Mothballs and piñatas

Welcome. This old blog is home to Space Trek Fleet Wars, a 20-comic saga by Project Nemesis / Project Bellerophon.

The saga is now complete, and available for free, here.

If you like sexy comics, I'm sure there are plenty of others out there. There's some I'd recommend, and some I wouldn't (... I was going to link to one of the truly bad ones, but that's not very kind. Anyway. They exist).



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20: Project Nemesis

The final comic of the series; #20, Project Nemesis is the final chapter in the whole massive story. When I'd completed comic 19, I very nearly called it a day there, having torn my hair out once too many times with the whole sexy CG comics thing. But after a few months, I came out of retirement to complete comic #20 of 20. And I'm glad I did - this ties the series together and elevates the storyline to a collaborative closure. Not all ends are tied up, but the main threads are completed in this mammoth (256 pages ... see what I did there?! I know, right?!) finale. It has more action and more sex than any other in the series, but most of all, it has more heart.

19: The Quiet Ones

This is comic 19/20 in the STFW series, one of my favourites because Ix and Xho finally do it, and man I'd been building up to that one for ... well 8 comics or something ridiculous. It was this comic I got into more 'filmic' scenes - finally letting silence take over more strongly than ever before, and purposefully (instead of accidentally) using chiaroscuro.

18: Shadows and Dust

OK, I admit I'd just watched Gladiator when naming this comic, but it fitted nicely; all stealth and rock-based weaponry. This has more action than the average sexy scifi comic, and involves some classic gags too. What's not to like?!

17: Space Tits Ding-Dong Rub-A-Dub

Sometimes it's nice to have a silly title when everything's been a bit serious. This comic focuses on the sexiness of awkward claustrophobic encounters, and judging by the feedback on the comics, involves one of the all-time hottest scenes in the series.

... plus all the other comics ...

Missed the link? Download the comics free, here

Good news for 2019

Do not fear, I mean I know Britain still has Brexitshambles to look forward to, and America still has that unthinkable idiot at the helm, but there are, and always will be, wonderful things out there too.

For example, there are 200 billion galaxies out there. Mind blowing, when we get context, isn't it?

All I'm saying is there are still wonderful things happening in the world. And, probably, out of the world.

<insert minor rant>
I mean, obviously the internet is not a very happy place at the mo. Twitter is still full of whining, miserable folk seething and banging their righteous faces against the extremely broken world. Facebook is a desolate wasteland of privacy fiascos and paid-for political strongmanning. Google has sold literally everything about you they can get their hands on. Amazon runs off the backs of people who live in tents and is literally stockpiling all the words it can hear from its various cheap internet-connected devices. Instagram and Snapchat still peddle an extraordinarily misogynistic framework that draws young women into self-harm and young men into self-hatred...
</rant>

But still. That's just the internet.

The internet's still young, it's still learning why the words of the wise are what they are. Still lacking basic policies and wrecking its way through a destructive frontiers-themed barely-policed wild west culture.

But none of that internet stuff means the world is going to shit, it just means, as a species, we're learning how to connect in a new way. It happened with the printing press, it happened with the telephone, it needs to happen with the internet.

At the end of the day, we're still wonderful, amazing, brilliant humans, and the world is still the fantastic, ingenious, exciting planet its always been.

So here's to 2019; may we learn a new levels of patience and grace, and look inside ourselves for what we really stand for. And may 2019 be peppered with fun, booby, willy, bum comics now and then.

PB

Just checking ...

Yep. Still super.

No biggie, I'm just going through adding the images back in where they broke a while back. Carry on. Nothing to see. Apart from this blog post ... which is maybe worth a re-visit ... O_O

So long, and thanks for all the Ix

... it's time for us all to say goodbye to the Space Trek Fleet Wars saga [and blog]. Its been fun. Its been good in places, even if I do say so myself. Its been sexy and cute and all sorts of things. But now that story's told, it's time to move on.

The comics have been tweaked and finalised, the 3D characters and scenes have been released into the wild, I've even put the comics on G.E-Hentai, of all bloody places. Make sure they get out there into the Global Information Super Highway, or
'Interweb' as it's known.
Astonishingly, there were over 2 million hits on my comics within a week on that site alone (see basic bar graph), so I think it's safe to say a few people have read my STFW comics. Nice to know. Wasn't all a total waste of time then :)

So a note about me: I'm going to

Free comic series released!!!

