I wanted to deactivate it at the end of January, but encountered a technical issue with my gallery plugin here that I finally managed to fix today. All of my non-fetish 3D art and portraits are now here on my personal site, under the 3D Art menu.

I found a sexy pair of slingbacks on the web, tweaked them with lace-up spaghetti-thin straps, and took them for a spin with my latest piece.

Enjoy When the Night Turns Cold!

I was watching a stand-up comic on YT last night when I got the idea for this piece.

The darndest thing happened last night while I was crafting this comic. As I was preparing to write the prompt for one of the images, I had just typed the word, “using” for the reference image when my wife asked me to help her with something. Apparently, one of our two cats decided to trapse across my desk while I was afk, and stepped on the ENTER key. When I came back, I discovered Nano Banana Pro had rendered a behind-the-scenes shot of my project, complete with cast and crew going over the scene. It was the coolest AI-related accident I’ve seen yet, and sparked one helluva an idea, so I ran with it and refined it. It’s the last image in the series.

Enjoy Trophy Wife!

Now that I can control physique and breast size with Nano Banana Pro, I decided to have a bit of fun with a new non-fetish piece, and had Nano render it as a candid photo taken with an iPhone. She’s the kind of woman I’ve long fantasized about seeing in a grocery store. She’s also wearing a pair of my sandals.

Enjoy American Woman.

Given how expensive Nano Banana Pro is, I’m starting another cost-saving practice by limiting the number of images I render per comic to no more than 5. If I can render an idea with just one image, so much the better, but unless the price per render drops, my multi-page comics will be just 5 images long.

That said, enjoy my new comic: The Silent Pool.

It took all of January, cost me over $300 in compute units – on top of my 60,000-unit monthly allotment – and over 1,000 test renders on Krea, but I finally did it, and part of the process involved having to learn how to think like a cinematographer instead of a fetishist.

I also now have full control over my protagonists’ physique, breast size, and foot structure.

That said, here are a couple of test renders:

I spent all evening and a good chuck of this morning with ChatGPT to learn about Nano Banana Pro’s limits with regard to the type of content I’m trying to create with it.

For context, my work centers around R-rated comics for adults across various genres with an emphasis on crime dramas, suspense thrillers, and modern horror with frequent nods to 80s slashers. Consistency is critical, and NB Pro is the first AI model I’ve worked with that delivers. Now, thanks to ChatGPT, I finally understand why my more extreme render attempts have been failing regardless of the platforms I’ve tried, including krea, gemini, and now venice.

In a nutshell, NB Pro doesn’t like human-on-human interaction when violence is explicit and death is the only logical outcome. I can imply it, I just can’t show it it. Amusingly, it doesn’t mind abduction scenarios, or people being subdued. That’s why I’ve been able to render bondage, neck grabs + hand gags, and chloroforming themes so easily – no one’s being killed. 😛

Unfortunately, it also means I can’t do throatlifts with Michael Myers or my own serial killers anymore because NB Pro automatically predicts that neck grabs + lifting = death, and will either reject related prompts, or re-write the pose to have Michael gripping my protagonist’s wrists instead of their necks.

On the other hand, it’ll render supernatural elements like ghostly hands all the live long day because phenomenological (supernatural) violence is part of its safe zone, whereas mechanical violence (human-on-human) is not. On a practical upside, that means I can create an AI version of my Sith Lord, Darth Gar’rote, and continue sharing his exploits. I’ve also been able to render bondage + sealed plastic bagging scenes when there’s no antagonist in the frame because there’s no mechanical connection between people for NB Pro to see and reject.

I hope Google one day creates a version of NB Pro for adults. I’m all for protecting kids, but there has to be a way for adults to have unfettered access to explore their own ideas and create mature content. I don’t even have kids. My wife and I are child-free by choice – I even got ‘fixed’ at 25 to prevent any accidents – and yet they’re the reason artists like me can’t express most of our ideas. Meanwhile, at the very least, I finally know where NB Pro’s boundaries are, why they exist, and have a solid foundation I can work with going forward.

I’ve been a foot fetishist all my life. My earliest memories of when I found myself starting to admire women’s feet and shoes date back to when I was in the Cub Scouts. Our Den Mother frequently wore open-toed stiletto heels, and I covertly glanced down at them whenever opportunities presented themselves.

As a 3D artist for the last 20 years, I’ve been at the mercy of content creators to make and sell women’s footwear. Unfortunately, I have a very narrow, highly developed fashion sense with regard to shoe design. Consequently, my collection of 3D-modeled high-heels numbers less than ten pair, only three of which I used even semi-regularly. Last month, a Daz3D Published Artist released a new pair of Knotted Strap Sandals for Genesis 9. I was cautiously looking forward to making them my fourth pair, but, to my great disappointment, they don’t work with certain character morphs, and fail to retain their shape at the footbed when feet are bent more than a standing pose or twisted from side to side.

Thanks to my new ChatGPT / Nano Banana Pro workflow, I recently discovered that I can design and generate my own shoes, and use them in my projects. I can also take screenshots of real-world heels, and tweak them with AI to create my own looks. What’s more, I can use the same process to create my own characters. The results look fucking amazing, and immediately became the final nail in the coffin on my 3D art hobby.

This first pair was taken from a test image I created while learning how to better describe slender, high-arched feet to NB Pro. Incidentally, I’ve learned more about foot anatomy than I ever imaged I would need to, but the results speak for themselves about the effectiveness of using highly specific descriptors and proper terms.

The first pair of heels came from testing foot descriptions. The woman’s face was taken from a screenshot I took of my last AI video and turned into a headshot.

Screenshot

Headshot

Foot Test

Reference Image

I liked the shoes NB Pro generated so much that I turned them into a refence image.

This next pair came from another foot test. I had also just learned how to describe women with a runway model physique.

Test Image

Reference Image

I have a collection of foot and shoe pics I’ve amassed over the years. These were taken from one of them. I isolated the model’s feet and generated this reference image from her shoes:

I’ve used this next pair in recent projects. The original product image is part of my shoe collection. As much as I love the design, I’ve always wanted to replace the top strap with straps that lace around the ankle. So, I used AI to tweak the design and turn my version into a reference image.

Original Product Photo

Reference Image with Tweaked Design

The extra strap over the toe was NB’s doing. I like it, so I went with it…

… and used them for a test image for a cinematic crime drama. The woman’s face and hair were taken from another AI video I did.

I took these from another recently published project:

Finally, these are my first all original design. They don’t exist anywhere. I love D’orsay style heels – closed heels with a single buckled strap – but I’ve often wished the heel counters reached higher up on the ankles. They tend to come up just to ankle-height, but seldom above the ankles, and I’ve never seen a pair with lace-up straps. So, I used ChatGPT and NB Pro to create my own:

I now have six pairs of high-heel stiletto sandals that I can use in any project, and no longer have to wait for content creators to release a new pair of heels that I like.

Back when the net was still in its infancy, my wife and I used to watch the glamour makeover segments on shows like GMA. As a foot fetishist, I was mainly interested in the shoe selections for the reveals. Most of the makeovers included sensible, morning TV-safe clothing that never revealed much, and the footwear selections always left much to be desired. Now that I can finally maintain consistency across images with AI, I decided to share my idea of the kind of reveal I wanted to see.

Enjoy Glamour Makeover!