How to be a successful 3dx artist/game dev - comprehensive guide

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Hey! I'm writing this guide so hopefully we can avoid future threads/questions like, "what do you want to see in a game" or "what lights are you using" or "are you using photoshop"? Feel free to add some more tips and tricks if you feel so.

So, let's proceed.

Part I - Daz Studio
1. 3D Models.


Well since you’ve got DazStudio that can load just any sort of 3d object that resembles a humanoid character you’re nearly done. Now sky is your limit.
Of course, you may skip this 1st part, if you’re happy with some of the characters that you’ve downloaded for free from the Daz marketplace here on f95.
But no, you don’t want to render the same models just like every other newbie. You’re better than that.

1st Tip!
So. You’ve got some sliders on the right side of the Daz interface that can alter pretty much any part of the character’s body/face.
Don’t mess with them too much. There’s just only a few that matters:

- Breast size sliders: Depending on what you intend to achieve, boobs size is the key here. Do you intend to make a young girl? Smaller boobs definitely. Do you intend to make a more mature woman? Bigger boobs is the answer. Especially if your mature woman is going to be a 3d mom (more on that later). She definitely needs bigger breast so you make sure they will accommodate enough quantity of milk. She’s a mom after all.
- Face young slider: Obviously, another important aspect of a character look is the age. Is she an 18 yrs old girl/sister? Perfect! Make her look 12, but make sure that you state on your future patreon page that she’s 18 so you won’t get banned at some point. What is Patreon? We’ll get to that.
- Aging sliders: Well, is she going to be a mom? Perfect! Aging slider is the key here. Don’t forget the big boobs. Big!
- Body face/assymetry? Skip it! Everything must be perfectly symmetric. As in real life, isn’t it?
- Skin textures aka body/face mapping: No need to mess with these. They’re hard to learn, requires substance designer knowledge, photoshop and a lot of skill. Probably you’ve never heard of substance designer or other mapping software and photoshop is only for noobs who only want to emboss some text. So skip this entirely, because all daz characters comes with a skin texture anyway.

2nd Tip!
You do know however that older women have some skin imperfections. Only older women. Younger ones don’t. Like never.
So make sure you download some pirated addons like Iray Skin Manager or any other skin shader addons. Go crazy with those. Doesn’t matter if the model’s morphs resembles a 20 yrs old character. She needs to look like a mom. So accentuate the aging characteristics with these shaders combined with some aging sliders, raise the bump map value to something crazy like 50 or even more. That’s it.
Oh, fuck! She still looks like a grandma’! Undo everything or restart from scratch. But don’t forget the boobs.
Cellulite, skin/muscle sag. Wrinkles, moles, blemishes?
No! Moms have to be sexy as hell. And you don’t know how to make those anyway.

2. Clothing/accessories:
Not much you can do here. And I really mean it. Clothing designers in the Daz world are the worst of them all. I mean would someone really wear those clothes in real life? Probably not, but since they’re all made for x-rated artworks it doesn’t matter. I mean 20 yrs old looking grandmas can wear short skirts, revealing shirts or dresses with weird scissor cuts, or better, no clothing at all since they’re gonna be jumping on dicks all day. So who needs clothing? Oh, maybe some tight shorts/t-shirts when they do yoga. Cause all of them do yoga. The pinnacle of sports for soccer moms.
You'll see that all clothing will perfectly conform all the body curves, especially around the boobs. So your model will look like she's grown clothing directly on her skin. You could solve that by adding some d-formers or smoothing modifier, but still looks like shit. Blender, Zbrush? Don't even think about it. You'll get scared when you see its GUI. Then you'll be wasting a lot of time.

3. Light, action, camera...

Oh. This is the easiest part. You’ve got your models done, right?

So grab some 3d room prop and pose your characters. Make sure the women stand on their feet toes. The heels must never touch the floor. Never. Especially when women do not wear high heels.
When they have sex, don’t bother with face expressions, waste of time. Only make sure they have their eyes pointed at the ceiling, maybe have the mouth opened a bit. That’s enough to give the impression they’re enjoying the intercourse.

Now, let it be light....

Forget about all the art classes you did back in school. If there were no art classes at all, it’s for the best. Forget about the paintings you saw hanged on some walls in the museums, forget about photography, forget about cinematography. You’ve never cared to understand why are all those paintings or movies so visually striking, anyway. Don’t even ask yourself about composition. Leading lines? What the heck is that? Just place your models dead center in your image. Hit render...
But wait! It looks like crap. What’s missing? Yeah, lights!

