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Commission #48: Climax Inside Julie on the Shore

🕑 Added 2024-07-19 20:50:40 +0000 UTC

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Flin Paltwell

Yes, I use Blender, and I freaking love it. But I'll try to give you a mostly fair rundown: If you're interested in making erotic visual novels like I do, the 3 most common pieces of 3D software people use are Daz3D, Honey Select 2, and Koikatsu. Daz3D is for realistic models, and is by far the most popular for making erotica. I personally can't stand it and find it uncanny as fuck 😂. Honey Select 2 is second-most popular, good for anime-stylized realistic models (like the Final Fantasy 7 remake, but lower quality). Koikatsu is the same company as Honey Select 2, but is more geared towards toon shading like I use. However, in my opinion their shaders and models are painfully obviously 3D. - The above 3 are examples that sacrifice control/power for ease of use. It's a lot easier and faster to make a sex scene with two characters. You get tons of pre-built assets, character creators, animations, etc. You can edit animations and poses and such, but it's very difficult to model your own stuff (I've never used Daz3D so I can't speak to that one so much). And the animation capabilities are much more limited. Still, people make plenty of impressive things with them. - If you're interested in REAL 3D art (lol), then I would instead turn your attention to Maya, ZBrush, or Blender. Maya is the industry standard for 3D modeling. It's also obscenely expensive, and frankly, I personally found its 3D modeling capabilities inferior to Blender's, though it does surpass it in many other regards (Maya has far better animation tools, fluid simulations, rendering power, particle simulations, and more). Even if I could afford it, I didn't like using Maya when I tried the free student license. I will also mention 3DS Max here, made by the same company as Maya, but geared more towards architectural or engineering-type modeling. ZBrush is purely dedicated to sculpting. You might see timelapses of people who sculpt up a 3D model of someone or something cool. Often, they're using ZBrush. It's unparalleled for sculpting, and can't do very much more than that (no animation capability at all). ZBrush is moderately expensive last I checked. Blender is FREE, and always will be due to its special open-source license. It's the only real competitor to Maya on this list, and while Maya is the industry standard, Blender has been on the rise in recent years thanks to some incredible updates. It's massively popular amongst indie devs. There are other options too, such as Houdini, but my experience is much more limited there. If it's not obvious, I personally recommend Blender. It's both free and incredibly powerful. There are also many, many free resources available for learning Blender, including a metric fuck-ton of youtube video tutorials. I'm also going to be releasing the Blender files for my characters when I finish LLRR, so if you know how to use Blender when the time comes, you'll be able to make all the Samantha content you want lol.