In the spirit of giving, I feel it's only natural to give excuses why I'm not posting tons of porn lately~
So! I've been working a Big Boy Job for over 2 years now and given how little I'm posting online, it shows. But that doesn't really tell the whole story. I've been really quite productive in art, at least for the last year+, though the results of that productivity might be hard to share without getting spoil-y about big things.
The big project for me for a while has been work on a game. I have nothing to show yet and I don't expect I will until maybe this time next year, but the game centers around my familiars and their universe. I've been digging deep into world-building, designing characters and all sorts of big stuff trying to set the stage for this game's story. I really hope to make it something awesome, but I'm trying not to fall in the same traps I've gotten caught in with previous games. I want to plan things out better, to lay the foundations for a fun game and have a lot more of the gameplay and mechanics at least written down, to get things working and know that it's a damn fun game before I dive into technical art stuff and waste time building assets for something that isn't going to hold up for a full game. I want to be sure this time, that even if the game doesn't pan out, I have a world, story and better characters I can do other things with. I've been building to this for a long time, and I think I have something worthy of putting my 100% into.
On the porn side of things, I know 18+/fap material is what's gotten me the following I have, and even if it were just for my own sake I wouldn't abandon that because I still enjoy my weird fetishy porn too much. Sorry to say for my game project that's not the focus - I have big ideas in mind and I want this to be something I can be openly proud of. I'm really hopeful that I can make something everyone will love. To that end, I want to make more of a separation between what's the game (and canon) and what's silly smut on the side.
I haven't completely figured out what the plan is, but I do have this much: Bit is going to be split up. Since I first created him in 2012 he's become a character in his own right, an integral attachment into this universe of mine. But the role of fursona and the role of character seem to be somewhat at odds with each other. I don't want to let my wacky desire to use cyberspace powers to fulfill my raunchy fantasies fall away, I don't want to say goodbye to the green boi, but I DO want Bit and Byte, as some of the central characters of this story, to not be dragged down by having more than a half-decade of my own desires and bad design keeping them from their potential.
So I've given Bit a pretty major redesign, and Byte will soon follow. I'm going to separate Bit the fursona (the old design) from Bit the character. Anything goes when it comes to my fursona, but his new design will be for canon story things. That way, I hope to have a separation between the subby green-and-purple rug and the many weird things he's gotten into, and the totally independent character. Sort of an 'alternate universe', I guess.
As always, Inkbunny is my go-to for putting up most of my smut (because I do draw cub characters sometimes and want to post them, and they have the ability to put multiple pictures in a submission) so if you're here, you're in the right place. But as I get to a point where I feel like I can post more art connected to my universe/game, I'm not really sure where I'll put that. My Deviantart's dead but it's an obvious choice because I've always stuck to G-rating there. Same with Twitter- much as I don't like the platform I'll probably be posting a lot more there. I dunno, might make this an 'after dark' account and stick to 18+ only, maybe I wipe the naughties from FA and make that gallery 'clean' too. I don't know if I want to post fetish and clean on the same account going forward.
Sorry, just kind of thinking out loud right now. Don't worry, if I do make a decision I'll let everyone know long before I change anything. :>
Dante exists in more of a meta-canon, too. It allows for so many fun options. Often times in either modern or medieval attire. Glad to hear you're having fun with Bit. He's such a cute raccoon! Hopefully he finds the good game overs in whatever world he ends up in. Poor little glowing subby fuzzball.
Dante exists in more of a meta-canon, too. It allows for so many fun options. Often times in either
Yeah, for a while I was afraid to use him much in porn, since I had other things I wanted to do with him and don't want him too much in the realm of naughty things. I like the idea of there being a sort of alternate Bit who looks different enough to be fully distinct from my sona~
Yeah, for a while I was afraid to use him much in porn, since I had other things I wanted to do with
I'm definitely looking forward to your new projects. The game does sound very interesting and I believe I played a little platform demo featuring Bit before. Can't wait to see how your project will turn out and of course, I'll also be looking forward to more Inkbunny exclusive stuff as well. Heheh~ ;P
Your characters have always been cute and interesting so I'm definitely interested to see where you'll be taking them. Keep up the good work and of course: A Happy New Year to you as well. ^^
I'm definitely looking forward to your new projects. The game does sound very interesting and I beli
Thanks! Yeah, that Bit platformer was kinda poorly thought out. I didn't have a solid story to go on, just some scattered ideas, and I was drawing out finished animation frames for the character to build out their moveset, so that part didn't feel quite right because I couldn't iterate on it very well. I'm pretty proud of what I did manage to do but it was difficult to make it all work in Game Maker and I wasn't looking forward to working in that engine with what I'd built so far.
One of these days I'll get it right~
Thanks! Yeah, that Bit platformer was kinda poorly thought out. I didn't have a solid story to go on
