I wanted to give you guys a heads up that I won't be as active in the first half of August. Although this will mostly affect Patreons, I want everyone to know what's up.

I need to help my sister move to Florida. We'll probably start driving within the first week of August. It'll easily take us a few days to drive there, and a few more days to set her up, then I get to fly home. Then I get to quarantine myself to my room for 14 days which won't be fun, but I'll be active again at that point provided I don't get sick (and I pray I don't get sick). I'm going to be taking lots of extra precautions while I'm there.

I'll see what I can do about scheduling a few renders to post while I'm gone, or at least downloading them to my laptop so I can post on the go. I will be checking in daily like usual.

I'm also trying to finish up the last few renders for the next vore pack. I'm getting eager to share that one with you guys :)


Finally I wanted to give everyone a big thank you for the support lately. Everyone who either supported my Patreon or bought a pack from Gumroad has helped me greatly. Even you guys here at DA/FA who silently favorite my posts make me feel great.

I know I still need to improve a little when it comes to posting, and I feel like I focused more on Patreon posts these last few months, but I'm still trying to find my groove with posting everywhere. So far I've been happy with my pacing at Patreon, so now I will see if I can do a bit more here.

Alright, its 2020, and I'm going to make a resolution this year (something I don't think I've ever really done). It is to put a lot more effort into Patreon. It'll probably be rough at first, and there's no telling how much time I'll have between work and school, but I realize I need to make it more worthwhile to those who are donating to me. I've implemented a number of changes, and so far I'm pretty happy with them.

For starters, I've edited the tiers. There's a 1, 5, and a 10 tier with rewards that I feel I can accomplish. Its simple for the moment, but if I can pick up some pace, I might be able to do vore packs more often and make the $5 and $10 tiers more worth while.

Next, I'll start doing monthly polls. Basically, each month I'll run 3 polls. They will be used to pick the theme of a monthly Patreon only render. The polls will have choices on preds, prey, locations, or anything else I need to decide on. Those at the $10 tier will get 3 polls. $5 will get 2, and $1 will get 1.

I'll also be uploading a non-vore mini pack each month (or attempt to each month). I often will setup a small, non vore scene as a way to keep my inspiration or drive going. I usually render a handful of images, but never post them anywhere. This time, I'll start uploading them at the end of the month in a single patreon post.

I'm gonna try hard to keep up with this. It may be difficult with my schedule, hence why I'm only doing one voted image per month. That may change as I either become comfortable with the work loads or find extra time.

If you'd like, come check me out there: https://www.patreon.com/PWRof3D

I hate it when my posting is sporadic, but I'm back in school again and going for a second degree. Its all online at the moment, which makes things cheaper, but it is eating away at all of my free time. I rarely get to play games anymore. Makes me sad.

Posting has also been delayed. I have a stack of renders to post, but I haven't had the time to go through them. I have been trying to work on a new vore pack, though I've only been planning through the predator. Previews are available at Patreon.

As I work through this and try to find a groove between work, homework, art, and play, how about a quick 'poll' of sorts: of all the renders I have posted, what is your favorite one?

To everyone who bought a vore pack off Gumroad in the last few months, thank you so much for doing so! I was incredibly surprised on how well it was received and how many of you picked up a pack. I was very iffy to try Gumroad, but I am now very happy I did!

Thanks again!

And if you haven't checked it out already, try it out and see what's there: https://gumroad.com/pwrof3d

You can also gain access to vore packs by being a Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/PWRof3D
All current packs are accessible at every Patreon tier, though future releases will only be available to the $5 and up.

https://gumroad.com/pwrof3d

Now you can buy the packs directly from there! No need to wait for me and my invoices :)

Some of my oldest packs are now at reduced prices too. Check it out and tell me what you think!

