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October 2016

Hey Howl, where did you get the Alice-with-dress model? Or did you fix her up yourself?

RedMenace as usual (butt was zoey’s). I asked him if I could upload the model since it’s old and apparently in high demand but no luck.

Oct 28, 2016 11 notes
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Hey Wolf love your work! When do you think you're going to be opening up commission again? I'd love to get one from you. -C.

Did you just assume my species?? Don’t know.. I’m not even animating anything atm. If I took one there’s potentially 10 other guys waiting so you probably shouldn’t stay anonymous. Though it’s unlikely either way…

Anonymous said: Do you think you’ll remake the Mercy animation with her Halloween skin when those models become available? That outfit is just so… ugh

I can confidently say I will not be swapping mercy with every bloody new skin that comes out.

Anonymous said: I do understand commissions are closed, but I’d like to ask for when you take them again. You say no extreme stuff, but are you open to having drugged/passed out/dead/sleeping men being used by women/monster women? It’s such rare subject matter, and it was pulled off so well in your succubus animation.

yeah dead is pushing it. Maybe depending heavily on the context (like background characters) but I’m thinking necro falls into ‘extreme’.

Anonymouses said: Do you have plans -

no

Oct 22, 2016 11 notes
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I just gotta ask out of curiosity, you seem to have some animosity towards the succubus animation. Was it just stupidly hard work to get done what you did? Just tired about hearing about it?

Don’t see how, I’ve already stated it’s a favorite. I just want to do other stuff. And yes, “real” animation is stupidly harder than looping a hip thrust.

Anonymous said: how you feel about leeterr mocking you?

1. what 2. I don’t have feelings

Anonymous said: This might sound weird but i did have a dream recently about you uploading a new animation, it was a scene with a pulsating light; pose changing every time the light came back on. Does that sound like something you’d do?

No. Which is good news, because that would be the shittiest prophetic dream ever.

ofpigsanddogs said: I was wondering where did you get clothes for generic male characters such as the clothes he’s wearing in your Laura Matsuda animation?

Pants are from Geralt in the sfm workshop.

For the shirt, I colored generic rapist rapee’s black top using $color on a vector3 attribute. I then duplicated the model, made the copy’s skin invisible using $alpha and removed the original shirt. Of course all of this backfired when I learned light doesn’t pass through invisible models.

Anonymous said: Im not gonna donate you because im not like send money to people except if that people send money to me ha anyway i would like an animation of devil mercy the pink one if you not gonna do it its ok but you do it the infernal version so why not the pink devil please i will give you my all

Maybe the commissioner will read this and do it himself so people stop asking me about it :-)

Oct 5, 2016 15 notes
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Oct 3, 2016 3,378 notes
#sfm #nsfw #laura matsuda

September 2016

You don't know how much I love seeing a notification that you've uploaded a new animation. Speaking of which, are you working on any other animations right now?

Laura Matsuda’s up next

Anonymous said: What about a femdom blowjob or handjob with Chloe and Warren from life is strange?

Don’t know the characters but I’d probably use some of those models if I did a school setting.

Sep 29, 2016 17 notes
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You're stuffs being used for those sex game ads now, it's not even a good loop of it it's mercy pulling off haphazardly.

I’ve seen it. The only thing that pisses me off are the horny retards clicking on those garbage ads.

Anonymous said: You think you might make a Quiet from mgsv animation?

Not interested. Her face looks weird tbh. And just look at those sharp knees. She is way below my standard…

Sep 29, 2016 22 notes
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Sep 27, 2016 2,188 notes
#sfm #nsfw #alice liddell

August 2016

Which map did you use for the Glory animation?

An empty apartment with a shitload of props selected and thrown at random

Anonymous said: Is there any chance you would do a black version of that animation? Or any of your future animations? Your stuff is just godly.

