What I Got Done On The Weekend

Sindy Spheres is what I got done

If you look at the blog post just prior to this one, you'll see I had big plans for the weekend.  I was trying to accomplish the following this:

1. An FMG Comic
2. A Sindy Spheres BE Comic using the new big boob prop I made
3. A special comic where I'd add dialog to pre created renders
4. Possibly some begiantess work
5. Commission for massive BE animation with bigger than houses boobs

So that was the plan .  And what I got done by the end of Monday night was... a Sindy Spheres BE Comic.  And that's it.  It wasn't for lack of trying.  It just takes me a while to get this stuff done.

I found that when I was in the middle of the Sindy Spheres comic I didn't want to context switch. I was kind of in the zone and I wanted to roll with it and finish it.  It took me probably three hours on Saturday plus five hours on Sunday plus a couple hours Monday to finish it.  That's a lot of hours.  And its why I want to figure out some way to optimize my workflow to do this stuff quicker.

The good thing is that I finished it. The bad thing is that now I really am under the gun to crank out some FMG stuff for strongandstacked.  Because BE fans might be happy with this comic coming out, but FMG fans have been waiting quite a while for an update.

Well the purpose of the blog was to give a snapshot into what I'm doing and working on and the process I go through, so here's a snapshot of it.  Needless to say, the FMG comic is what I have to work on next.  I may try to sneak in some work on the special comic where I just need to add dialog.  But I have got to get that FMG comic done.  After I get some sleep that is and get back from my day job tomorrow. 

What I'm Working On This Weekend

I figured it might be of interest for me to occasionally post a snapshot of what I'm working on at a particular moment.  On this Friday night, heading into a weekend, here's what is on my plate.

BE Comic: Sindy Spheres

Sindy Spheres!

I've been working on a new BE comic where the main character is a woman named Sindy Spheres.  Ok, that's not her given name at birth.  But as she gets a pair of huge tits that's the name she decides to take on.  I was inspired to do this comic by a couple of things.  First off was a suggestion in a comment to a previous blog post by a reader of this blog and someone who has commissioned me to create comics before.

His suggestion had to do with a woman who initially gets huge implants because of her boyfriend telling an unscrupulous plastic surgeon to give her massive fake tits instead of just giving her a modest breast augmentation.  So the story definitely has that angle in it.

The other thing that inspired me to work on this was that I was playing around with creating my own breast props for Daz Studio and I did come up with some round big breasts.  So I want to use those for Sindy.  Lastly, those big round breast props were something I started working on because of a commission project (I know - I do those rarely but I am working on one on the back burner...) involving a woman with super sized (house sized and beyond) breasts. Sindy isn't going to have breasts that big, but her big round boobs are a direct result of me playing around with making the house sized tits for this commission.

Bigger Than Houses BE Commission
I've posted before that I really shy away from commisisons in general.  Especially ones that impede or slow down updates to the websites.  But when its a request that seems doable in not too much time AND one that I can go ahead and use on either strongandstacked.com or begiantess.com, then sometimes I'll go ahead and do it.  That's the case right now with a commission that I'm doing for BE growth involving boobs that grow to house sized and then beyond.  I am going to try to find some time to work on this during the weekend.  Given all the other stuff I'm working on, we'll see how that goes

Special Commission
As I said, I try to shy away from commissions.  But there is a special one that came in where I was approached by someone with rendered images already in hand, and for which they wanted me to just provide the dialog and give the resulting comic a stage on the strongandstacked.com website.  I agreed to try this out because I think it shouldn't take me too much time to try.  Again, I try not to do commissions very often, but this is another one that I can try to use on my site and for which I don't need to sink a massive amount of time

Special Commission

FMG Comic
Now in addition to all of the above, I know it is high time (past time actually) to put an FMG comic on strongandstacked.com.  It's been a few weeks since the last one.  So actually doing this might jump ahead in line to be my top priority for the weekend.  I have to get something FMG related up on the site very soon because its been too long

Begiantess.com
In addition to all that stuff, I need to do something for begiantess.com

Looking through all this I can already see that I may be biting off more than I can chew with those commissions.  And I think actually priority a number one has to be the FMG comic. 

This is one of the reasons I wanted to start blogging - so I can think through the set of stuff I'm working on, expose it to people so they know what I'm tinkering with, and brainstorm about priority order and what to do next.

Well its going to be a busy weekend :)

Animation

New Character Sindy Spheres I'm working on

Sindy's Spheres from below

Keyframe Based Animation

In this post I'm going to briefly describe the animation technique I use when creating animations, and give a bit of history on how my technique evolved over time.  I'm not going to dive into an incredible level of detail (this isn't an in depth tutorial of how to do animation) but rather just give an overview.  If people are more interested in having an actual tutorial on how to create animations using Daz Studio, I can definitely do a more detailed post in the future.