3rd Tip!
So, there’s a Render Settings - Environment tab somewhere on the left side of the Daz interface. That’s it. Environment and Scene. Set it to sky-sun only. It has to be this. Render again. Better, but why the hell the light is so dim inside and so bright outside? Ah, there’s another tab there, tone mapping. Lower the exposure value. Set it to about 10-11 for a start. Better. Still, your character isn’t properly lit. Then you remember when you take photos with your phone you’re using the integrated flashlight in dim lighting situations. So that’s it. Create a camera, but don’t bother with its settings too much. You don’t understand them cause you’ve skipped your photography class, or never attended one. Yet you still want to be a 3dx artist. So go ahead. If you still decide to mess with the camera settings though, don’t use depth of field. Never. Focal length, f/stop, ISO, crop factor.... Just skip them. Safer.
Oh, but you’ve found some headlamp mode. That’s the flashlight I was talking about earlier. Turn it to on. Bum! Your character is properly lit. Still looks like shit, but it’s better than have it in the dark, right? Wrong!

4. Show your art skills

Post your renders on the f95 “Show your art skills” or "Mom" thread. You get 1 like. WTF? Go back to the drawing board. Headlamp was not the answer. Professional cameras don’t even have a damn headlamp/flashlight. What a noob... You find out about primitive lights/surface lights, HDRI. You download some addons and start mixing them. You don’t even know what you’re doing. You don’t understand anything about lighting or physics in general. Physics? What the heck is that. Doesn’t matter, go ahead. cd/m2; Watts, lumens, Kelvin, just dial some values in there. You’ll learn along the road.
Your renders are getting better, you get 10 likes on your next render. Something must have improved. You continue to make new renders, learn new things, you’re spamming that “show your art skills” thread continuously with your renders. Make sure you put at least 20 images in 4K in a single post so that page it will take 2 days to load completely. You’re hitting 15 likes at some point. Damn, you’re good! Someone asks you what game is that. Somebody else tells you that you should make a game.
That hits you... Proceed to Part 2.

Part 2 - Games

1. Research


Since pretty much your render skills have improved “considerably” (in your own mind, at least) you think about making a game. Your own game. You start doing research. You play more porn games, you feel like you can make a better one. You open a new thread on f95 that says ”I’m thinking on making a game” then you discover there’s like three/four fetishes/taboos that 3d porn degenerates/devourers want all the time. But you already knew that.

In no particular order:
- incest;
- rape - should be read as “seduction”;
- impregnation - that means you ensure offspring for the degenerate MC to satisfy his “seduction” fantasies until he dies;
- harem - it means your MC will need to “seduce” or “corrupt” all of his family members (mom, aunt, daughter, sister, grandma’). Have you forgot anything? Cousins?

If you don’t plan on adding these taboos in your game, then don’t do it. You’re wasting your time. And others...

Avoid NTR. Folks hate it. NTR is some Japanese fetish where somebody steals/seduces someone else’s wife/lover. So, incest isn’t basically NTR? No, that’s what everybody says.

2. Plot and game mechanics.

Obviously any game, just like any movie, or book, need a script/story. Don’t insist too much on it, you don’t need to have your story finished. You’ll never finish it anyway and you’ll be abandoning your game at some point because... Patreon (later on that)

Some people may advise you to find a writer.
But you don’t have the money for it and you’re better at writing, right? Of course you are. Pporn stories/writers are trash anyway, and to be honest you don’t need Dostoievski to write a porn story.
Now if you’re a native English speaker and you haven’t skipped language classes back in school, it’s going to be easier. If not, doesn’t matter. Go ahead. People will get over it, everybody butchers English anyway, they’re here for THE MOM. They will be skipping dialogue/text anyway, yet they all swear they’re after the story in the first place. It has to be good they say.

Tip!
It’s safer to have the MC’s father dead in the first place. Easier for the MC to directly proceed with his seduction/corruption madness. Seduction/corruption usually involves groping (now that's how you seduce a woman) . Yoga sessions are the most effective to ensure, or at least exponentially increases MC's chances to get laid. Then there’s feet massage, some house chores. Make sure you have the players do them over and over again, till they go nuts.

