Wake up, Belle! Sitrep!

First off: if my blog ever goes to sleep and you get locked out, it's nothing personal. Chances are I've moved the URL / account and you'll just have to fire up the Googlebox to hunt me down.

Anyway, it's the exhausting festive break of you-know-what, and I haven't mentioned the upcoming comic for a while, so here's where I've got : - 70 pages all done! Just need to put the text on! Hooray!

It's a good one, but 70 pages doesn't mean it's imminent, no siree! In fact I do believe comic 18 will be the biggest, longest, firmest comic to date, probably weighing in at about 100 pages, and with more penetration than you can shake a stick at. Hooray! Penetration! That's *the best*

No penetration for our current awkward couple-of-the-moment though; the delicious twins Ix and Xho need a little more ripening I'm afraid. I couldn't care less how much whining the internet does about not much happening in comic 17 between those two: I want it to be believable when it does, and that'll take time. Sweet, delicious, sexy time.

So don't hold your breath on that one. Do remember, dear reader, that my personal preference for sexiness is a fair amount of believability. If you wouldn't walk into a room and just hump a person in real life, then nobody will be doing it in my comics. Well, hardly anybody. Maybe Becky. OK definitely Becky. For everyone else, the tease is part of the fun, just like it is in real life! Remember dating? Remember trying to figure out who likes you? Remember that dance? Sexy A.F.

Anyway, rest assured once the teasing is over, the payoff will be entirely believable, slowly epic acts. Just like the first times in real life - it takes hours. Porn is wrong, nobody fucks in 20 minutes when it's the first time with someone. You savour it, you devour every touch, every awkward conversation, you think it through a million times - consider your responses, your eye contact, everything.

Yum.

Yum.

Yum.

In the meantime, there'll be plenty of business occurring between the other characters anyway! Yay!

As I mentioned a while back, I've written all the scripts up to comic 20, so I know exaaactly where we're going, and it all comes together very nicely by comic 20 (in my opinion...), including explanations of a few long-buried facts from earlier comics. In fact after some re-working this week, comic 19 is possibly the greatest conversational one ever. Ever. Like, soaking pants o'clock just reading through. Always a good sign.

So that's something to look forward to. That and Christmas. And Star Wars. Again.

Maybe I should blog about Star Wars. I need a sleep first though, this season always takes it out of me.

Right, everybody out! Wake me up in the New Year x




>>> This isn't Lost in Translation, >>>
but what a great film. She was ruined in The Avengers, poor girl, Hollywood again pretending to know what equality is and failing massively.
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Sexy ghost jumper

Happy Nearly Christmas! Have some test renders...

Normally wouldn't upload this sort of render because it's awkward and she has an annoyingly vacant expression and there's awful clothing poke-through, so it's very beta.

But then, look at them, how can we not like Ix eh? Even in an imperfect CG setup.

So here she is, getting ready for comic 19, where it's all going to kick off. Big time.

Tss, if only I was faster at turning my ideas into comics, I could churn out 20 per year and it'd be like the most escapism-involving space ding-dong wonderfulness ever! Well, it wouldn't be bad.

 

Woops, forgot to re-show Ix after I sorted out the reflections.... so here's just a jumper:

SEXY GHOST JUMPER BIDS YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!

Late night = legs night.

*Wanders in*

*Blogs up non-spoiler comic image*

*Wonders out*

*Wanders if it's wonder or wander in this context*

*Shrug*

*Gluhwein*
 


[Massive kudos goes to 'blackhearted', who made this custom 3D V4 body morph {GND4} which I've always used - the body shape is juuuuuust perfect.]

Fashion and hair and subtle lighting. Afternoon well spent.

Eugh, now, I've been having trouble with my google account so if this blog suddenly dies, then find me on tumblr or deviantart. Let's call ditching Google entirely Plan B.

In the meantime I'm here and I've had a few hours to play about making an attractive little top for Ix. This one's a special one because it unzips! Hooray! It's kind of a weird top because it'd have to be boned in order to be supportive (not that Ix particularly needs support for her breasts, but it'd need to be boned in order to maintain that top line at least), but I designed the boning (yes I'm into plausible fashion) and the structure kinda ruined it, so we'll have to stick with the 'scifi fact' this is some new material which simultaneously provides support, and looks a bit like flimsy/stretchy cotton.

*Insert obvious boning jokes here*

Memory cotton then. We've been here before, haven't we? This using futuristic fiction to provide the excuse not to quite stick to real-world physics. I like this excuse. Hey, they're my toys, I can play with them how I want :D

I'm not going to show the unzipping fully in action, because it's more fun to tease (we know this: it's established fact), but I'm pretty happy with the semi-reveal version below tbh.

So: feedback time: new hair? Yes or no? Did anyone notice the hair? No. Ah well. I think it's cute. And assuming Ix meets Luce at some point in the not-too-distant-future, she's bound to get some styling tips from our gothic femme noir.

Because hair is important. Yes it is.

New hair:

Old hair:

New hair:

VOTE! 

(Project Bellerophon reserves the right to completely ignore the outcome of the vote, but you know: shits and giggles, eh?)

Listen, Goog...

And now, after that brief intermission...

Hello! As those determined enough to find me will have discovered, I gave Blogger a couple of weeks cooling-off period after some faffing, but now I'm here! Hello again!

Sorry about that awful "You've been locked out, this is only for special people" landing page that Google puts up - it's not very welcoming is it? If I could edit it, it'd say something a bit less confusing like "This blog is bloody well closed to everyone until the whole internet pulls its jolly great finger out, please. Thank you."

Just popping in to check how the internet is coming along. Good, good. Could you guys maybe stop trying to hack into my emails please? Many thanks x

Anyway, I had a chance to get on with some comiccy stuff recently, which I wasn't expecting, even to the extent of thinking about a new haircut for Ix (pictured above), and to create some unusual props for a few comics' time. Like this cigarette (Also pictured, but you noticed that, didn't you? Yes you did).

Funnily enough, although Ix might well try that haircut for size, she is not going to take up smoking - it's actually going to be a spy-type device for general making-of-mayhem purposes. Lovely, lovely, don't we all wish we had more spy-type devices for general making of mayhem? Yes, yes we do.

So then.

There's also a new bunch of unusable renders which I could put on this blog (and would love to, because they're amusing errors like Ix's whole arm poking through someone's torso etc), but then looking at them there's some pretty severe plot spoilers going on, so I can't. Which is a shame.

I guess what I've learnt from all this comiccing is to keep the plots simple, cos when you get twisted up in a running plot, you bloody well take ages unravelling it all and closing every plot hole and it all takes blimmin ages! It'll be worth it though. This upcoming comic is a good one, but the one AFTER that - OMG. And the one after that? Number 20? That's the killer. That's the Oscar performance right there. OK, maybe not an Oscar, but at least a GNVQ Level 1 in storytelling.

Blimey, it's almost like I never closed the blog, eh? Happy Friday everyone!