Ok, I've done it. I've gone through every page of the entire STFW series and corrected about 100 errors, made subtle improvements to conversation, edited an image here and there, and generally made the series complete. Finished. Done.

So here it is, complete and free, just like Christmas all over again! Yeayyyy!!!

Download comics 1-10 of the redone saga here >>>
Download comics 11-20 of the redone saga here >>>

JanuareeUGHHH

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten this blog, it's semi-broken images (which I will fix), nor the fact the comic/download links are mostly borked. I have re-done half of the STFW saga already, meaning 90% fewer typos and annoying bits which spoil the flow of the comic. So I'll release the new 'official' versions of all the comics soon too :)
Seems from some of the recent comments on this blog that people don't actually read what I write, so I could probably write a load of ranty bollocks and nobody'd notice. Nah, let's write some truth.

January's a pretty tough time of year for a lot of people, and I'm no exception. Been feeling a little of the blues recently. Good news is I'm pretty hopeful about the situation, and the theories outlined in this blog post are playing out and holding up still, so that's coooool. Nice to be able to practice being a human without all the awful self-harm/turmoil-y bollocks kicking you in the fanny all the time too!

Hooray! So how's things with you guys?

The unbelievable huge number of images thread

What's that? You want every single image that's ever been uploaded to this blog?

Great idea!


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Don't load this page on mobile because it'll probably die...

Merry Christmas! Wahooooo!!!

It's about this time of year that I close up the blog and say bah humbug to the world, but not this year, wahoo!

I guess Christmas comes and goes, people change and traditions are made up and/or ditched along with our habits. So here's a little note to say two things: (1) Happy Christmas! If you don't believe in the Christian version of God, that's fine I appreciate it's an absurd idea. Christmas can be about appreciating the mystery of the cosmos, new beginnings and connecting with something greater than ourselves, which is a good thing no matter what your beliefs. And (2) Eva Green.

Like all the mysteries of the universe, the sexuality of our race constantly surprises me; I think storytelling (through the comics I've made) has probably taught me a little about myself and maybe other people. How brilliant we are, and how our brokenness can never get rid of that brilliance. Good news I reckon.

Here's a collection of

George Lucas Syndrome

Now that I've completed the STFW saga, I'm going through it, correcting all the little mistakes like some sort of obsessive idiot. An obsessive idiot with a small beard and a penchant for toy sales.

Ah well, all jolly good fun :)

I've re-done all the covers (just photoshop filters for consistency, and a disclaimer on each, nothing really major), tried to make #20 look a little less like Sheldon Cooper (lol), and now I'm going through the pages trying to find typos.

So to that end: can anyone spot any typos from the whole saga? Any typos in all the 20 comics please?! Any inconsistencies, spelling, grammar issues? I know, I know it's anal, but I liked comics 19 & 20 so much I think it's a good piece of work and I'd like the whole series to be consistently good before I move onto the next project.

One change I've made is the image above; Ix originally said "My only living relation", but then in comic #20 they refer to skyping their parents at the beginning of the comic, so I've edited that page from Dive into the Dark to suit.



PS. I know the images on this blog aren't back up yet; I'm doing the comics first, then downloads, then I'll sort out all the images sometime soon. So check back!

Jiggly jiggly

I'm just fannying around with blog posts and stuff. The pics on this blog will work again soon (don't worry I haven't deleted anything), and I'll make it more obvious about downloading the comics and 3D files.

And I was thinking of re-doing the cover of comic 20 anyway, do like a special edition version.

So that's nice. How've we all been?

All I want for Christmas is FREE STUFF wahoooo!!!

This full animated walk cycle is included, morph settings and everything.

Here's the third and final pack of my 3D scenes and characters to be given away. I'm including Ix and Xho and Becky and lighting and animation too, so there's quite a pack of content here (see info below).

Obvs the characters require a little setting up (I've included instructions on doing this), because I haven't created them as commercial standalone products, they're more like morphs applied in a certain way to other products that are out there. Anyway the contents of the zip will make that obvious if you're familiar with Poser. If you're not, there are plenty of youtube videos and support forums out there helping people figure stuff out.


