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

Mothball

While we wait for some big turds to roll to a complete stop in my life, and while I take some time to decide what to do with the comic series; to complete it or to just let it rot at 19, this blog is being mothballed.

I would turn it off, but then Google does that thing where it says "You've been locked out", and that's no fun, so here's an empty holding blog while the jury's out.

Creating art (any art, even dodgy erotic comics) is a seasonal thing. Muses come and

Twilek

No particular reason, just Zan.

Thinking maybe the comic should simply be the adventures of Zan as she travels through our own galaxy and gets to know different humans, maybe comes across the occasional betentacled alien species and helps them chill the heck out.

Or she could have a stint as captain after a high-stakes game of strip poker, and use her new power to

Oh Tr*mp

(NB. I wrote this in Oct 2016...)
Oh America, what are we to do, eh?

So, quick sitrep:- 'Brexit' was sold to UK voters on demonstrable lies, by genuine shits who then resigned (Farage, Johnson). And as we begin to unpick what Brexit means for the nation, the Bank of England estimate £66 Billion will be wasted annually going forward, which is one almighty ongoing kick in the bollocks. So we

New character: Jen. Include in the comic? VOTE!

Ahh, character invention fun times! Playing with my Barbies has always been fun. Maybe it's a control thing, maybe it's just perving. Who knows. Either way, creating new characters isn't always a great idea in plot terms, but damn it it's just so ... just so ... moreish.

Yum, playing with body shapes (not that I deviate too much from my crazy idea of skinny hotness, it has to be said), toying about with 'gravity', props, outfits, expressions, faces, it's all jolly good fun.

So here are some renders. This character is going to be called Jen. Long personal story why she'll be called that, which I'm not going to go into here, but I'm not even 100% sure she'll

Dodgy Bob's Big Bag of Gravy

(Couldn't think of a sensible title for the blog post, obviously)

HELLO! It's me, 'Project Bellerophon', which now I think about it, is a pretty stupid name. What about Susan or Sandra of Freddy or something normal? No, it's Project Bellerophon. Ah well let's stick with it.

Well, in the last few months I've burnt out a laptop (ram fiasco this time, as you ask), I've burnt out a friendship or two, I've burnt my shoulders with too much sun, and I've burnt a lasagne. All true apart from the lasagne, I'd never burn a lasagne that would be unforgivable and stupid.

Unusual to burn a friendship though, eh? Never thought of myself as someone who could do that, but you know when it's time to

Summer yummer ding-dong

HELLO! Yes indeed, my word lots of lovely comments on the blog in the last few weeks, I shall endeavour to answer them this week perhaps. But my goodness what a summer rush of fun times!

Sorry I went quiet, but not that sorry because it's high time we all got out in this lovely sun and worked on our excellent skin cell death hobby.

FASHION SKIN - one to work on for the patent office there, Americans. You're welcome.

Woops there may have been a lunchtime mojito or two, apologies. You know that thing where you

Limelight roulette

If you have a massive Space Trek Fleet Wars binge and read through the whole saga in a couple of sittings (like I just did), you might notice the characters swing in and out of the limelight a little.

And Becky and Tom in particular - the key original couple - have been on the back burner for a few comics, haven't they.

Trouble with having quite a few characters (and it taking so long to render each scene) is that you can't really cover everybody all the time, otherwise each comic would either be 500 pages long, or stupidly jump about and be just sex scenes with no explanation. And if that's the kind of comic you're after, heck there's plenty of others out there that do that. In fact they all do that, eh. I'm not really into that - I'm more the slow build-up, slightly-more-believable type of comic producer I guess.


In the later comics, I've preferred to concentrate on the most awkward/human thing out there! So Blue Steel is Zan's main event (and she hasn't featured much since). Becky and Tom haven't had much focus since Bum Deal - again because that comic was all about those two. Hayley and Victor haven't had much airtime since Firmware - same deal, same reason, even though there was loads of potential - Hayley's lost virginity and eating out Luce was just skipped over so I could focus on Ix and Xho. Common theme is that I go for an awkward storyline, explore it slowly, then get those characters out of the spotlight to give others a chance.

