The 3DX world was shocked when it heard that Fullytank’s blog got shut down earlier this year. Fullytank has been infused in the 3DX scene for years, creating some memorable characters like the Paladin and the Apprentice and played his part popularising the monster sex sub genre. The fair maidens play a pivotal role in keeping the peace through an ingenious tradition of offering their luscious soft bodies for the lewd pleasures of the heinous creatures… and all for the greater good of course! For all you women out there, truly inspirational stuff I suspect ๐
So finally we managed to corner the man long enough for him to answer a few questions via the forum from ourselves as well as youย guys, so thank you to those who contributed and thank you to Fullytank for taking the time to answer these questions:
So Fullytank. How exactly did the name come about? Any special meaning to it?
Well, if you consider the background I refer to about my characters and if you are familiar with MMORPG lingo, you should see how “fullytank” is one more form of mockery. Besides of that, the nickname also has some little bits of personal history attached, but these are personal… so sorry about that. ๐
How did you get into 3DX in the first place? When and how did you decide to pick up the craft of 3DX?
I got in 3D for the same reason I am still in it today: to make some porn! ๐ The point is I always looked for some specific content, and thus I decided to make it for myself… and here we are. I love the flexibility you have about creating, posing and interacting with characters!
I think my beginnings were around 12 years ago (!) with Poser 4, but I was very discontinuous about it and I never learned to deal with Poser in a truly technical and professional way. I still consider myself just an amateur and a hobbyist.
Give us all the juicy details on the Paladin and the Apprentice. How did they come to be? What is their back story? What is their relationship? What attracted you to these characters so much you continue to use them to this day?
Wow, this is a large one!
Background wise, I have to admit I created the character first – with a broad and fairly undefined idea about them in mind – and provided with detailed rationales and explanations later. In this process, I have been helped by many good friends (Avuk, JessicaQ, Magnus, Sal and Shocky, to name a few).
My core idea for the paladin was about having a stunningly beautiful girl supposed to fight monsters, but then that cannot help just being banged by them over and over every single time. It is a way of mocking some fantasy stereotypes, like the incredible pretty lady going for battle half naked and in heels and then able to win her confrontations. It could be said that the paladin wins as well, even if in a completely different way! ๐
Her backstory is pretty easy: She got selected to become a paladin, a role to which every elven girl aspires. But paladins are trained on purpose to be weak in combat and flexible in sex, so they can keep away monsters from elven settlements because monsters can sate their lust by using the paladins that come to them instead to go and look for pretty elves in the town and villages.
The apprentice came into existence by toying around another fantasy stereotype: the young and naive mage that get eventually wise. In this case, the character is surely young and naive and for these reasons, she just get plainly used. Her story is easy too: she serves an extremely powerful Warlock. She would like to learn something from him, but she finds the process hard and the guy also scares her a bit. So she just comply to every bizarre request, hoping this would not anger the Warlock and just bring her somewhere in her understanding of magic (hardly so, if I can tell).
The two girls are unrelated to each other, but for the fact of being both elves in a quite-large and mostly female populated enclave that survived a huge apocalyptic surge of sex-related magic.
Why I like them? They are pretty, aren’t them?
If you had to chose, who of the two is your favorite and why?
Choosing one is hard, but if it would be a life-or-death thing, I’ll probably go for the paladin. I made her first, and maybe that’s why I like her the most. But I wouldn’t willing let go on the apprentice too. ๐
How does 3DX compare to regular porn for you? Does it belong in the same category or is more artistic for you? Which do you prefer personally and where do you see 3DXโs edge? How do you see 3DX evolving in the future?
I must admit that I while I enjoy regular porn, I am more found of drawings, no matter if they are 2D (both Western and hentai) or 3D, as long as they have that kinky bit that gather my attention. To me, to main advantage of 3DX is the one that has been acknowledged by many enthusiasts in your forum already: anything can be depicted. Females can be as perfect as you can imagine, and the action can be as weird as you want. Given the kind if things I like to draw, 3DX seemed to me the natural field of application: I can push fantasy and sexual stereotypes as far as I wish.
CyCaDelic asks: Did you make any major changes to the paladinโs original idea since then? Also, in what way – if at all – is Hitmanx3z’s girl “Syndori” related to your paladin and did you ever have an exchange with him regarding this matter or his tribute set?
The paladin hasn’t change since I started working with her seriously (in 2009). It took me a lot to create it, but once she was done, I decided “this is it!” and just stuck with her.
I know that Hitman’s Syndori is based on my paladin renderings. He liked the character and decided to make his own version. After all, in my setting paladin is just a profession so there may be many girls doing the same job ๐ The name he is using (“Syndori”) is derived from the name of the face morphs, but is not the name of my character as well. We had an exchange of emails about this, sure. I admire a lot his version of the paladin, he is way more advanced than me in 3D stuff.
