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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...

Lex for V4 ...anyone?

Hold the phone, I've lost Ix's head.

Help me! Does anyone have 'Lex for V4' - I had that morph from years ago but don't want to have to buy it again!

Without it I can't do Ix's head! Bugger!

<<< Look at that abomination. I don't know who she is, but she's not Ix.

I mean, I'm sure she's lovely and eveyrthing, but she's 70% less cheeky than Ix, eh?

Dicking about

So how's it going? Personally, I've had a lovely few months, but now I'm absolutely up to my tits in work and so ... come a late night ... it's nice therapy to start from scratch, install Poser and have a little look at some of the files I can get through the interweb.

So here ... sans agenda ... are a few random renders of kit on the V4 Hayley model. I put the 'London' texture (ie. Hayley) and head morph on her eventually because the default V4 looks a bit like she's eaten a locomotive.

Free stuff! Free scenes! Free Dee! FREEEDOMMM

I've packaged a bunch of my 3d Poser scenes up, and in line with my general style of being a generous and exuberant mother fucker, I'm giving them away for free! Yay free stuff!

I mean, I realise I could sell this type of thing, and my comics, but the thing is, money is silly so I avoid it. Spend your money on something else, people! Buy yourself a miniature guitar or a plastic donkey or a mug that changes colour when it gets hot or something*

So the download below includes the first scenes I'm giving away: the Bunk (slightly ... err ... used), the Bamboo forest, and 

What humans want

In that old not-great-but-actually-quite-good-and-maybe-great-if-you-squint  film, 'What Women Want', we follow a classic Alpha Male (ie. douchebag) type as he gets his brain bust-up and learns, in fact, that he needs saving just as much as anyone else. And in doing so he finds love, family and freedom. Huh. Interesting, that. 

Sounds familiar (*cough cough Major Tom*)

Been thinking about it recently (not because I have a

Deep questions and ideas and feedback gogogo

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Extras DVD: deleted scenes and top secret development website

Warning: Contains spoilers. If you haven't read Comic 20 yet, do that first. Done that? Great! Want more? Yay!

Head over to the Script Development website which has been secret and locked until now, where you will find all manner of goodies!

I guess if I come up with more ideas or whatever I might add them to that website :)

Comic 20: Project Nemesis

The final chapter in the Space Trek Fleet Wars saga is here!

256 pages, a ridiculous number of sex scenes, some proper stupid banter, and a buttload of greatness. My final STFW comic took a lot of work and a lot of months, but it's sooooo good to finally get it done. Followers of the blog will know I ummed and ahhed about just closing everything and not doing it at all - hopefully from the comic you'll see why I thought it needed doing. I wrote the entire thing about 4 years ago, and had it sitting there as the final script while I did the other comics leading up to it. Didn't want to rush it, and glad I didn't, in the end. Good times.

So it's a story that brings Tom well and truly back into the limelight, solves

[Bumped post] Looking up

Fun to release hints of the upcoming comic without giving too much away. I'm really pleased with the lighting and form on this render of Becky though. And the pre-render visual thing below doesn't give much away either. I mean, that could be Victor or Tom on the left, and Becky or Hayley on the right, and you can't tell where they are either. Could be a spaceship, a field, a bowling alley, on a canadian canoe, anywhere. Who knows, eh? Exciting!

So (onto a slightly more substantial topic..) it occured to me a while back, while writing this comic and the ones leading up to it, that the hotter of my comics (to me, at least) have been the ones with at least a bit of a

Welcome

Hello! Welcome one and all! In case this blog goes quiet (ie Google locks me out as they enjoy doing occasionally), find me at https://nemesisbellerophon.tumblr.com :)

Get ready...

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Drum roll ... the next comic will be called ...

 ... Project Nemesis! What the ... I know, right?!

All the rendering's done; it's 256 pages! Perfect techie/binary-friendly number to end on, there. Only jobs left are (1) the juicy, spermy, drippy bits, and (2) a read-through to spot any errors. Shouldn't take too long but (1) always takes a week or two - so don't hold your breath juuuust yet.