Here’s a lower res version. Future animations? probably not

Anonymous said: Where do you get your models? I was looking around for a Mercy model but have had no luck.

if you mean nude mercy, it doesn’t exist. it is a bodyhack done within sfm

Aug 13, 2016 22 notes
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Aug 12, 2016 946 notes
#sfm #nsfw #shadowrun #glory

July 2016

How much would it cost by donation to complete that "cumpire"/succubus animation to a longer length animation?

Originally posted by wrong-url-motherfucker

Anonymous said: Can I ask what are you currently working on?

Doing one more commission with Glory and putting the rest of the requests on indefinite hold I guess. I really have more than I know what to do with and it pays like shit for the amount of hours put in so I can only enjoy them in small doses.

Anonymous said: Hi, do you plan on doing the whole Patreon thing like a lot of other SFM animators? I think you should. Your work is unique with the femdom angle, and you do the best cumshots I’ve ever seen. I think you could get a lot of supporters on Patreon. Also, POV femdom titfuck plz.

It’s crossed my mind but the crappy donate button’s safer for now. And Alice’s pose was originally exactly for that, I think her boobs ended up being too small.

Jul 15, 2016 13 notes
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Hey just donated a little, it's really not much but hey, it's something, right? I really love your work and just have a question for you, i'm sorry if this has been asked already, but what made you want to open up this page and work on porn animations? and why specifically femdom? to be honest I'm really glad I found you, there aren't enough people contributing such fine work for this genre.

Ty dude.

I guess I was dropped on the head as a child and now prefer everything backwards? I started animating because I despise the BDSM aspect of femdom and it’s hard to find anything else, god fucking knows why. It’s a weird mix of something being really niche yet so vanilla.

Anonymous said: I’m trying to make Shaotek’s Fit Male Talent work, but the goddamn thing won’t get any rig properly. What IK rig are you using?

Not sure what rig it comes with but there’s an “IK FIX” to download on the sfmlab page. Otherwise try renaming the animationset before applying the rig. Common sfm bug.

I wish fit male could use Met’s magic rig… It’s by far the best male model available but the bone list is such a mess. How am I supposed to animate decent facial expressions when I gotta scroll to four different sections just to move the lips?

Jul 9, 2016 13 notes
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Jul 7, 2016 1,339 notes
#sfm #nsfw #tracer #genji #overwatch
What kind of lighting setup did you use in the mercy animation? It looks stellar.

Kinda surprised this has been asked a lot. Mercy is actually using the default valve lightkit because I lost patience and am terrible at lighting anything. Three more lights are coming from the windows but that’s fairly straightforward I think. This is all happening on the stage map.

There’s also a little bit of color correction which was achieved through the equivalent of letting a cat walk on your keyboard.

Jul 7, 2016 12 notes
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Really wanna donate. Not to keep you making more projects but because you have the best stuff out there and I respect that!

Your unrelenting generosity moves me. I have created a donate button here.

Jul 4, 2016 14 notes
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June 2016

Hey, just stumbled on your Mercy animation and I wanted to tip my hat off to you. I'm not really into Overwatch but the animation itself is simply astounding, the motion is great and smooth and all the little details like him grabbing her arm etc. just left me in awe. I'm a sfm debutant still struggling with the robotic uncanny valley so this is very inspiring to me. From what I saw of your sfm sessions you use a lot of bookmarks, is it how you smooth everything ?

Thanks. Haven’t actually played it so I dunno what I’m missing out on.

I don’t feel qualified to give animation advice but here are some ways I smooth my animations. Firstly I spam the crap out of the spline (3) hotkey on my keyframes. SFM happens to be the buggiest piece of animation software in existence and I don’t trust it to keep my curves intact in the graph editor. Sometimes there’s no choice, such as when a bone is parented/unparented and leaves a bunch of curves you don’t wanna touch. But sfm will screw those up anyway because fuck you.

You can also get a better look at the graph curves of a bone by locking it. The parent bone stops affecting it so you get pristine curves with no outside influence.

