Working on BE Animation for DeviantArt

WHATS BEEN GOING ON LATELY

I haven't posted on this blog for a while.  Here's what's been going on.  I managed to post a new giantess comic to http://www.begiantess.com .  My pace there is about one comic per month right now.  A lot slower than I'd like.  But I'll try to keep plugging along and see if I can update there more frequently.  One shift there for me has been to start focusing more on gentle giantess stories. I have lots of dominant giantess stories and comics on the site, so given that there were requests for gentler stuff I've tilted that way for the time being

I realized recently that I hadn't posted an animation to deviant art in a very long time.  So I'm working on one right now.  More details on that below

On the strongandstacked front, I'm hoping to kill two birds with one stone by leveraging the deviant art animation to make a comic for strong and stacked.  I should be able to take a bunch of selected still images from the animation, add some more renders to them, and make that into a comic.  At least that's my plan, because it seems like a reasonably speedy way for me to get an update out for strong and stacked without having to start work on a brand new comic from scratch and have any hope of updating in the next few days

 BE ANIMATION FOR DEVIANTART

The animation I'm working on right now involves a modern day witch who casts a Breast Expansion and Butt Expansion spell on herself.  She's a newbie witch, and this is the first time she's attempted using magic like this .

I wanted to use some dynamic clothing that stretched as her tits grew.  My first attempt at that didn't work so well - more below on that.  But my second attempt worked ok

The flow of the animation is that first there's growth with a top on that stretches, then there's a magic flash and the shirt vanishes, then there's topless growth.  Reason for that is that I'm not great at getting the dynamic clothes to look like they are ripping.  As far as the little narrative in the animation goes, the vanishing shirt is explained by the witch casting a spell to do that.

The butt expansion is a minor part of the animation - its mostly breast expansion.

My computer is churning out frames as I write this - it sounds like a jet engine with the fan pegged to max while it does the raytracing.  For an animation like this, it's going to take a sum total of maybe 20 hours or so of the computer just churning out frames.

FIRST ATTEMPT AT CLOTHED EXPANSION FOR THIS ANIMATION: FAIL

I first tried having the witch wear a half tshirt.  When I ran the cloth simulation, it looked like the shirt sort of ripped and crumpled up and ended up on her head.  Yeah, a crumpled up cloth hat.  Exactly what I was going for. Not.

After this attempt, I switched to using a different top and things worked out ok

LACK OF NEW MOCAP DATA 

When working on this animation, I realized that my library of mocap data - pre captured motions that I use to make characters move - hasn't been updated in a while.  It's really hard to find new good mocap data.  I'm still trying to find a lot more of that

For a while I entertained the idea of making my own mocap stuff.  You can use fairly cheap or even free software packages that work with the Kinect for example.  But the problems I ran into when I tried that were that the motion capture does work, but it often requires manual cleanup.  I just didn't have the time to do that.

Carnegie Mellon University released a massive load of free motion capture data a few years back.  This week I tried using some of that, but it still had some issues when I tried to apply it to Victoria 4 (the model I usually use for my animations).  Things like her arms going through her body or other various problems

There's a site http://www.mixamo.com that does sell mocap animations that work with Victoria 4, but they are so expensive. At least for my limited budget

So I'll have to continue to keep an eye out for new mocap data or else figure out a way to hand animate that doesn't take me a long time

SHOULD BE DONE IN A DAY OR TWO

This animation should be done hopefully within a day or two, and a comic based on it will be ready for strong and stacked within a day or two after that.

Muscle Avenger Issue 004 Done

I just finished and posted the latest issue of Muscle Avenger.  In this one, the Uberfrau and the Muscle Avenger go toe to toe in a battle of super muscled tit titanesses that will decide the fate of the galaxy!  It's available on strongandstacked.com

What I definitely have to work on next is the next issue of the Gentle Giantess comic series for begiantess.com.  So I'll be working on that as well as possibly some animations.

Working on Muscle Avenger vs Uberfrau

I had thought about doing a giantess comic next, but started to work on the next installment of Muscle Avenger - where she takes on the Uberfrau, and just got into that once I started, so I'm going to push forward and get it done, then circle back afterward to do a giantess comic.

I'm posting a sample page from the Muscle Avenger vs Uberfrau comic here.  I hope to finish the comic within the next couple of days, and then work on a giantess comic to post at begiantess.com before the end of the month

Had to redo Uberfrau. Again.

I'd mentioned in a previous post that when I started the Muscle Avenger series up again after a long hiatus, I updated the Uberfrau to be based on Victoria 4 instead of Victoria 3.    I had to update her once again today, this time because my quadcore finally gave up the ghost and I migrated everything recently to my six core machine.  The Uberfrau had been residing on the quadcore so I had to update her from scratch.

The images here show what I came up with.  She's going to be going toe to toe with the Muscle Avenger in the next comic I do for strongandstacked.com.  Look for that soon .

Big Fake Boob Star Issue 02 has been uploaded

 I just uploaded the second issue of Big Fake Boob Star to strongandstacked.com.  It's a story of breast expansion by breast implants

Have been busy lately with my day job and other stuff so it took me a while to finish this one.

Next up will be second issue of gentle giantess for begiantess.com and then next issue of Muscle Avenger for strongandstacked.com

Am going to try to make a lot of progress on those this week.

Gentle Giantess Comic is Uploaded

Its been far too long since I updated begiantess.com, so I finally uploaded a new comic there today.  I'd had a request for a gentle giantess comic since I'd done so much dominant stuff on that site for the last few updates.

The story I came up with involves a girl who wants to get into modeling.  She realizes she's going to need to be taller with bigger boobs, so on a lark she orders a growth supplement off the internet

It works far better than she'd expected. In fact she becomes 45 feet tall with blimp sized boobs.  This shakes her up and also she ends up inadvertently scaring people as she walks around the city

She's a gentle soul at heart and lucky for her a police officer falls in love with her and decides to help her .

I'm planning on doing at least two more installments of this comic and the first one is up at begiantess.com right now

BNB-ART.COM gone without a trace

Yowza!

 There are sites that appear and vanish.  Some that are around for a long time, but finally succumb. Others that still exist but simply cease to be updated.

I think about all this when I am working on my own sites.  Right now strongandstacked.com and begiantess.com are still afloat, and my current plan is to keep them both going for a long time.  But many other sites with similar or related themes have come and gone over the years

One site that had intrigued me with its possibilities was www.bnb-art.com.  I'm a sucker for the combination of big muscles and big boobs, and this site had that as its main theme.

Back in 2009 I got an email from the webmaster of bnb-art.com asking me to participate in a banner exchange with him :
From: "inquiries@bnb-art.com" <inquiries@bnb-art.com>
To: content_creator@strongandstacked.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:49 PM
Subject: Banner Exchange Request

strong and stacked,

I'd like to exchange banners with your site. My site is 
www.bnb-art.com which offers original breast and bicep morphs. I've 
already put your banner on my site on the entrance page below the 
enter/exit buttons. My banner link image is attached. Thank you.

Regards,
bnb-art.com

When I saw the banner he had sent me, I got pretty excited .  Women with massive boobs and bulging biceps - awesome!  And I do enjoy clothed images - there's something about a woman stretching her top to the absolute limit that I find intriguing beyond belief

So I went ahead and linked to his site.  Not long afterward, the site vanished .  Looking around the web, there isn't much to show that it had ever existed.  A google search turned up the few images I'm showing here in this blog post and I have the original banner image the webmaster sent me, which I'm showing here too.

It's a shame that whatever had been on the site is just gone.  It seemed to me like the site had potential.