Anyway, here are the first two pages of comic 20. As it's so bloody long, I've split it into Acts like a long play. Gives the

The Final Straight

It's a bit of a misleading picture this, cos it's really just a lighting test, and doesn't appear in the comic anywhere. Straight-to-blog type thing.

But rest assured: (1) There will be epic, I mean literally epic, amounts of nudity in the final comic. Just unprecedented by a factor of at least three. (2) There will be great big colossal volumes of sexiness. Just totally unheard of amounts. (3) There are some decent gags in there, even quite

Shenis

Natural mode. Just a great big Lady Dong.

VOTE! I can't decide which of these colours works best for Luce's strapon so feedback gratefully received.
I might not put it in the comic at all (let's be honest, I just wanted to play around with a dildo), but last night I read through comic 19 and saw there's that little reference to Luce's toy right at the end there, which would be quite handy as there's 5 girls and only 3 boys on the crew, so we're a bit short of cocks, if (for example) everyone was going to get some action at the same time. Unless we

Fannying around

Well I've been very, very busy. Basically making some tie-chord pants for Becky. Very busy.

Must be some way of writing these new knickers into the comic somewhere, eh? I mean who pulls pants on and off, right?! What is this, Dickensian Englande? Much more fun to spend HOURS fiddling with stupid bloody lengths of string attached to a tiny 'H' of fabric, right? Right.

After those Chugger bunk re-renders a few weeks back, I also thought

Strong and stabelol

Haven't blogged for a little while, been too stressed with the General Election to focus on real life. I mean fake life, comic blogging, shenanigans etc. Even sex; I actually haven't had sex for OH GOD IT'S BEEN WEEKS HALP MEHHH

So ... ahem .... blimey, let's defbrief on what's going on in ruddy bloomin old UK, eh? WELL, when you get to the stage that the Red Cross, UNICEF and Amnesty International calls your government twats, and your

The STFW series; analysed

Blimey, 80 people have filled out my feedback form. Can't believe it, thanks everyone - I hate filling out forms, so how you lot have managed is quite amazing!

So here's some of the findings...

General Erection.

Spoiler alert: there will be nudity in the upcoming comic! SHOCK!

Ah well, some sex going on between Tom and his good friend Zan isn't a particularly big spoiler. So here's a few random renders to celebrate that this is the biggest comic I've ever worked on! Yay! 165 pages now pretty much in the bag, so a personal best. Wait a minute ... Personal Best ... PB ... Project Bellerophon ... COINCIDENCE?! Anyway screw it, I'll aim for 200 pages all-in as that's a

SITREP!

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TEACH MEEEEE

I figure all the best people learn from others; those who think they know everything tend to be dicks (sorry, but you know ... it's true!).

So to that end, and before I splurge the final chapter comic on the internet and piss off / sublime into the ether, here's a proper chance for you to be heard! Super simple (and anonymous) form below - please let me know what are my best/worst comics and why, any frustrations, any memorable...
peaks for you? TEACH MEEEEEE! (if the form below breaks, please use this linky)[link now removed, form closed]


Fill it out more than once if you change your mind, just be honest is all I ask pliz! :)

The problem with anonymity

So I've been emailing this guy for quite a few years now, his handle on this blog was Tittilywinks (some of you will recognise that name). He's a great guy and always polite/mature about stuff, always able to give sensible/encouraging feedback which is a blessing.

Anyway he emailed an apology months ago for not being in touch for a bit because he'd been in-and-out of hospital with a certain quite

Glossy Wossy Num-Nums

I've been experimenting with shiny skin ... FOR SCIENCE!!!!

OK, there's no point really. Anyway, I've done a few scenes with some sweat going on, and in order not to give away spoilers I've re-rendered this old pose from comic 19 FOR SCIENCE!!!!!

For science, I tell you.

Turns out (literally science, this bit) that anistropic is the way forward when it comes to sweaty/shiny skin. I'd always thought you just used 'glossy' (one of the standard shader settings, like Blinn (?) or Phong (?!). Seriously, who comes up with these shader setting names? Must be a mathematical thing. Lambert - that's another one. I know lambert means matte finish, and blinn seems to

Chugger

Never really got on with that cabin onboard Tom's original ship 'Chugger' - I think it was probably the very first thing I'd made in 3D. I mean it's fine, but the original renders show how basic it is - almost no textures, low poly, bad/cold lighting. Compared to the Wraith bunk scenes (which use an amazing 3d prop by Stonemason), you can see how n00b my first 3d work is.