I’ve found the motion editor’s (which actually isn’t buggy like the graph) smooth and round presets super useful for smoothing stubborn parts of an animation. You might select just rotation or position, or a single axis, maybe lock the bone, select a green area, drag the handles to create falloff, and use either preset (rarely to full).

One more trick is to watch your animation in slow motion to get a much clearer view of imperfections. I remember finding out the hotkey for this but it ended up breaking shit in sfm tradition. The other way to do it is by dragging the upper part of the clip editor timeline and letting go. You have to drag very little for slow-motion playback.

Jun 27, 2016 32 notes
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Can you add an alt of that Mercy Riding animation with the Imp skin? The one with Purple hair and a white costume. Thanks!

I got a lot of requests for variations but I can’t. The save is utterly broken and renders corrupt more often than not. Well, I hope it’s only this scene otherwise I might as well uninstall this buggy POS. So no to more skins or angles or Mercy with a big black cock.

Anonymous said: Your Mercy sfm is one of the best sfm’s I have ever seen. The popularity is booming right now on reddit rule34. Any chance you’ll be doing more Mercy? Also, where is your Mercy model from? Thanks :)

Dunno. It’s a body hack with Vaylin. I sort of regret it since she only has 2 spine bones.

rentegra said: Could you tell me/us more about about your cum animating process?

My process is a lot of screwing around and praying to Gaben. Lately I’ve been using cumballs with a mix of the first and second flexes. You can make them appear/disappear through scaling or adding an animset to $alpha in material overrides. Barbell”s cum prop is still king for stretchy strings and such. I’ve already explained the particle effects. Not sure what else to add.

Anonymous said: heya dude just thought i’d say i love your page, femdom is awesome and im glad you think so too!. <3

high five! and thanks for flooding my inbox guys but I honestly can’t keep up

Jun 25, 2016 23 notes
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Jun 24, 2016 5,603 notes
#sfm #nsfw #overwatch #mercy
Hey Howl, im interested in doing a commession. How can i do that? And a question, how long would it potentially take for it to be done?

You have to make a tumblr account and msg me. The time really depends on what’s asked and my irl distractions but I’d say around a couple weeks to be safe.

Jun 23, 2016 7 notes
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Hi, I have a question regarding cum particles: I don't quite get how they work, how am I supposed to make 'em flow slower, or make them smaller and spurt will less force? Are there some tutorials I can check? (I'm using Barbell's Cum Tech btw)

I only know the basic particle settings.

Emission duration decides how long it spurts out. Lower values create shorter bursts.

Lifetime decides how long before the emitted particle disappears. Usually kept high unless I’m aiming the cumshot at a body part and don’t want it coming out the other side.

Timescale slows or speeds it up.

You can accomplish a LOT more in the particle editor but it’s a scary place. I think the setting I had changed to reduce the overall strength was Position Within Sphere Random > speed in local coordinate system max/min.

I’m sure you can get better looking cumshots with cum splat or cumball but this stuff really burns me out

Jun 23, 2016 14 notes
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Are you planning on doing a sequel to the CM animation involving Lina?

A clash of cum is set to release in 2018, a storm of cum in 2020 followed by a long hiatus.

cl13a-sabre said: Could you render your animations in stereoscopic 3D as well so us Google Cardboard users can see your glorious work in VR?

I did a test render but Idk what I’m doing and I can’t see the result anyway. How many times am I gonna re-render this nidalee animation? https://my.mixtape.moe/qyyljf.webm

You’re welcome to try with my save files if you want to do it properly.

Anonymous said: So you have a very small cock irl? I have to say I love those ones the most since it’s easier to put myself in that position being tiny as well

same

Anonymous said: So it is shota, then. But the model you posted - in the animation the penis looks different. Did you change it somehow?

yeah, as per the commissioner’s request. The same way you change any body part – scales and locks.