Best Tip!
MC should be a virgin, yet very sexually experienced. Make him look like an innocent creep but very well endowed. A big dick will always find the path to a woman's heart.


Play more porn games, they’re all the same, pretty much. Same plot. You’ll learn a lot.
For a fact you’ll learn that story and images are not enough, no matter how good they are. You need to add choices. Choices that will severely impact the game outcome, like: Cum in mouth; Cum in pussy, Cum on tits, face. etc.
Folks die for them.

That will require some programming knowledge, and a game engine. The easiest one is renpy. If you’ve come this far you’ll definitely learn some python programming. You have to, because you can’t afford to hire a programmer.

Now that’s it. You’ve pretty much completed your first episode. Time to make some money.

Part 3 - Patreon

Well, just like any other game dev you need a patreon page. Your hopes are high. You’ll get rich. Open a patreon page. Make sure your game has a name. It has to be something ostentatious, it has to include something like family in it, or something that will make it easier for your awesome incest game to be identified as an awesome incest game.
Then you realize Patreon doesn’t like incest. Not that they hate it, or care about it, it’s something about paypal. Those guys don't hate it either, but it's all about ethics. Money and ethics work hand in hand.

Tip!
Go back to your game and make sure MC’s mom is called landlady. Not even stepmom, landlady! Or you’ll get banned. Maybe not today, but at some point...
Phew, easy peasy! Don't worry, folks will patch your game. THE MOM will come back.

Spread the word on f95 hoping you’ll get a ton of subscribers the very next day. Charge them at the end of the month so you get a dozen of subscribers. At the end of the month they will all unsubscribe, and pay you nothing.

Next time enable charge up-front.

Don’t worry, you’ll get your fans. You’ll be making like 5-20 $ in the next 6-7 months maybe 1 year. It’s not that bad. If your game appeals enough degenerates you’ll be making millions of $. Hopes are high. But most likely you’ll be abandoning your game. Maybe you should have thought about NOT making a game in the first place, cause you've lost one year of your life for a few bucks.

Good luck!
 
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I'll be polite: you make amazing 3d art.

And a less sarcastic comment: for people like you (and me) who take our pornographic art seriously, it's hurtful to see imperfections. For you it's bad lighting, for me it's bad grammar or used story cliched. But what I've learned over 20+ years of creating porn is that most people don't see what we see. Most of our "customers" just want a quick fap and get on with their lives. Think of a master chef stepping into a mediocre restaurant and seeing people around him having a good time while eating mediocre, uninspired, sometimes even botched food.

You, my friend, are that master chef.
 
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I'll be polite: you make amazing 3d art.

And a less sarcastic comment: for people like you (and me) who take our pornographic art seriously, it's hurtful to see imperfections. For you it's bad lighting, for me it's bad grammar or used story cliched. But what I've learned over 20+ years of creating porn is that most people don't see what we see. Most of our "customers" just want a quick fap and get on with their lives. Think of a master chef stepping into a mediocre restaurant and seeing people around him having a good time while eating mediocre, uninspired, sometimes even botched food.

You, my friend, are that master chef.
Obviously it was sarcasm. I wouldn't say it's about spotting imperfections but rather blaming self sufficiency. Self sufficiency on both sides, artists and consumers. Quick trash art along with cheap cliché stories/plots. Don't even know who's fault it is.
I don't even play porn games for that matter. And trust me, no matter how much of a master chef you are, if people enjoy mediocrity it doesn't seem anything can change that. Because mediocrity is dirt cheap and anybody can afford it.
 

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Obviously it was sarcasm. I wouldn't say it's about spotting imperfections but rather blaming self sufficiency. Self sufficiency on both sides, artists and consumers. Quick trash art along with cheap cliché stories/plots. Don't even know who's fault it is.
I don't even play porn games for that matter. And trust me, no matter how much of a master chef you are, if people enjoy mediocrity it doesn't seem anything can change that. Because mediocrity is dirt cheap and anybody can afford it.
I'll admit to the guilty pleasure of enjoying some very mediocre games (which I will not specify here because I don't want to shame or insult anyone). Lazy art, shallow and ridiculous characters and cringing dialogs, yet I enjoy them due (each of them) focusing on one or two specific fetishes and these are fetishes I enjoy. My personal lesson here that players see the whole experience: art, dialog, plot, writing, fetishes etc. and judge the game based on the sum of all these parts. And in the case of porn games, fetishes can greatly increase this sum.