Have been trying to learn Zbrush, Sculptris

I decided to spend time this week trying to learn how to make some new breast and muscle morphs.

I spent two days trying to learn zbrush.  Very powerful tool, and after a while it became clear to me that there's just a part of being successful with it that means having artistic skills .  Which I kind of lack.

Then decided to give Sculptris a try.  Easier interface than zbrush.  I'm mainly trying to create some new breast morphs.

I felt it was important to give this a try so that I could move beyond the stock breast and muscle morphs I often use.  But its slow going.  I think I'll have to timebox my learning efforts and definitely get back to cranking out content for the two sites this weekend.  Still was important to try to do this to increase my toolbox so to speak so that I can create some unique looking stuff .

Shy Body Sculptor BE/ButtEx Comic

I updated http://www.strongandstacked.com today with a brand new Breast Expansion / Butt Expansion comic named Shy Body Sculptor.  The basic idea for this story came from an email I got from one of the members of strong and stacked

He wanted to see a comic where there was a couple who fall in love, and which featured a shy girl who gained the power to grow her boobs and butt at will.  I took that basic idea and ran with it .  I get member requests from time to time, and I can't fill all of them. But this one seemed very doable and fun so I went ahead and gave it a try.

While working on it, I kept thinking that it was turning out fairly well, but that if only I had more time to spend I could make it a lot better. I get that feeling a lot. But the competing tension is that I have to update the site in at least a somewhat timely manner.  So I have to do what I can in a time boxed period . It was fun working on this comic though.  Maybe I'll do a sequel to it at some point

What I really want to do now is spend some time learning zbrush though.  There are two reasons I want to do that.  One is that I've always been so dependent on some of the morph packages for breasts that are out there, and I'd like to be able to sculpt my own breast morphs. I think zbrush may be the best way for me to do that

Secondly, I've always been in awe of Tigersan's muscle girls.  Again, I've been at the mercy of prepackaged muscle morphs, and I'd love to be able to do something even a fourth as good as Tigersan's custom muscle morphs. That way I could get some more variety into the look of the muscle girls that I make - they won't all look like they've come from stock muscle packages and so on

So I'll be trying to learn zbrush as I work on some of the next comics. The other thing I'd like to try is to get another renderer to work rather than the stock Daz Studio renderer. I bought one last year but am still fiddling with it to get it to look good. If I can get it figured out, I'll start using it in the stuff I create and hopefully it will look more realistic than ever.

 

Finally updated BEGiantess today

I just posted a new comic to begiantess.com.  It's the first update I've done to the site since October.  I should have been updating the site twice a month.  But it's been really hard to carve out enough time to do that.



I spent some time over the holiday break thinking over my plans for my websites.  And what I've decided is to continue working on them as best I can, with the knowledge that updates will come only at a pace I can sustain.

So there will be a slow but steady drum beat of updates to the sites. I'll try to entertain suggestions/requests as best I can.  I really enjoy working on the sites.  It's just that there are only so many hours in the day, and unfortunately I do have several other demands on my time (including a day job and other responsibilities).

So I'll continue to post updates here on my blog to give an indication of what I'm working on.  I also plan to spend some time trying to update my skills and the quality of material on my sites.  I've bought several items during holiday sales at daz3d.com and renderosity.com that I hope to incorporate into upcoming comics and animations. 

Tools such as different lighting sets and even zbrush software (if I could learn that I'd be able to do some muscle sculpting along the lines of what Tigersan does - of course nowhere near as good as he can do it, but at least I could make some custom muscle morphs that would be new and different from the ones I've used for many years !)

So I'll keep outputting material at a slow but steady pace, with hopefully the occasional update on my deviant art page.  I'll never let there be a lapse like there was from October until now for begiantess.  But I can't really promise to update every single week.  I just can't keep up a pace like that.  So I'll do what I can to keep the two sites going at a steady pace.

Posting Bod Squad FMG Comic Today

Just finished an FMG/muscle girl comic named The Bod Squad .  I'm posting it to strongandstacked.com today.  Took me a while to finish it. As usual, swamped with stuff from my day job and real life.

Just today as I was posting this new comic to strong and stacked I realized that a link was broken on the site for my previous update.  Damn it.  Hadn't realized that until now but it's been fixed.