Anonymous said: are u ever gonna do a lesbian animation?

I doubt it

Anonymous said: Would it be wrong to hold our breath on any more Dota Footjobs? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

You will pass out. Though for the record I would like to do more dota.

Jun 19, 2016 9 notes
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This is nagging away at me. Was that BJ commission supposed to be shota or a guy with a small penis? And what model is used for the male? Does it have a face? Seriously, because if that's shota that's crazy risque.

It’s me irl but all my models’ dicks were too big so I used a smaller body which you’ll find here after logging in.

Jun 10, 2016 9 notes
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Being a partial dota newfag, who is there at the end of the crystal maiden animation?

her older, hotter sister

Jun 7, 2016 11 notes
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Goddamn your animations are good. That old long succubus one looked really promising and you've definitely improved. Do you know anyone else who does what you do?

Thanks and no. I’ve kind of given up looking.

Anonymous said: I don’t have a request but is there a way I can donate to you anyway? Your work is excellent and I would like to give something to help out!

I am not taking donations but thanks!

Anonymous said: Do you have any model from the TellTale Game of Thrones?

Nope, but I did find them in the sfmlab forums a while back.

Anonymous said: Holy shit, if you’re going to share the animation itself at least share all the models used you lazy prick. It’s impossible to open without crashing.

It’s not that simple. Props come from big packs and can have vague names and folder paths. I’ve already listed the ones I think I used. You might also need dota source 1 files which can’t even be ported from the game anymore. Sorry for getting your hopes up?

Anonymous said: Firstly, all your work is amazing. Second, have you should consider making a movie and lastly can you finish the animation that has the girl running up to you please?

I don’t have the time and it’s hard to find audio files. Succubus animation will be finished as soon as half-life 3 comes out.

If I ignore anon questions well I just don’t have an answer.

Jun 3, 2016 11 notes
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Spreading bad animation habits one save at a time…

http://www.mediafire.com/download/s4t4z95chh47rxb/cm.dmx

I also use a slightly edited barbell cumtech particle. This was done years ago but from what I recall it lessens the strength/distance of the cumshots. You’ll still need the rest of the particle files from sfmlab.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/qxbo98wc4zbmr9t/barbell_cumtech_v2.pcf

High quality motion blur can screw it up so watch out or you’ll be thrashing a 20 hour render :(

edit: https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1300754 cm arcana here, boobs are curvy elizabeth’s

edit: and themask prop packs, vindictus maps… element viewer and google are your friends. no more asking me about this please.

Jun 2, 2016 27 notes
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Jun 1, 2016 986 notes
#sfm #nsfw #dota 2 #crystal maiden

May 2016

Howl, I have a question. When you animate, what exactly is the purpose of the additional models? I ask because I've never seen that before, and am very curious as to what you would gain from it.

Locking bones from the first model onto the second lets me add another layer of animation with an empty graph editor. It’s messy (and buggy jfc) so if there’s a better way I’d love to hear it.

Default model is because the procedural doesn’t work once the model is rigged and I sometimes need to unfuck a bone.

May 27, 2016 8 notes
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Really love the Nidalee animation you did!, would love more camera angles on that one if you have time

They are bad (and staying that way) as shown here:

https://my.mixtape.moe/fbipxi.webm

https://my.mixtape.moe/ssrmvc.webm

Animating multiple angles in sfm is annoying because the second camera window can only be used with the work camera and opening it effectively cuts my fps in half. More often than not I have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes so I end up taking a lot of shortcuts.

Anyway here’s the save file since someone else asked for it.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/fcadz84jgjoaaol/nidalee.dmx

May 26, 2016 39 notes
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May 23, 2016 1,303 notes
#sfm #nsfw #nidalee
What are you working on right now, if I may ask?

a short loop with nidalee and a crystal maiden footjob

mostly i’m procrastinating via slither.io

May 16, 2016 13 notes
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April 2016

What models were used in the foxgirls animation? I can't find them.

