Callidus

If you happened to stop by the site this week you may have already spotted a new manip in the gallery! I’ve been working on a couple of other projects that had to go to the back burner when I stumbled across an amazing gallery of a young red head strapped to a medical table by a dominant blonde attendant.

So, to work I went getting the images just so and trying different ideas within the story to see which combination and sequence of photos would yield the most fun. This series allowed me to do a bunch of different sorts of things in one piece. Many of  the techniques involved,  I haven’t utilized in years. So, it was quite fun to revisit things like moist skin, liquid and reflections, cables, and (my long time favorite) VR headsets.

Intresetingly, there’s much less Photoshop needed to create VR headsets these days. In years past, I would go to a folder I kept with more than a hundred product shots of googles of all sorts: ski goggles, welding goggles, tactical goggles, and the like. My typical workflow was to find a set that best-matched the angle of the photo manip and then build layers on top of it to create a set of brainwashing goggles.

Now that the “Age of VR” is a year old, suddenly I can replace my old goggle folder with one chock full of actual VR headsets! Its the little things like this that bring me real joy; and also breasts; and beautiful nekkid women staring deep into flickering screens while their eyes begin to droop. And photo sets like this one: the sort where the real fun is trying out all the different possibilities it offers to become naughty, delicious mind control smut.

Please to enjoy.

Well, I’m back. Actually I’ve been back, I just haven’t had time to write about it. Its weird.

Last week, I had this sudden burst of inspiration. For some time, I’ve been toying with the concept of doing a manip series that would utilize stock photography. The sorts of photos that business-types throw into power point presentations alongside a graph labelled with words like “Projections” and “Fiscal Year.” Over the years I’ve come across a few dozen stock pics that I thought could work well in a mind control story. I was just waiting for the inspiration to bite.

Which brings us back to last week. I was hunting for something on Google Image Search and one rabbit hole led to another and I stumbled onto three or four images that I really liked. A story began to materialize in my mind. A corporate takeover. Aided by nefarious mind control. I went to my raw material folder and began collecting photos and seeing what worked well together. I grabbed a few naughty images that I’ve had saved but probably wouldn’t find a use for on their own.

I got the Photoshop work underway and immediately moved on to animation. In a couple nights, I had my images finished. From there, I went on to do the writing which naturally lent itself to a vignette-style story. As I wrote on it more, a broader, yet vague, narrative came together that helped to glue everything together. I polished a bit and worked on the pacing, trying to make it feel like its naturally building towards something. And, hopefully, the ‘something’ its building towards feels satisfying once you get there.

And that’s it. A fun little project that was a nice change of pace: just sitting down and doing something rather than spending a lot of time planning and over-thinking it.

The manip itself has been in the gallery for several days. But, literally, as I began to type up this blog post, my email pinged with some fresh work from a freelance client and so I dashed off to handle that. I just grabbed a few spare moments this evening to jot down my thoughts.

Whether you’ve already had a chance to check it out or this is your first peek, I do hope you enjoy!

See you next time.