More AI Animation Experiments

Now that most of the pinup art for House of Hellish Harlots has been completed, I've been moving onto commissioning proper H-scenes (from marwmellow) for some of the girls, either personally myself or through patrons kindly "adopting" a harlot. Some of this art has started to appear in recent HoHH1.5 (the art version) releases.

With some of my spare time (when I'd otherwise be playing videogames), I've been playing around with looking at AI animation again.  Adding some animation to the H-art would add a lot.  One of the biggest challenges is finding AI programs that don't have censorship.  Grok was very good when I tried it out last year, but has since been bullied into uselessness by the moral busybodies.

Looking around, I have managed to find some that can do NSFW.

Some of the more regular-looking harlots are easy to do, especially if it's standard porn scene the AI models probably have a lot of data to build from.

Nooru's cowgirl is fairly straightforward to add animation.

I was also surprised at how good the AI was at handling some of the weirder girls.

Kanna is the classic Alice-in-Wonderland themed caterpillar girl.  She's in the current batch marwmellow is working on.  I was surprised the AI knew what to do here.  Has someone being feeding some Japanese monster girl art into the datasets? :D

And while I couldn't get the AI to have Baloobia properly absorb the man, this might be a nice animation to use before things get a little more... dangerous.

This is still early experimentation.  Animating the pinup art looked cool, but I couldn't really see how to fit it into the game.  Animated H-scenes feel a lot more useful.  The animation loop is triggered to play alongside the relevant text segment and I think that could add a lot to the game.

I currently have a very rough proof-of-concept added to the last HoHH1.5 release where L'iaculatia sprays the screen with silk.  It's very rough and the CSS needs work, but I think it's possible.

There are some still some issues I need to fix (aside from the display CSS in the game).

While the AI did pretty well with even some of the weirder monster girls, there are some things that stump it.  Eye colour is surprisingly one of them.  I often give my succubi and other monster girls strange eye colours such as red or all black.  What normally happens is the AI tries to change those back to regular human eyes and haven't yet figured out the prompt-fu to stop it from doing that.

I'd also like to turn the animations into seamless loops.  The easiest way is probably to create a 5 second loop from the original art, then feed the last frame for that into generating a second 5-second loop while specifying the original art as the last frame.  While there are some AI tools that do first to last frame, I haven't got any good results yet.

This reinforces my belief that AI can get you to 95% there, but trying to fix that final 5% is a real bitch.  This is why you should probably use human animators if you can afford them.  AI might be a valid budget option, though.  I just have to decide if getting 90-95% of the way there is good enough to put in the game.

Harlot Art Preview - N3P-NTHes

The harlot preview this week is of N3P-NTHes, the artificial pitcher plant girl.  She lures men into her disguised rubber pitcher, then ruthlessly drains them of all their life and semen.

This might be one of my favourites out of the harlots marwmellow has drawn.  The lighting is very ominous.  I could easily see this as the cover of an old pulp sci-fi magazine (although they might have to strategically hide the nipples!)

In project news I did change my mind on skipping April's release.  It was a couple of days late, but I eventually put out v0.018 of the art version of House of Hellish Harlots.  This adds notebook/replay functionality for a couple of harlots and also new H-scene art for Ygolia Campbell kindly commissioned by one of my patrons.

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Harlot Art Preview - Anna Boa

Last month was a bit all over the place.  I'll hopefully get back to a more regular posting schedule.  I still have a lot of marwmellow's lovely harlot art to preview.

This week is the muscular Anna Boa.  She loves giving men an intimate squeeze.

I'm still running into a few problems implementing the notebook code for the low-tier harlots.  I'm going to leave off that for a bit and concentrate on writing the last of the round 5 elites - The Imp Harem.

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Paperback version of A Succubus for Halloween is now available

For the last few months I've been commissioning new cover art for the short story collections and rereleasing print versions for them.

We're now up to the 3rd collection, A Succubus for Halloween, and marwmellow came up with some lovely cover art for this one.

(The cuteness is a lie).

This one was originally published (ebook and paperbook) through eXcessica in 2011. I put it out on my own author account after eXcessica ended in 2022 with a rough AI-art cover (ebook only). Now it has nice new human-drawn art for the cover and a paperback version.

The downside is it's a Print-on-Demand paperback and those are more expensive. The lowest I could put the price and still receive something from each sale is $15.99. It does look very nice, however, and is there for people that would prefer a physical copy of my books.

There are quite a few stories that can only be found in this collection, including Epicratea's first appearance in "Oil-Wrestling a Succubus".

You can buy the paperback on Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXF76KB4

I've also updated the ebook version to have the new cover art on other retailers and those changes should be live or going live very soon. (With the exception of smashwords - I still need to merge my smashwords and Draft2Digital accounts.)

I hope you enjoy it!

Harlot Art Preview - Epicratea

I had a few problems getting the latest House of Hellish Harlots (art version) release out, but those are resolved, so it's back to the harlot art previews.

This week is another succubus who previously showed up in one of my short stories.  Epicratea, the Ebony Succubus, first appeared in my "Oil Wrestling a Succubus" short story.  That story can be found in the A Succubus for Halloween collection.  I've just received new cover art for that collection and will be putting out a new print version in a couple of weeks, but more on that in a future post.

As indicated by the title, Epicratea loves a good oil wrestle.  She likes sexily overpowering men and then finally claiming them in her succubus form.  She finished high enough on a poll of characters patrons would like to see added to HoHH, so I ported her scene over from the story.  So now players of HoHH can now have some slippery fun with her.

Here is her art as drawn by marwmellow:

I think he did a great job of capturing her with this one.  It might be sexy oil wrestling fun, but Epicratea does not fuck around.

After a lot of bug squashing I did finally get HoHH1.5 v0.017 out.  This should be the first in what should hopefully be a series of regular releases as I update the remaining low-tier harlots with full notebook and replay functionality.  These releases also include new full H-scene art for some harlots by marwmellow, commissioned by both me and patrons.  So if you have a favourite you'd like to see drawn in a certain way, get in touch.

The release can be found here n the houseofhellishharlots website and can be found here behind the "Private Demo" button.  For details on how to access it (as well as regular updates on the HoHH project) check out my Patreon or SubscribeStar.

Harlot Art Preview - Huntress Levka

This week's harlot preview is Huntress Levka and her trusty "hounds", Minyette and Zhopa.  As a member of the Huthswiven Manor she enjoys hunting men and letting her hounds get up to perverted fun with those they catch.

Art is by marwmellow.

This week was a good one in terms of game development.  I put out a new release for the art version of HoHH (v0.016).  This adds notebook, monsterpedia, and autosave functionality to half of the currently implemented harlots.  The demo version can be found in the experimental section of the houseofhellishharlots website here.  For the passwords and regular updates on how game development is going, check out my Patreon or SubscribeStar.

Harlot Art Preview - Atómica

This week's harlot art preview is a harlot I have a spin-off story idea form, but haven't got around to writing it yet.  Atómica, La Bomba de Amor is a luchador themed succubus.  His speciality is the "love bomb" finishing move where she flies the man up high and then drives them down into a giant inflatable airbag.  The resulting orgasm for the man is explosive, but sadly terminal.  At least he gets to go out with a bang...

Art is by Marwmellow.  I made a slight boob with the descriptions in failing to emphasize the importance of her having wings - something I might ask to be added when I come to commission her H-scene (or someone adopts her).

The Adopt-a-Harlot scheme has been going pretty well.  I'm nearly through the notebook/monsterpedia slog to the point I should be able to start putting out regular release again soon.  These will start to include "spicier" artwork of the harlots in action.

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