It had vindictus lann, DoA girls, rebecca and some blonde girl. I don’t know her, the model was vaguely named and her files are long gone. Ears/tails came from a demisak or barbell prop pack.They could be on sfmlab but a lot of this stuff I’d found on digitalero eons ago. Also used hair from lordaardvark’s dark elves. (iirc)

Apr 29, 2016 11 notes
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Apr 16, 2016 733 notes
#sfm #nsfw #rebecca chambers
Do you have a patron account?

I do not

Anonymous said: Hey Howl! Just wondering with that recent sexy animation of Elizabeth you made. Could you do a full nude version of that one? Might be much to ask but it’d mean a lot to some of your fans! AMAZING work as always, keep up the great content. Just a small request to add on as well. Could you consider doing a full nude D Va animation of her riding (and facing) for SS? Love your work, and I’m excited to see your next piece!

That 5 seconds took 14 hours to render because of the mirror setup I think. An unusually long time even for my potato pc. And I probably won’t do shota outside of commissions.

Apr 3, 2016 7 notes
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Play
Apr 2, 2016 688 notes
#sfm #nsfw #soul calibur #amy #viola #yun-seong

March 2016

lmao u are really one of the worst animators there is

froggy-sfm said: jesus fuckidy tuckidy christ, i think you’re the best god damn animator on this bloody market. Your recent blowjob animations are grade A level ! Good job


by your powers combined, i am mediocrity!

Mar 29, 2016 29 notes
#and thank you #answers
Mar 28, 2016 1,047 notes
#sfm #nsfw #elizabeth comstock
Is there any way to donate? Your work is fucking awesome! For everyone wondering, can you give a quick update if you're busy as hell just so we all know?

don’t have an answer sorry. I’ll do a commission if you insist, but taking donations then running off would feel bad man

Mar 2, 2016 15 notes
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February 2016

Have you returned?

who knows

stiller001 said: Hey man, just wow, that last animation was one of the best sfm animations ive ever seen, truly amazing! and thats why I wanted to ask you a question! i probably know the answer but doesnt hurt asking! i learned so much from your lulu project file that I was wondering if you could make the project file from that alice animation available, it would mean the world to me! anyways, regardless of the answer, ty so much for bringing those incredible animations and keep being awesome!

dang I can’t agree but thanks

alternate angles are godawful as usual, so don’t look

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ir121uql5t3l65d/alice+dmx.zip

Feb 29, 2016 15 notes
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Feb 29, 2016 1,870 notes
#sfm #nsfw #alice liddell

July 2015

Are you planning on updating your a.pomf links?

I changed the link to the one spooky animation, forgot it was too long for gfycat. If you mean all the rest, I don’t see the point

Jul 2, 2015 13 notes
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June 2015

Dude your stuff is amazing. Is there ANYWAY I could donate to you because you honesty deserve it.

Thank you. If I ever start animating more regularly I could set something up, but right now I feel taking donations will turn this blog into a commitment I might not be able to keep.

Jun 5, 2015 10 notes
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you prob hate requests , but i thought you could maybe do something more with anna or her sister(her name escapes me DX) i dont see much of it from all the people i follow :\ please? and thanks for reading!

Requests are fine as a source of ideas, I just hate answering them because 90% of the time all I can say is maybe™ or eventually™.

Also I find it funny that you can’t remember the name of the character you’re requesting haha

Jun 1, 2015 10 notes
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May 2015

Hi, I just checked your gallery, and it was an amazing tour! as a fan of femdom, i wish to see more of your splendid animations sooner or later. :) ps: i have questions. seems like you have a lot of female sfm models. how much models do you have, and which one is your favourite? and also, do i have chances to see more animations featuring Alice Liddell from Alice madness Returns? i saw her in POV Scout-rape webm, and amazed by her smooth movement. I hope to see her again if it's possible ;u;

I couldn’t tell you. My model list is a gigantic mess where all the characters have been lost in a sea of useless props. Generally my favorites would be the ones with the best working joints but I don’t remember how they all compare. Lulu’s model is pretty amazing despite some rig problems.

