HDiddy

The sequence between these two is hilarious. Excellent dialogue.  Has me sitting here waiting for the next one to drop.

@aardyI know you are running a potato.  But would be really curious to see what you can do with Hook5 if you ever upgrade.

He ain't hittin that right

19 hours ago, orclover said:

Have you ever thought of making a visual novel game, and using these sorts of animations.  They are amazing, much better than those found in Renpy.  

I have thought about it, but I never saw the upside.  I don't introduce "Choice" into these stories so it is easier to just run them as a video.  RenPy is great if you want o introduce an aspect of choice into your stories, but kind of unnecessary for linear stories.  In addition animations like this tend to bloat the size of RenPy novels which is why you see a lot of low frame choppy animations with some RenPy content.

Perfect example is the game My New Life...choppy bad animations.

On 1/31/2024 at 7:10 PM, Texas Pete said:

HDiddy,

This is fun to watch.  I feel like we are contemporaries in the "filmmaking" world, each making similar discoveries about how to add audiovisual creativity and depth of character/story to add even more erotic charge to the sex scenes.  Well done sir!

So, I am glad you discovered ElevenLabs.  I have found they have the best range of voices available for different types of characters.  I have used a few other AI voice sources for more "ethnic" sounding characters, but I think Eleven has quite a lot of resources for most types of speakers.

Well, clearly the next thing to try with AI voices are conversations and dialogue (if you decide you want to add that part). One thing that drives me crazy is that animating speech is such a pain and the built in speech animation in the game is just not very convincing.  One tip I can pass along through trial and error: if you ask Eleven to re-generate the same block of speech, it will vary the tone and inflection from the prior attempt each time.  This can make a HUGE difference in helping the dialogue sound less robotic.  The differences between "1st pass" and "4th pass" on the same block of speech can be quite dramatic and sometimes completely surprising.  Just something to try out if you weren't already aware of the feature.

Forty minutes for one chapter.  Wow.  I think that would take me two years to complete. 

HAHA,

Yeah I discovered ElevenLabs when someone posted something about local AI enhanced TTS.  I actually started there but did not like the results and from there was led to 11 Labs.  For the most part I clone my own voices. Once I find a good sample I cut it up and load it into the engine as a cloned voiced while playing around with the sliders to get it where I like it.  I think I have like 12 of them right now.

Dialogue is still something that is a toss up for me. My videos are long, so keeping dialogue consistent but at the same time not robotic would be difficult.  This video had very minimal dialogue as it was covered mainly through the narration.

As for 11 Labs, I am well aware.  This is the reason why this project took about 45k in characters.  I was constantly regenerating to get the way I want it.  That said, I have also found how I write a narration is plays a big part in how 11 Labs handles it.  Using things like "..." for longer pauses or quotes for emphasis helps too. That is at least the small bit of fine tuning 11Labs give you with the text.  The sliders also help too if you are looking for things to be more expressive.

12 hours ago, Priest said:

I want my hands on the "walking upstairs" animation Sir  Do you also have 'straight' stairs version? Would be great.

Here ya go, Stairs Poses.7z Its a merge of 2 poses I got from 3X. It is not perfect but the angle I needed did what it needed to do. You may need to play around with it.

Here are all the stairs related poses a grabbed to see what will work.  I think there are some straight stairs poses for the loft.  Some are good some suck. But they are good starts.

Misc_Stairs.7z

1 hour ago, Sexvision said:

It did a lot to your movie. Smart to use a AI tool for narration. Was thinking you where using the tool shared here for text to speak .

AI seems a better sollution for that. Did you have to give sound samples for that also?

I am using Elevenlabs. So at first I was going to do the typical use it for speech.  I setup myself up on a paid account that I can add samples (I have a shit ton of samples) but it just did not come out consistent enough to my liking. It screamed AI and robotic, so I killed it and left it alone...then happened to stumble across BlushErotica as I was looking for some inspiration and it hit me.....Voice Overs!!! So that made my search easier as there are a lot of generated voices specifically for the purpose of narrating.  I always felt middle aged English lady accents are more naturally erotic so I went with that.

Elevenlabs has different plans for what you need.  I am using the 100,000 characters a month plan.  This project took about 45,000.

In the end your still writing erotica. So there is that part too.

4 hours ago, Sexvision said:

Man that would have been a shitload of work to make.

I love the flashback back to the loft. But then there are a lots of things to love in this one. Like the Noval way of telling the story is very well done and a joy to watch and lissen to.

Thanks for sharing. Loved it.

Thanks man I appreciate it. In my head I was like why do Visual Novels have to be done in RenPy only. It was a shit ton of writing, but I actually enjoyed it. I used an AI tool to narrate it and it came out better than I thought. It made me focus a lot more on transition poses compared to before.

Yeah I can see some folks using this well.  I don't really have a use case for it though.

Interesting.....

I did it on a model of mine.  AI Enhanced is on the left.

What tool?

HA...I am using this one if you post it.  Just letting you know now.  LOL

12 minutes ago, bagnomed said:

Episode 10 will kinda float your boat Unfortunately, based on my actual speed, that means about 12 months of waiting  

Don't sweat the speed man. You do it at your pace.  Those transitional poses are no freaking joke and can easily double the amount of time it makes to finish something.

3 hours ago, Solz said:

I like it, just not sure about the lethal part of the story? Or is that to come in future episodes?

Watch the earlier episodes.

8 hours ago, Exiled_Vizir said:

 Strange? I upload it a 2nd with MP4 extension, because the MKV one was not working. @HDiddy Is it still not playing? If so I can try to re-encode it, what is the best codex/format/bitrate for the site? Do the others vids I post yesterday not play also?

 Yeah that might be why.  Best Codec is either WebM or MP4 H.264.  The site does not support the more updated H.265 so don't waist your time there.

Weird not sure why it is not playing, but maybe you can upload a webm video.

On 12/13/2023 at 9:53 PM, Oz70NYC said:

You captured the essence of Zion & Willy PERFECTLY! Fun story, raunchy sex and good pacing. All and all, this was the best you've produced. Take a rest, cuz I know you spent a fuck-ton of time on this one.

Thanks man....much appreciated.  Shit is long and took forever, but this was a fun one to make.

Thats a nice Bootay

I like your aesthetic.  It has this realistic adult cartoon vibe.  Keep doing what your doing.

5 hours ago, NightShadow13 said:

Loved the episode, hope to see more of Polly in future episodes....

Thanks man. Polly is actually my slightly modified version of @Euphie's model "Polyxeni"

Thus, why I don't do tube dresses.  LOL

Added a thumbnail for you.

On 6/25/2023 at 3:54 PM, NightShadow13 said:

Another great episode! Sometimes I wonder how you can keep track of three separate series, lol.

LOL Thanks, I sometimes wonder myself. 

I mean.....

Nice job on the sound effects.  Great choice of animations.

I am digging the sweat pants and heels.  Been wanting to make a pair of pants like that for a while