Maybe you’re a fan that’s recently discovered 3DX, but you don’t have the futanari itch. Or, you’re an artist who’s tired of hearing “put a dick on her.” Well, here are a few suggestions for artists I think would make for some good straight 3DX.
1. Plot
There will always be a market for a quick fap with no fluff. Live action porn will always do that better. Instead, tell a story. Live action porn will always be worse at that.
Telling the story allows the audience to know the characters. Their desires, fears, goals, and search for meaning will bring greater depth to your scenes and story. Then, the audience will get more than just a quick release of tension. A deeper pleasure awaits.
2. Fantasy/Sci-Fi
This plays closely with plot. Live action porn does this, but the big studios with the budget to do it don’t spend Hollywood money on it. As such, it looks like second rate cosplay. In 3DX, you have a much more accessible palette with which to craft richly detailed worlds and characters.
Escapism is really the magic we’re selling. The escape is a little disappointing when it is only momentary. However, an immersive world with characters to fall in love with, as they fall in love with each other, makes the escape all the more immersive, and longer lasting.
What’s even more immersive than detailed worlds and characters? Audience agency. Giving the audience some control of the story, to make it theirs, gives a much larger investment in the outcome. Visual novels and games are a great way to do this, but you could go more meta as well. Use your personal platforms or Slushe to have the audience vote or comment on upcoming aspects of story development.
Don’t completely democratize the process, though; you could end up with a hot mess. After all, for the very same reason audience agency matters, creator agency matters too. You need to be immersed in your own work to help convey your passion for it. Not being excited by your own creation is it’s own kind of sadness.
4. Relatability
Make the porn relatable. The mainstream porn scenarios of plumbers laying pipe and pizza boys delivering extra sausage are great tropes, but there’s not a whole lot to relate to in them. Keep in mind you don’t have to set your porn in the “real world” for it to be relatable. Just think of a great date or experience you’ve had. Or think of how a bad one could have gone better. Embellish that event and drop it into your setting. Now you have a relatable sexual encounter in your richly detailed fantasy setting. People are still people. They tend to act on the same impulses.
5. Play the Long Game
Why does Jeff Bezos have the biggest storefront in the world? He plays the long game. Experiment and refine. Learn and grow. Be patient. Take a short-term loss to build a market for an exponentially larger gain.
Yes, dickgirl porn pays now. However, the straight porn audience is much larger…and always will be. Help us invite that much larger audience to the 3D artform, and the payoff will be huge.
What do you think? Chime in. Is there something you’d like to see more of from straight content?
Zitro
July 8, 2020Where’s this image comes from? I would like to know more
Marie Fasolt
July 9, 2020Artist is Looks Can Kill: https://affect3dstore.com/spacexxx-hard-target.html
OSOLOCO
April 2, 2019A Tara, Sayako, and Cerene dolls would be amazing
EnigmaticEntity
March 6, 2019Straight 3DX porn will never interest me, sadly. The only time I ever stray from that is if it’s a set featuring a girl with monsters, which is technically straight when the monsters in question are male in appearance. 3DX porn interests me because it features characters and sexual scenarios I just can’t find in real porn. You can add in any sci-fi or fantasy setting you want, but if it still features a male on female sex scene, I’m just not interested. If I wanted to watch a man and woman have sex, I’d just watch real porn. 3DX drew me in due to the fact that I could find things that just don’t exist in reality. Futas. Monsters. Aliens. There are a great many talented 3DX artists out there who are incredibly creative and can bring stories to life that feature erotic scenarios with all kinds of characters that feature in someone’s fantasy, but not reality. I guess I just fantasize more about things that can’t happen, as opposed to things that can. Most guys fantasize about having a threesome with two beautiful women, but that’s something that can happen. When it does, it’s no longer a fantasy. You’ve experienced it. That’s reality. Beautiful women with cocks – as depicted in the 3DX space – don’t exist in reality, and that (along with monsters, aliens, etc) is something that interests me far more than another straight scene, regardless of how many bells and whistles it may feature.
Gator3D
June 18, 2019This article is a few months old now, but what the heck…
I think not giving straight 3DX porn a chance is selling it short. I agree with Elayn, what’s missing from regular porn is the elaborate environments that are much easier to produce with 3D. In porn, it’s not Hollywood budget and when they try Sci-Fi and Fantasy the budget simply isn’t there and then the environment and costumes look cheesy. Then there’s the acting, usually the acting is not very good and you just FF to the sex scenes.
Another thing you don’t really have in reality – model-beautiful women with perfect bodies who’ll fuck for us in front of a camera. And on top of that, they fuck well not just lie there. Not saying pornstars are ugly, they aren’t – but IMO they aren’t as pretty as most of the 3D women, or really hot Instagram gals whom if your lucky you might see a hint of nipple through some cleverly placed clothing or hands.
I do longer comics on the average. As Elayn put it, a plot of sorts so that you can immerse yourself into the story. It’s true if you just want to see a pretty gal going at it, there’s tons of gonzo porn out there.