First off, thank you everyone who was interested in a commission! I didn't expect many takers, but I got a full plate! If you haven't looked already, I will be keeping track of the commissions on Trello here: https://trello.com/b/91NiiIG4/art

My progress on these will be a bit slow. At the same time, I got a job at Best Buy. Its a part time thing, so I will have free time, but still: with the job, plus games I simply must play (R6 and Battlefield V, I'm looking at you), I'll be a bit slow.

This is just a basic heads up. Thanks again for the commissions :D

I'm opening for some commissions. My car needs some serious work. Its to the point I feel I shouldn't drive it.


Inktober special: $25

A black and white or colored sketchy render. Can be voracious or not, and can have multiple characters. No background.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25061723/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25008708/


3D render: $40

A normal render at 1920 x 1080 resolution. Can have several characters and a background. No OC's here.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28273123/


3D HD render: $50

A normal render at 3480 x 2160 resolution.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28849869/


3D render with an OC: $75

A render with an OC. Please note that not all OC's are possible for me, but I'll make an attempt at getting close. 4K resolution.



Image Series: Base price + $40 per image

An image series of any render option above. Each image after the first is an additional $40.



Looped animation: $120

A 5-ish second gif/mp4 animation that loops. Sadly I cannot make the file size small enough to be icons for DA or FA. 1280 x 720 resolution.




How commissions work:

Send me a note with your idea. After we talk over the idea, I'll work on and send you previews. Once you're happy with the preview, I'll send an invoice to you through paypal. Once paid, I'll send you the final, complete render. Payment for a series will happen after the first image is done. I can also do partial payments or delayed ones, so if you need time to pay, that is a-o-kay.

I wont have limited slots unless I get a bunch of requests. Slots will be tracked here: https://trello.com/b/91NiiIG4/art

I got my page re-opened. There was a weird communication error in which their support emails were not reaching my inbox. I checked spam and my filtered inboxes, but nothing came through. I opened another ticket and got a response right away.

I was flagged due to nudity. Any nudity, including implied, needs to be marked 'Patreons Only' instead of public. I didn't realize that implied was part of that, so I simply had to change a few images' status to Patreons only. Its all sorted out now.

I'll try to make up for the lack of posts this week. I have a few unposted ones that I held onto while going through the process.

Just an FYI, my patreon page was suspended. I'm currently working on fixing it, but until then I think all the content on the page is hidden to others.

Recently I have been thinking of a better way to sell my vore packs along with some non-vore content. So far, I have been able to do it myself through notes or email, but its a lot of work on my end and there's a delay in you getting your content. I have heard of other artists with this same issue, and they went to Gumroad. It seems easy enough, and I really like the idea, but I had a few concerns (and I wanted to address any that you might have).

First off, is Gumroad the best site for me?
What worried me the most was their upload policy. They don't want "sexually oriented or pornographic content", which I believe a few of my packs fall under, especially the most recent Willing packs. I have seen NSFW content on Gumroad from other artists, but I don't want to break the rules myself with the excuse of "well they did it!" It doesn't work that way. So is there another place similar to Gumroad that would be better?

Do you like Gumroad?
As either a content seller or buyer, do you like the site? It seems pretty straight forward to me, and I don't mind their fees (Patreon has them too). Do you find it easy to use and buy/sell from?



As for your concerns:

If you are a Patreon, you'll still get all the packs and stuff. There wont be 'Gumroad exclusives' and 'Patreon exclusives'. If you are a Patreon, you'll get your content at Patreon. If you're not a Patreon, then you can go to Gumroad to buy the content. The idea is Gumroad acts as a site for me to post things to sell without needing to manually send you an invoice through Paypal.

Prices will be the same. I wont add anything to the price to cover the fees.



Do you have any questions or suggestions?

Lots of stuff to talk about: 

New Computer
Patreon
Octane Renderer
Next Vore Pack
Other Big Ideas



New Computer: 
I am finally able to get a new computer! I'm super excited, and I'll be getting all the pieces over the next week. I've ordered a beast of a machine with the hopes of furthering my art and gaming potential. Once I get it and have it all together, I'll post a picture of it and its specs. 

