Stage 1 - Final Story Script - 100%

 Stage 2 - Character/Scene assembling 100%

 Stage 3 - Posing - 100% 

 Stage 4 - Rendering - 100%

 Stage 5 - Story Final Review - 100%

 Stage 6 - Assembling the Main project file + Proofreading - 100%

 Stage 7a - Post work - 95%
 Stage 7b - Text placing - 100%

 Stage 8 - Final Revision/Final fixes - 60%

  Stage 9 - Exporting, Packing and Uploading - 0% 

Stage 10 - Secondary Assets 15%
Base character reassembling, final height check for script, height chart, product promo assets, etc

  Release date: September 30th

 Pictures rendered = 505 renders (finals + partials + fixes + tests and resource renders) 
 Final Render count - 325
Price:  640 D.A. points at Deviantart.com 

Workflow:  Awaiting - Working on it -  Done -  Uploading -  Story release date
Stages: 1script - 2Assembling - 3posing - 4rendering - 5scriptreview - 6proofreading - 7retouching - 8revision - 9upload

Main Stars: Jessy, Giselle, Eden, Monique, ***(new character), Buck, Tyson, Alex. 
Secondary:  The witch hunting team (pretty sure they're always stars, lol), Nigel.

8. One more step into the woods.

I'm happy to say that we're almost there: first step of final revision done, tons of adjustments made, still rendering new setup of the night scene due to shadow issues but, yeah, its time to prepare your points, we're 2 render and a couple of looks from the final product.
The 2nd last batch export is happening right now, once done it will be sent to the proofreader for a last look and as soon as I have his ok I will prepare the final pack.
Still, I won't release it before the release date because, well, I have stuff to do in real life, also, I'm avoiding to rush my comics now, I like to give attention to it, it is not perfectionism, I just enjoy doing things the right way.
See you guys on September 30th!
PS. Check the stars of this issue!

7. From the shadows they come.

This was a long weekend, I had stuff to do, correct some presets here and there and, ta-da, finish posing and rendering the rest of the chapter!
I did improvements in the glowing effects I use, no worries with their quality and ease of use anymore, managed to compensate the way lights work on dark scenes, almost hurt my hand punching the desk because of a damn bug this program have and I was having a hard time dealing with it.
At least it not just me, Tyson is having problems bumping into people as always, and Jessy receives a call from beyond the waters, who could be? And, as you can see, the witch hunters are into another special mission, after all the effort into making this small scene I bet they will succeed this time, I can't be working for so long for nothing, isn't it? Hehe.
It's close now, I won't promise it for the next weekend but we're really close to a release.

6. Getting out of stuff in store.

More 75 posed, we might have 310 or more renders. I'm still not sure if I will put the last scene, the ones with the containers but, let's see how it goes.
I posed a mixed scene that should have tons of pictures but, you know, I have a limit of pictures to the story then, yeah, I had to cut it.
Soon I'll have the main file and next weekend I'll finish it for release in the following week if everything works fine.

5. Watching from the shadows

An unexpected guest is going to haunt our love birds right before their date and Monique seems, uh, kinda big looking from downstairs.
This week was not that productive as the last ones, still, I had some deserved rest, made some test on new tools and finished the 2nd scene. More one to go plus the extra scene if it fit the render count. I can tell that until the end of this month we will have this chapter released.

4. Prince Charming has been charmed (+boobs)

The first scene of the chapter is ready, and damn, that's a 200 pictures long scene. For now I'm rendering the partials to fix Eden's hair and here we are, about two thirds of the chapter done.
I'm happy with the results, I mean, there are many new micro techniques I'm using you can't see in these samples, stuff about editing existing models and etc, but now my scenes feature a fixed new dome background + mobile woods dome, finally it's more likely they live in a valley. The scenes 2 and 3 are assembled, they need to be posed now and, depending of the render count we might have a scene 4 that is canon, so, if it don't get in this chapter it will come in the next.
Also, as you can see Tyson seems a bit too tranquil to a man who has seen the DV's world as it is, maybe Veronica charmed him back that same day... Oh, that witch!
Yep, nobody cares the new bg is not in Giselle's Sample, she is freaking awesome herself, who needs a background when you have those tits around?

3.1 lol
Fkinf 130 renders in 24 hours, this computer is a beast hahaha  

3 . Trouble makers, u have no power here!

Looks that Vivian is ready to be, again, a pain in the ass - and what an ass! Anyway, this was a very busy week, almost couldn't update the journal, so here we go to the news: the biggest scene is going very well, it's a complex cascade of events in a single scene crowded with objects and people - for a warehouse scene at least, every asset loaded, then more stuff, and absolutely no slow down on the new system's view port - that's freaking good news, all objects in place and lighting revised to render 130 pictures - almost half way done, and even the most complicated things are being managed now, what suggest that I might have peace for thinking the following scenes for more long time promised stuff on the expected time. I'm struggling to avoid posting spoilers, work scenes are very exciting to me, I love what can happen on them! Now, one more game match, some candy and time to sleep, this week is promising!