Forgot about Alice. I’ll have to ask for redmenacekun’s model… eventually…

Anonymous said: do you know of any other femdom 3d artists? or anyone you follow who do similar animations? and whether there are more blogs with the same theme?

Other than redmoa, I don’t. I’ve seen bits and pieces but none who focused on anything similar.

May 29, 2015 14 notes
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I was wondering if I could get a look at your latest animations SFM session file. I've tried making something similar but with little success and I believe looking at your session file would help me with my own animations. Would you be ok with letting me take a look?

http://www.mediafire.com/download/kiajp29zz64actt/lulu.dmx

Tidus might be broken. The session is pretty old and has a chris body headswapped. You might be better off asking directly; I ran into a fair amount of rig problems myself. Though not all were fixed…

Anonymous said: In the near future can we see some Batman getting rap*cough* man-handled by all the Justice League Femmes or maybe all the Femme Super Villains? Maybe have the girl dominating him, force him to come inside her XD  

Anonymous said: How about some superheroines/villains getting sick of Deadpool’s shit and domming the shit out of him?

I don’t like to rule anything out but I have approx. zero knowledge of the whole superhero universe outside of what I’ve learned from Nolan’s movies (lol)

Anonymous said: Could you make another deepthroat cock loving ahegao faced Ada? you should let the guy cum in her throat this time with some dripping…wishful thinking

You guys are relentless! I’d like to do another deepthroat soon but don’t expect Ada.

May 24, 2015 13 notes
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May 24, 2015 1,592 notes
#sfm #nsfw #ffx #lulu #tidus #femdom

April 2015

Hey man great animations! I was wondering if you can tell me where you got that starchild  model?

thanks man but your google-fu is weak

search in the source filmmaker/garry’s mod workshops

If you don’t own garry’s mod, you’ll have to download the model through http://steamworkshopdownloader.com/

1) you plan to do creampie\anal creampie, bukkake and such animations? 2) there are many sexual character’s example: tera online, soul calibur, vindictus, wow, …, You will realize that any of this? 3) Pay attention to the cumming-animation of Ellowas and animation of Knight77 4) Will the zoo-animation, for example such as a horse? 5) I use Google Translate, sorry. Your work is very much like me.

I don’t plan much. If you mean visible creampie, sure, it’s on the pile of things I’d like to do. Though I gotta say, models with good vagina bones/flexes are really scarce. Not interested in anal, and animating a bukkake would be a nightmare.

I’ve used characters from all the games you listed except wow. I’d like to get more vindictus models but they’re all kept private for some reason :\

Haven’t found what your referring to but a quick glance tells me those guys aren’t using source filmmaker. Personally I’d like to (try to) ditch SFM but it’s where the models are. As far as I know they convert and rig their own, something I have neither the patience nor skill to do.

Beast stuff is a resounding no. I’ll never get used to some sfm bloggers treating it so casually.

Apr 27, 2015 13 notes
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when do you normally post content on this blog i know sfm takes time or what not.. but any wild guesses on the time's you will post things.. sorry if you answered this already!

Right now I’m not aiming for this blog to be particularly active or fill some quota. It’s a place to dump the animations I make when I’m bored and/or horny. So I guess… when I feel like it.

I realize a lot of answers I give are really vague, sorry about that.

And since someone else asked, I’m animating Lulu atm.

Apr 19, 2015 10 notes
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Anonymous said:

Dont burn yourself out over one animation man. I seriously love your work and i would much rather have you enjoy it instead of overexerting yourself over one longer animation. put it on hold and maybe someday inspiration will return. I look forward to more of your work.