When I started out with my deviant art page, I asked myself: how can I set my page a bit apart from the pages of other BE or FMG art creators so that people will want to come visit my page.  I knew that there were far superior artists out there, both ones who draw and those who render.  And even then - back in 2007 or so - there were already a huge number of artists on DA doing FMG, BE, and Giantess stuff.  But what I noticed there wasn't a lot of were arists who were posting animations.

So I figured, ok, why don't I post animations to my newly created DA page?  Maybe that would be a differentiator that would get people to visit it.  And I figured, hey, how hard could it be?  Well as with many things, it turned out to be harder than I'd thought.  But not impossible.  And as with many things I've tried, if you just stick to it you can reach at least a certain level of ability with it that allows you to create things.

When I first started animating, I used what could be called keyframe based animation.  And I did it manually.  The results were ok, but ended up looking kind of mechanical and non fluid in the types of motions I created it.  For keyframe animation, the process works as follows:

First you take your figure, say the Victoria 4 model from daz3d, and put her in an initial pose.  Say she's standing there, hands on hips, with normal sized boobs.

Next you do the following step over and over and over: Skip about 10 frames ahead (at 30 frames per second, that means about 0.3 seconds of time). Then *slightly* alter her pose.  So move her arms a little, her legs a little, her head a little, etc.

What animation software will do for you in the process is automatically fill in the in between frames using interpolation.  So in my example above, you do have to manually pose your model once every 10 frames.  So you have posed on frames 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, etc etc etc.  But the software does the work of filling in frames 2-9, 12-20, 22-30, 32-40, 42-50 etc etc etc.  The software knows how to fill in those frames so that it looks like motion.

This whole process is a bit like stop motion photography.  And you can definitely use it to do BE or FMG.  For BE what I would normally do is first is go to some frame - like frame 90 (3 seconds into the animation) and lock the boob size to be something small. Then I'd zoom ahead maybe 4 seconds to frame 210 (remember, 30 seconds per frame) and make the boob size huge.  The magic of interpolation in the animation software would then just fill in frames 91 through 209 by making the boobs smoothly get bigger and bigger and bigger in a continuous way from the small size on frame 90 to the big size on frame 209.  Voila, simple BE.

Interpolated Frames Make Keyframed Tits Grow Smoothly

Aniblocks with mocapped motions

Mocap Aniblock Makes Sindy Move

I'd do a similar thing for FMG.  Start with a girl who has regular sized muscles on frame 90.  Crank her muscles up huge on frame 210.  Let the computer fill in the growing muscles from frames 91 to 209.  That wasn't too hard to do and worked pretty well.  But coupling the BE or FMG with a woman moving in some interesting way did take time.  That involved the laborious process of tweaking the model's pose once every 10 frames or so.  But that's how I did it early on.  The result would be animations that had motions that looked a bit robotic and non natural.  Akin to what you'd get if you took an action figure and did a stop motion film with her.

I did get feedback as time went on and suggestions from people on how to improve animations.  Some people mentioned doing pulsing growth, where a woman's tits first balloon outward to a big size, then retract a bit, then balloon to a bigger size.  Similar thing for female muscle growth.  And I was able to play with that using the keyframing technique described above.

I asked Leviathan once about how he did animation.  If you haven't seen his work, he makes animations of incredible explosive growth, both BE and FMG and sometimes giantess and even transformations into beast like creatures.  He told me that he uses keyframing but he updates poses every 5 frames or so.  And he does it at a very granular level, individually manipulating single body parts, and taking care to make the breasts look like they are bouncing and so on.  That is incredibly painstaking work.  If you look at some of the amazing animations he's done, I think you'll agree that the work pays off.  But for me there are a couple reasons that his approach would be tough for me to do.

First off, there's the time commitment per animation.  Huge.  Secondly, he really is a master at manipulating individual body parts through keyframing to achieve a look that is dynamic, not so robotic, and even explosive when he does growth sequences.  It takes a certain artistic eye to do that and I just don't really have it.  I could try to get better at keyframing, but as time went on I realized that I was going to need to do something different to make my animations improve.

That's when I discovered mocap.  Now motion capture  is used quite extensively in movies these days. Gollum from lord of the rings is animated using motion capture.  If you're not familiar with the technique, what is done is that a live human actor moves around while a computer captures and records the actual motions of that actor's various body parts.  That recorded motion information is then applied to a computer figure (like Gollum, or for me a model like Victoria 4 from Daz Studio).  The resulting motions look very lifelike and realistic because they are actual human motions.