2. It's Something

The girls are going to have busy days at the the warehouse, so am I trying to manage real life and GTS life. The warehouse is going to have one of those multi core story line, something I love to do, I'm still waiting for the system to complaint about the number of characters but until now no problems, assembled some of them, fixed some poses for scene 1 and I have already 48 finals to render, still, I need to finish the whole scene before doing this... I still need to assemble one character, add some important objects and merge the cast in scene: 9 characters in a kinda complex environment. I'm going slow on this beginning but, considering we're on august 13, I'm not that late. I hope so at least. I'ts something AND yes, Jana is having problems finding clothes to fit her new newly grown melons on her taller frame. Sue me.

1. Say hi, Eden!

The first render of this Journal is unscripted and unexpected, I was doing something else and decided to put her in the Limo that Mr Gordon arrives in the beginning of this chapter. I expect 4 scenes for this chapter, depending on the render count of course, and I've been waiting a long time for this chapter. The reason? Ah, it's so hard to know stuff and not being able to spoil... anyway, as this workflow "flows", I'll try to extract the maximum of every scene, I'm seriously inclined to make Eden arrive with Bucky so she can provoke him with the fact she is already taller than him... well, at least she can still fir the Limo, right?

 Stage 1 - Final Story Script - 100%

 Stage 2 - Character/Scene assembling - 100%

 Stage 3 - Posing - 100% 

 Stage 4 - Rendering - 100%

 Stage 5 - Story Final Review - 2 from 2 done.

 Stage 6 - Assembling the Main project file + Proofreading - 100%

 Stage 7 - Post work and text placing - 100%

 Stage 8 - Final Revision/Final fixes - 100%

  Stage 9 - Exporting, Packing and Uploading - 100%
Internet is slow  

 Stage 10 - Secondary Assets 100%
Base character reassembling, final height check for script, height chart, product promo assets, etc

 Release date: July 24 .

 Pictures rendered = 420 renders (finals + partials + fixes + tests and resource renders) 
 Final Render count: 290

Workflow:  Awaiting - Working on it -  Done -  Uploading -  Story release date
Stages: 1script - 2Assembling - 3posing - 4rendering - 5scriptreview - 6proofreading - 7retouching - 8revision - 9upload

Cheap Tricks III - 16 - Complicated Relationships

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Mature Content

10 HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM :S
Sometimes we feel like something is wrong, then, surprise surprise, there is: one of the characters size is wrong. All my fault, I've found out only when mounting the height chart. So, to avoid all the stress I'll publish it partially on my Google and post the rest only when I finish the gym scene. Sorry
*edited

9 It's complicated
Good news, most of the work is done, bad news, ain't 100% ok, new old sickness, I'm going into a slow treatment, just medicine and follow up cause it is "under control" but, shit, sometimes it hurts and it bothers me a lot, at least now I know what it is, so, guys, when u suspect something is not ok just go to the doctor or u can pass months hurting your health for nothing. Back to the good news, this weekend was really productive, I managed to finish Aud's scene part 2 and invested on the city scene for closing the chapter and man, it went sweet and nice! Now I'm finishing the scene review for the final rendering, then, if everything go the way I'm planning we might see the next chapter this next Sunday's night. Hooray, gaining speed in my workflow, finally! 

8 Here's another 100 (plus one)
Health is better, I'm not that good for real but, I feel better and, this means that my creativity is back at my R7 giantess station for forging giantess stories at full will (or lust or whatever I fell when I make this, lol)! Said this, I could finally focus for a long time in this chapter and I must admit that Ron's scene proved a great stage for the development of the chapter and even helped me to get rid of the old crap I scripted, I mean,  I cleared the path for scripting the rest of the plot in the right way. From now on only fresh scripted chapters relying on the base time line with simpler points to follow so I won't waste so much time weaving the plot. Ah, some good news, I worked a lot in Ron's scene, there are 101 pictures being rendered right now, 203 final renders when it finishes, remaining only a little visit back in scene 5 (Audrey's) for Karina's stuff and I will finally go back for the main scene with a more mature script for what I plan to be the climax of the plot, though, some will think the climax was somewhere else in the chapter, hope you guys like this part of the plot. I wish I could answer some comments but I would spoil the plot... Talk to you again soon, we might have a 8.5 update tomorrow night if everything go the way I'm planning.


8 ACHOO!
Still busy IRL, health is not collaborating at all but I was able to decide what to do and script and pose part of the scene that happens in the middle of the chapter. This is a critical chapter, it opens the end of the season 'cause, you know, this season is all about what happens to the girls on their rise to a "stable" life style as giantesses in society, and will reveal some interesting strings of characters behavior before what I believe to be the last chapter of this season (17), very interesting in my opinion because they (and we) will question some of the weird things that happened. The pre scripted complicated chapters are now kinda shattered, I'm thinking about these next 2 chapters for closing the series, plus 1 for whatever happened to them OR an epilogue for season 4. There's so much for thinking and rebuilding for a 4th season that ain't sure of it's need, sometimes I'm afraid this series is getting too large, just a thought. Anyway, Ron's gym receives a nice update and the path is clear for posing the rest of the chapter for I have already 50% of the growth posed, still need to pose the animations of those who behold the growing ladies plus a discussion and, finally, the photo shoot, one of the most important scene of the chapter in my opinion. Talk to you guys again as soon I have something new. 

