Digital Juice and wasted money
Posted a month agoBusyBoxx, a subsidiary of Digital Juice, made a lot of high-quality 4K video assets. I bought several hundred dollars worth of those during their volume launch sales over the course of the last couple of years. In January, DJ shuttered and BB with it, and now everything I bought is gone. No files, no refund, no contact. The sites are just flat-out gone.
I only just found out about this the other day, when I incidentally clicked on my BusyBoxx downloads link to double-check what I had in preparation for an art project. The story goes that the CEO of Digital Juice passed away back in November and the company was shut down not long after. I don't know what to believe. All I know is that a huge stockpile of video assets that I was counting on using in future art and animation projects is just... gone, with no recourse.
There's nothing I can do, but I'm damned if I'll keep quiet about it.
I only just found out about this the other day, when I incidentally clicked on my BusyBoxx downloads link to double-check what I had in preparation for an art project. The story goes that the CEO of Digital Juice passed away back in November and the company was shut down not long after. I don't know what to believe. All I know is that a huge stockpile of video assets that I was counting on using in future art and animation projects is just... gone, with no recourse.
There's nothing I can do, but I'm damned if I'll keep quiet about it.
No longer on DA
Posted 2 months agoI've deactivated my old DeviantArt account. I haven't posted on there for years and years, and I want absolutely nothing to do with that place in any case. It's nothing now but a hellhole full of AI slurry and thieves. If you're wondering where all of my art there went, there you go.
Patreon update
Posted 2 months agoNothing too exciting. I've added a new tier called Supporter II, just another simple tip jar but for $3, for those who like my art exactly $2 more, because as it turns out these days after taxes and Patreon's cut $1 gets you very little. As ever, my Patreon is strictly SFW, but all proceeds go towards keeping me fed and working as an artist, here and elsewhere.
I've got a big comic project planned for this year, and your support will help get that out the door. Thank you all.
I've got a big comic project planned for this year, and your support will help get that out the door. Thank you all.
Happy New Year
Posted 5 months agoI will be real with y'all, 2023 was long and painful, and it's not letting up just yet. I've had multiple sources of intense stress and anxiety in my life for months, my health has been in decline and my libido and art drive have been in the dumps. But I am still alive, still kicking, and wanting more than anything to get back to work making some supremely weird shit.
Like I said on Christmas, thank you all for being here. All of you have all of my best wishes for the coming year. May you all find strength, peace and plenty in 2024.
Like I said on Christmas, thank you all for being here. All of you have all of my best wishes for the coming year. May you all find strength, peace and plenty in 2024.
Merry Christmas
Posted 5 months agoWhether you celebrate the holiday or not, I hope today and tomorrow treat you well and that you can relax and find some peace and happiness. Thank y'all for being here for me in this space. Take good care, and see you in the new year.
Thirteen Years
Posted 7 months agoIt's Friday, October 20th, at least where I am. I've now been on this site for thirteen years. That's a bit sobering, considering how little I've actually managed to post for the last while, and worse when you consider how much I really wanted to make and share. Chronic fatigue is taking so much from me. Not everything, not yet, but more than I'm willing to accept. It's going to be weeks at least before I can get in to see a doctor again, but it can't come soon enough.
I just want to thank everyone who still follows me and my art. I'm sorry I can't give you more than this, but I'm glad to know someone cares about what I make.
I just want to thank everyone who still follows me and my art. I'm sorry I can't give you more than this, but I'm glad to know someone cares about what I make.
Bluesky, Patreon and More
Posted 8 months agoWhile I work on my latest project, I should probably take a moment to let my watchers here know that I'm on Bluesky now as chaelrishe.bsky.social and a reminder that I'm on Patreon at this link here. Bluesky I intend to use for promoting my art in general. My Patreon is my public-facing portfolio and strictly SFW. My NSFW/fetish content will live here on FA as ever.