Setting up a motion capture studio like Peter Jackson used is obviously prohibitively expensive for a small time creator like me.  But some technologies, such as the motion sensing controller used by the Wii, or even better, the Kinect for the Xbox 360, have been making it possible to do some motion capture at home on a much smaller budget.

The type of mocap I started using was in the form of some recorded motion capture sequences that were put on sale at daz3d.com in the form of "aniblocks".  An aniblock is a snippet of motion that you can use to move your character.  And you can combine aniblocks.  So for example, one of the sets of aniblocks I bought were for motion captured belly dancer movements.  So I could grab one of those aniblocks, which would make a woman start waving her arms side to side while moving her belly, and apply it to Victoria 4.  Then I could put a second aniblock in for making her smile and blink.  Those two aniblocks will work together to make her start belly dancing *and* at the same time smile and blink.  You can continue to layer on some more aniblocks that also have their motions superimposed.

There weren't any "make the girl have big boobies" aniblocks in the store, so I created a few of those on my own.  Same for muscle growth.

So I started making animations using motion capture aniblocks I had bought from daz3d.com combined with keyframe aniblocks for making boobs and muscles bigger that I created.  Put them together and you get a woman who at least is moving a lot more realistically (motion capture).  The boob growth / muscle growth are still essentially keyframed, but at least they are combined with realistic human motion.

That's essentially the technique I'm still using today.  Mocap aniblocks coupled with keyframed boob/muscle or giantess growth.  There are so many ways in which I still have a long way to go as far as making great animations goes.  In many of my animations, the boobs don't bounce.  So I'd like to get a lot better at that.  I struggle with making a woman's arms not collide with her humungous tits in animations.  Because if they do, the simple software I use - Daz Studio - doesn't really have collision detection built in for animations.  So the arm will go right on through a huge boob if I am not careful.

I want to create animations that are richer in detail, have much more realistic motion and so on.  And I will try to continue getting better.

That's enough for this post.  If people are more interested in specifics or tutorials on animation, I could do a post like that in the future.

How Big is Too Big? Or Big Enough...

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Big Fake Boobs

Now there are some people who definitely prefer natural boobs over fake boobs.  But there are also those who prefer women with implants.  I'm someone who actually likes both.  I love the girls who have outrageously massive implants, like Beshine, Chelsea Charms, Maxi Mounds and others.

Me with Chelsea Charms and Sable Holiday

Samantha's Big Fake Boobs

Samantha Sweetbuns and Friend

Samantha Sweetbuns

I'm actually also a fan of naturally endowed big boobers, like Milena Velba and Chaka T.  I'm even a fan of heavy women with massive tits - think Norma Stitz or Dawn Perignon.  While I am a fan of big boobs, be they natural or not, in this blog post I want to focus on big fake tits and the fascination some people find for them.

In a previous journal entry, I mentioned how I'd been into big boobs from really early on.  During the nineties, there was a wave of augmented big boob dancers who hit the magazine circuit.  It was a golden age for fans of big augmented boobs.  Busty Dusty, Traci Topps, Lulu Devine, Toppsy Curvey, Wendy Whoppers, Minka and many many more massively implanted women appeared on the covers of magazines such as Gent, Hustler Busty Beauties, Cheri and D Cup.  At the time I was just out of college and was a big fan of all those women.  It was pre world wide web in the early nineties, so I built up a collection of hard copy magazines. I'd go to comic conventions in Los Angeles where they'd sell not only back issues of many comics used (and I bought plenty of those, believe me) but also used copies of big boob magazines.

When I think about huge fake tits, I think the appeal for me is that they seem to me to make a bold statement.  Seeing a massive set of implants sends a message.  To me, that message says, "I know these are humungous, and I CHOSE to have them be this way.  And I know that you, the person staring at these, has no doubt that they are implants."  This ties into my fascination with women who derive power from huge breasts.  Huge fake tits seem to me to be totems of chosen appeal and power.

I've encountered people on the net who find great appeal in all facets of fake tits.  The scarring left behind from implant operations appeals to them.  The hardness and firmness of massive fake tits is preferable to them over the softness of big natural boobs.  Other people mainly love the fact that implanted tits jut straight out with absolutely no sag.

