how she works. She is a fully customized V4 and pretty much everything about her has been changed! I'll also show you my folder setup, runtimes, and scene workflow if you want.



Anyway, that's it for now. As always I am dying to show you guys this comic, it is a LOT of fun and I am giggling to myself half the time because I know that some people I know are absolutely going to laugh their ass off. That's what I do it for.