The big overarching story will return a little to Becky and Tom for comic 20, but so you understand the balance, the reason Ix and Xho have had so much focus throughout is actually because in comics 1 and 3, I raced through the relationship between Becky and Tom - and I always thought it would be nice to do it more justice, do it more slowly, hence the introduction of the Ix and Xho characters, and the much slower and more awkward build up to their having sex. Slower and more awkward = believable/feasible = seeeexxxyyyyyy. Well, that was the plan at least :)

It's not really to tease the fans, it's actually just my wanting to do a single brother-sister storyline and have it be believable. So there we are.

Anyway it's getting late and I'm sitting at the back of a pub and it's Friday evening so it's getting a bit busy in here for my liking:- I'd better hit Publish and get the hell out of here, before people get a view of my screen! If you've just walked into a pub in Holloway and saw someone sheepishly grab their laptop and shuffle out, that was me! Byeee! *runs*

Have a great weekend everyone!

Anchorman reference #1

Anchorman reference #2

Viagra Pez: copyright Project Bellerophon 2016

Extras DVD: the original script for comic #19. Plus banter.

Google locked me out of the blog again! Very annoying. If that'd happened a week ago, right before I'd published comic 19 (which is out, by the way, in case you hadn't spotted it), I'd have gone completely nuts. And so would you. Anyway I'm back in now, all I had to do was try and remember when I set the account up... how the hell should I know?! Eugh, anyway, stop ranting about google. I love google really. I would totally neigh for them, if you know what I mean.

I meant to say about the comic: there were 1,200 downloads of it in the first two days! BLIMEY! That's loads. Goodness. So could you do me a favour and

Comic 19: The Quiet Ones

Not going to lie, I'm pretty proud of this one. What an utter, unbelievably huge amount of work it was. Next comic will be smaller and much more boring, I promise.

What should I say about it ... it's a quiet, gentle, awkward series of discussions and an unstoppable tsunami of a build-up to about twenty climaxes over the course of 165 pages. Finally Ix and Xho well and truly ... well, you'll see.

Enjoy it. Read it all very slowly. Heck, do it in shifts for the full effect. Have a great weekend! It's Friday! Comic day, baby!

DOWNLOAD COMIC 19 HERE >>>>>>
(Zip file download icon is at the top of that link; get the full 64mb zip for proper res images, eh?)

On its way ...

So I took the afternoon off work (lovely and sunny anyway, right?) and finished finished FINISHED the comic. Yes indeeeeed. However, I'm on a train right now (long story) (ok, not a long story, but a boring one) and I'm uploading the comic to my google drive so I can share it with the world.

Thing about wifi on trains is ... it's on a train. So it's crap. You go through tunnels and past great radio noise patches and basically uploading a 64mb zip file takes forever.


Let's all just imagine we're back in 1997 and trying to get the dial-up modem to stop screaming and start joining those cheeky little bytes, eh? So while we wait, I can blog about it and tell you all it's on the way. So here I am.

Dum de dum.

Don't mind me.

So how've we all been?

Right, back to comics

Family bathtime. Good clean fun.

...and after that brief intermission to rant about the crumbling unethical politics of the UK, let's resume normal service.

I've done 165 pages. All the renders are done. In fact if I get a few hours peace this week, comic 19 [AKA The Greatest Bellerophon Comic Ever] might even be out on FRIDAY! COMIC DAY, BABY!!! Woop woop! No promises, but it's pretty likely.


The title of comic 19 will be 'The Quiet Ones', as a bit of a reference to The Dreamers (see pics). I know, another slightly straight film reference a la Shadows and Dust, or Fap Club. Thing is, the title Space Tits Ding-Dong Rub-A-Dub kinda set the bar pretty high for madness, so these straight titles balance the series out a little. And it includes a great big non-talking scene - which was pretty difficult to do but is I think more realistic (people don't talk ALL the time, after all). Difficult to do because having no speech bubbles in a comic encourages the reader to race through it, and is a lot of rendering effort because you have to move the plot on with expressions and poise rather than spelling out what characters are thinking all the time. Much harder. But I'd always wanted to do a silent scene because some of the best human interactions are silent, and you don't get that a lot in comics. Hence The Quiet Ones.

