The Rumors of my Demise…

Cara Ravens - Towel OutfitOkay, guys and gals. Gear up because this is going to be a long one…

First off, thanks to whomever it was that started the rumors that I was either dead or in jail. I’m quite certain that I’m alive and well, and I was not in prison. The only reason I can think of that the latter of those rumors was formulated would be because of a profile picture change I made on my personal Facebook page, which depicted me in a “prison” (it was actually just a brewery with a faux jail cell that had a lounge and foosball table inside of it). Can I just say that Facebook-stalking is creepy as all fuck? Feel free to check out the Epoch Art Facebook page if you’d like, but stay off of my personal Facebook page, you weirdos.

Okay, so you’re probably wondering just what in the fuck has been happening since it’s been over a month (a month!!) since I posted last. I know, I know… I’m a jerk. But the reason was at Continue reading “The Rumors of my Demise…”

Legacy of the Batutut Expansion Coming Next Week

Dossier 007: Legacy of the Batutut Expansion - Coming SoonHey everyone, just wanted to drop you a quick update now that SDCC is over and my friends have all left town. Dossier 006: Legacy of the Batutut will be getting an expansion of several images to further improve on the narrative flow of the original. It will be FREE to everyone who purchased Dossier 006: Legacy of the Batutut; all you will need to do is to redownload the product from your ‘My Account’ page. This small expansion will be coming some time next week.

I wasn’t completely satisfied with the set, and Xipomus heard me bitch about it endlessly. It wasn’t for lack of trying. Several people left comments about how they thought the set felt ‘rushed’ or ‘truncated’, which isn’t entirely true. I worked as hard on this set as I do on any of my sets, but a series of firsts made this particular set very hard to produce. First, there was the use of FOUR characters, which is just a lot of polygons to have in the scene. This slows down scene setup and posing pretty drastically. Continue reading “Legacy of the Batutut Expansion Coming Next Week”

Legacy of the Batutut – Now Available!

It’s about to get really hot in here now that Dossier 007: Legacy of the Batutut is available in the Epoch Art store! Do yourself a favor and go snag a copy for only $9.99 USD! Also, BE SURE YOU HAVE THE DCV VERSION 3.0 OR YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VIEW THIS PRODUCT! You can download it here: DCV Version 3.0 Download

In this dossier, Clara is taking on not one… not two… but three savage ape-like hominids known as the Batutut. Clara travels to the jungles of Vietnam using her deceased father’s research notes and discovers a portal to the past. Once there, she is transformed and forced to procreate with the Batutut, but soon finds herself loving every minute of it!

And, as always, if you pick up a copy please consider leaving a review and/or a rating on the product page to help other potential buyers. If you’d like to discuss anything in particular regarding this dossier, feel free to leave a comment in this thread and we can get a dialogue going.

Legacy of the Batutut – Coming Late June

Clara Ravens - Concept Art for Dossier 007: Legacy of the BatututHere’s the first of several promotional images I’ll post over the next couple days for Dossier 007: Legacy of the Batutut. I’ll be set building next week as well as finishing off the Batutut, who are the characters that Clara will be facing off against.

I know that I had promised that Xip and I would collect all the poll data and come up with several concepts for a second round of voting to come up with a winner for the next dossier concept, but I came up with a concept almost right away and wanted to see if it would be viable for a dossier. The experiment involved growing fur on a bunch of Planet of the Apes-type simian character meshes. After no less than four attempts at growing believable fur with Poser’s Hair Room, I managed to get something that I actually liked and looked believable. Also, with the help of my buddy Erogenesis, I learned how to export Daz3D’s Genesis meshes to native Poser .cr2 file-types, which Continue reading “Legacy of the Batutut – Coming Late June”