I've been hard at it since Becumming #8, and my soft body physics engine is really starting to take shape:
https://twitter.com/bendzzTransform.....43124686540801
https://twitter.com/bendzzTransform.....74960184778754
https://twitter.com/bendzzTransform.....85214764904448

For those just joining us, I think physically simulating the body down to the bone is the missing key to making sexy 3D characters, especially naked ones. Hollywood's been doing it for a decade, but it's never been in games before- I'm not exactly sure why, but soft body sims can take hours to process per frame, so that's my bet.
Well. My simulation runs fine not just at game speeds, not just at VR speeds, but even on cheap mobile VR headsets like the Quest! The sim only eats about 20-25% of that little mobile GPU atm, hitting an easy 72 fps and leaving plenty of room for graphical TF goodness. I'm super hyped!

There's still a lot to do yet obviously, this isn't the final look. Aside from rebuilding the models and lighting to match my pay comics, we need:

-Collision detection and handling (for VR groping and sex)
-Proper point weighting (so the nipples don't drag like lead weights)
-Volume preservation (for squishy fun)
-Stretch limiting (really important for breasts)
-A zero G base model (so the body reacts to gravity accurately)
Plus lots of little things like preventing element inversions and more serious physics weighting tools. But good news! Based on past research papers all that stuff ought to require way less GPU power than what's already done.

Whew. It's been a long 3 years of R&D but it's really starting to look like this might happen! Thanks again to Bio and NRN for all the help. The porn implications here are obvious, but I'm perhaps most excited to see what it does for face animation =)
Of course, it's not a sure thing yet. I've been at it about 6 months full time and I bet it'll take another 6 months until sexy TF is happening. I can keep self funding, but dealing with the setbacks and coding grind is going to be the tough part. Cross your fingers.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/30507363/ It's happeningggg!

Kaeso and Gillpanda are putting together a TF and sex heavy visual novel game, and as a tribute to the TF community they're giving folks like myself cameos =) Gillpanda's doing all the characters, I'm hoping to see a TFTG like this one somewhere https://www.furaffinity.net/view/17931712/

Go check out the kickstarter, it's all funded so they're shooting for bonus characters and art now http://bit.ly/familiartravelsgame And look for my wanna-be mischievous fox character in the background somewhere =]

I'm just bouncing around until October 16th. If you live here and want to get drinks, let me know. It's nice hanging out with locals who know tf =P

I've already done Amsterdam and London. I'm thinking Dusseldorf, munich and Switzerland next. I'm meeting people in Switzerland (Lucerne), Sweden (Örebro and Stockholm), Austria (veinna), and the Netherlands again later, so those are musts.

It'd be nice to visit more Nordic countries too, I'm curious about the politics there. From a Canadian perspective they seem pretty nifty =)

https://discord.gg/CVHcb3 here's my discord for quicker chatting
EDIT new link https://discord.gg/9VPFbyy

For real now, I've got the right date this time! I'll be at Fur-Eh, probably starting Friday. I'll be doing a panel on coloring techniques that night. The power point presentation is taking forever, 50 hours and counting, so I hope people like it.

Just wandering around drinking and wondering if I'm the only TF fan there heh. Message me if you're going too.

Btw the new comic has been selling quite well, it seems like each successive one just keeps doing better. So thanks for all the support and kudos on this, I really wouldn't be able to take the time to try big TF projects if I were stuck in a normal job. I do plan to make some more free and paid comics before diving back into code, since I should really stop living off my credit card during these binges.


EDIT: Alright turns out it's next month. Yay for a website that says both may and june http://www.fureh.ca/wordpress/schedule/

It's much too soon to be making any real announcements, but briefly: I put in a few months of R&D and got to here https://trello.com/c/dmiqCZcD/41-ne.....ated-internals
You can see a breakdown of the effort on my twitter https://twitter.com/bendzzTransform

Again, it's too early to be making promises. But this algorithm, if it works in full, would take a solid chunk out of the uncanny valley and make some truly amazing porn (not to mention character animation!). In its current state it'd already be great for boobs and butts, but we can do better, I know it!
Unfortunately it's going to be quite a few months yet before we'll have anything solid. And right now I have to stop and draw a pay comic or two.