Anyway; The Dreamers - if you haven't seen it, it's a film about a guy discovering this isolated brother and sister who've inhabited a cool deserted apartment, surviving as their parents leave them for various reasons. Very good film. And seems appropriate considering my usual brother-sister intrigue stuff, eh? Yes. That's right.

In fact it's very fitting; they all just hang out semi-naked, talking nonsense and human politics the whole time. Chuck in some stars and an occasional alien and you'd basically have my entire comic series.

The Quiet Ones may also be the title of a non-great 2014 horror film, but heck they apparently didn't do a very good job so it's time to redeem the title, n'est ce-pas? Oui.

... pardon?

So, the comic - like I say, I've done all the rendering now; it'll definitely be 165 pages. An absolute mammoth then, with at least enough content for five separate comics. But heck I'm not selling them so I can decide how to divide up the plot, right? And I like the massive comic thing, because it gives you time to really get into it, really escape into the curious world that's being described. That's why not much happens in The Dreamers - you sort of get absorbed into the believable world of the siblings, makes it 100,000 times hotter when the slightest thing happens.

Only jobs left to do on the comic are (1) bit of speech tightening-up - like tweaking the conversation so it's either (a) sexier, or (b) funnier, or (c) flows better. Job (2) is the final task - adding all the 'wetness'; yep that gross job that always comes last. Photoshopping fluids is a bit of a mission normally, but for this marathon comic it's going to be a total nightmare because heck there's ... there's just SO MUCH OF IT!! Needs to be done though. That's why I can't guarantee this Friday - am too much of a perfectionist, even with sperm.

A Sperm Perfectionist? Is that a thing? Should be.

Fcking Brexit

Dear the rest of the World; we, the UK, are sorry.

Being English is normally excellent, it's normally great, great fun. Everyone loves (or jokingly hates) the British. We're jolly, jolly good fun normally.

Blimey.

But fucking Brexit has pissed me right off mate. Blimey crikey cor blimey I'm reet off me tits on .... whatever the opposite of national pride is. National shame.



We seem to have sided with the most moronic elements of the world. Only Donald Trump (don't get me started), Boris Johnson (demonstrably lying), and ISIS thought it would be a good idea to leave the EU. But no, we thought we'd ignore every economist and historian and the advice of every technical institution and industry we have, and side with the racists. Great.

(For the foreign amongst you, the EU is the European [economic] Union).

Brexit does not mean we will be leaving the continent of Europe itself and physically floating away, nor does it mean (as some true ignoramuses actually believed), that we have voted to get the 'foreigners' to 'leave'.  No, it simply means we have utterly shot ourselves in every bollock we posses, all in the name of giving two fingers up to David Cameron (not an entirely wasted effort I must confess), and has left our dear nation sadly lacking ... well ... a government, for a start. And for number two, at the mercy of every racist and xenophobe we posses.

Talking about a number two, we're off back to the fucking Bronze Age for a bit. Byee!

In the meantime, comic update; I've done 140 pages now. I'll be hard pressed to finish it in under 150 pages, but we're definitely getting there :)

Something to look forward to as our glorious nation folds itself into a singularity and falls foul of the total thuggish mentalists who normally stay in their bedsits and keep bloody quiet.

Lots of English rage right here. Sorry about that. Cup of tea? Two sugars?

OMGoodness

Seriously you guys, comic 19 is going to be the best one yet. Like, it's amazing.

I don't normally say that; I normally say "It's a good one, this one", or "Weeeell this one had to have lots of plot so it's more about the tension...", but not for this one. Oh no. This one's the best.


I've done 126 pages so far but it'll be maybe about 140 by the time I'm done. So there's about 300+ renders, 9 characters, all individual poses for each render (I don't tend to duplicate renders to fit more speech in, I hate when comic artists do that it just lazily interrupts natural flow), all depth of field, lots of memes and silly bits and goodness me a lot of very, very nice flesh.

*cold shower*

 

Oh don't keep hitting refresh though, I'll let you know when it's a few days away, reveal the title, stuff like that.