Following computer trouble and the wildfire scare, work on Skin Balloon has resumed. I have a new animation featuring Hush in the works, and with money getting tight these days I hope to have commissions open again before long. I would like to extend my thanks to everyone who still follows my work on here, despite my long absences-- you didn't have to, and I appreciate you.
Following computer trouble and the wildfire scare, work on Skin Balloon has resumed. I have a new animation featuring Hush in the works, and with money getting tight these days I hope to have commissions open again before long. I would like to extend my thanks to everyone who still follows my work on here, despite my long absences-- you didn't have to, and I appreciate you.
Computer Problems... Again
Posted 9 months agoTried to switch on my PC today only for it to... not boot. Couldn't boot from the system drive. Tried a few things-- no dice. No clue if it's a problem with the OS or the SSD itself, but the latter would be less surprising, considering I've had issues with it before. At the moment, I've swapped in an SSD I had on my shelf with an old Windows 10 install, which is at least enough to get the computer running. No data loss, thankfully-- I was able to salvage everything from the first SSD by live booting into Linux off a USB stick, so now it's just a matter of getting my hardware back in order.
Got a new SSD in the mail. I'll keep y'all updated once I've got all of this back under control.
Got a new SSD in the mail. I'll keep y'all updated once I've got all of this back under control.
Wildfires II
Posted 9 months agoThe wildfire situation is a thing of the news now-- you've probably heard all about the catastrophic fires all across BC. There's nothing I can tell you about it that the news reports can't, other than that I am still here and kicking. I've been able to work on neither jack nor shit, as you may imagine, but things seem, from what I can gather from local news, to be holding somewhat stable, which is to say that while things are worsening, they are doing so slowly enough that we have some room to breathe. Figuratively, at least. The air quality index is off the charts by half at least. N95s are a must just to take out the trash.
I've made extensive data backups, local and cloud, to make absolutely sure nothing gets lost if the worst should happen. If you are in BC and in the path of the fire: be prepared to leave on a moment's notice, be safe and good luck. We're all in this together.
I've made extensive data backups, local and cloud, to make absolutely sure nothing gets lost if the worst should happen. If you are in BC and in the path of the fire: be prepared to leave on a moment's notice, be safe and good luck. We're all in this together.
Wildfires
Posted 9 months agoThere's a gigantic wildfire spreading not ten kilometers from where I live. I thought we'd be okay across the water, but spot fires have started on our side anyways, mostly spreading north but the evacuation alerts are making their way towards us regardless. We've got a bag packed and ready to go if the situation turns bad. Suffice it to say I'm not going to be getting a lot of art done until this situation settles down, assuming I still have a computer by then.
My deepest thanks and respect to the firefighters who are risking their lives to defend our life and property.
My deepest thanks and respect to the firefighters who are risking their lives to defend our life and property.
Skin Balloon Progress 2
Posted 10 months agoAfter a long period of exhaustion, anxiety and generally not functioning very well, I've finally gotten more work done on Skin Balloon. I'm just adding some more rooms to create something not unlike a demo.
Headaches
Posted 10 months agoLiteral and figurative.
Work on Skin Balloon continues, but I'm running into some bizarrely complicated issues developing in Godot Engine. I won't go into the details, but it's been enough to make me consider learning something like Rust and using libraries instead of being dependent on a game engine.
I spent most of last night trying to upgrade my computer, which ended in abject failure. Nothing got damaged or lost, but I did spend a good few hours just taking everything apart and putting all back together exactly as it had been, all because of a single proprietary connector. Don't buy HP, kids.
I'm going to try and destress as much as possible this weekend and then get back to it.
Work on Skin Balloon continues, but I'm running into some bizarrely complicated issues developing in Godot Engine. I won't go into the details, but it's been enough to make me consider learning something like Rust and using libraries instead of being dependent on a game engine.
I spent most of last night trying to upgrade my computer, which ended in abject failure. Nothing got damaged or lost, but I did spend a good few hours just taking everything apart and putting all back together exactly as it had been, all because of a single proprietary connector. Don't buy HP, kids.