With the new computer I'll be able to make more high quality renders at a more stable pace. Right now, I still only have a laptop which I need to use for school. When I wanted to make a nice render, I had to wait for a day/night when I wasn't doing anything major. Considering I have only had 2 of those days over the past month, the opportunity to make quality renders was slim. Now I'll have 2 computers, so I can work on homework on one and render on the other. That'll help me out considerably. 



Patreon: 
Once again I am revisiting my patreon page to try and make it better.

I know that my patreon page is a little lack luster. My rewards aren't that great, and I don't post a lot of content there. This is because I don't have sketches or massive PSD files that I can share for others to see. I don't make a lot of extra stuff when I create a scene. To try and make up for this, I began to explain tips with each post that should help new and veteran artists with their own 3D scenes. Still, I feel like I need more to it.

I have thought about early access recently and wondered if that would help my page. Right now all my images are pay to view, so you have to be a patreon to see anything. I thought the exclusive part would be a good thing. 

Now I wonder if early access was the better way to go, as it would bring more eyes to my patreon page. I could also try both, where one image is early access and the other is an exclusive, but that's a lot of work to accomplish, especially on my tight schedule.

What do you think? Patreon exclusives, early access, or some sort of mixture of both? What sort of rewards would you like to see? Those on Patreon will always have access to any vore packs, no matter what amount donated.

Are there any other rewards you can think of? 



Octane Renderer: 
With the new computer, I can now run Octane to get some incredibly realistic renders. There are a few options, like VRay, Indego Renderer, and LuxRenderer, but I chose Octane for its speed and compatibility. For the next few months all Patreon donations will go toward Octane. So if you want to see some incredible renders, please consider donating :meow:



Next Vore Pack:
I have several ideas floating around for a vore pack. Here is what I have:

Dravec and Vavira enjoying two humans together
Yalli finding an attractive male to bring home for fun and dinner
A convoy with a VIP is attacked by a monster
Something with Harvock and CV (1 to 2 preys)

Which would you like to see the most? I do not have a set image length for any of them, and I believe most would have some sort of mature aspect to it (nudity most likely). I would probably start on it once my current commission list is finished and my summer class is over.



Other Big Ideas:
Since I'm going into game design I figure the next best step is to make a vore game. It would be a lot of fun, and I have a some knowledge on Unity now that I have been through some classes. The only thing holding me up is scope. I want to make a super cool game, but if it gets too big, it will never be finished. I also need help with a few things, like creature models and animations, sounds, and coding. I can do the environment easy, but I'm no creature modeler. I'm okay with coding simple objects, but AI is just crazy.

My ideas were:
1: A simple arena style game in a small, randomly arranged map of buildings within the confines of a large castle wall. The walls have not helped the city this time, as a predator (dragon or rex), is inside the walls with all the people. You need to find your way out of the city's main gates to escape before being nabbed and nommed. It would be a game of running and hiding to escape being caught. Overall its simple, but the predator AI is holding me back on this one. It would need to be very complicated to feel realistic.

2: a turn based, 3D, survival RPG game. I know its a weird combo, but I think it can work out. You are on a 3D 'board' with controls similar to the text adventure games. There would be areas where predators reside at all times, while random encounters would pop up on occasion. You can interact with other characters in the game, including predators. While it sounds big, Unity would make this simple. The problem here would again be AI as well as creatures. I figure the large modeling community on both DA and FA could help me get models, and I would be very open to artists adding models, including original characters, to the game. This game is considerably bigger than the first option though, but if I had the support it could still be possible.

I want a game to be the next step. Currently I cannot start on one because of my college schedule, but I want it to happen in the future. If anyone has an interest in helping me with this, comment or note me.

Everything has been...slow.

I was supposed to have a new computer about a month or two ago, but through a series of unfortunate setbacks, the money still hasn't come. To make a long and complicated story short: my family sold some property, and I was going to get some money for a new desktop computer. However, there has been nothing but red tape in the way in getting to closing. Everything should have been done in April....its still not done.

