Hey guys. I’m The Dude, and I’m a graphic designer/release post writer for Affect3D. I’ve designed promo sets for many of the other artists available on the shop today, and now I’m getting in on the action myself. This series follows my progress as I develop my skills in an attempt to one day be counted amongst the heavy-hitters of this industry. I’m starting from humble beginnings and little-to-no experience, to hopefully one day achieve excellence. I’m now four months into my journey, and am accepting a new reality: I’m in the porn business.
Things are taking shape
You might’ve noticed that there’s more than a month between this article and the previous one, but that’s because it’s been a very, very busy couple of weeks for me. For starters, I’m pulling in followers like crazy. Those five hundred I spoke about last time? Yeah. I’ve shattered that number. I’m now closing in on four thousand. I guess I’m doing something right! Moreover, I’m very far into my debut release. Forty-two renders and counting, I’m thinking of getting it out there once it hits sixty. So that should be fun.
All this, of course, couldn’t have been achieved without me putting in the effort. I’m well into a four-digit investment now, so it’s going to take a while for me to recoup my costs. But that’s alright. I’ve been thinking about opening a Patreon, but I have a feeling my sets will sell well and I’m of a mind with other 3DX artists who aren’t so sure about relying on crowdfunding when they’re already pulling in a good income from regular sales. So I’ll make that decision further down the line.
More than the money, however, it’s been the hours I put in that truly made the difference. After all, more than 90% of the content I’ve bought will not be put to use in my first render set, so the quality of what I’m making has a lot more to do with tweaking sliders and gaining a better understanding of the core mechanics of 3D work. I’m starting to get an intuitive feel for DAZ Studio, which is really giving me the mental room I need to expand into additional software. Unfortunately, I haven’t yet made my own cock prop for futa work, as my debut set’s renders have taken up a lot of my time and system memory.
I’ll get it done, sooner or later. I’m so well into this now that I can’t imagine not doing it.
Word gets out
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The following three images, as well as the header, are debut set previews. There’s worse things you spend your day making, I think ;)
Of course, all these hours behind my computer have resulted in fewer hours in the company of my friends. I have a pretty steady social circle, all good guys, and it wasn’t long before they began to wonder just what it was that I was doing behind the computer all day. “Porn,” I told them. They laughed, but then they realised that I was being serious. “Porn, how?” they asked. Surely I didn’t mean that I spent all day wanking, did I?
I’m a pretty open guy. Like Tyrion Lannister says in Game of Thrones: own who you are, wear it as a shield, and it can never be used against you. It’s a life philosophy I’ve always adopted. Not that I have a particularly great amount of weaknesses that I have to compensate for, but I do believe that feeling embarassment about things is more up to the person being mocked than the person doing the mocking. I wear my heart on my sleeve and everyone knows that I stand for what I believe in. So too with this. “It’s a growing industry and I’ve always had the ambition of making really good porn,” I told them. “So one plus one equals two.”
My no-bullshit approach must caught them off-guard, because they were actually rather silent for a while. It took a good couple of minutes for the first questions to start rolling in, like what kind of porn I was making and how on earth I’d ever gotten into this business in the first place. I told them that the brand in question was 3DX, and though brief grins appeared at the idea of “pixel porn”, they were dispelled quickly when I told them of how far this industry has come and where I think this industry has the potential to go. An unconventional career choice? No doubt. But a smart one.
So now I’m the porn guy
Funny how quickly that goes. I haven’t earned a penny with my own products yet, but I’m “in porn,” if my friends are to be believed. Well, I guess they’re not wrong. I mean, I’m hardly directing
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There’s nothing like big tits popping out of a tight pink dress to brighten your day.
scenes in the San Fernando valley, but truth be told I’m not sure I’d want to. 3DX is where it’s at. We can make human fantasies come to live and add a whole new element to human sexuality. Funnily enough, that enthusiasm has by now translated fully to the male segment of my social circle. The female segment, not as much.
It’s not the girls who know me that judge. My best female friend is a sexworker, so you can imagine her being rather open-minded about the whole thing. She’s actually for a very large part responsible for making me realise that people in the porn/sex industry aren’t creepy, shady pervs as mainstream depictions would have you believe. Alright, maybe in the aforementioned San Fernando valley things are a bit different, but I find that both sexworkers and people in the 3DX industry are just your average, everyday people looking to make a living. Nobody can be faulted for that.
No, the judgement comes from the girlfriends. About half my friends are currently in steady relationships, and none of these girls seem to be as appreciative of what I’m doing. They either think it’s just “not done” or believe it’s outright wrong, and one of them even went so far as expressing that she wasn’t too pleased with me asking her boyfriend to judge some of my renders. To her, porn is akin to cheating, so I was effectively helping him cheat on her.
It’s nonsense, of course
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A content Kayla stares out the window, and at a big pillar. Maybe she’s reminded of something. Maybe I should’ve just positioned her better.
I don’t really know what causes this morality shift among women compared to men. Maybe I’m just particularly unlucky with all my mates having prudish girlfriends. Is this indicative of a trend at all? Well, it still remains true today that the majority of all porn consumers are male, and though a large part of this is attributable to men being more visually stimulated, I do wonder how many women would like to look at porn but don’t because of some internal barrier they’ve thrown up.
I’m not a gender psychologist, so it really isn’t my place to say why this might be, and certainly no one should quote me in a discussion. But that doesn’t stop me from venturing a guess, so I’m going to go ahead and propose that women are traditionally raised to be more chaste than men, this coming from a strong religious culture like the one we used to have not a hundred years ago. And even though we live in an age of sexual liberation, it’s hard to eliminate this subconscious undercurrent from female thinking. Most girls, no matter how independent and self-assertive, will have spent their childhood being afraid of expressing their sexuality. The stigma of being called a slut, the fiction around the sanctity of your body, the virtues of being selective.
Now I’m not saying that women should sleep around and spread their legs for all the world, though if you want to I see no harm in that. My point is more that people should be exactly as sexual as they want to be, because if men get that right, then women should allow themselves to be the same. It’s not equality otherwise. So I don’t really blame my friends’ girlfriends for where they stand on earning money with porn, because I’m sure they’ll change their mind as time goes by. It’s a gut reaction, I think. A twitch response, an impulse, that will eventually lose to reason.
For me, I’ve always had a strong philosophy about what making a living should look like, and it’s all the more entertaining to me that this business is what fits that model most. The idea of a 9-5 abhors me, because unless you’ve found a job that somehow caters exactly to your interests in life, for most people jobs are simply giving away years of your own life to take care of someone else’s problems, and earning just enough money to do something entertaining in the limited free time you have left.
I’ve always refused to do that, and with 3DX looking increasingly more like a viable venture, it’s starting to look like I won’t have to. My friends, some of whom having steadily-paying desk jobs that they confess are boring them to absolute tears, are in total agreement with me on that.
So with that in mind, I’ll continue to work on my debut set. I’m going to start looking into animation too, because thanks to my shiny new GPU I’ve been able to condense render times by a huge margin. If I limit myself to just characters on a floor with some furniture in a skydome environment, I can put out an HD frame in two to three minutes, five to ten if I start adding some more scenery. So if I want to do 2-3 second animation loops at say 30 FPS, that’s totally doable.
Anyhow, that’s the long and short of it. Check out my Tumblr in the meanwhile, at thedude3dx.tumblr.com. I’ll see you guys next month, with more glorious tits and dicks to show for it.
I love magic! It’s something that can be very interesting, unpredictable and even dangerous.