I'm going out of town for the holidays from December 22 through December 30. So I am going to really try hard to finish an update for begiantess before I go out of town

During the break I'm going to do some soul searching about what I want to do with my websites given that its been increasingly hard to find time to update them

As I said in a previous blog post there are several options there.  Continue on with slow pace of updates, somehow try to pick up the pace, just throw in the towel and stop updating...

My default plan is to soldier on and continue updating the sites, at the current relatively slow pace.  But I'm going to do a lot of thinking about it over the holiday

Another Magic Boobs Comic Today, Muscle Stuff Soon

 My plan was originally to make my very next comic be a giantess one that I posted to begiantess.com.

As usual, I got busy with real life/day job stuff, and then when I had a bit of time to work on my sites, an idea popped into my head for another installment of the Magic Boobies saga.

So I decided to roll with that idea.  I'll be posting the newest Magic Boobies comic today.  The basic idea is that there is an evil Tit Witch with boobs nearly as big as cars, and she's going to make things difficult for our heroine.

There are plusses and minuses to posting this comic today.  On the plus side, I had this idea, inspiration struck, and I got it done.  Fans of the Magic Boobies saga will be pleased.

On the minus side, I now am very behind on updating begiantess.com.  And also amazon/muscle fans of strongandstacked may be unhappy because this means there have been two BE comics in a row, and I'm overdue for an FMG comic.  Additionally, even for BE fans, they may be getting tired of the Magic Boobies saga and may want to move on to something else.

So as I finish this comic and post it today, I feel a lot of pressure to get an FMG comic up on strongandstacked.com quick, and a giantess comic up on begiantess.com quick.  And I will endeavor to do that as quick as I can.

But it's making me start to think about the future of the two sites.  I've blogged before about the constant grinding pressure any website runner/content creator faces.  I find more and more that its hard to spend a lot of time creating content for my sites.  Real life often intrudes - demands of my day job and other things that are going on.

So I do find myself faced with a choice:
- Continue with the somewhat tepid pace of updates on the sites
- Somehow pick up the pace of updates on the sites (hard to see that happening given everything else going on with me)
- Dial the already slow pace of updates back even further
- Throw in the towel and just have the sites be static / not updated

That's what I'm mulling over.  My default choice is the first one.  We'll see.

At any rate, the latest Magic Boobies comic is going up today and there will be an FMG comic up shortly after (as well as a giantess comic on begiantess.com). Stay tuned.

Posted new Magic Boobies Buns and Boobs Comic to Strong And Stacked Today

I just uploaded the fourth issue of Magic Boobies to http://www.strongandstacked.com today.  I'd been working on this one for a while.  Was trying to decide where to go with the plot, and ended up making the general theme being that Jenny is headed toward a darker path if she doesn't stop using her big new boobs and buns to control every man she meets.  Sarah on the other hand is trying to walk along a path of goodness, and has to figure out how (and if) she can pull Jenny back from the brink.

While that's kind of the overall background theme, the reality is its fairly light stuff with a lot of showcasing of the girls' giant magical tits and bubble butts.

I'll be working on an update for begiantess.com next

Posting Helga Comic to Strong and Stacked Now

I just finished the Helga comic and am posting it to strongandstacked.com now

As usual, things end up taking longer than expected.  It's true in my day job (software development) and its true in creating content for my websites

In this case I'd decided to try a departure from my standard model (Victoria 4 from daz3d) so that I could try a new model : Dawn from HiveWire3D

Whenever I start out with a new model, there are a lot of upfront costs to be paid.  First there is the literal upfront cost (in dollars) of buying the model and buying some clothes/poses etc .  After that, there's the matter of applying poses and morphs to try and get her pumped up into a muscular super boobed beauty.  Once that's accomplished, its time to try to cook up a comic with her and get used to posing her, moving her and so on

I had to contend with all of that.  The good news is that now I'm over the learning curve of using Dawn and for the future if I try using her for either big muscles or big boobs comics, I'll be ready to go with her .  And I have a modest collection of poses/morphs/clothes for her now so I can start using her in comics

But because I decided to start using her, this particular update for strongandstacked.com took longer than usual to get out.




One thing that's a bit different about this comic from most of the muscle girl comics I've created is that there's no FMG in this.  Helga's just a big girl from the word go.  No  muscle growth

It's finally done today.  Helga the Bar Room Brawler has just been posted