I'm going to try and destress as much as possible this weekend and then get back to it.
Skin Balloon Progress
Posted a year agoDevelopment is still proceeding. I wanted to release what I had by the end of June, but exhaustion has been catching up with me, and also I somehow broke the entire inflation system, and I'm not releasing even a teaser in that condition. I'm going to try and get some work done on it tonight and over the weekend. This is also going to be a good chance to test my sound engineering skills and see if I can put together some good rubbery noises.
Physical and Technical Difficulties.
Posted a year agoIt's been almost a month since my last journal. I thought I was on the ball again, but then I got real sick, anxiety got the better of me and thanks to complications with the Linux distro I was using, I am now on a different Linux distro on which I have yet to fully set up all of my tools. Blender and Godot are working perfectly, but getting set up for music production is proving painful.
My health is finally starting to improve again, and I'm making headway on getting my digital workshop in order. I'm going to do my best to get something out the door soon just to make sure y'all know I'm still alive.
My health is finally starting to improve again, and I'm making headway on getting my digital workshop in order. I'm going to do my best to get something out the door soon just to make sure y'all know I'm still alive.
Getting Work Done
Posted a year agoI've been busy. Very busy, in fact. So busy, I haven't been posting here at all.
It's not all been art, of course. I have quite a few other demands on my time and energy. At the moment, that's switching my computer over from Solus Linux to EndeavorOS, not least because Solus seems to have completely stopped shipping system updates and has done since before the start of the year. And that's before I set down to the gritty labor of sorting through all of my hard drives and getting everything I want to keep in order. Spring is upon us, even if it's still falling below freezing literally every night, so it's time to do some cleaning.
Once my hardware and software woes are sorted, however, I've got projects to share.
It's not all been art, of course. I have quite a few other demands on my time and energy. At the moment, that's switching my computer over from Solus Linux to EndeavorOS, not least because Solus seems to have completely stopped shipping system updates and has done since before the start of the year. And that's before I set down to the gritty labor of sorting through all of my hard drives and getting everything I want to keep in order. Spring is upon us, even if it's still falling below freezing literally every night, so it's time to do some cleaning.
Once my hardware and software woes are sorted, however, I've got projects to share.
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Happy Halloween 🎃
Posted a year agoIt's been a long month for me, but I finished my major project and now it's time to relax on the spookiest day of the year. I'd like to thank everyone that still follows me here on FA, and hope all of you can have a good time this Halloween. All the best.
Boo.
Posted a year agoI'm still alive, regardless of circumstances.
I'll be blunt: life got in the way of furry porn, as I always knew it would. But, all hope is not lost. I'm slowly finding my inspiration again. I don't know if anybody is even watching this page anymore, but for those of you that have been, I appreciate your dedication and your patience.
Now to go and finish refurbishing Hush's model and I'll see what I can make.
I'll be blunt: life got in the way of furry porn, as I always knew it would. But, all hope is not lost. I'm slowly finding my inspiration again. I don't know if anybody is even watching this page anymore, but for those of you that have been, I appreciate your dedication and your patience.
Now to go and finish refurbishing Hush's model and I'll see what I can make.
Workin' on some stuff
Posted 3 years agoGot some stuff. I'm workin' on it.
Patreon and also I Live
Posted 4 years agohttps://www.patreon.com/chaearts
Hello everyone. It's been an age and a day since I posted anything here, but I'm in the process of getting a Patreon off the ground, mainly just as a tip jar for the time being. I'm hoping to get more art up on here soon if at all possible, so if you're interested in incentivizing that, please take a look at my Patreon page. Thank you for your consideration.
Hello everyone. It's been an age and a day since I posted anything here, but I'm in the process of getting a Patreon off the ground, mainly just as a tip jar for the time being. I'm hoping to get more art up on here soon if at all possible, so if you're interested in incentivizing that, please take a look at my Patreon page. Thank you for your consideration.
