Lily from previous episodes has gone AWOL, new hero is modelled after Tifa from FF7, ready to have some fun. Her first suitor needs no introduction, as he is regular on this show.

One minute video with all the action is below:

This is, of course, is just a beginning. Well frequented spa has all kinds of visitors, and next one might need introduction - degonian I named Blueclaw from fantastic mod Demonic Creatures.

Original degonian creature was made by 4017jman in this mod.

And video spotlighting "capabilities" of massive deathclaw-like monster is here:

All of these come from larger video uploaded here. I will cover it's second half in next blog entry. Thank you for watching.

This episode experiments with themes like mindbreak, ahegao, and with some graphic effects for added flavour. Not amazing yet, but maybe I'll hit goldmine someday. 

Animations again come mostly from Billyy, all the 3p stuff is his.

With this video, this story ark is concluded for now - Lily really got enough this time - maybe I'll make more episodes in future, if inspiration strikes me. Or maybe I'll move on to new characters and settings. I would like to revisit Dark City someday, maybe make more Tifa content. Feel free to voice your suggestions.

This video is 12 minutes in length and it was difficult to compress it enough to meet loverslab's upload size limits, but here it is.

As always, additional upload offsite if local version loads too slowly: http://tinyurl.com/DevilEp2

And last, some spoilerific spoilery spoilers from ending of this episode, for those who like to be spoiled. I would recommend watching the video first though...

These videos also spotlight two creatures from mod called Demonic Creatures, hosted here on Loverslab. Definitely spices up the game.. and what you can do with it.

Fair warning, this mod's monsters are using animations from vanilla creatures. For example these demons are actually trolls, and animations in this vid are for trolls. Yet having different bodies, there is some small amount of clipping that can't be completely eliminated.

I still believe results to be worth some minor inconveniences. Who isn't bored of the small variety of creeps in vanilla Skyrim by now? Game's decade old!

That being said, it's modding scene is incredible. Decade ago, when Skyrim was classic Bethesda's buggy mess, who would have thought how far will mods take it? Just look at it...

Animations in both episodes are mostly Billyy's troll and female masturbation. Specifically Billyy troll doggy 2, Billyy troll standing 2, in next episode also has his 3-person anims. IMO Billyy makes the best creature animations out there, followed by Anub.

There are also some scenes with Babo (Bakafactory) submitting/neutralizing rape and few other minor ones I can't remember. Baka's animations are very wild, actiony, certainly impressive, but it is also difficult to align private parts against one another with all the wild motions. These animations are best recorded from afar.

Full video is uploaded below, it's 10 minutes in length and whole story is contained within.

In case this site has it's bad day again and video loads forever, it is also uploaded on rule34video: http://tinyurl.com/DevilEp1

This entry also allows me to spotlight certain demonic creatures from the best creature-adding mod here on Loverslab (or anywhere else). Can you guess it's name? I hope to use and introduce more new monsters from that mod in future, to spice things up.

Environment in next two episodes will be very similar to previous Lily's endurance test, still space themed. I have used different hairstyle for Lily and whiter light to illuminate the scene. Other than that, mods and settings remain similar to last episode.

Short video is uploaded below:

And lastly, two WIP images showing old hairstyle and scene lighting I originally planned to use, but changed later.

Anyway, standing at 11 minutes in length, I believe this is first video with high enough quality to be considered success, with body, face, light, camera work and supporting mods all improved over Dark City 1+2.

There is still room for improvement in future episodes, such as making facial expressions more natural and fluid (tho that seems difficult to achieve in Skyrim), work on lighting dark areas better or improve scene composition and backgrounds. And eventually try different body mod altogether, preferably one with functional anus collisions.

Animations used: majority is Anub's troll hold (ABC), to lesser degree Billyy F masturbation 3 and Billyy Troll missionary 2

In case video here doesn't work or loads super slow, it is also uploaded on rule34videos: https://tinyurl.com/22xeyxkv

Comments and suggestions are welcome, if you have any.

And so I decided to go on mod hunt for better head. CITRUS was my first step, and while the head looked better, better doesn't mean great. Also it was incompatible with facial expression mods, giving Lily in every sex scene expression of deranged clown suffering through massive enema. Pity I didn't think to record those crazy faces, I could have made comedy porn.. alas, too late now.
 