In fact halfway through Space Trek Fleet Wars (comic 1), you can see the lighting hugely improves when I'd

Puuuuuull!

OK this is an image from page like 80 or something, but it's not particularly a spoiler because there are JUST SO MANY SEX SCENES!!! AAARGHH!!!! It's not even the hottest sex scene in there, not by a long shot. WOAH. IKR?!

Basically, everyone does it with everyone else, so it's hard to give anything away. Apart from the plot, but we're not going to go into that because that's the interesting bit. That and the boobies. And the bums, willies, etc etc.

Sitrep: 100 pages done, just one or two group chats left, a few more 'snuggling up' scenes (just sounds nicer than calling them sex scenes), and a conclusion. And an epilogue - gotta have an epilogue in a massive comic about love/despair and humanity's infinite

Clay

In the long tradition of providing teasers for what I'm working on, without actually spoiling the plot or any nice surprises, here are some clay renders. In fact screw it, here's all the ones I've shown over the last few years.

Love these things, don't know why; maybe it's the pure form and lighting because they remove all
props/textures/ depth of field, and just renders the skin, so you can see how the poses are coming along. Lovely!

Comic #20 update: 78 pages done, four or five sex scenes done (so far..), most of the plot out of the way, going well actually. I know I said when I did comic 19 that that one was the best, and that comic 20 would just be

Cotton

I think this next comic's going to have more everything than any comic before. I was going to say "more sex scenes", but thinking about it, it's got more action-y plot too, and more stupid jokes, and more characters, and more ... well, everything.

Apart from awkwardness. That all reached a climax in comic 19, eh. So we're thin on awkwardness, plenty of everything else.

Anyway. In these renders, we're
playing with a cotton top for Zan (see renders below). Not that cotton's quite so glossy, but I chanced upon some great material while setting Hayley up in the Wraith, and thought I'd

Back in the saddle

Hey! I've done 60 pages of the new comic; fairly ploughed through a batch this week, which is nice. Looks like it's set to be another big one, this; easily over a hundred by the time I'm done, though gladly most of the plot / complex group scenes are finished in the first 60 pages and it's mostly chats and general nudity / finale to go now.

Oh no, wait a minute, there is one complex group scene coming up. Ah well, most of the difficult stuff's done at least.

And there's a few nice chuckles in there; I literally giggled out loud putting the words on a page today, which is
always a good sign. Although that said, it might just be me thinking I'm funny, and that's always a bad sign, so I guess we'll have to wait and see what the rest of the internet

Have spacesuits will travels

Bit of a play around for an upcoming scene in the hard vacuum of space; a few renders of a be-suited Ix, ready for space combat fun-times pew-pew!

OK, I cheated and combined a few freebie spacesuit props, but tbh for zero pounds and a little tweaking I'm pretty pleased with the

Subsurface

No reason, just ... you know. Quite a cool angle. Love the pre-render calculation thing.

Stress renders go go go!

Stress rendering. Huh. Forgotten about that whole thing. It's not like I've been stress-free for months, I guess I just coped with stress differently. Took it somewhere else.

Anyway, that's what I'm doing. Panicking a bit about a presentation I've got coming up. So let's ignore the real world, and play with escapism and the comic a little...

Quick question: that guy who did all the Marvel comics (sorry noob question) - I'm sure I saw a quote from him which said

Unmothball

Wait ... the blog's back open! Yay! Welcome, one and all.

After a few months I've come to the conclusion that I WILL DO the next comic: #20.

This means the series won't end on a "What happens to Fabuloso?" cliffhanger, but will be better wrapped up and completed as I intended all along, which is good and will tie up the entire secret hidden plot line all the way back to comic #1. Exciting! But just to be clear; there won't be any more comics after I've done #20. I mean, there will generally be comics made by people on the planet, just