For those of you who have been around long enough, you might remember a thing Patreon used to have called “Community Goals”. One of our top tier goals was the pledge that I’d purchase a system to input motion capture into our vids to bring all the advantages that allows…
A little story, there’s a tl;dr at the bottom.
If you were around that long ago, you’ll also know that despite years of effort – much as I tried to get it to work, it failed. I’m heavily invested in the Daz Studio ecosystem (for all the character and set models), which does not easily allow for motion capture files to be added. I tried many things, getting Daz models into Blender which would allow it, doing the same with the software Houdini and iClone. Trying my hand back at Maya, which may have worked but was a crazy learning curve (and a hell of a cost investment).
I made some progress over time, but always hit a wall. I could get models into Blender! But the materials looked off. I was able to get characters back out of Blender so it would look right! But the animation was baked in and could not be modified. I could get a coder to write some scripts to get things working in Daz! Another dead end. But I remained optimistic, and since we had met the pledge tier I invested in a decently priced mocap suit, sure I’d eventually be able to solve the problem. After waiting weeks for delivery and two months being held in customs, we finally got it! But production goes on, so it was quietly put away, waiting for when I would finally crack the mocap problem.
After four years I hadn’t lost hope, but knew the odds were getting thin. Programs like Daz are getting long in the tooth, and updates are few and far between. Either I needed to completely re-think my content creation pipeline, or make peace with my old style animation techniques. Out of the blue I was finally introduced to a new upstart program for animating. It had new world smarts and best of all had a feature to send the animation data back to Daz Studio! I’ve used it a number of times recently, mostly for big action movements, and the results were okay. Not great for finicky things like mouth movement, so it was a tool but not a game changer, but it rekindled my hope of hunting down the elusive motion capture beast!
After dedicating time recently to really sit down with it and figure out how everything could talk to each other (shortest answer, give everyone even more money), I finally succeeded! The first results aren’t exactly Golum, and I’m not exactly Andy Serkis but the fundamentals are there! What you see here is one of 25 clips I recorded for various uses within the Bountiful Harvest update. We’ve added it into a Bountiful Harvest recent update and are using it in an upcoming animation so are already seeing it action. Its a lot of readjusting how we do things so its slow, hopefully once we get in the grove we’ll be a lot faster.
tl;dr We finally have a working mocap suit to help make animated content!
Greetings one and all, we’re here with a blast to the past – with a reason! If you have aged like fine wine (or old fish), you may remember when this comic was first released waaaay back around 20 years ago. It was my first fully formed (I use the term loosely) comic and the enjoyment of its creation was one of the key steps into cementing my life journey into boobdom.
Aside from giving the mandatory apology for its crude quality, I have another reason for bringing this ancient comic up – August 2026 patreon reward is a reimagining of this very story!
I drew it when I was back in uni, scribbling away at a primitive tablet laptop. Ironically it was there that I also met Lady Grove who saw me drawing during class and thought to herself “that’s a man who’s definitely doing some real art, and not just doodling big titty porn”. Bless her heart.
Those uni days have long past, so unlike the Programmed animation, this one is not a direct conversion but rather takes the same ideas but transposes them to a work setting. The lead is has now shifted to Mina (meet her below) whose adorability will hopefully win you over once more.
But enough about the past – time to look to the future! It makes a sort of poetic sense that my first proper comic idea will also be the first animation to utilize our new mocap rig, and I have some neat clips I’m going to share in the next few days as production continues!
Want to be amongst the first to see it then be sure to join our Patreon.
A lady, an apartment and a bottle of the good stuff! “Drink Me” is our latest fully voiced BE animation (with a little nod to literary classics) available to download on our Patreon.
Drink Me features breast expansion, ass expansion, and height growth
Hey all – we are back in control of the Breast Expansion Grove discord server! (shh, no one jinx it!)
These past two weeks have been a mess, but after dozens of back and forth with the Discord Support, many very kind users letting us know the state of the server and giving us ammunition in our case with support, a bundle of less than complementary texts and phone calls from the hacker and finally the hacker nuking everything including our own name from the server… we’re finally in charge and moving forward. The server is rebuilt and its ready for you fine people to come hang out with us again!
The Patreon bot is slowly updating everyone’s roles in the server, it will take it a bit of time but it is happening. If after 48 hours you are still ousted from your Patreon role, shoot us a DM.
Any other questions let us know otherwise we’ll see you in Discord!
We’ve been a bit quiet on the comms lately because this has been a big one! Our Unity based card game Change Deck has not only been completely re-coded from scratch into Ren’Py (thanks to Valkern – a huge thanks for all the work you put in there), but it has also had significant changes to boot!
The old “classic” game worked as a single entry point with two challengers to eventually pick from. That concept has been reworked to now have three individual chapters, each with their own lead in story.
The old system of “boobs vs butt” etc has been replaced by a standard “Warrior beats rogue beats wizard” across all game formats. In the transformation place is the Card Shop, where you can buy specific cards with orbs you earn from playing the game. Now if you want to just go boobs all the way the choice is yours!
This is very much the tip of the iceberg of what is for most intents an entirely new game, aside from the core gameplay mechanic. And it’s one that I hope will give us some nice groundwork for future additions.
Update Notes:
Game completely remade in Ren’Py
New challenger “Felicia”, along with a new set
Classic game mode completely reworked, changing the cards to be a standardised set across all games.
Over 70 new and reworked animations.
Over 60 new sprite stills
Introducing the “card shop” and separated Chaos Orbs.
New animated backgrounds for all classic challengers.
Animated menus for game mode, classic menu, card shop and chaos orb alter.
Hundreds of new/reworked lines of dialogue.
Many new music tracks and sfx added
New purpose for Orbs of Order – now they can be traded in for cash or inventory space at the Card Shop
Reworked gallery
Reworked UI over all aspects of the game
Notes of Issue / Road Ahead. For the future of the game, in the short term there are a few main aspects that are going to be given attention:
Midnight Run is functional, however has not had the level of reworking that the classic game has. It will be given a similar level of visual polish in the future.
It is currently possible to earn more Orbs of Order than have use. This will be rolled into another use in a future update.
This version is most definitely not backwards compatible, nor can it be, since it is derived from an entirely different coding language.
Whew! It was a lot of work but the feedback from patrons is that it was worth our time. If you want your own copy join us on Patreon.
Change Deck features breast expansion, ass expansion, lactation, giantess, futa, belly inflation, FMG, and more.
Ceili and Aylia are investigating the strange happenings in Glenshire – a once peaceful town now beset by giant boobs, cocks of imaginable girth and giantesses with limited respect for property damage. Will their investigation lead them to the truth? Or sexy expansion antics?
The latter. It’s the latter.
Curvaceous Inquest is a semi-standalone animation set in the world of Cursed (an ongoing series) and Bountiful Harvest (our growth themed farming game). They’re all part of the Sweater Stretcher tier on Patreon, along with heaps of other expansion content.
Shout out to our VAs Jellyfish Jubilee (Aylia) and RubyRed (Ceili) who have done an outstanding job!
