3D tentacle art! Well, "art."

[bironic]

This month's kink_bingo challenge is "new horizons"—trying something you haven't tried before. Like many people who participate, I am always trying to try (heh) new things—for instance, before the last round I hadn't pieced together a found poem, or made a vid constructed entirely of intercuts, or vidded DS9 or cartoons, or done themed recs sets, or explored several of the kinks in the squares I filled—so this challenge didn't motivate me in and of itself. But lo, the very next day kickair8p announced over at tentacle_fest that some powerful 3-D graphics software s/he uses to make tentacle art is available for free through the end of March. Cue synn and I spending a day downloading the stuff and figuring out whether we could make it work.

I'd never tried anything like 3-D rendering before, but with some quick tutorials, hair-pulling, and a troubleshooting tip from kickair8p, I learned how to pose pre-made human figures and configure $10 worth of props around them such as (*cough*) tentacles and torn clothes. Because what is the purpose of 3-D software for someone whose drawing ability has barely evolved beyond stick figures if not to make dirty pictures? Whee.

And so with no further fanfare, I present to you my first, wobbly creations. Warning that some can be interpreted as noncon.

Girl in tentacle attack pose from various angles. Not explicit, but still probably NSFW.

































Girl and guy in aggressive, dom/sub or nonconsensual poses, as you prefer to read them. Again, not explicit, but NSFW.

Comments

[sabinetzin]

Tentacles! I approve highly of these graphics.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

\o/ How do you say *high five* if it is with a tentacle?

[sabinetzin]

I vote for just describing the sound it makes. Skwip!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Splat thump back atcha!

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

~\o/~?

Nice work!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. It doubles as tentacles holding the arms, too!

Thanks :)

[paian (from livejournal.com)]

Ah, DAZ Studio, so maddening and so addictive. These came out great!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I can definitely see how this would become a time sink. After just a week of dabbling, I'm already browsing sites for add-ons and wondering how to do things like morph expressions and add backgrounds, let alone learn how the animation function works (but also trying to stop because there are Other Life Things to do).

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

:D :D These are excellent!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[mific.livejournal.com]

Yay tentacles! Really great with the 3D and all - very impressive!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was fun to try.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

Yay, these are awesome!

Although, is it odd of me to say that I really like the girl's haircut? BECAUSE I DO.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hee! Good thing, because it's the only adult woman hairstyle that comes with the presets. Not that there'd be anything wrong with giving her the pigtails you see in the last set, or the shorter, preset-man's haircut.

Anyway: :)

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hee, they turned out well! And I'm proud that I still have the icon and everything XD

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I am proud of you too. :) And for giving them a look!

[sophinisba]

Oh, very cool!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! They were fun to play around with. Once they worked, anyway. :)

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

Looks like you've been having fun!

~

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I have! Thanks again for the tip.

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

Ooo, look at you! Those are great. I tried to get the program last weekend, but couldn't. I haven't had the chance to try again. Your graphics are certainly an incentive to try again. Well done!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope you have a chance to give it a try while the download is still free. I thought the offer was too good to be true, but so far it's been working out just fine.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Eee! I love what you coaxed out of the program! Especially the first - she looks so *determined*, like she's trying to think her way out of this.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

:D Even better, last night I found a Trek uniform plug-in! I ... can't figure out how to make it work yet, but surely the trick will reveal itself with time.

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

Link please? I might be able to help.

~

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hm, I got it from that sharecg site (I think that's what it was called) that someone mentioned in your tentacle_fest post. I extracted the WinRAR into the My Library runtime folder like all the other ones, but I can't seem to find it in any of the content library menus at right. I think they're textures for regular shirts and pants? Anyway, the ReadMe looks like this:


TrekkieGal Creations

v3 Star Trek: GENERATION Variant Officers Wrap Duty/Dress Uniforms textures for V3 Ultra Catsuit

THIS IS VERSION 1.0, KEEP AN EYE OPEN FOR FUTURE VERSIONS WITH FIXES.

2389 Starfleet went back to Retro Style uniforms. With the service of the prior duty uniform, it was decided a lighter more flexible variant style uniform was need.
The Wrap uniforms from 2260's were revamped and place back in service as an Admirals Duty uniform. It would later be issued fleet wide to all commision officers as a variant duty/dress uniform.

This file includes.

8 Presets for Command, Engineering, Marines, and Science Uniforms as well as Admirals/Generals Variants
and all related textures, bumps, and transparencies

These textures are intended be use along with Pants or Skirt

Extract all folders into Runtime folder. This product is only intended to work on DAZ Studio, and tested on DAZ Studio 3.1

These Textures ae a product of Candice Greene, and Edwin Morgan and are free for use.

TrekkieGal Creations 2012

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

This one?

http://www.sharecg.com/v/59697/browse/21/DAZ-Studio/V3-Star-Trek-GENERATION-FLEET-Wrap-Uniforms

Looks like that needs the Victoria 3.0 Ultra Catsuit to work:
http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/victoria-3-0?item=1307

Something that skin-tight should convert over to Genesis using AutoFit (came with DAZStudio4Pro) without any trouble, but I don't currently have it installed to make sure.

As for the textures, freebies sometimes have bad paths, this is one of them. If you dragged the Runtime folder from WinZip and dropped it into the C:\Users\YOUR-NAME\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library folder then the presets are in the C:\Users\YOUR-NAME\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\Runtime\libraries\Poses\TG-Wrap Uniform folder. Move the TG-Wrap Uniform folder from the Poses folder into the Pose folder ( C:\Users\YOUR-NAME\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\Runtime\libraries\Pose ).

You may also have to move the texture files, but try the presets first -- although their current location is non-standard, that may be where the preset files are actually pointing. But if the presets don't work then go to C:\Users\YOUR-NAME\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\Runtime\Texture and move the Uniforms folder into C:\Users\YOUR-NAME\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\Runtime\textures (which is where the texture files usually go).

~

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much, once again -- I will try that the next time I fire up that computer, and based on your last tip, I am optimistic that it will solve the problem.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooh! *claps* This is so cool.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*waves happy tentacles at you*

[eruthros]

These are really neat!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks! It was definitely horizon-stretching.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

These are quite good!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much! A fun experiment, for sure.