Further search led me to vectorplexus forums and an excellent mod called Hi-poly Head. This one I genuinely liked, comparison between vanilla and hi-poly face below.
 

There is small neck seam with this mod, and I couldn't find a way to fix it, but it's small price to pay for what it offers.
 

While I was at it, I also decided to try new skin, and found Fair skin was nice upgrade over default COSIO. How it turned out is shown below.

Further improvements:
Switching recording from 30fps to 60 was an easy step, quality of footage grows, but so does file size...
 

Lighting darker areas was another problem that needed solving. As spawning lights with console proved hit or miss (mostly miss, tbh) and needed constant reloading, I dug through forums, tried some mods, and settled on using Light Gems from SSAssist. Still not perfect, but now, at least, I won't have to make the song "Love in the Dark" my default video soundtrack.
 

Next time we will get to the actual good stuff - posting full episode.

And so I chose the next character - Lily from the game Subverse, theme - running endurance test on her creation, setting - sci-fi environment helpfully provided by aether suite - and got to work.
 

And after some serious effort, I created about 10 minute long steamy video full of hardcore sex scenes. Some very Work-In-Progress footage is uploaded below.

???And then I dumped it completely, threw whole long video away and went back to square one.???

Next time explanation why.

Body, it's physics and groin details for close-up looks were easily the first target, and so I abandoned AiO HDT Animated Pussy. After some unfortunate dalliance with BHUNP body and HDT-SMP physics (Imagine penis touching hyperactive jelly. Yeah.) I settled on using COSIO (Clams of Skyrim Project).

And discovered it really didn't work with Baka's ABC schlongs out of the box. Clam is too small, creature dicks too large, settings in Baka's xml's were clearly meant for different body, all in all, it took autistically long time to figure out what's wrong and make everything work well.

But I believe I got decent enough results to make few good videos with COSIO before trying something else. Below is a video comparing previous clam with new one.

Continued next time.

Second vid is direct continuation of (and hopefully small improvement over) previous episode, named Dark City 2 - Tifa surrounded.

Tifa tries to escape insectoid monsters, but some battles can only end with surrender...

Technical stuff:

For just this vid, most mods remained the same, I did certainly try to improve lighting, chose less noisy location and aligned actors better.
This and previous video were recorded at 30fps.
Animations are mostly Billyy's missionary/breeding with piledriver ending
 

An anecdote - and definitely crazy thing I did here - I downloaded youtube collection of all Tifa scenes from FF7 Remake, dug through it, clipped few of her voice lines and used them at 2 or 3 points in this episode. Meaning you can hear FF7 Tifa speak few times in this video. It was a bad idea - whole lot of effort just to have few words in there that do not fit rest of audio (sexlab moaning etc.). I dont think I'll be doing that again.

). Guess what happens next

Video is quite rough around the edges, some clipping, body and face could use improvement, lighting isnt great, but then nobody creates masterpiece on first try. This was useful learning experience and basis for further improvement..

In case video doesn't load, it's also uploaded here: https://tinyurl.com/kdnbbwdr

Technical stuff:
Setting is halofarm's Aether Suite, I like it but it's very dark in many places and I only used Sexlab LightMeUp there to illuminate scenes. Lighting darker areas up for sex scenes has been real PITA so far.

Chaurus is just that, with Baka's ABC and all the mods that are required for it to work.

Body is All-in-one (CBBE?) HDT Animated Pussy, functional but kinda entry level body for sexlab purposes. Clam itself works but it's somewhat basic and I couldn't get textures inside it to behave. No anus physics.

Skin is what came with body package, Leyenda version in installer i believe.

Face is just vanilla Skyrim sculpt, you can see the blockiness - nose and chin are quite.. 'geometric'. No makeup. KS Hairdos.

Animations - BaboChaurusHuntingRape

Can such hyper-modified Skyrim create porn that would rival hot stuff made today in Blender or 3DS MAX? A question worth answering.

What kind of videos do I aim to make? At least several minutes long (around 10min seems reasonable) with some story present. Theme is girl x monster for now, but I will surely try other stuff too.

As I have made few videos already, I will be posting them from oldest to current project. Videos too large to post here will be linked instead.

Below is a trailer of where I was 3 months ago (when I was just learning how to use SL) and where I am now.

More to come..