Welcome back, dear reader!
After teasing it weeks ago, I’m (finally) pleased to bring you my latest animated manip: Fun Room! Please check it out and then read on for my director’s commentary!
The video work on this piece was a real joy to work on. Challenging in different ways than these things often are. Visually, I was really inspired by an old friend of mine: HypnoTits. He was already creating snazzy video manips on the Hypnopics Collective back when I first started dabbling in animation.
We connected over a mutual love of the other’s work and really hit off over a shared love of punk rock, brainwashing scenes from old tv shows, and…ahem…breasts. Anyhoo, we had even been working on a collaboration just before he disappeared from the scene all those years ago.
If you’re still out there HT, drop me a line some time!
So, the idea of projecting video imagery on the wall behind the women in this video, that’s a big tip of the cap to HypnoTits. That technique was something he used to great effect time and time again.
At the time I wrote that teaser post, the video was done and I’d written about fifteen hundred words of the caption. I felt like I was just one polish-pass away from putting it to bed.
Silly me.
Upon reading a couple more times, I really cringed at almost the entire second half. It needed a major retool. Between being busy with work and just not having any ideas on how to change it, the whole project came to a stand still.
Last week, I decided to follow some of that obvious advice that writers often get: “Keep writing no matter what!” Turns out that works pretty well! I finally found a way through the material that I was happy with and finished up with the wordsmithing over the weekend.
In the end, I think the problem was that I’d started the project hoping to make something a bit simple and I found myself complicating it. So much so that it stopped being the project that I’d enjoyed so much initially. Simplifying the story and just sticking to the core ideas I’d started with ended up being the way through the block.
As Madam Kistulot sagely observed, “Beating your head against the all is sometimes the only way out of the room ” She should make a calendar or something. 😉
As for me, it’s on to the next!
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy and, as always, your comments, questions and suggestions are always welcome.
8 Comments
Wayne C
I have an idea…In the past,you HAVE had Guys go through some kind of Trance with conditioning,like Spiral in eyes,with a machine on full erection and such,But nothing overwhelming….My idea is to have a group like Impero clinic,or group of women that want to use guys as sex slaves for other women of power,to overwhelm them,with the hardest and most intense of eroticism,mixed with irresistible Hypno or brainwashing techniques,to have them into their fold,BUT show also how The females use overwelming sexual and hypnotic tools to turn guys into THEIR tools,And Just Show in Stories how they`d become More and More Sucessful..I mean,hey: You guys DID have a couple posts,Showing guys being Trained,Why not show them being overwhelmed? Of Course,It`s just an idea,lol!
Wayne C
Oh,got news: Tumblr has turned into Grandfathers: They Dissalow Barebreasts now,on the Site! FuddyDuddys! So,no more HYPNOTITS! What Wussies! Jeez!
Bob
I miss the days when you had a short series every month or so… Anything on the horizon?
callidus
Yes. I’ve been sidelined by the holidays and work stuff but I’m working on several new things right now. Check back soon!
Wayne C
Ahhhhh. What`re your thoughts on my..Suggestion? I Mean,you did touch on using Erotica to have gals try to enslave guys,which is why I believed guys COULD be Changed,like the Females…Your thoughts?
callidus
@Wayne C
I have a handful of Female Dominant-male submissive images in my “source pics” folder, which I have some vague ideas about what to do with. So, as a sub-genre of erotic mind control smut, I’ll definitely do F/m stuff again in the future.
As far as plotting an ongoing series of images, similar to Impero, describing this network of women enslaving men… its not something I’m planning to do. Its not really a core fantasy of mine so my inspiration doesn’t naturally pull me in that direction.
That’s not to say that I’m opposed to it. I just don’t feel strongly driven to do it. If I ever feel different, then maybe I will. Who knows?
In any case, thanks very much for your suggestion. I appreciate you taking the time to pitch it. I’ve done pieces in the past solely because someone planted a seed that gave me an idea for an image I came across later on. You never know where the inspiration might come from.
So, I’m always happy to hear ideas!
Wayne C
*shrugs* Ok. Too bad you do not Post the Source Pics Folder….Bet us fans would like to see it! What`re your thoughts on having Tumblr Poo-Poo that hypno-tits Tumblr section,and is there any other sites we can look FOR the hypno-tits? Ty for reply,and Yw for the Thanks!
Wayne C
By the way: I wish I could go through what those Gals would go through….I mean,like the gal in resisting,Or the one in the Chamber story,where she is In the chamber,Or the one in “desert”…God,they look HOT! LOL! But it cannot Happen,hense me asking for those Males being changed manip stories,@ LEAST I can LIVE Precariously through them,lol! Yeah,that is why I asked,lol!