Change of Plan

WARNING: This is a long (for me anyway), wordy post about my “creative process” (lol), but I’m very enthusiastic about this new idea, so I’d like to share!

First, thank you for all your comments on my nymphobug videos. Seeing them in isolation, you’d be forgiven for thinking that I might be about to send the story off on some strange tangent, a direction that doesn’t really fit in with the cuckolding fantasy idea etc. Please don’t worry - that’s absolutely not the case. The nymphobug is intended just as a kind of decorative detail, and won’t have any substantial impact on the main characters or narrative.

Nevertheless, modeling, rigging and animating the “nymphobug” was interesting and instructive. In addition to some technical aspects, it also taught me the following:

(1) Once you’ve created a CG character, animating it isn’t all that difficult, and

(2) It can be very motivating to do a project on a relatively short time scale.

Those points lead me on to the main theme of this post, which is to tell you that I’ve decided to follow ptathuk’s suggestion, i.e. to make a video about John getting his collar. When I first saw this suggestion in a comment on a previous post, it didn’t really “gel” (so to speak). But last night (as I was walking the dog), I realized what an excellent idea it was, for the following reasons:

(a) First and foremost, I thought of a scenario that I really like. I can’t guarantee it’ll press everyone’s buttons, but it certainly pressed mine!

(b) It’s the most natural continuation in terms of the narrative. I carefully set up and explained the collar in Episode 2, but was in danger leaving it unexploited as a peripheral detail in Episode 3.

(c) It’s a great bridge to the episode that follows (involving “doing the wild thing” with Sebastian, which was to be Episode 3, but will now be Episode 4). I was originally planning a bridging episode with a different scenario, but dropped the idea, because it didn’t seem worth the effort involved. But this new “bridge” is definitely worth building! It brings Susan and John together in an intimate way, indicates a shift in their relationship, and raises anticipation for the next episode.

(d) Technically, it involves relatively little effort (which relates to points 1 and 2 above). It involves only two characters (both of which I’ve already modeled and rigged), and can be done on a relatively short timescale, giving me room to add a few embellishments without feeling they’ll make the project too long.

...Well, that was kind of a long explanation, but I wanted to give it. That way, you can maybe get an inkling of the “Wow! Everything just fell into place!” feeling that I experienced! I wish that would happen more often! Anyway, just a final word of thanks to ptathuk. Thanks for making the suggestion; I hope that you - and all you other guys who are kind enough to take an interest - will be pleased with the eventual result.

Regards.