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FAQ, Archive
🕑 Added 2019-04-30 04:01:00 +0000 UTCNew FAQ sticky post and Archive link and password
Q: Do you have a huge archive with all your animations and wallpapers in one place?
Yes, for my animations at least I've managed to sort out something resembling an archive, featuring all my animations from 2021 to the present. The password is changed on the 1:st of every month, though sometimes extraneous circumstances may make the update lag behind a day or two, so if I appear to have missed to update it don't hesitate to send me a direct message or the likes. Either way, the link and password will always be below here:
Link to the archive:
LINK
Password as of January 2026:
awyiss69
Q: What is your schedule like?
Monday: Animation release day, editing day, Wallpaper day
Tuesday: Comic work day
Wednesday: Animation day
Thursday: Project work day
Friday: Day of rest
Saturday: Animation day
Sunday: Animation day
This schedule results in approximately 2-3 animations per month, one being the longer "Scenario" one that takes two weekends to resolve, with accompanying wallpapers for the appropriate tiers, and 2 extra wallpapers. Projects and Comics are more long-form work that takes a long time to make, but will occasionally land when I manage to get them sorted.
Q: What do all these content formats mean?
A "Loop" is generally a looping animation, running somewhere between 6-12 seconds.
A "Scenario" is more ambitious than a loop, running upwards of 1 minute, more cinematic.
A "Short Project" is generally done using in-game sounds, but can last 2-3 minutes.
A "Long Project" is my most ambitious work, featuring voice acting, and can run even longer.
A "Wallpaper" is a still image render where I either try out the capabilities of my hardware, test different render engines, or otherwise experiment with lighting or other conditions. They vary from large scenes involving several characters to simple pinups featuring one.
Q: What do your backer tiers actually get?
$2 tier is the core tier, and gets access to all my baseline Patreon exclusive content updates. Whether that's download links, compilations of my loop work, the extra angles for loops, polls whenever those land, wallpapers, or otherwise.
$5 tier is the Discord tier. Features all the stuff that the $2 tier gets, but also a Discord invite and role contingent on their backer tier. Access to my work in progress channels, looks into model work and a monthly "Less Popular Ladies" poll to determine who to feature for one animation Loop a month over on the Discord. Suggestions for who to include in the vote is determined by channel discussion and simple nomination.
$10 tier is the VIP tier. Features all the stuff that the $2 and the $5 tier gets, with a corresponding Discord invite and role contingent on their backer tier. This tier thus also gets to vote in the Less Popular Ladies vote and gets access to all those same channels as the $5 tier, but in addition also gets to determine the star for the monthly Scenario through Patreon polling, and are able to suggest characters for inclusion in those polls. The "Aftermath" wallpaper is also exclusive to this tier, which are wallpapers that follow on the animation resulting from the votes held by the tier.
I note that the Discord roles are "contingent" on backer tiers. This is literal, with the Patreon Discord bot handling invites and role allocation, meaning that if you at any point stop being a backer or downgrade your tier outside those with Discord access, you will also lose your role, and therefore the access to the Discord channels in question.
Q: What models do you work with?
Model list: LINK
Q: I am unable to open your MEGA files. What do I need?
My files come in .rar archives, both for ease of sorting and to be more resistant to spurious mass reports. You will need some kind of program or app that is able to extract .rar archive files. This varies from device to device, but everything from phones to desktop computers should have something available that can do the trick.
Q: Do you do commissions?
No. As of writing this FAQ, I sadly have no means of fitting commission work into my schedule. Whether this will change in the future remains uncertain.
Q: I can't play some of your older work, or they stutter strangely or do not have sound. What is wrong?
I used to rely on a really old Sony Vegas for my editing, meaning the encoding is incredibly strange on some of my older work. It is my understanding that newer versions of VLC Media Player is capable of playing my old content without much issue, though I have heard of some manually fixing around with their codecs getting it to work on other players as well. I would personally recommend using VLC.
Q: What programs do you use in your work?
I started off in Source Filmmaker but have since transitioned over entirely to Blender. I use Sony Vegas for editing.
Q: Can you show me how you do X?
One day I might have the time to cobble together a tutorial of sorts, but sadly that opportunity is yet to present itself. I am rather stressed in my everyday life and simply have no time to mentor anyone, nor do I know if I am truly qualified to - being entirely self-taught with no prior education in the 3D scene, I can presently only really direct you towards the same tutorials that I started off from, which are the official Valve SFM tutorial for keyframe animation and the famous Donut Tutorial by Blender Guru, both available over on Youtube.