Thanks for the concern, but it was more the nature of the scene that discouraged me. It would inevitably be dark and blurry and it’s a particularly hard animation to make so I felt like my efforts would be wasted. I stopped exactly when it stopped being enjoyable :)


Anonymous said:

The cumming animation in your Sherry Birkin webm is amazing. I know you prefer femdom stuff, but any chance we could get something similar into someone’s mouth? Preferably Margaery Tyrell’s? Any female character, really. Thanks for reading.


Definitely want to try making a facial/mouth cumshot, I’ll get around to it eventually.

I’m a long time ASOIAF fan (howl=howland omg) and the idea of animating 3d porn of books I read several years ago is actually fucking weird. Granted the models are closely tied to the show… but I don’t even know where to get them. I like having only one place to dump all my animations and I know those HBO fuckbois have removed GoT content from Tumblr too.

Apr 13, 2015 7 notes
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Apr 12, 2015 421 notes
#sfm #source filmmaker #nsfw #succubus #very spooky #reverse rape

Anonymous said: Will there be any butt-stuff, ala pegging or prostate massages?

Nah. Might do a finger, but it wouldn’t be the focus or anything.

Anonymous said: How long have you been animating in general / how long does it take you to finish an animation approximately?

3-4 years sporadically, maybe. And I procrastinate too much to know, so I can only guess like 10-30 hours. The length and complexity of a scene will wildly change animation time, and I do a lot of trial and error as well. Honestly I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing half the time. 

Anonymous said: moar ada wong plsss shes so fine

anon pls

your spam made me curious with what I could do in 15~ minutes

this is it. ada is retired

Anonymous said:Can you do some femdom with Shepard and that fucking starkid/catalyst, please?

Never played ME3 but I like this idea. I’m just worried about the underrage rule…

Apr 4, 2015 146 notes
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March 2015

where did you learn to make this and how do i learn. i have decent knowledge of 3d.

Uhm, I learned animation basics while fucking around in miku miku dance. Then I did a bit of blender animation for Oblivion. If you have decent knowledge of 3d, you already know more than me. And using source filmmaker is a cakewalk compared to blender, or any other professional software I’m sure.

You’ll need to find proper tutorials on google, but here’s a very quick and dirty start-up guide. Maybe this will make it less daunting for you or anyone else who wants to give it a shot.

1. Install Source filmmaker

2. Get Nude models on SFMLab and install them in your usermod folder (if it comes with a .py file put that in usermod/scripts/sfm)

3. Create new session in SFM and right click view port > load map (as a first timer you may want to load stage.bsp)

4. right click here and select to spawn new models

5. Drag and reduce the end of your shot (purple yellow bar) to however many frames you want your animation to be. (or seconds, not sure what default display is)

6. Rig your models (you don’t have to, but it makes it much easier to animate)

The rig might come with your model (the .py file), or it might use the default one called rig_biped_simple, or you might have to find it elsewhere.

7. I like to pose the models in the motion editor (second timeline button). Having the entire timeline highlighted means your entire animation is being effected, so you don’t have to worry about what frame your sitting on. Figure out the camera controls and pose the model’s bones.

8. Then I animate in the graph editor. M is the hotkey to create a keyframe but moving a bone automatically creates one.

Here I did a simple loop with three keyframes, the first one copypasted as the last.

congrats, you made art

to render: file > export > movie

edit: more concerning rigs

-You’ll find the model’s miscellaneous bones like hair and clothes in Unknown. This gets hidden when you rig the model. Right click animation set editor and check “Show hidden controls” to unhide them. This is also where you’ll find the jigglebones if you bake them (right click model > utilities)

-I don’t know if anyone else encounters this problem but if you’re trying to apply the correct rig and it’s not working, try renaming the model’s animationset first.

-Generally if a model has 4 spine bones under Body it can use the default rig. If it has 3 it can work with rig_biped_valve_3spine.

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