Elayn Wilde
March 6, 2019To be honest, the first four items are really for any couple or group, regardless of orientation. The last item is the only one that is really straight-specific. A monster story could be emotionally engaging and relatable too.
hzr
March 3, 2019My sets usually feature most of your points but they sell less than your average futa set here, due to the focus on this for several years.
There is almost no way you will have big sales here with regular non futa content, because you are trying to sell to an audience that is not here for the most part. The only way to get really big sales is with absolutely exceptional content, but that is alot to ask on a regular base, especially when you compare it with the effort required to create a quickfire futa set that might still sell well even if its just some average quality and appeal, simply because there are more fans frequenting the site.
Alot of the people I know who are into non futa content, also do not like futa, so they will stay away from sites where they have to wade through a sea of dicks on chicks, before they can get to the content they are really interested in.
IBT
March 3, 2019Here’s a really simple “test” of intimacy … do either (or any, for that matters) reach out with their hand to (lovingly) caress their sex partner in a way that “speaks” to a desire of some kind (give me more, not so rough, yes right there, you’re making me feel it so much, etc.). That simple gesture of REACHING for a sex partner in a way that suggests that there is a feedback loop of passion/intimacy/libido going on can in a lot of cases make or break the intensity of any given scene. How the touching is done can tell you a LOT about how the characters depicted are feeling about themselves and about each other.
The same thing happens with “oral caresses” of a sexual partner, up to and including biting hard enough to mark (but not pierce) the skin, as well as lip and tongue work, whether it be aimed at the partner’s mouth, face, jaw, neck, shoulder, chest, abdominals, thighs, etc., etc., etc., so on and so forth. Gazing into the eyes of your lover while sucking their finger(s) has a whole different meaning to doing it while your partner isn’t noticing (or worse, doesn’t care about what you’re doing and therefore doesn’t react at all).
That feedback loop of intimacy and feeling, when put on display, is something that an audience can “key in on” and enjoy vicariously, without requiring the audience to sympathetically insert themselves into the scene as one of the participants.
In other words, sex that makes your toes curl is way more awesome than sex that is uninteresting to the participants involved. Don’t just Go Through The Motions … show the REACTIONS and INTER(re)ACTIONS that such sexual activities (ought to) produce. Don’t just have 2 people doing their “own thing” independent of each other in a scene, in which either partner can be easily/instantly replaced with someone else and nothing at all changes about what’s happening (even though that kind of replacement is relatively “easy” to do with 3DX models). Instead, have 2 (or more) people doing ONE THING … together … in which they’re each feeding on AND RETURNING the sexual energies of the partner they’re with, so as to create a feedback loop of lust and passion, rather than just an exploitative “I’m getting mine, fuck you” dynamic in your scenes, since that way leads towards what I consider more “dispassionate” sex.
To be fair, HZR, you’ve often been pretty good on this score, I’m just laying out the principle here to make it accessible to everyone reading this, rather than calling you out specifically on it.
Or to put it another way, don’t just check off the checkboxes of the checklist of positions. While you’re doing that, show how your characters REACT to each other while they’re doing what they’re doing, even if you’re dealing with animation loops. In a lot of 3DX scenes, there really needs to be more points of physical contact/intimacy other than just Poles In Holes. EMBRACE your partner. Hold onto them tightly. Hook and/or wrap your legs around them. Caress them with your hands. Tease them with your lips. Look into their eyes and “connect” with the person (or thing, in some cases) you’re having sex with.
Because when it’s really hot … a kiss isn’t JUST a kiss … it’s MORE …
Elayn Wilde
March 6, 2019Totally agree. More intimacy can strengthen any scene. Even a lot of mainstream live porn fails to convey intimacy, so it’s not like there’s a significant hurdle to clear either.
Ryan
March 2, 2019Well said.
IBT
February 28, 2019One (not so) little divide that I tend to encounter (almost all the time) in 3DX is what I consider the tension between Vicarious versus Voyeur.
Basically, when you’re looking at a particular piece of 3DX, is it something you’re merely “watching” as a voyeur … or is it something you “experience” in a vicarious way yourself due to sympathizing/empathizing with what’s going on? Are you merely a member of the audience seeing (and hearing?) everything from a distance beyond your screen … or are you drawn into the moment (and beyond?) of what is being depicted in front of you in a way that elicits a response from you?
In other words, are you an outsider looking in, or do you wish you were inside the scene too (possibly as one of the participants)? Do the characters in the scene “speak” to you in a way that “connects” with you somehow?
As far as I’m concerned, it’s perfectly possible for all of the elements of a composition to be “hot” in isolation, but when you put them together THAT WAY it all falls apart because the individual bits don’t add up to a coherent (sexy) whole that is enticing, let alone exciting. For me personally, the greatest example of this kind of failure is when there are two (or more) characters on screen doing a bump ‘n’ grind, but as an audience I FEEL nothing for them, nor do I really care in the slightest about what they’re doing (let alone why). In those cases, it’s just a pair of bodies moving together … and even if their bodies are hot and sexy looking (see Tara and Sayako), if I feel as an audience that they’re “ignoring me” as an observer of the action going on, then I feel disconnected from them in a way that makes everything fall flat that’s really unsatisfying.