'Sup.
Posted 5 years agoYeah. I'm here. What up.
Let's make some art.
Let's make some art.
Furry Network, Terms of Service and Moving Forward
Posted 6 years agoWith the completion of Alienoscopy II, I'm thinking a lot about the future. A lot of things have changed for me in the seven years since first I arrived here. I'm a different person, and as the new year approaches, I want to make some changes of my own.
I've created an account on Furry Network under the name Chaelrishe, a name that has special significance to me. I've never been that fond of the name Zieghalkrauphorscht. Whatever meaning it had for me has long since eroded, and now it's only a vaguely disturbing-sounding identifier. Perhaps even more importantly than the change of name, FN offers the ability to upload multimedia, which means I'll finally be able to upload my animations directly to a furry art site with proper tags and ratings without needing to worry if it's going to be flagged and deleted for its content. This will help me to share more of what I make and encourage me to create more animated works.
And before anybody asks, no, I'm not leaving FA. I'm just branching out.
I will also be revising and consolidating my ToS for the new year. There won't be any price hikes this time-- I'm just getting them all in order and bringing the important parts to the front. Some options may get shuffled around, removed or added based on my new experience.
Thank you for reading, and hope you all have a good holiday season.
I've created an account on Furry Network under the name Chaelrishe, a name that has special significance to me. I've never been that fond of the name Zieghalkrauphorscht. Whatever meaning it had for me has long since eroded, and now it's only a vaguely disturbing-sounding identifier. Perhaps even more importantly than the change of name, FN offers the ability to upload multimedia, which means I'll finally be able to upload my animations directly to a furry art site with proper tags and ratings without needing to worry if it's going to be flagged and deleted for its content. This will help me to share more of what I make and encourage me to create more animated works.
And before anybody asks, no, I'm not leaving FA. I'm just branching out.
I will also be revising and consolidating my ToS for the new year. There won't be any price hikes this time-- I'm just getting them all in order and bringing the important parts to the front. Some options may get shuffled around, removed or added based on my new experience.
Thank you for reading, and hope you all have a good holiday season.
Pornhub
Posted 6 years agoAs FA doesn't have video support, and likely never will, YouTube is too risky an option and direct downloads from file hosting sites aren't much better, I'm going to experiment with uploading my animations to Pornhub and linking them with their associated submissions here. I'm uploading there under the name "Ziegphorscht", so anything you find there from that name is me.
So far, I've only uploaded Alienoscopy, and have updated its submission with the Pornhub link. If this proves sustainable, I'll add more.
So far, I've only uploaded Alienoscopy, and have updated its submission with the Pornhub link. If this proves sustainable, I'll add more.
Impending TOS Updates
Posted 6 years agoAfter careful consideration, as soon as my current commission is complete, I'm going to be revising my TOS again. The changes will mostly be in format, though there may be some adjustments to my rules and possibly even my pricing. My main goal is to consolidate my terms into one clean, concise page. While I'm at it, I may add a new commission option or two, but I'll want to conduct some experiments first to see if I can do what I suspect I can do.
Signal boost for some friends in severe need.
Posted 6 years agoTwo of my friends in the Phoenix, Arizona area are facing homelessness, one trans and on HRT, the other disabled and with a long list of special needs. They also have two cats, a necessary part of that special needs list. Their apartment complex is shutting down and they need to find a new place to live, but thanks to people they thought were friends bailing out on them now don't have enough money to make ends meet. They have two months to find a housing solution before they're stuck on the streets.
They've set up a YouCaring campaign to help raise funds. They may not be furry, but they mean a great deal to me as people and I cannot simply sit by without doing something to help them. Please help spread the word, or donate if you can. Anything at all is appreciated. Thank you.
They've set up a YouCaring campaign to help raise funds. They may not be furry, but they mean a great deal to me as people and I cannot simply sit by without doing something to help them. Please help spread the word, or donate if you can. Anything at all is appreciated. Thank you.