If I do ever do any other comics, I don't want to extend the STFW saga because I think it's stronger standing as a series of 20 comics with a clear conclusion. I think it'd be a shame to add slightly different add-on comics to the series now it's concluded as it has: comic 20 was a clearly defined conclusion so let's leave the crew there shall we? Yes, let's!

Free Poser scene giveaway: sample materials, Ix's skin and my Superfly setup

Someone mentioned on the previous blog post that it'd be cool to have a screenshot of my render settings. Rather than do that and have 200 people painstakingly trying to reproduce how I did that, I've just setup a generic Poser scene with all the settings baked in. Yum!


Download here >>>>
(zip link is at the top)

I've set Pixel samples at 7, which gives the slightly grainy result on the left. For higher quality, just up that to 10 or 20 or whatever - depends how much time you've got :)

Posable figurines now on sale in my Etsy shop

A bunch of pictures I'm pretty pleased with...

Wouldn't it be cool to do the She-Ra & He-Man characters and set them up like posable figurines? Who else ... all the Anime ones have been done IRL, how about Leeloo or the Thundercats ... Thumbelina/Tink ... oh no wait, that's how I got into this whole silly business in the first place ...

Golden.

I mean, we all know gold has incredible properties, right? The only metal that doesn't corrode (!); thermal, modulus and reflective properties that make materials technicians get immediate erections/ladyboners.

Presumably in the future we'll be able to manufacture it (or mine it from Saturn's rings or whatever), and weave into materials so we can have awesome sheets of spacey sci-fi material draped over things. So here's a few pictures of
such a fictional material draped over another fictional thing called Ix. Funnily enough it'd be pretty easy to animate Xho slowly pulling the material off her. Or

OK ... maybe Superfly is quite good.

A bit of Photoshop to bring the contrast up and Bing! We'd be done.

I think these renders are quite impressive, especially considering I haven't done anything to update skin materials moving from Firefly to Superfly (which works on completely different principles). Amazing what lighting does.

Long-time followers of the blog will remember I put the Ix model into Modo a few years back and (after a lot of random stabs in the dark) managed to make her out of wood, metal etc. I mean, that's the dream, right? A real person made out of bark chippings (see below) or a solid block of steel?!?! Perfect girlfriend material, right there.

Anyway...

Push ups

I mean ... I say the push-ups test failed, but it's not *that* bad.

Not sure why there's a flickering light though, Poser gremlins no doubt.

Physics ... kinda works.

Have to admit, I've done a few tests with Poser's Bullet Physics, and I'm not entirely convinced it works for humanoid characters.

You have to 'inflate' the boobs to stop them acting like flopping sheets of cloth, and when you do they don't behave very ... booby.

I mean, for this kind of animation it's fine (and the little movement of the hair is lovely), but the truth is her boobs act more like semi-inflated helium balloons. Know what I mean? Like if you prod a boob, the whole thing sorta softly deforms/moves out of the way. Try it. See what I mean? Lovely. Whereas when you prod a semi-inflated helium balloon, the

Lighting test bonanza

These renders are just for fun; a happy hour spent trying to figure out how Superfly raytraces.

Very well, as it happens. Oh look! Glowing lights. Yes please ...

Rendering: Firefly vs. Superfly

The new Superfly engine: slow and NOISY

The old Firefly engine: FAST (but unrealistic)

OK, I've bought the latest version of Poser, finally turning years of pirated software into a legit operation. Ish. Hooray! The thing that convinced me was (1) the physics, and (2) a decent rendering engine (which I think is from Blender?). Just look at that glow around the

Errr... Poser can do physics now?!?!!

OMG, look at these weight-mapped painted vertices! MY EYESSSSSS

I had no idea, apparently Poser brought in Bullet Physics a few years ago, meaning you can have proper JIGGLE, and BOUNCE, TREMOR, WOBBLE, ... you name it.

QUIVER.

WIGGLE.

So. Blimey. this changes everything. Suddenly, we're going to find a lot of wibbly-wobbly things happening.

Although, after a bit of googling and a bit of youtubing, apparently very few people have got the hang of, or even tried it...