Q: Would you be willing to share your session files?
No, I'm sorry. I have had incredibly poor experiences with this in the past and have since resolved to never do it again. It is nothing personal, but a policy to save myself future pain. Furthermore I more often than not utilize paid for models or otherwise paywalled content made by other 3D creators, and it is not my right to distribute their material.
Q: Where do you get your sound effects and/or models?
Some models/sounds are outright purchased, some models are through backing model makers on their Patreons, and some are publicly available. Both the free sound packs and the free models I use can be found on pages like Smutbase, SFMlab and Open3dlab - all you need is an account. If you have any questions pertaining to a specific model and who the creator of it is, feel free to poke me about it so I can direct you properly to them.
Q: I am not getting a Discord invite, or my role is incorrect.
Make sure to connect your Discord account to your Patreon account:
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Getting-Discord-access
In the event this does not work, unlinking and relinking your account, or unsubbing and then resubbing to my Patreon has ostensibly worked in the past for other backers. The Discord Bot is sometimes a little on the slow side though, so if none of this resolves it and a day or two passes with no change, please reach out to me in a private message and I'll contact Patreon to see if they can give the bot a swift kick so it wakes up.
Q: I have a business proposal of some kind. Where can I contact you?
Private Messages on Patreon or on Twitter is where I can most consistently be reached, as I monitor those daily. Note that asking for a commission or pricing thereof is not a business proposal - I'm not saying this to be snide or clever, but because I have genuinely had to explain this to several people.
Q: What happened to the "Enhanced" versions of animations and wallpapers?
In short, it was a content format that took a lot of extra effort and sometimes outright got in the way of my usual animation work, and which, crucially, was entirely a form of pandering as I had no personal interest in the format myself. I realized perhaps a little too late, once some very outspoken people were expressing that they were more interested in Enhanced material than my actual content format, this to the point where I was asked to sacrifice promised backer rewards in favor of Enhanced material, and with each animation or wallpaper where I did not find the time to include it coming with a barrage of angry or disappointed messages, that I had made a big mistake by making it in the first place.
Thus I held a Breast Size Poll so as to determine how badly this had gotten in terms of my backer demographics, and thankfully found that most were still interested in the content format and sizes that I featured on the regular. Still, the voices of what I had dubbed the Enhanced Crew rang out loudly, and the Poll results did show a lean in preference towards larger sizes, so I opted for something of a compromise - to permanently enhance some ladies in the gallery that, by their canon design, are ostensibly renown for their breast size, so as to give this specific demographic something to look forward to. Characters like Tifa, Ivy and some others thus have breast/butt sizes that are (almost) on par with what the old Enhanced material used to feature, just as their permanent design.
While all my characters very much are more curvy than their canon appearances, they nowadays have more variance, with those stand-out ladies put into a permanent state of Enhanced-esque proportions. Extra renders of "Enhanced" versions of scenes are thus, as a concept, no more.
Q: Why don't you do Futa/belly bulge/late-term pregnancy sex/lactation, etc?
Personal preferences. It's difficult to pinpoint why people are into the things they enjoy, and conversely, why they're not into what other people enjoy. Since I pursue making content that I personally enjoy in order to keep my creativity alive, it means I will sometimes intersect with other people's preferences, and sometimes I will not. Note that this is not me judging other people's tastes, but rather an attempt at simply explaining that in the cases of stuff like futa, belly bulges or similar, it just happens to be outside of my personal framework and will as such not be featured.
Q: Can I use your work in my own work (IE: sound editing, compilations etc) that I then publish to other pages?
The most common survey response from new backers that I get is a desire to "access exclusive work". Given that I am economically dependent on this platform to pay my bills, I sadly do not give permission to post my Patreon material elsewhere, even if modified, and I will pursue DMCA takedown of my stuff if I come across it. My public work (noted as having my watermark) is of course another story, so feel free to use that for those purposes.
END OF FAQ
Any questions you feel are missing? Feel free to tell me!
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All my project work, including Scenarios, can be viewed online over at:
https://rule34video.com/members/101339/
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Thank you for your support everyone!
Comments
DH
Very unlikely given the design direction. I've never been big on cell shading and similar designs for 3D work, and I'm completely unfamiliar with Arknights as a franchise sadly
Canard Bleu
Is there a chance to see a Wis'adel model someday ?
