I recently downloaded a large archive of pics featuring the lovely Justine Joli. I’d seen a little of her photo work and wanted to find out if she’d done any sets that would lend themselves to some hypno-kink. While quickly speeding through a dozen or so folders I came across a set of her with Aria Giovanni, who I’ve featured several times now.

While the bulk of the set didn’t have much potential for my purpose, the first few images really caught my eye. I finally settled on a pic of Aria leaning close in while Justine vamped at the camera. Which turned into my first hurdle; for the storyline that began forming in mind, I needed her lost in the throes of pleasure. I was able to pull another shot of Ms. Jolie’s head from a later pic in the series and solve that problem, then I began thinking about what sort of props Aria might be using to enthrall her new pet.

I’ve recently re-read trilby else’s phenomenal Recovery and, without spoiling anything, one of my favorite moments is when a freshly enslaved character has a vibrating pager placed in a harness against her sex, so her Mistress can reach out and touch someone if you take my meaning.

I think that scene must have been on my mind here, as I found myself really enamored of Justine’s slightly splayed legs and stockings. I created a bullet vibe with a control box that I tucked into the elastic top of her stocking, not sure how it would play to the story but thinking I’d want some sort of device to facilitate her pleasure-conditioning.

The real gem for me here was the crystal chandelier that was already in the scene. One of my early (and still favorite) hypno-tv moments is the famous Hart-to-Hart episode that features a similar fixture as a hypnosis prop. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to try and recreate a similar effect through animation.

So, after playing around with some lighting effects I settled on three elements: a series of chaser lights, some rays emanating from the chandelier, and a color-shift that would engulf the room. Ironically, although it was the most straightforward effect, the color-shift proved to be the most time-consuming as I just couldn’t find the look I wanted.

After some trial and error, I realized that by so dramatically tinting the color of the image, I was missing some of the photograph’s character, which first caught my eye. By dialing back the color effect and tinting the two women with less intensity than the background, I was finally able to achieve what I saw in my head.

Sitting down to write the caption proved the usual exercise in self-restraint as I almost immediately had enough story ideas to fill a four-image series. In the end, I was able to hint at the world and events that I’d conceived while still keeping things brief enough to focus on the erotic heat I wanted to convey.

And that is how this latest piece came together. It was one of the quickest animations I’ve ever done; the entire affair was completed in less than eight non-continuous hours over two days.

Your questions, comments, and suggestions are always welcome. I am still in-progress on a very ambitious new manip series that I hope to complete around the first of the new year and I’ll look forward to sharing more on that with you soon-ish.

Dessert

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Aria is going to have the best dessert serving ever at her latest dinner party.

In the original pic, Ms Joli was looking into the camera but, being so smitten with the image, I knew it could really lend itself to a great manip. I replaced her head with another from the same series of pictures and dropped the vibrator and control box into the image.

I then took advantage of the crystal chandelier that was in the scene by adding some lighting fx to tie it into the story. The last bit of business was the shifting colors in the room which, at first, I went a little too far with. in the end I got the look I wanted by toning down the color and tinting the background with more intensity than the two women.

This one had a long road to completion. The actual animated frames I’ve had finished for months now, but I knew I didn’t want to just have four individual animated manips that would force the viewer to go forward and backward through browser pages in order to view each panel. That, of course, meant I needed to learn some flash.

Or more precisely actionscript, which is the programing language that drives flash. Animation I can do, but even simple user-interaction (like Next and Back buttons) takes some programing. So early this year I decided I wasn’t going to let my lack of programming knowledge hold me back anymore. I bought a book and started teaching myself how to write flash applications.

It seems almost silly, all this work for what amounts to a slideshow, but such is the nature of my illness. I’m a perfectionist you see; not always in a healthy way. Its not enough to do something, it has to be done right. Also, I’m a hopeless control-freak and know-it-all; if I can’t do something myself I get cranky.

But enough of my problems.

The point (finally) is that it took me a while before I had the programming skill to put together the interactive part of this latest manip (and truth be told I still leaned heavily on some handy online tutorials). Plus there was that whole “lets completely redesign the website” thing right as I was finishing up.

So, I’m very glad to have the new site up and running and very, very glad to finally have this new manip on display for everyone to see. As we’re all beginning to discover, I’m an Aria Giovanni…uh…enthusiast. I’d had a pic set of one of her few fetish video shoots and after looking at them for a while, finally figured out where they could go..with a little Photoshop.

The source pics required some extensive work: duplicating and blending large sections of foreground, head replacement, logo removal, and I still had to fabricate one side of the head clamps from scratch. The large “Enable” button was a 3D model dropped in from the Google warehouse, then textured and lit in Photoshop to blend into the background.

The visual fx were really inspired by an episode of Hart to Hart where a neferious hypnotist uses light bouncing off a crystal chandeler to put Jennifer under. Its a really neat effect and I sort of used that as my jumping off point. The subliminal text and images were added at the eleventh hour when I realized I had more story than would fit into three panels, and decided to insert a POV shot of what Aria is seeing.

Anyway, enough of my rambling. Time to enter The Room.