Hi guys!
I thought it would be fun to chime in on this conversation.
With live-action and low budget practical effects, circumstances often make decisions for you.
Every brand of fangs available without custom fitting is held in by thermoplastic. That looks fine from the front, but if you open your mouth too wide or shoot from the side, you can see the plastic.
That's where the blood comes into the picture. It's the only creative solution on the table to conceal the plastic. Personally, I'm not always in love with the gory appearance this creates. But in my mind, gory should win out over fake. Soon I'm hoping to incorporate custom fangs.
I agree that the contacts I'm using aren't ideal. Next month my vision insurance will kick in, so I can get measurements for custom contact lenses. Ultimately I plan to get full eye movie quality scleral contacts, but that's quite costly, so it might be a little bit until I can do that. Meanwhile, having a prescription and measurements will allow me to get lenses that look more appropriate.
I've been working to make each clip as different as possible, but there are practical barriers to that. The biggest challenge to creating variation in storyline is that there are no other characters. Sometimes the character speaks to the camera and reflects on a transformation to flesh out the story a little. In each clip, I try to oscillate between a character who has a different relationship to lycanthropy and the change itself. I ask myself creative questions about the character: Has this happened to her before? If so, how many times? If it's the first time, did she expect it because she was bitten and someone warned her? If it's not the first time, how does she relate to it? Does she hate it? Fear it? Feel conflicted about liking it? Long for it? I try to convey the answers to these questions in my body language, facial expression, breathing, etc. I try to oscillate between pure body horror and sexual transformations. In close to half of the transformations, the character is visibly aroused and climaxes on screen.
I know some people want transformations that are pure pleasure instead of a mix of pleasure and pain -- but that's not quite my thing. Art comes out best when you make it for your own taste. I think this is extra true of erotic art.
The main thing that I feel a lot of criticisms don't consider is that I'm making these every week. On the one hand, that's good for the audience because it means lots of content. On the other hand, it means that the amount of change from clip to clip will be a lot more glacial. Maybe the sheer volume of videos I'm creating kind of overshadows the clips that are much more original.
Anyhow, that's just my two cents on some of the points that have been tossed around. I'm working on improving things, and my goal first and foremost is to make content that contributes to this community in a genuinely special way