I've personally felt Chelsea Charms' tits on a few occasions.  They all took place when she was dancing at the Market Street Cinema in San Francisco back in 2001-2002.  The first time she was just doing short lapdances during her routine and she let people feel her boobs.  So I felt her tits for maybe twenty seconds on that occasion.  Pretty mind blowing!  Another time, she appeared at Market Street Cinema with Sable Holiday.  After their routines I went backstage to meet them.  And I had a polaroid taken with them where I did get to feel their boobs (I'll attach that polaroid to this blog post). The last time I got to feel Chelsea's boobs was when I paid her for a personal lapdance session, again at Market Street Cinema.  That time she sat on my lap for about 10 minutes and we just talked while I fondled her boobs (there's a polaroid picture of that time you can see in a previous blog post of mine).

That last time was the last time I've been to a strip club.  But that encounter - like every one with Chelsea - made a huge impression on me.  Big fake boobs are amazing. And they do hold a certain kind of allure and power that is markedly different from natural boobs.

I have heard stories of unscruplous promoters who in the past forced their girlfriends to get huge fake tits and then served as "managers" of their careers in big tit magazines.  I can't imagine forcing a woman to get implants like that.  But women who willingly choose to have big implants -- I just do find that incredibly fascinating and appealing.

When I first started up strongandstacked.com, I did a lot of BE comics where the mechanism of breast expansion was something fantastical or magical.  Maybe some sci fi super serum, or something like a spell.  I think I may have done one comic where the mechanism for BE was a woman getting implants.  Some time after that I was contacted by a member of teh website.  He told me he was a huge fan of fake tits, and that he was willing to commission me to do a comic where a woman got massive breast implants.  He was very specific i the types of words he found appealing in dialog involving big fake boobs.  He liked phrases like "big fake rack", "my new boobs", "fake tits" and so on.

I went ahead and did the commission with the understanding that I'd be delivering the comic to him and also posting it to strongandstacked.com.   Thus was born the Quest for 10,000 CC B.E. Comic.  Working on that comic was really fun for me and it made me want to do a lot more implant related comics.  I kept in my mind the lexicon of words and various phrases that the person who'd commissioned me to do that Quest for 10,000 cc comic had suggested that he enjoyed.  And I found myself using that kind of phrasing in subsequent implant comics I did.

"Big fake rack."  "Boob job".  "My big new boobs."  I just finished doing two issues of a comic for my deviant art page.  I just felt like doing a couple of comic issues related to BE through breast implants and posting them there. And working on them brought back memories of working on Quest for 10,000 CC.  It would be interesting to hear what people think about BE via breast implants versus other methods.  I do know there are some people out there who are big fake boob fans.  Do all of you have similar likes and preferences for phrasing and plotlines?

Do people like scenes with a doctor pumping saline into expandable implants?  Discussions about cup size and numbers of CCs in implants?  As I've mentioned in previous blog posts, a recent development for me is an attraction to huge fake butts.  Seeing photos of Pebbelz Da Model had a huge impact on me in this regard.  Seeing a huge fake butt like hers inspires in me a feeling similar to when I see huge fake boobs.  It's not a far stretch I guess to become attracted to another extreme size part of the feminine physique for me.  The comics I recently created on my deviant art page - Samantha Sweetbuns issues 1 and 2 - involve a woman who augments her boobs and her butt.

Do people find that interesting?  Would they rather just have the woman undergo BE and not butt expansion ?  I had one comment on a recent blog post from someone who said they loved big fake butts and big fake boobs, but would rather have only one or the other on a woman.  They explained that having a woman who looked like Pebbelz da Model combined with Chelsea Charms would actually dilute the impact of the huge butt and boobs.  They found a Chelsea Charms like figure (with a massive bust, normal butt) or a Pebbelz (massive butt, normal boobs) to be far more visually striking than a woman with a huge butt AND boobs.  I understand where they are coming from with that, and thought it was an interesting point.  But in the Samantha Sweetbuns comic, for example, I decided to have her get huge breast implants and a massive fake butt.

Not sure I have a big conclusion here - just mainly commenting on big fake boobs and the strong appeal they have for some people, including me.

Dominant, Confident Women

If you looked through the comics on my website, you'll notice that the majority of them feature female protagonists who are emboldened and made extremely confident by their huge boobs or muscles.  Some of them are more than emboldened - they actually use their strength and/or boobs to dominate men.  Sometimes I think that I've done too many comics in that vein, and that I should mix things up a bit by having tentative women who aren't so bold.  Perhaps submissive women.  One reason I haven't done that is just that I find super confident women fascinating - especially women who use their assets to get what they want.