Also believe it or not the majority of my time in 2016 went towards TF stuff, I just haven't finished much of it heh. 2016, the year of WIP

http://fureh.ca/wordpress/ It'll be my first convention. I'm not in the artist section or anything, but I'd like to do some drinking and drawing, and meet up with some TF fans. I've never actually met any IRL, but a furry con seems like a good place to look =3

I guess on the date, I'll edit this with my shirt color, maybe a badge picture if someone can suggest a local furry printer..?


I don't know what to expect there. Fingers crossed.

I want to develop an overly ambitious, never before done porn video game. It will rely on procedural animation techniques that don't currently exist in real-time, and take a minimum of 1400 work hours. I have no experience in professional AAA game development.

Phew, ok that's a high bar. Much too risky for crowdfunding in its current state. It wouldn't be the first time I've failed an endeavour either, last year I spent 6 months full time building porn animations, and weeks coding add-ons for Blender to allow a new form of 2.5D animation... All of which I had to abandon when my credit ran out. Shit.

What do I have going for me? Well, 13 years experience in programming small video games and simulations, a few years of university. Not that special, what else. Well... I typically spend under $15k USD per year... But if I worked full time on pay comics, the math works out to nearly 6 figures of yearly income. That's quite a disparity!



Cut to the chase? I'm going to crank out loads of pay comics to buy time, hire experienced developers, and go full force developing the insane foundations I want for the TF game. I just turned 24, this is perhaps my last chance to completely uproot my life on some crazy project. The volume of pay content will probably piss off my audience, but I'm sick of just endlessly talking about the TF game. The time's come.

I'm well into planning the next one and now's the time to make changes. This issue will be about 1/3rd the length and price. Beyond that, I'm wondering what you guys liked or disliked last time? Like, did the captions do anything for ya? Maybe not every panel has to be a full pinup, so that it can be longer? Something about the writing, pacing, characters, I dunno... But the goal of the comic is to get you off, so tell me how to do that better.

Btw, the last two comics were a huuuge success and I'm pretty grateful =D I should really do a 'thank you' piece...

But hey it's priced accordingly, and it's great, so I think I'm set. God I'm tired now...

Boy I'm overusing that pun.

I finally got the inks done, which took 183 hours. That means when it's colored it'll be around 360 hours, so I figure this one will cost $10. It's got a lot more sex/groping and general complexity, more TF... In fact after the first page this comic is just crammed with ink. I even had put some of the text over the characters!

I should also mention that this is only 1 out of 4 massive, multi month projects I've got in the works. It's the smallest one actually, which is why I'm focusing on it- I need some money asap 0_o


Beyond that I'm still closed on commissions, and I actually haven't checked anything but skype and email in a while- Did I mention that 17 people on skype helped write this one?! Anyway, uh sorry if you sent me a note or a comment, I should really get on that...

For both the game and the comic, we have a huge amount written and need to start trimming it down and fleshing out ideas. I will be limited to mobile internet for a few days, so now's a good time to organize and chat.

My skype is bendzztf. If you have technical skills, please message me about them and I'll supply read access to all the game planning docs, as well as a skype chat. You don't have to contribute assets, but you have to be able to hold a technical conversation. I'm looking to bounce around ideas in the future. Be warned, the game plans are... Ambitious.

For the comic, I'm looking for more writing help. We've got about 11 pages of script and brainstormed plans written down. We need to filter that down to the best stuff so I can start illustrating. If you're interested in shaping the story and MAYBE watching the drawing streams (at the cost of spoilers), mention it. Parts of this will have to remain fairly exclusive. I will probably stick mostly to people i know and trust.

For this comic we're putting much more into the writing process. Way more focus on TF, way less post-TF. Visually we're thinking mostly 2 boob girls (ie multiboob will be a rarity), and mostly the new anthro face style. Far more tf victims, a variety of animals, and more use of kinky stuff is the ambition.

