Nothing has been progressed this week in any significant way. Some cleaning of files/saves/models, some testing of ideas and themes, some practice bits that might turn into something down the line.

    Some illness in the household as well, which slows things down, since I had to stop and take care of that. I don't think I've caught anything doing so, hurrah.

    Christmas 2024 is soon to be full rendered. The testing let me set all the sound/timing some time ago, just never got around to the full 1080p render. Tons of time though to get it. It's been nice having the 'big' holiday ready so early. Not sure if I'd said so before, but it's smaller scale and a calmer pace than previous Christmas releases. Once again, no Gwen Tennyson for it. I miss using her for holidays.

    Black Menagerie - Tekken - Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort is still a go, just not going currently. Off to a good start, stalled due to Halloween, is now in minor limbo. That happens. It's a reason I don't do commissions. I'd most likely lose interest quicker on such projects and without the interest the drive to work on it dwindles.

    At any rate. I'll get something to show for next week, even if I have to just show super rough practice shots. I dislike not having something visual for Weekly WIPs, even though they often don't have anything worth showing nor are required to. Maybe I should go back to Shiala: Mirage style Weekly WIP after all.

    I've nothing to show/share other than saying Halloween 2024 has been rendering. It will be released on time this coming Thursday (Halloween Day) for free, with 4 alt outfit versions here for Subscribers Supporter Tier+. The free release will have credits to the side while the 4 alt outfits will not.

    This week flew by. I didn't even realize the day til early this morning. I think I zoned out working on Halloween 2024, which is render ready and will start soon. There's 1 free release, with Heather in her 'classic' outfit. The rest (alt outfits) will be Tier 2+ ($3). This lets the release be free since a Holiday, but also give something more for those with higher tiers.

    The free release will have Heather fully nude later, with alt outfits having various clothing items removed depending on the outfit shown. Examples: The formal attire removes the dress, but leaves the stockings and heels while the long sleeve/shorts combo lifts the shirt and removes the shorts. In total there should be 5 releases of this in total: Nude, Classic, Formal, Harness and Shirt. Harness, in case you were wondering, will be the shirt/pants transition since neither of those worked well as partials. The animation remains the same in each though and it's a single angle roughly a minute long, so nothing overly long.

    And before anyone might 'rah rah' comment, the scene was setup to 'leave something to the imagination'; meaning you don't fully see what is happening to Heather, you get the impression, but not to say there's nothing to see.

    Free release will be on Halloween, with the extras, if rendered in time, the following Saturday or later if needed. Should be good though.

    A bit of another slow week. I had to spend time cleaning up the pc. I'm getting pretty low on memory. Since it was needed, I'm also looking into several replacements/upgrades. External memory, monitor, even mouse/keyboard needs replaced. Spend money to make money, etc. The UPS Battery/Surge I got last month is a wonderful thing.

    BM Lili, which I realized doesn't need a name since it pretty much speaks for itself and the other BMs didn't have 'official' names anyways, took a slight backseat this week in animation since I had an idea pop in I wanted to try to get sorted for Halloween; even though I'd not planned on Halloweening this year. I've said I think Horror might be the genre I do best in and wanted to poke at that again. Yeah, there's the Sadako from The Ring one as well, but eh, not as interesting to me. So, Heather Mason is stepping in. Too many ideas still. 

    Wait and see. Speaking of the flowers, anyone get the 'funny ha ha' type reference?

    I still need to get Christmas 2024 rendered and videoed. It's been ready for a bit, just not found the time for it. So, if all goes as I hope, Silent Hill will be Halloween, BM Lili will be asap in November, I can start in on other things or pickup on something early December, and the Christmas will be on Christmas. Who knows though. Life, right? Plus, at times the creativity just explodes. That Pound-Her animation was created fully in little over a week, I think.

    Lastly, I need to sort some more upper Tier extras/bonuses again. I toyed with the idea of doing a higher tier only release every now and then, but I don't care for that much, even though I think my tiers are still much more 'bang for your buck'. I've seen others basically charge for WIP postings. Harder to balance this kind of thing than I thought.

    I took some time off this week.  BM Lili has more background ironed out, so her opening section is almost finished. Debating on if I need more background details. Probably not. Lighting is still a little rough, but her texture edits came out nice. I gave her a very slight tan line on just her bottom. Thought it was fitting.

    Other than that, there's more of the hinted at TV concept. Sadako, from The Ring, gets caught in a 'video capture' mode. The model was bought and gifted to me.  It might be Halloween ready, it might not. Either way if/when it's finished it'll be released; I say 'if' just in case. I am pretty happy with her intro in the project.

    Here's a couple BJ Machine loops with Batgirl (Barbara Gordon civilian clothing) and Oracle (same character, different hero theme). I made them this week in celebration of finally hitting 1,000+ followers on X. Nothing special, just a quick create.

    Tekken Lili's BM is coming along. I don't want to hype it too much with all the 'gonna do this, gonna do that' talk. Seems every time I do something goes awry. Instead, I'll just show some bits as it goes along, like this magazine cover I made for it. I enjoy making things like that. Anyone recall the DIY Ramma'Jam one (Sex, Solder and Screws) for Judy Álvarez?

    No news on the OC fronts. Hoping to get some info soon though.

    Things were a little slow this week overall though. Hurricane Helene was supposed to cause issues even where I am, but it didn't hit as bad as they thought. Got some rain/wind but nothing all that horrible. Couple hours away wasn't so lucky.

    Hope you like the loops.