DH
He has become speed, too fast for even himself!
Immoral25
Of course I only spot this post after going straight to the animations collection and tabbing every single one! XD
AG33
Can't ask for more than that, thanks for responding. Obviously will look forward to that should it happen and continue to support your new works as they're always excellent :)
DH
It's not absolutely impossible I'll return and poke around with older work at some point, but it's quite the undertaking to extract old files, edit them, upload and then edit the post for several years worth of content. I'll definitely bear it in mind though as I know folks do enjoy the compilation format, but it'll be something I'll have to save for a blessed moment in the future when I get some extra spare time on my hands. It's not for a lack of want in that sense, but rather the time it'll take to resolve it that I have to contend with.
AG33
Quick question, and it's possibly one that's been asked and answered before so apologies if so, but some of your older animations don't have compilation versions (Leaning Into Regression as an example) somwas just wondering if there were any chance of compilation versions at some point? Obviously appreciate you may not want to but just thought I'd ask as there are some I'd personally enjoy in a longer format
Andre Milosh
I love all your work! I've been watching you since 2021! Keep creating masterpieces, don't stop! Your Liara is just juicy <3
cherriesxp
W work ngl
DH
Definitely looking into acquiring some quality models for them! Karlach is actually already secured, and given how popular Shadowheart is I imagine she'll make an appearance eventually :)
Ron McCullough
One day in the future my friend could we please get some of the Baldur's gate 3 girls some screen time Shadowheart is my fav
BaloonTamer
Hello, love your work, i would love to see something like "Lady of the Woods" but featuring Jaina Proudmoore enhanced, if possible. Thanks :)
DH
Hello there Mattiams! This sticky post is reserved for larger projects only, as things are. My MEGA and older storage solutions are a mess, and the monumental task of ordering them in any comprehensive way where I would be able to create lists of past archives, never mind archives for browsing, simply isn't feasible at the moment. My wallpapers have never been archived for downloads either, and would thus require me to go back literally years to get them re-downloaded, zipped, re-uploaded, etc, in order to even begin the process. Then, of course, there's the matter of limited online storage space, which I am currently scrambling to find a solution for in the present without any massive archiving ambitions :) Thus, in terms of wallpaper and weekly animation browsing I've opted to try keeping my tags here on patreon in order so that it's at least somewhat manageable to find what you're looking for, as a manner of solution. Character tags, especially, should very much be on point, as I've been very strict with marking my work with those.
Mattiams
Hello, I realise I am commenting on an older post, but is there any change this will be updated with the new weekly animations, or an overall archive for wallpapers, projects etc? Thanks!
divebomber
HunterBen please dont forget Miranda!
crazyhunter
Thanks for the great works but we need more of Ashley :) I like that pic with Ashley, Liara and the Shadowbreaker but not Ashley futa. Leliana of Dragon Age would be also nice to see :)
divebomber
tks sfmdh yep i use vlc ill try downloading again.. the video is good enough though...tks again!
DH
Scratch that, it appears that the fault lies in the newest VLC update. I've had several others report the same issue now that their sound is choppy when playing the files using VLC.
DH
They're pretty large files and can as such be very demanding to play - check if you've got enough juice in the old computer perhaps? I can also recommend VLC Media Player as it tends to be pretty good on that end :)
divebomber
sfmdh first thanks for fast response and support! no one takes care of their patreons better than you...got the files only one issue..the audio on alien dna one and two is choppy as were a few others..one other one was good...i dont know if this is just me or others will be affected..sorry to be a pain and take you away from alien dna3!!
DH
You previously had to select the whole thing and paste. I've reworked all the links into hotlinks instead, so it should work now!
divebomber
ok sfmdh i click on alien dna and it takes me to mega but it does not show up there..miranda in charge, parnack, the affair show up..if it is on my end then thanks anyway..any help appreciated tks pdog
J. Robin
I, for one, really enjoy the high resolution releases Dreamhawk does. Most common players (VLC, MPC, even Windows Media Player) support it.
DH
It's regular MP4 files. I know it can be difficult to play on certain phones, so I recommend using a computer for viewing.
Bianca Anderson
Video format is useless
Ner'rull
Very Thanks Stay healthy and cheerful. Have fun with everything you do^^
I miss so much some good content of our beloved asari scientist !
DH
Thanks for this. It's nice to have everything in one place.
