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What now?
🕑 Added 2022-11-22 17:40:50 +0000 UTCNow that this huge project (TAp02) is finished, what will happen next?
Since the end of this prod I've been in a kind of R&D state, after a long long time focused on one single project/production I need to take a step back and do a lot of little things. I need to test and experiment with my new hardware, update my knowledge on new tech, try new process ect...
I've already started to do that and I can Identify a few topics, so I think that in the next few weeks/months I'll make a weekly report on a specific topic to keep you up with my journey/updates/discoveries. Of course that doesn't mean I'll only focus on 1 topic every week, I'll probably work on all of them plus on potential future big projects ;) .
Speaking of which, I can't tell what will be the next big one as the choice might be influenced a lot by what I discover or manage to achieve in my R&D phase but I already have some promising tracks ^^.
So what are the main R&D topics?
- VR : Obvious but without digging in the technical part, my new hardware makes VR adaptation a lot easier because it allows me to render with a ray tacing method "Cycles" which is natively adapted to VR. It forces me to redo the lighting of the scenes I want do adapt but it's a good thing as it forces me to learn this render method that I'll most probably use in future productions.
- Motion Capture : I've seen a lot of new AI tech to produce motion capture data from simple videos without any expensive equipment. At first glance I'm not convinced and I think the tech will need a few more months/years to be usable in production but I'll dig into this.
- Video Editing/pmv : As you may have seen I've been posting a lot of my own IRL shibari/sextapes lately. I love PMV and I'm making these ones with the new video editing function I'm learning in Blender (my 3D software). It could save some time in 3D prod as for now I do the editing in the 3D part of the software which is not optimum for that.
- Text to Image generator : Speaking about AI, I guess you've heard about Stable Diffusion, Dall.e, Midjourney ect... These are AI based programs able to generate images from text entries. This really seems like a game changer in the art domain so I have to check it out. In practical terms it could be very helpful to use it for concept art or even matt painting in some case (2D image for the background instead of a 3D environment). It could save me a lot of time (the Entity's room took me 3 weeks to make XD).
- Boobs and ass physics : This does not require a lot of explanations I guess XD. But to be precise, I want to create a system with not only "bouncing" body parts but also Interactive ones that could react naturally with anything touching or grabbing it. Like what I did with Lara's breasts in Lara's Capture part 2, except that was all handmade animation. The goal is to make this easier, faster and look better ^^. I don't know if I'll succeed but I already have some solid (lol) results in specific situations, can't wait to show you ^^.
I'll try to have things to show and share in each report but anyway it's important for me to be up to date on the latest technological advances of my domain as I've always tried to be ^^. I want to keep learning and improving so I can continue to give life to my stories in the best ways possible ^^.
And I can only do this thanks to your amazing and continuous support in this fantastic journey, thanks again for all of this <3 .
Take good care ;) .