Apopotosama asks: Where do you find inspiration for your characters and your stories?
That is sort of a long story. In the beginning, I was just playing around with fantasy stereotypes and trying to overemphasize sexuality at the same time. Shockingly beautiful girls and incredibly massive monsters seemed the way to go. Going back in time, I think I may have been influenced by a extremely skilled 2D artist Luis Royo. Everyone familiar with him knows that “the beauty and the beast” is a recurrent theme in his works.
Once the paladin was in my Poser and I started playing with her, the first few series came out quite naturally. And then I started asking myself what was behind that character. I had a lot of feedback from people on my blog, and from some of them particularly (I named them already), so little by little they helped me creating a credible background behind the paladin and later the apprentice. Right now, most of this work is handled by Magnus (but he is not the only one). You wouldn’t believe how large and intricated the world behind the paladin and the apprentice is now! The sorry part of this story is that I am unable to render how much of that as I would like to.
Kadosho asks: Are your characters based off of any fantasy tales? Or just concepts that you’ve kept in a journal for a long time?
The answer is leaning more toward the second option. I didn’t have a journal for real, but I have sort of toyed around with the idea of creating this super-sexy fantasy heroines and the surrounding world. As I said, the ideas were not super-refined in terms of background when I started rendering the paladin, but basically refined little by little, as I moved through, also thanks to the help of some friends.
HZR asks: It seems like you have a monster fetish in many of your works. Do you do these type of images exclusively or do you have plans to do something more “regular”? I am asking because I love the quality of your images, but I am sure there are quite a few people around who would love to see something from you that isn’t monstrous.
I have done something more vanilla to fulfill some commissions, and thus more “regular” pics may happen. However, that is not something I am really fond of, so they will be kinda rare. If I have to go vanilla, I rather enjoy doing pinups. Scantily clad pretty ladies are always something good to go with, you can’t go wrong with that ๐
Ymomy wants to know: Why do you like the monsters coming inside your girls? And why so many fluids?
Well, I like the monsters coming into the girls because who doesn’t like that? Iโm pretty sure no monster would stop before getting there! ๐
And about the fluids: Well, I think it is another detail that helps in emphasizing the over-sexuality of the pictures and the setting. Or, stated differently, just make them more kinky. ๐
A lot of artists have their own methods to their madness. How do you create an idea that’s in your head onto the screen in front of you? What is the thought process into making your art? What programs do you use to help you turn that idea into the finished art?
I won’t say there is a method to my madness. Everything is very random. In some cases, I have an obsessive idea I stick with until I get where I wanted to (that’s the case with the paladin). In other cases, I just get what I would like to see popping out of my mind in its complete form. And yet in some other cases, I just start toying with a background or a prop, and things take life on their own (that happened with the troll sets).
I am doing everything in Poser 7 (yes, I am that old fashioned) and you won’t believe the number of renders I do discard because I am not convinced of something (may that be lights, poses, colors, action, or whatever) before getting something I am happy with. Some sets that were nice in terms of concept then aborted because I was not able to come out with anything decent. In some cases, some of these ideas work their way back into new sets, in other cases they keep on waiting (or I just forgot about them!). That’s how it is!
One thing I am totally lacking about is postwork. I am pretty sure I could achieve some better results with a little more effort, but I am so lazy.
What plans do you have for the future? Is there anything you’re working on currently? What storylines and settings do want to tackle next or something you’ve always wanted to do?
Plans for the future? Man, another big one, isn’t it?
I have to say that while I sometimes toy around and create other things too (in a very crude way), I think my main field will remain fantasy. In that regard, the helpful chats I had with the friends I previously mentioned helped filling my mind with other aspects of the lives of elven maidens (well, they’re not really maidens, but you know what I am talking about). Nobles, farm-girls, thieves, etc. There are plenty of things to add to the paladin’s world…and all of them are going to be kinky! ๐
luminox999
October 14, 2013Love to watch that hot piece of ass swallow that thick hot cum and watch it flood out of her twat from being overfilled with cum
Dianaranda
May 15, 2012Hope you can get some time soon again to make some more fullytank
King Vernie
May 14, 2012Could we have some more, please.
fullytank
May 1, 2012The blog is gone, but I have a dA page (http://fullytank.deviantart.com/) and a HF page (http://www.hentai-foundry.com/profile-fullytank.php) now ๐
youngman
April 24, 2012why was it closed down?
YmomY
April 21, 2012Thanks for the answers (n_n)
Dianaranda
April 20, 2012Your blog is very missed Fullytank.
Not to mention getting regular updates on your art!
More paladin.
myself
April 20, 2012Question!!!! where the hell is fully tank main site/page/blog?