6 years already…?So I got an email this morning saying this Tumblr is 6 years old. It’s hard

6 years already…?So I got an email this morning saying this Tumblr is 6 years old. It’s hard to imagine that I’ve been involved in 3DX for that long. I’d been around erotica for a bit longer than that, but it’s only around then that I started taking on my work under the name andi guinness. So much has happened since then, etc. etc.The circumstances have obviously changed a lot. 2020…well, what can be said that hasn’t been already? I can’t even say anything worth noting, because you’ve already heard it in one way or another. So much noise, like the cicadas I hear outside right now…only 1000-fold.On the 3DX/erotica front…I’ve all but lost an editor, and I’ve gained one. Projects have been sporadic, but I’ve made efforts to work with artists, some of which I’ll describe below. My hopes of starting my own work in animation have been halting at best. Problem is, as always, motivation. It’s weird, too: It’s not even a specific motivation to do work in Blender that’s the issue at hand, it’s to do anything, really. I feel like YouTube and Twitch are partly to blame, with me just using it as my replacement to TV. But there are even nights where I just kind of stare into space for hours at a time, unmotivated to do anything. That’s a problem. I wouldn’t blame it on the current state of affairs outside, though, since this was always evident for me.I have to make changes in some of the things I do. I have plans to do that. A trip I’m planning now may offer some needed direction. I won’t say where and how, but perhaps this is what I’ve needed to do for some time. I’m also going to try new things, such as exercise. I’ve always been wanting to do that, but again, motivation escapes me. What I have planned may give me that motivation.Regardless, it’ll be hard to say where I’ll be come next month or the month after mentally. Still, I’m hopeful.Anyway, project updates:Those Who Came BeforeThis story has received significant edits and another review round. It needs one more round before I’m satisfied with publishing it. I think some of the changes I did are for the better, makes the story more erotic and less porn.In regards to the other stories, nothing has changed. That said…A Retcon?!Earlier this month, Dizzydills finally resurfaced after being absent from the community for over 7 months. Among the things he did (including a new set) was announcing changes in his overall storyline. Those included retconning all the previous episodes that he’s published into an isolated timeline, ala Star Wars Legends. The new storyline integrates one of his previous series, Secrets of the Pharaoh, as a prequel to the rest of the series.How does this affect my own DD stories? Not much. They’ve always been kind of apocryphal. On a personal level, though, A New Suit and Those Who Came Before are affected by the retcon, since both rely on the original storyline to provide context. The latter less so than the former. The Sasha origin story that’s been stuck is also affected to some degree. A Fun Little Swim is unaffected because it was always a side story that merely takes place in the same timeline, not the same narrative. A Long Trip To Nowhere Important is a completely different timeline of my own creation, so it’s unaffected as well.New Collabs!So I have been working with two artists of late, with some writing and planning to boot. The first I’ve mentioned before, the talented and overly self-deprecating Chimera46. I can provide a bit more detail on this: The narrative, set in Chimera’s fantasy world, involves slime girls to some degree, a concept I’ve always been fascinated by. I won’t go into further detail than that though. This currently in planning stages, and hopefully will get somewhere over the next few months.I’ve also been working a little bit with an artist named Judge3DX. A very talented artist who is a regular in Dizzy’s forum, he does some amazing work involving more…interesting subjects. The image you see atop is not Tilen, but a character inspired by Tilen currently named Maia. I’ve helped develop two narratives with him, one involving Maia and the other involving another OC, Becky. I may reveal an outline of the latter project in Dizzy’s forum. Hopefully we’ll see more of them, as soon as Judge posts them somewhere Script Practice…?Per working with Chimera46, one thing I’ve taken to do is scriptwriting practice. Namely, I’ve been writing drafts of scripts for ideas that have been percolating in my head for the last couple years. Small, short scripts. The point of these is to get a better grip on my dialogue for 3DX animation (something I’ve been critiqued on by trusted folks), and to develop a stronger sense of rhythm, along with just getting back into writing with this method.None of these practice drafts may see the light of day anytime soon, though they have the potential of going somewhere if the cards play right. And yet, doing this has opened up new ideas in my mind for scripts that could actually become something more. Chimera46 has told me time and again that I should write for adult VO artists, since I definitely have some talent in it. The problem is I’ve always been a bit leery of adult VO recording, mainly because so much of it is POV-centric with fetishes I don’t really care for (straight incest, femdom and other BDSM aspects of that nature, etc.). That said, there are ideas in my head for stuff that could work in a VO-only setting that aren’t any of the aforementioned. As I practice more, I might look into writing these out and seeing who would be willing to record. We’ll see though.Anyway, that’s enough for now. I’ll try to update a little more often, but keep in mind I’ve been struggling to come up with anything to say lately, and I’m bit wary of using Twitter as a dumping ground for my thoughts, because it just comes off as so…solipsistic. Take care. And remember: Ducks love peas. -- source link

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