So this is taking longer than I thought it would, no surprise there. However it is looking great and I probably should have made two separate, large sets out of this but oh well. I have finished final renders on part one, and some of part two. I actually will have a fair bit of time tomorrow and I hope to finish it then but I can’t say for sure after how today went. (Part one was the far more intensive bit to render with three figures which I realistically cannot do. I kept fixing/improving things when I probably shouldn’t have, which all contributes to why it took so long.) This will almost certainly be my largest and best set yet, and I don’t want to rush it too much. I will say for sure that it will be done by the end of the month, so it will be done late on Tuesday at the absolute outside.

EDIT 3/30: Final renders are done, clean versions of all images and postwork is done, but I still have to finish composition. I rarely do much actual postwork, but I actually had to do a fair bit this time due to various Octane related reasons. Composition is putting the text/story in each image, and that should get done tomorrow. I might get it done tonight but I really doubt it. I would post the set previews now, but I am not sure if I will keep all the images I have set right now, I may change one or two depending on how the composition goes. (I plan to post the clean versions with maybe one or two story images since clean images is beating story images in the poll two to one.)

Also a reminder; my new sets will be Patreon exclusive for at least three months, so if you want to get access to them early and support my work, my Patreon is here: http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart. I now plan to email newer Patreon rewards to each Patron accordingly after payment clears at the start of each month, so keep that in mind as well.

So I made the basic scene that I was planning for the other part of this new set, and luckily I though to test it in Octane before doing much work on it. The models and environment that I planned to use go a fair way over the limits that I have to work with inside Octane, and can’t be used with the hardware I currently have. This means that I now have to come up with some alternate plan for the second part of this set, which I may not be able to work out before the end of the month.

The first part is done as far as construction/writing goes, (the first part was supposed to be about 2/3 of the set’s total images, similar to the last one) and it alone could/would cover the 20 images I usually shoot for in a large set; so worst case scenario I may need to delay this second part into next month and make it the next chapter or part of it. I will do the best that I can to fit this in this month, but this kind of screws my original plan and I now have to rethink/rewrite a bunch of crap. (At the very least I didn’t do all the work only to find out that it wouldn’t render.)

In other news, the current polls end at the end of the month, so vote in those before they close. Also for those that actually read these messages and/or this far down in them, I plan to do some kind of special poll next month for the next main set; though I am not sure which kind to run yet. So watch for that a bit later.

RE-EDIT – 3/28: So I figured out another plan for part two, and am halfway done with it. I should be able to finish the set construction today, and do the composition/postwork bit tomorrow if all goes well. Ok so set construction is done, minus a few small fixes and tweaks. I should only have one problem to deal with as far as rendering goes, but I think I may have a way around it. (I will know tomorrow.) I am going to try to finish the composition/postwork tomorrow, but the set seems like it may be larger than I intended; part two is as big as part one. So I may or may not cut some things, but Octane at least makes renders much faster than poser so I may be able to use most of it. Note: there is a lot of composition work to do on this, this might run into Monday; it depends on how much I can manage to do tomorrow.

Hi. So I have ported over all my old content and posted the one new set here on the new site. There is still a bunch of crap I need to do/figure out, but this should be good enough for now. (It is taking longer than I thought it would.) I am still working on the images and new banners, so please excuse the few blank pages of this site for the time being. The votes from the old blog have been copied over here, so please vote again to the five people who actually voted in the polls. More votes would be appreciated as well, votes are on the right of this page as before. Some new octane pics on deviantart for those that haven’t seen those yet.

I have also redone the Patreon page again to reflect the new situation; hopefully now that I have Octane people will actually want to support my work. I am also now giving out Patreon rewards via email, so that people don’t just leech my content. It’s just depressing when I give out all this stuff for free and some people still steal what little I hold back for my supporters. Support would help a lot if you enjoy my work, especially since I now have to pay to host all this.

Since I still have all this crap to work out, my old schedule still stands; I hope to finish set two of the small story arc by the end of the month. Here is the preview image for those who missed it before.