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Originally Posted by Rei-Lin
I can't speak for all the normal outlets for Transformation, but I know that Missa as an example slowed down a lot on the subject for two main reasons: Cost, Little Returns. Transformation is the giant elephant in the room and is a difficult genre to do well enough that people will look at it and actually be in awe of what they're seeing. We're spoiled by the classics like American Werewolf and The Howling and we yearn to see those transformations remade with a female and done to almost the same standard.
And that's the problem for most of the artists like Missa or TMC. The cost to buy the props, make the props, find a make up artist and a willing model to go through the huge amount of time to get into the whole idea is very expensive and even if Missa was to get around those points, for as much as we on The Process always say they want these transformation videos, what they really mean is "We want these transformation videos...for free!." It's hard to make money on sales of clips if it only takes a few people actually buying it and spreading it around to porn sites, their friends, torrents, etc.
Ultimately it's a business, and making amazing transformation clips isn't cost effective since it's a shit ton of money, time and effort for mediocre returns. It sucks for sure, but that is the reality of it from the perspective of people that have done them. =(
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You are completely right, and I have said almost the same in other topics here, especially about Missa's case. But it is not just that. As Slayer has commented, in the "mainstream" out there there have been very little content: no tv shows, no decent TF in movies... And about Primal's, the videos are good, but for me are very sex-oriented and I understand that they are not going to go further precisely because of what you accuratedly indicated, the revenue. But personally I believe that those videos (including Missa's) were profitable. The fact is that probably the fetish-mommy videos are more profitable, have a wider target, and are cheaper to produce, so I don't blame her for not producing more TF content.
Anyway, consider all this as a worthless pray in the desert, or something like that. None of the people who could do something with this would even have a look at this forum, right? At least I wished that any of them would see some of the amazing work that is still being produced in deviantart... :P