And that single thing has slowed down everything. I'm in a single summer class: a collaborative game development class where we are tasked with making a full working game from start to finish. I'm the main artist in charge of all the modeling. Its super fun, though very time consuming. I haven't had a lot of time for art because of it.

My plan was I could pose scenes on my new desktop while doing homework on my laptop. Or at least rendering images at night as I slept. I have a ton of ideas and things I want to do, but I'm a bit bottlenecked at the moment. I'm starting to wonder about the health of my laptop. I am noticing a lot of screen tearing in games, Unity has crashed often, and War Thunder keeps telling me my graphics card is outdated (its not). I don't like giving it long renders anymore. I cant lose this laptop, not right now.

On top of it I have had a few commissions. Out of the 4 that I took on, I have managed to complete only 2 this summer. I don't like it. I'm not working as efficiently as I had hoped and its bugging me. I have felt very unprofessional with them lately. I think what I will do is close up commissions and simply not take them anymore. At least not until I feel confident with them again. I don't know when that will be.

I plan on finishing these last two commissions, but I may need to wait until I can get the new computer. It will make rendering much easier.


So, in general, I wont be taking new commissions for a while. If you can though, supporting me at Patreon is the next best thing. I did manage to render this months image, and I will be posting it there sometime next week.


Once everything goes through though, I'll probably post a journal about the computer specs I'm looking at. It'll be insane, I guarantee it.

I have been having a lot of problems with Daz Studio lately, from rendering issues to recently a lot of lag in the program. I wonder if part of it is a computer issue, as I have one game that is constantly telling me to 'upgrade my graphics card driver' even though it is already at the most recent version. Posing scenes lately has been a pain, and as of last night I couldn't render a scene because some SSS materials kept throwing errors.

I checked my graphics card driver, and I uninstalled/reinstalled Daz Studio, but there was no improvement.

I am now considering going to Poser. It is on sale at the moment (only for today though. I wish I saw that earlier), for $175. It has a number of tools that I would like, and it works with my large Daz content library already.

What do you guys think? For those who use poser, what can you tell me about it? Does it have particles? What are the render speeds like?

I was wanting to make a FAQ journal, but....I don't know what questions to include. So, for the fun of it, what questions do you have for me? Think of it as an 'ask me anything'. I'll try to answer any question you put in here, and I might use a few on a FAQ page.

Hey! Im doing the extra life stream again! Come watch me game here: https://www.twitch.tv/rakceyen

If you're feeling generous, donate to my team and the Helen Devos Children's hospital in Grand Rapids MI.
http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm.....ipantID=239163

Hopefully we wont blow a circuit breaker like last year. I'll be on and off all day as I go around and play other games. But while Im at the computer, I'll be gaming in WarThunder, maybe some Company of Heroes, maybe model some, who knows.

Also I hope my stream works okay. We'll have to see. Its a little laggy.

Okay, so my situation is pretty interesting. Nothing bad, just busy beyond belief. My days are pretty much set: I do this today, that tomorrow, and this over the weekend, and it wont change for the next few months.

On Wednesdays and Thursdays I have late night classes at college, and on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday I am working as an unpaid intern at a game company. Tuesdays are my only free days. I tend to do my homework at night every day, and I only get a little bit done each day. What sucks though is by the time my free Tuesday comes around, I'm burnt out and will waste the day away. I don't do homework on Tuesday, its basically 'my day'. What makes this worse is I have an hour long drive to get to school. This means I'm driving for 2 hours a day, 6 days a week. I'm not kidding when I say my car is falling apart under my feet.

What does this mean for art? Well, what I have managed to do is set up several simple scenes and images, and I have been working on them in my free time. If I'm typing a paper, I have an image rendering in the background. What you might see from me are long periods of nothing, and then a burst of art. By the way, prepare for a burst: I have 4 images ready to upload.