But I don't want to fall into a rut as far as plot and storytelling goes.  That's why I am starting to wonder whether I should mix things up by not always having the women be supremely empowered and dominant in my comics .  I sometimes think about where I got the preference for such women.  Thinking back on things, I think the seeds were planted in tv shows and movies I saw when I was young.  There were a variety of shows I saw where women used their allure and sex appeal to get men to do what they wanted.  In Gilligan's Island, there are several episodes where bombshell Ginger uses her curves to get Gilligan or others to do what she wants.  Catwoman in the old time Batman tv show - the one from the 60s - tempts Batman repeatedly with her curves.  And both of those characters seemed to be supremely confident and in control.

There's a movie named Screwballs that I saw in the 80s which features a brunette cheerleader with huge tits.  In several scenes she proudly shows off her huge juggs and seems to delight in using them to tease men.  I could go on and on - basically seeing all these tv shows and movies over time somehow instilled in me a fascination and attraction to female characters who use their big boobs or physical prowess to generate confidence and to exert power over men.

Having said that, I know that I have gotten requests from people who want comics where huge boobed women are submissive.  And I might try doing some more of those comics just to mix things up a bit.  Or I could have a woman undergo BE and/or FMG but react in a confused way where she's not supremely confident.  She might even be embarassed.  Up until now I haven't done a lot of comics with that sort of vibe.  But if people were interested in that, I could give it a try.

There's a sort of spectrum of confidence and dominance to the characters in my comics.  At the shallow end, you'll find girls who are somewhat empowered by their big boobs or big muscles.  They aren't really dominating anyone - they're just experience a confidence boost.  Some of my other characters are dialed up a bit from that. They actually proactively use their big boobs or muscles to exert their will and dominate others - usually unwitting men.  For girls with big boobs, this usually means charming guys into doing what they want.  For girls with big muscles, this often means physically dominating men who aren't as strong as they are.

Early on in the history of the website, I tilted strongly toward stories where women with huge muscles beat up and domianted men.  Later I tried to mix things up a bit by having a greater variety of personality types for the women in the stories - where some of them are not so dominant.  And now I'm wondering whether I should try to change things up even more and feature stories with women who aren't quite so powerful and dominant.

It would be interesting to hear what people think.  For myself I really do like stories with women who achieve power and confidence - even dominance - through their big boobs and big muscles, and even big butts!  But I'm open to playing around with different plots and characters to have more variety on the site.

Super Tits, Tit Weapons, Boob Smothering

BoobBee Girl brings out... the Stingers!

Nipple Gun Big Booby Firepower!

I've mentioned before that I'm personally a fan of powerful women characters who derive confidence and strength from their huge boobs, huge muscles and even huge butts.  Focusing in on tits for a moment, I've been intrigued  with the concept of women who use their boobs not just as alluring charms which captivate men, but also as actual physical weapons.  There's a video of Chelsea Charms where some incredibly lucky guy gets to kiss and suck her boobs and then is bufetted around by her tits as she bumps them against his face over and over.  There's even a slow motion segment where the camera focuses on the guys head getting knocked left and right over and over as Chelsea twists her torso back and forth and bashes him with her big boobs.  Now when she did that, I'm sure she did it gently enough that the guy didn't get hurt, but seeing that video was fascinating to me in a fantasy way - the thought of a woman with massive tits like Chelsea's using them to pummel a guy into submission by slapping him in the face over and over with them is something I found very intriguing...

I've incorporated this concept into some of my comics.  Most particularly on begiantess.com, where the women often have tits literally as big as wrecking balls and can demolish houses with them.

So with that preamble, I wanted to share this some animated gifs from a kind of bizarre Japanese tv show that has an episode featuring a woman with some tit weapons.  Now it is kind of a strange show and strange episode I'll admit, but I found it really interesting to see what they did with the character who had these super tits.  She's kind of a bumblebee girl with giant tits, and the tits can sprout stinger needle nipples, can grasp and stop things like swords, and can even fire nipple bullets!  Ok it's all a bit out there, but the core element of having deadly boobs is something that's very interetsing to me.  I made a few animated gifs from the show that you can see here in this blog post.  The name of the show is "The Ancient Dogoo Girl".

I've occasionally seen artists on deviant art and elsewhere delve into this concept of boobs as weapons a bit.  Boob-Attack http://boob-attack.deviantart.com/ often creates renders of women with giant tits who end up crushing or smothering men with their humungous juggs.  GiantBoobzSupremacy http://giantb00bzsupremacy.deviantart.com/ creates artwork featuring women with super sized nipples and super boobs that I find to be fascinating.

And then there's the Chesty Morgan classic, Deadly Weapons.  It's a movie from the sixties where she uses her 73 inch super bust to smother men to death.

Again, not sure how much people out there are into the whole giant boobs as weapons thing, but it is something I'm a fan of!