LaPorte Caves

In addition to the upcoming chapters, there's another development I'm excited to share with you.

Over the last six months, Lowerbase (lowerbase.deviantart.com) has been quietly laboring away on some visual art for the story. I count myself extremely lucky that the story has inspired him in this way. Lowerbase is not the kind of artist that you can simply commission. He works on whatever he enjoys, and that's it. His work is excellent, and he has the following on Deviantart to prove it.

So far, about 15-20 unique images are ready for sharing, some of them in multiple poses. I'll be posting a few samples shortly, with some NSFW samples to follow at a later point.

It's hard for me to put into words how excited I a to have Lowerbase's collaboration on this story, and I hope you enjoy the results.

Early scenes

Detail of Julia from the first scene

Julia after eating the fruit in the wilderness

Portrait of The Doctor

Portraits of Mindy. The red hair color is not featured in the story yet but I love it!

Wow!!! Superb images! Conngratulation to Lowerbase for the images, and to you for creating this story :-D

Great Quality images! Worthy of the Quality of the story!

Amanda NSFW Portrait

Ruth NSFW Portraits in Color

Ruth NSFW -- out for a swim!

NSFW the scene at the Waterfall (Prologue)

Ruth is really a beautiful (and mighty) mermaid .
This is another great set of images!!!
Congratulations!!

Woodclaw wrote: Very nice work, although from your descriptions I always imagined Ruth being much larger at the shoulders.

Admittedly, there are some differences between the literal descriptions in the text and the way these bodies are rendered. But some artistic license is necessary with this story.

Specifically, there are two problems with a literal rendering of my text. First, it's easy to fall into "shrunken head syndrome", where the body's musculature begins to dwarf the head and the hands, which do not grow. Secondly, it's very hard to render clothing on these bodies generally, and it gets harder the more extreme the curves get. We didn't want to be in a situation where a simple t-shirt began to look like a sack full of potatoes. In summary, these women are supposed to be built and beautiful at the same time: maintaining proportionality and looking good in clothes can certainly be part of that balance.

I don't mean to suggest that Lowerbase has landed upon the only way to render the figures. For that matter, Twitch99 took a much more literal approach, which I also really really enjoyed. But I consider Lowerbase's choices to be valid as well. I signed off on these choices at an early stage and am thrilled to have his contributions.

AuGoose wrote: There are hours upon hours of work in that shot. I'm learning a ton just looking at it.

Lowerbase is a master, but he's gone all out on this .

Yes, these scenes took a great deal of effort (and processing time) for Lowerbase, and the results show. This waterfall image is one of my favorites because it captures the transitions going on in her own mind-- the growing confidence, the playfulness that wasn't there before. It brought the scene to life for me in a new way.

circes_cup wrote:

Woodclaw wrote: Very nice work, although from your descriptions I always imagined Ruth being much larger at the shoulders.

Admittedly, there are some differences between the literal descriptions in the text and the way these bodies are rendered. But some artistic license is necessary with this story.

Specifically, there are two problems with a literal rendering of my text. First, it's easy to fall into "shrunken head syndrome", where the body's musculature begins to dwarf the head and the hands, which do not grow. Secondly, it's very hard to render clothing on these bodies generally, and it gets harder the more extreme the curves get. We didn't want to be in a situation where a simple t-shirt began to look like a sack full of potatoes. In summary, these women are supposed to be built and beautiful at the same time: maintaining proportionality and looking good in clothes can certainly be part of that balance.

I don't mean to suggest that Lowerbase has landed upon the only way to render the figures. For that matter, Twitch99 took a much more literal approach, which I also really really enjoyed. But I consider Lowerbase's choices to be valid as well. I signed off on these choices at an early stage and am thrilled to have his contributions.

I can only say WOW!! to the images that lowerbase has made, his skill is amazing. I look forward to more of his renders, his stuff is incredible.

I can attest to the clothing problem that circes mentions, I dabble in 3D art using DAZ3D, and most of my women tend to be very large and getting clothing to fit my amazons is always a problem. As for the shrunken head issue, DAZ3D does allow the head to be scaled up, but getting the head and body proportions to look good is not always easy.

I have a few images of Julia that I made and will post them on my deviant art page, twitch99.deviantart.com. I do not have close to the skill and mastery of lowerbase, so I will not be posting them here.

Look forward to more images and chapters.

Thanks for all your effort circes.

Cheers,

twitch

twitch99 wrote: I have a few images of Julia that I made and will post them on my deviant art page, twitch99.deviantart.com. I do not have close to the skill and mastery of lowerbase, so I will not be posting them here.

While I share your admiration of Lowerbase, I wouldn't let that serve as an impediment to posting your own material here. I really enjoyed your beach shots and would enjoy seeing more!

SWM has always been intended to be a "big tent", where lots of different angles on uberness are shared. If you decline to post something because you're not thrilled about it, that's your call. But please don't let comparisons to other artists become an obstacle to putting your own material out there. If I had given in to such comparisons, there wouldn't be a story to begin with.

Amazing arts! Thank you so much for sharing. And so happy to hear there are more chapters to come.


By the way, in my mind, I picture their bodies close to this. (NSFW)

Back in Kentucky, Julia was at a halloween party being hit on by a fellow party-goer.
"Nice costume, but you don't look that super."
Julia smiled, she liked her newly toned figure after de-sizing from the Nourishment...


"Oh, really?" as she reached for an empty pint glass on the table and a glassful of some of her 100 gallon stash she'd carried through the caves with Howard tucked under her other arm. GlugGlugSlurpGlugSlurp as her admirer looked on confused..
"You can try some if you want but I doubt it will do much for YOU"

RRRRRIIIIPPPPP!!!!!....."Well, what do you think now?"



'erm....gulp'

Howard looked on with his hand raised to his face shaking his head "oh no! Not again!"