What about commissions? I cant do them right now. I have one that I'm currently on that is real simple, so I am confident I can get it done. I still hope to do patreon uploads, but that may be every other month.


If you'd like to help me out, patreon is one way to do it. I'm not earning any money right now, and I have been relying on what little I made from working in the summer as well as the earnings from the Harvock pack (which sold very well, thank you for that :D). I have thought about a paypal donate button, but I haven't set it up.

And of course you can support me through comments and favorites. I have not erased my mailboxes for a while now just cause all the comments and favorites make me feel good. I just let them accumulate at DA for the last 3 months for that very reason. XD


So the situation isn't bad, I just wish it was better. I'm still making art, but it will mostly be personal art. Eventually you may see me shamelessly promoting the game I'm working on. Eventually you may be able to watch me do live streams as I make models for that game.

In the meantime, tell me what sorts of predators or prey you'd like to see! I'm curious and may look here for inspiration.

Sorry for not posting this yesterday, but I was successful at upgrading my RAM. It almost didn't work though.

The first time I took the computer apart, I literally pulled out everything except for the optical drive. The hard drive, the SSD, the heatsink, the fan, the battery, and the motherboard all came out just to swap out one of the RAM cards. Put it all together using my new 8GB stick in slot 1 and 4GB in slot 2. Put it together and the computer starts to beep.

I pulled it completely apart again and reseated the 8GB and the 4GB. Put it together and it beeped again.

Now I'm getting worried, but before I took the entire thing apart again, I simply swapped the 4GB out for the 2GB. Turned it on and it worked...

So for about an hour I had 10GB of RAM. Worked fine and all that. Talked to my instructor from college and he explained some stuff to me, so I tried the 4 and 8 cards again as we were talking and it worked for some reason that time, no beeps.

So I had to take it apart fully twice, and open it up 4 times total. It wasn't too bad, just daunting. I was so concerned I would miss a cable.

Tomorrow I'm going to try to take apart my laptop to upgrade my RAM. I have 6GB in there now, and I hope to have 12 by the end of tomorrow. I've watched a few videos now to get myself acquainted with the process, though I'm still nervous because I practically need to take apart half of my computer to get at my RAM.

I'm lucky enough to have 2 RAM slots (2GB and 4GB), but one of the slots is located underneath the motherboard. So I gotta pull it out completely to access it. Since I have never done this before, the how-to videos I have seen have felt daunting. I'm getting a grasp at what to do and what I have to remove, my biggest worry are all the cables I gotta pull off that motherboard.

If you are interested to see what I'm up against:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0l4-kQcILs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFeaF_UXshc

I'm hoping I don't need to literally gut the thing and then try to put it back together. My goal is the motherboard, get it out, swap some RAM cards, put it back.

*Crosses fingers.......and toes...*

I am nearing completion on my next vore pack, which features Harvock ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18499736/ ). I have a few more panels to render, and then I gotta go through and touch them up in photoshop. Once complete, it will be my largest vore pack so far.

The pack will have 2 options: clean and nude. You can get the clean version, which has no nudity, for $5. Or you can get both for $10. The nude version has a few panels that are simply re-rendered without clothes, but it also has a few added panels that show the prey being stripped. Currently, there are over 20 unique pictures, and I'm not done yet.

For those who donate on Patreon, you will get both versions.


As always, I have a few ways you'll be able to pay:

1: Donate to me on Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/PWRof3D ). Please sign up for a donation now so you are guaranteed to get the pack when it comes out.
2: Through Paypal. Send me a note and I will get you an invoice. Once I have received the money I will share a link with you so you can download the pack(s).
3: With DA points. On DeviantART, there will be a button on the side of the deviation where you can pay with your DA points and get access to the content right away.



My plan is to have it out by the first week in June now. At least that's the goal. I'm going to be rendering then editing like crazy to get it done. But I am very happy with it, and I hope you will be too :3

Actually, its just normal news.. I just had to use the Futurama reference there.