I mean … if you’re going to put on a show, at least put on a show FOR ME (as your audience) and not just each other. The really good 3DX is the stuff that engages me as an audience and draws me INTO what’s happening, rather than stuff that just puts on a display and expects me to watch it happen (just because).
Korothir3D
March 1, 2019While I understand how you feel, IBT, I think you’re forgetting something right from the beginning:
– Some are making 3DX content that they simply like to make in the first place, and are fine to appeal only to those who share their tastes (and it’s perfectly their right to reason like this).
– Some are making specific 3DX content that is less difficult to make than others , and I’m not talking on the technical level, but really the difference about the “Voyeur” Content and “Vicarious” Content. “Voyeur” Content is much easier/faster to make, because the author is in control of the storyline and can plan all the expectations, reactions, tastes of the involved characters. “Vicarious” Content on the other hand, to be done well and appeal to a large audience, will be far more difficult and incredibly more time consuming. Why? Because the author will have a hard time anticipate all possible expectations from the audience. As all people inside an audience will have many different tastes, it’s obvious that there will as many different expectations. Your expectations won’t be necessarily the same as the other members of the audience and the author is not in your head so what’s obviously enticing for you won’t necessarily obvious for him. For each scene, the author will have to make as many variants for as the number of expectations he will be able to anticipate/guess. Such thing is hardly possible to make it properly with a simple collection of 3D rendered images. The only way to make it really immersive is under the form of a 3DX interactive game asking regularly input from the audience (and that…. is on a whole other level in terms of time needed to complete a project).
– There is also the fact that “Vicarious” Content may limit creativity: there are various types of scenes that just work in “storytelling” mode and would become an endless headache when attempting to involve the audience.
I think, for these reasons (and maybe others I didn’t think about), good “Vicarious” 3DX stuff is doomed to remain limited, and not just a matter of content creators that should pay more attention to audience expectations. Now saying that this content is the “really good 3DX”, I don’t agree with you: this is the 3DX stuff that appeal you the most, but not necessarily “the best”. It just a matter of taste: what engages you may not appeal at all to other people and I think there is really good 3DX in both “Voyeur” content and “Vicarious” content.
But that’s just my two cents.
Elayn Wilde
March 1, 2019Do you prefer the idea of the characters being compelling enough that you immerse yourself imaginatively in one of them, or would you rather they break the fourth wall and engage with you as the audience? I prefer the former, and generally find it unappealing when one of the characters stares at the “camera” when that isn’t representative of the other character’s gaze. I’m like “pay attention to whom you’re fucking.”
Obviously this doesn’t apply to POV, where the point is to engage with you as one of the characters in the first person.
IBT
March 3, 2019On the immersion front, I don’t necessarily need to sympathize with a specific character in the scene enough to want “swap places” with that character so as to “be them” within the scene. I don’t need to feel like I’m vicariously “replacing” a character in a scene in order to enjoy it. Instead, it’s more a matter of … how “distant” do I feel from a scene.
This is really hard to describe adequately, but … there are a lot of 3DX scenes in which there’s a certain kind of … distance/remove between the characters and the audience. Best way I can describe it is as a sort of Museum Rules, where the whole point is that you can Look But Don’t Touch kind of thing going on. The converse to this is where, as an audience, you FEEL LIKE you’re “close enough” to the characters that you COULD reach out and touch them (yourself), even if something like that is never depicted. There’s this sense that you, as the audience, COULD BE involved in the scene, because there isn’t a barrier to your participation, even if such a participation doesn’t manifest.
I guess the simplest test for this difference in direction/composition would be the … intimacy … of the scene, and whether or not that intimacy includes or excludes the audience watching it. Are the characters depicted doing what they’re doing to satisfy themselves ONLY … or are they doing what they’re doing to satisfy themselves AND ME as their audience? In other words, is there a “connection” (of any kind) between what’s happening on screen and myself as the audience for seeing this happen?
Needless to say, a LOT of what makes the difference between those two things involves facial expressions and whether the camera angles used allow those facial expressions to be viewed, even if those expressions aren’t directed straight into the camera purely for the benefit of the audience. The facial expressions tell you what the CHARACTER(s) involved are feeling … and being able to see those expressions (even from the sides and so on) lets the audience feel and sympathize with and vicariously experience those feelings too, even if those expressions aren’t “aimed” directly at the camera in an attempt to show off in front of the audience (“Look at me! I’m being fucked silly!”).
Poles In Holes give you the physical state of the characters.
Facial Expressions give you the mental/emotional/spiritual state of the characters.
Voice Acting gives you even more in the way of mental/emotional/spiritual state of the characters involved.
It’s when you stop having some (or most) of these elements going on that you start putting distance between your characters and the audience watching them “do their thing” in front of you.
Korothir3D
March 1, 2019I also find more appealing and easier to immerse myself when imagining me as one of the character involved than seeing characters “looking at me” while having sex. Except in very rare occasions, it has the very opposite effect of immersion on me. But again, it’s a matter of taste and we are all different 😉