The widow has been made

Hey!

Widowmaker is rigged and ready for action.

Uncensored version can be downloaded here.


Gonna rig a basic version of Hanzo now and then get animating.

Progress Update 02

It's been a while!™

If you ever get worried about whether or not the earth swallowed me again, just check my Twitter - I frequently post some work in progress stuff and general spam there. On this blog however, I'll only post stuff with a bit more substance ... long posts, new works, that sort of thing. So naturally updates here won't be very frequent.

That being said, here's what happened since the last blog-post:

• After finishing the female human, I took a month off and worked on some of my sfw-stuff.
• Finished the male bloodelf.
• Started the female nightelf, but then ...
• Overwatch happened! I didn't get into the beta, but Rexx did. I asked him to rip a few of the ingame models, which he kindly did. The ripped models require quite a bit of cleanup and that's what I've been working on since.
• Started with Widowmaker. Cleaned up the mesh and textures, built the materials, converted everything to quads and built a new nude body from scratch. The model is finished now and ready to be rigged: 

• I ditched the animation, I teased in the first Progress Update post. Didn't like the pose as much as I thought I would. Here's a render of the 11 frame loop it started out as.

 So what's the game-plan from here?

• I want to rig Widowmaker, finish one more Overwatch character and then make an animation of both.
• After finishing the nightelf, I will put new races on the backburner and start putting out WoW-animations.
• I will set up a tumblr, where I will only post finished works. This blog will remain what I consider my main-page.
• After releasing a bunch of animations and having settled back in, I will open up commissions and a Patreon.
  I will say for sure that there won't be any exclusive content hidden behind a Patreon-paywall. I want people to support me on their own, not because I offer them some exclusives and alienate the rest. We'll see how it goes ... I'm not completely opposed to incentives though. Polls could be a possibility, albeit a boring one. Maybe a few days time-exclusivity on some stuff? Not liking that one too much though. Just thinking out loud here ... please let me know your thoughts on this, if you have any!

Alright, that's me done! Going back to flipping through Overwatch models, to decide which one to tackle next, now! :X

Hoomans

Finished the Female Human.
Streamed the entire rigging process and probably will again in the future.

Uncensored version can be downloaded here!

Gotta catch up some rigging stuff on the other characters and then I'll move on to the male Bloodelf.

Progress Update 01

These will become a regular thing now, I think.
You know, regular as in they'll make up two or so of ten posts, I'll make per year :X

• I've been rigging the female Human and am almost finished with it. The only thing left to do is the upper part of the facial rig. I streamed the entire process as well.
  When streaming was not an option (if I didn't had much time or during ungodly times for the US people), I worked on the things, listed below.
• Continued modeling work on other races, namely the male Bloodelf.
• Did a little bit of research and pursued some interesting ideas, two of which I posted on Twitter at the time.
• One of them is morphing races into other races' shapes.
  I could use this to quickly transfer skin-weights from existing rigs to a new one. This should provide me with a solid starting point and save me some time blocking out weights.
  I could probably take it farther and use it to re-align a bunch of joints.
  I doubt this will work very well on the facial-rig though.
  
• The other is a bulging effect. Very simple to do and adds a bit more detail to make things look more natural.
  
• OhandImayhavestartedworkingonananimationkaybye!
  

Stream online

Just a heads up that I'm streaming right now.

This is the first and only time I'll post here to announce a stream. Either follow me on Twitter or Picarto to be notified when I stream again.

It's over

My hiatus, I mean. I'm coming back.

Actually, I've been working on coming back for quite a while now, but posted my progress updates only on Darknest so far.


So here's the gist!

I switched from 3ds Max to Maya, which worked out nicely.
I want to continue making WoW-porn and possibly other games as well.
Before doing any animations, I want a solid set of races rigged and ready to go.
Four races are finished, but I want to finish at least two or three more before animating.
Commissions will happen, but I don't know when and how yet.
Patreon will possibly be a thing at some point.


I'm running out of stuff to write, so here are some videos of my progress. Check out my Youtube-Channel for more. Download-links to uncensored versions are in the video-descriptions.

Forward to the Past!

See what I did there in the title? It's a Back to the Future reference. But different!

Anyway, hello everyone!

I've got some controversial news for you guys. Basically I want to change a couple of things. You can read a more detailed explanation below, but here's a quick summary:

• Commissions are cancelled.

• I'm going to take another break for an unknown amount of time.

• I'm going to ditch 3ds Max and learn Maya.

• I want to focus on creating non-erotic work, unrelated to this alias (ellowas). Porn won't be completely off the table, though.

• As far as WoW-porn is concerned, I will go back to the roots, ditch my new models and work with the original ones again. Will definitely wait for the new character models to be released, though.

• I will to go back to a more „softcore“ style. Explicit blowjob and penetration shots are what led me to make new models in the first place.

• I'm going to take another break for an unknown amount of time and commissions are cancelled!

So, what happened?

Basically, I was working away on a commission and was once again being confronted with the limits of my rig and 3ds Max' crappy skinning tools in general.

So I watched a crapload of tutorials about Maya and was convinced that in my case switching would be a good idea.

While watching all these videos, I also realized how much 3d design means to me and that my interest in it is actually genuine and not tied to making porn. I am pretty sure by now that I want to do 3d design for a living. But I have to start taking it more seriously, build a proper portfolio (porn doesn't count) and figure out in what field I want to specialize.

So I'm taking my switch to Maya as an opportunity to start working towards that goal. Initially I was toying with the idea of turning my back on porn for good, but who are we kidding >_>

I also looked back at my work so far and to be honest, I'm not happy with the direction it was heading. I'm glad I tried building my own wow-models from scratch, experiment with realistic lighting and whatnot, but ultimately I liked the original style better.

It worked pretty well for my Bioshock works though, so I may keep that style for some games.

A big SORRY to everyone who was waiting to commission me. I know this comes very unexpected to you, but I've been thinking about this for around two weeks now. Hopefully you guys understand that I had to make this cut somewhere, if I am to go through with my plans.

Have a nice Christmas everyone and enjoy your holidays!

Til we meet again.