Normal News Everyone!

I am aaaaaaaalmost done with school for the summer. Almost. So I will be dead for the next two weeks still. I have a few projects to complete, one will be a Patreon thing, so please help me out there! My goal is to post a new vore pack in May. A good one this time ;3

And... I think that's it for right now. Back to homework.

I know I have been rather quiet recently. I have not posted much, in fact I haven't rendered much. But I am still okay. I have been busy with school and projects for school, so I have not been able to create much for any of my online art accounts. I couldn't even get to a Patreon upload last month.

I'm afraid its going to be like that for a little while. I am more than half way through my semester, and its only going to get busier. So I will continue my silence, but I still check up on my pages often.

I am currently working on a new vore pack in what little free time I have. Ill post a teaser on Patreon when I get further along. I have the theme, but not a specified number of pictures or any projected release date/price.

I have not forgotten any of my commissions or rewards for my patreons, I have simply been too busy to work on them like I should. As my work load lightens up I can be more active.

Anyone know how to fix a sticky Xbox One trigger? My right trigger has a tendency to stick when I push it. Its gotten worse as I have used it. Before I didn't really notice, but now its almost every 3rd press that it gets stuck.

I took off the panel on the back of the right handle, though I didn't see as much as I'd like. It feels like the trigger is rubbing on something deeper inside the controller. I saw somewhere that nail polish remover might do the trick, but I'm worried that wont fix it. Its rubbing quite a lot.

Anyone have any ideas? If not, anyone want to get me that elite controller for Christmas?....wink wink....

...wink....

......wink?


Anyway, its my last week of school until break. I hope to do some art, especially finish up commissions (The YCH story with Vavira and the 3 Friends series I will finish). Then its back to school in January. I expect next semester to be extreeeeeeeeemely difficult. So I may vanish for a time.

Got my Patreon settled out, now I can start posting NSFW images.

I also cleaned up my rewards. Ill be giving vore packs (when I make one) to my Patreons for free. Ill also give away free commissions to my bigger supporters, such as those who have stayed a while. There are several who already qualify for a free commission, so when things calm down for me, Ill try to get in contact with them.

Ill have an image up within the next few days. I tend to post stuff at the end of the month.

Check me out and help me out here: https://www.patreon.com/PWRof3D

I'm going to be going through and making a number of major changes to my Patreon page.


1: I will be removing Patreons who's cards were declined. All of my $25 and $15 donors for last month had declined payments. Currently, my main page says I'm getting well over $150. In actuality, I received $48. I will be removing those with declined payments. If you want to come back, please do, just please make sure your card works. I will be doing this each month from now on.


2: A lot of my rewards simply do not show up. I have free commissions set up for my $25 level, but I haven't done one, I only did one raffle, and my vore packs are not made monthly. I will be removing a lot of the rewards from my tiers and instead be sending out rewards to my longest running donors. Those who have been with me the longest will now receive free commissions. What does this mean for the rewards that I currently have, such as vore packs? From now on, it will not matter how much you donate, everyone on Patreon will get to see the packs. I may still do raffle tickets, but now it would be $1 = 1 ticket.


3: I will start posting NSFW images. I would like some suggestions for this though: would you like to see the normal version on DA or FA and the NSFW one on Patreon? So two versions of one image? Or would you like unique pictures that do not have a clean version elsewhere? By posting NSFW images, you cannot use Paypal as a payment method when donating. Paypal is against NSFW content. This means you will have to use a credit card or some other type of payment method (I believe Patreon has several methods that it accepts).


All these changes will hopefully take place this month. My next paid post will be after I have done these changes....and after I find a break from school work...



My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PWRof3D

http://www.twitch.tv/rakceyen

I'm going to try to stream around 12 or 1 pm EST...if I can wake up that is...

I may do modeling, but it'll be mostly games. Specifically Company of Heroes.

More info: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7155890/