7 Waiting
I didn't do much this week, rendered what I have posed, tested some stuff, played some games, read all the chapters again and slept. I had to be sure of some stuff before I can pout it in the story - remember I'm rewriting the scripts I had for a more objective storytelling and I left a lot of important stuff behind. I still have this small scene to finish, another new scene to script from scratch and pose the 2nd part of the city scene, these last 2 with growth while the first ones are more about plot and comparison. My health is behaving weirdly these days and I have a ton of extra work, I'll try to concentrate a bit more in order to speed up the story. I wish I could render it faster but my tests with hair didn't work well on hair, I'll need to keep with the actual shader for a bit longer.

6.5 For the boobs!
I have a dream. One day the light shall pass through the girls clothes making some natural transparencies, allow the boobs to look nicer and I won't need to do thousands of tests every comic... Wait, I've done this today, lol, I've found a good way of doing it, I was making some mistakes in the last tries.



6. Ain't doing my work...
After seeing some nice animations I had to give it a try. Good news that I finally managed to render something on iRay after fighting a bit with the basic configs and loosing 2 whole renders because I can't save movies, only frames... no problem because I can assemble and color correct them easily before coding the way I want directly on Photoshop. On the new computer animation works better and, if you ignore the glitch in the eye, she looks natural, at least for me . The cover for the this chapter has been choose and another scene assembled.
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5. Ryzen from the ashes!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRG! WHAT A MONTH! Freaking hard month! 
There is still stuff to be done but I managed already to do a ton of important things in my life for this year, also, I've been configuring my new computer for over a week because it was simply not stable enough, I mean, it wasn't rendering shit, but now, it's FINALLY rendering!
It doesn't render as fast as I wished but it is certainly twice as fast as the old one and gives me a better experience for posing and other tasks that were bothering me a lot in the old system, now, I might be going back to the old pace of works, slowly, but I might become faster than before for sure.
Now, let's place our honors to the "old blue warrior" that rendered the giantess dream for the last 7 years, he is retiring as a backup system that will be cleaned and formatted so we can count on him again if necessary.
About the next chapter, I managed to assemble this small scene and finish it in the new computer, it's rendering right now stable for the last 5 pictures, so it's looking really good to me! Talk to you guys again soon.


4. Overly attached stepdaughter
I'm still going really slow, I'm working as hell in real life but, at least, important achievements are beign done, I mean, despite of having a reeeally hard week I posed scene 2a and left scene 2b nearly ok for posing, prepared a character for a "joke" picture needed in scene 3 and I continued the study of environment techniques for cities in DS for making some scenes work faster, like I did in DV forest scene backgrounds, now I want to build some backdrops with cities in my stories, unfortunately this ended up consuming a lot of my time becuse I've found out that working with giantesses makes impossible to use simple backdrops in the surrounding, for cities at least, I must use them far and have 3 textures to exchange during the shots because of the height of the camera and I still need to decide into planes, cilinders and planes for making them... I'll have to continue this research later. Anyway, even doing my best to avoid spoilers I can't help showing this picture of Audrey that I just loved! Sorry for the delay, I'm just working too much for giving CT the time it deserves

3.Some love for Erika
This weekend I managed to find some time for assembling characters and carve some details of next chapter in the main storyline and, as you guys can see, it is time to show some love for Erika and bring her back into the story in a chapter that will come with a ton of characters because, you know, it's time to begin the conclusion of this season, then, we shall see a lot of them on their last moves as the world watch a city changing with women growing way taller than average and our giantesses rising their litle empire surrounding themselves with smaller giantesses that will follow their lead to whatever is needed to maintain the new status quo: towering women way over 7 feet tall!

2.Freaking slow start
Real life is, well, being real life. As I told you guys earlier, "extra work" was expected for this year and, despite stuff is going as expected, it is draining my time and energy for making stories. I managed only to do the first scene, a small one featuring Audrey on a dream. As you can see I reused the scene from the last DV because it suited it very well. I must make time available for investing it in CT, I'll post more Updates ASAP.

1.Preparing to 16
After complicated weeks and tons of stuff to do in real life, I finally revisited the characters, reorganized, adjusted and fixed a couple of little things on them. Unfortunately, I could only mature the script, I still need to write then rewrite this chapter before assembling the scenes. This chapter might show as flashback some moments I couldn't fit in the last chapter, fitting right in this chapter's subject. This month will be another busy one, as I said on the beginning of the year, then, I'll do my best to deliver the chapter A.S.A.P. with the most quality I can.