I was going to use more chibi panels this time, so we could shrink the time spent on 'plot' panels, but even then fitting all this will be difficult.


PARTIAL SPOILERS HERE
The premise is that Kinky Girl from the end of the last comic is out to get revenge on a bunch of snobby college kids, including a whole bunch at a Halloween costume party. This means infecting lots of party items to TF hapless guests, as well as showing up in person to help it along (read: get her rocks off). The scale and pace of the TF epidemic is going to start increasing, dramatically.



Open to further criticism from the previous comic. Also note that with limited internet, I might fall behind the chat.

For both the game and the comic, we have a huge amount written and need to start trimming it down and fleshing out ideas. I will be limited to mobile internet for a few days, so now's a good time to organize and chat.

My skype is bendzztf. If you have technical skills, please message me about them and I'll supply read access to all the game planning docs, as well as a skype chat. You don't have to contribute assets, but you have to be able to hold a technical conversation. I'm looking to bounce around ideas in the future. Be warned, the game plans are... Ambitious.

For the comic, I'm looking for more writing help. We've got about 11 pages of script and brainstormed plans written down. We need to filter that down to the best stuff so I can start illustrating. If you're interested in shaping the story and MAYBE watching the drawing streams (at the cost of spoilers), mention it. Parts of this will have to remain fairly exclusive. I will probably stick mostly to people i know and trust.

For this comic we're putting much more into the writing process. Way more focus on TF, way less post-TF. Visually we're thinking mostly 2 boob girls (ie multiboob will be a rarity), and mostly the new anthro face style. Far more tf victims, a variety of animals, and more use of kinky stuff is the ambition.

I was going to use more chibi panels this time, so we could shrink the time spent on 'plot' panels, but even then fitting all this will be difficult.


PARTIAL SPOILERS HERE
The premise is that Kinky Girl from the end of the last comic is out to get revenge on a bunch of snobby college kids, including a whole bunch at a Halloween costume party. This means infecting lots of party items to TF hapless guests, as well as showing up in person to help it along (read: get her rocks off). The scale and pace of the TF epidemic is going to start increasing, dramatically.



Open to further criticism from the previous comic. Also note that with limited internet, I might fall behind the chat.

Hi, so I need money to work on the game, I figure a pay comic or three might do it. Here's the outline I'm thinking:

-This series will be Feral TF. I'll do another one that's anthro focused, maybe in a strip clup with more BDSM.
-$5 comic, it will be 7 pages in full color. (This style: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14712336/)
-It continues the existing 9 page Sallem comic http://bendzz.tumblr.com/post/99039.....lem-commission , possibly into a whole series TFing a small town bit by bit.


The two dog sisters are at the vet. The smaller one escapes into the vent shafts at the start.

Story 1: A nurse is helping the bigger sister dog, who sneezes in her face. Fur grows from her face and down her body, she winds up taking the place of the escaped smaller-sister dog when the dog pound folks return to get them from the vet, unbeknownst to everyone.

Story 2: The smaller dog was sucking on a rubber bone on the way in. A male worker picks it up and takes it to his office. Moving from his hand up, he turns into an inanimate rubber bitch dog fucktoy. Another worker finds him after and takes him/her to either the vet's pound, or the original dog pound, with one closing shot of sex.

Background Story: A slow-burn drawn out story that gets one panel on each of the 7 pages, for 7 panels. The little sister dog starts expanding in the vents and drips milk into a female worker's coffee. She starts getting strong urges to get fucked by a dog. She gets overwhelmed and starts having sex with a dog in the vet's kennel, still human at first. Her whole body slowly changes, all at once, into a bitch.



It's ambitious for only 7 pages, but that's already over 105 hours of drawing and you know me, I don't fuck around with things like "Plot" and "Characterization". Pleh! It's porn, let's see boobies. What are your thoughts, feedback?

EDIT: Maybe 8 pages, depends how long it's taking. It seems expensive for so few pages, but the quality level makes it worth it....? (Serious question)