The Titaneer Interview Part 1

Hey fellows! I didn't quite know where to post this, since it's a fictional interview I conducted with myself about why I do what I do. I posted it on DA but thought maybe I should post it here too. Enjoy! I apologize for the lack of growing females in said interview. Maybe next time… 😀

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(Tonight on Hard Times, Lydia Redsmith will be interviewing Brustaville’s favorite infamous citizen, Titaneer. Get ready for the HARD answers!)

Lydia Redsmith: That sounds like something adult, ‘hard’ answers.

Titaneer: No joke! I think I ran out of decent puns for that one.

LR: Okay, let’s get started. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

T: Okey dokey! I go by Titaneer online and I make titans. It’s only a coincidence that a certain three letter word is at the start of my name.

LR: When you say ‘Titans’, you mean you like seeing normal woman transformed into busty hulking versions of themselves. Some people are offended by that. Your thoughts?

T: Well, to each his own. I like it and I’ve met other people who like it. I can understand how growing giant muscles and breasts can offend people though. It’s different and just not seen in the real world. This is fantasy after all, so it couldn’t really exist in the real world.

That being said, I don’t want people to think that I’m endorsing steroids or breast implants or anything like that. On the contrary, people should just be happy with the way they look. Nobody’s perfect. It might sound contradictory to my chosen profession, but that’s what I believe. And if by some chance someone did exist who looked like one of my models, I’d like for them to know that I know giant breasts can lead to all sorts of problems, physical and emotional. I may be attracted to large breasts but I do know that they have their drawbacks and I wouldn’t just wish them upon anyone.

Female Muscle Growth and accompanying Breast Enlargement are fantasy fetishes. Some people like feet. Some people like sneezes. Some like hands or faces. Some like furries, some like fat. Some like S & M. Just because I like producing this art does not mean I expect everyone to like it.

When we deny something else the right to exist, we are denying ourselves the right to exist. Our logic towards hating something based solely on likes and dislikes can be utilized against what we like as well. If we went around hating everything that we didn’t like, we would be hating twenty four hours a day. Life’s too short to spend it hating everything.

LR: What is it about FMG and BE that attracts you so much?

T: I’ve always enjoyed strong female characters. My first crush was She-Hulk, and my second was Caitlin Fairchild. When I discovered the internet, one of my favorite websites was Lorekeep’s Process website. It had a lot of FMG that just rattled my young brain to no end. If there was a lady ripping out of her clothes be it by FMG or BE, I loved it.

As for artistic draws, I’d like to think that FMG helps symbolize a woman’s inner strength in a way that hasn’t been recognized much before the feminist movement of the seventies. Before the seventies, there weren’t that many super strong female characters, if at all to my knowledge. Wonder Woman was the exception, but she had been losing her powers and been tied up so often that it undermined her symbolism as a strong character. I think the most common power among early superheroines was invisibility, and it’s downright scary how often it pops up. Lady Phantom. Nalvana of the Northern Lights. Invisible Girl. Wonder Woman had an ‘invisible jet’. There was even an issue of Action Comics where Lois Lane transforms into a “Female Hulk” and terrorizes Metropolis, but her other super power is that she shrinks down to microscopic size. As far as powers go, women got the powers that made them invisible to danger or shrink to avoid it. It wasn’t until the advent of characters like Power Girl and She-Hulk that the strength of a woman’s character could also be seen in her super powers.

So while there are women (and probably men) who think that I’m degrading women by rendering them so big and busty, I’m also trying to emphasis traits anyone can sympathize with, like strength and self-confidence and the courage to be yourself.

LR: So why is it that you frequently render your lovely ladies topless or in nothing at all?

T: It’s embarrassing, but I’d much prefer them clothed. However, the way 3D art works makes it next to impossible to do.

The girls you see me use get their muscles from morphers that deform the model’s basic geometry into the form that you see. Clothing in most 3D art suites is similarly deformed by the same morphs so that they’ll fit over a model, but the problem is that because the morphs I use on the girls are so extreme, the clothes literally aren’t made to conform to girls their size.

The other way I can try to clothe them is with ‘dynamic’ clothing, which is clothing stretched to fit through animation. What that means is that I start with a baseline model, insert a bunch of frames where she ‘grows’ into her final form, dress her up, and hope that the animation will stretch the clothes satisfactorily over her.

LR: Sounds sexy and fun!

T: It is, and I quite like doing it! Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work. And I’ve yet to find a bra I can use that fits them.

LR: You were gone for two months this last September and October. Where were you?

T: World of Warcraft. I’m still stuck there. Save me! *laughs* I’m trying to budget my time better, although you’ll probably miss me again once Wrath of the Lich King comes out. It goes away eventually.

LR: Do you do commissions?

T: I’d love to do commissions! My problem is that I still don’t totally understand how to use paypal to receive money for my work, and my ability to render anything other than uber busty and nude females paints me into a corner. And then there are the technical challenges that come up from the work. Rendering isn’t as free form as 2D drawings and art. I have one request I’ve been sitting on for a while because I can’t get her dang clothes to fit right, and I can’t find the right clothes that the requester would like.

So in short, yes, I’d like to do commissions, but they are very, very hard to do to get exactly like people would want.

And while we’re on the subject of 2D drawings, I have tried it, but I do them in pencil and they never show up on my scanner. And I can’t draw muscles to save my life. D’oh!

LR: What limits do you put in place on art that you will and will not do? I’ve seen you do celebrity models. You seem to have quite a thing for Audrey Hepburn.

T: I love Audrey Hepburn. I first made that model on a dare from a friend and after I was done, thought, “Eh, why not?” and gave her the whole Titaneer treatment. She’s gorgeous, and were she still alive today and in her prime I’d want her to be She-Hulk, no questions asked.

As for other limits on what art I will and won’t do, I stay away from real people except for celebrities. I just don’t want to get sued by upset girlfriends who discover pictures of themselves “Titanized”. Now I have been meaning to make a render of Stacky for “TLink and Stacky” because they’re the coolest BE couple on DA, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Also, no girls under the age of 18, celebrity or otherwise, will be modeled by me with the Titaneer treatment. I don’t want to get in trouble with anyone, especially deviantart.

LR: True or false: photobucket banned you for trying to host your little renders on their site?

T: True. File hosting stinks, and I wish I had my own website for just this purpose. I did have one person who wanted to help build a website for me, but he got distracted and lost interested after I revealed that I wanted this to be a more adult oriented site.

LR: You mentioned making money. Why don’t you make your renders available for prints through the DA print service?

T: I’d love to, but if you read the fine print, DA looks at the files sent in to get printed, and I’m pretty sure my adult oriented materials would get me banned in a microsecond. Although I must say I think I’m pretty tame compared to some of the stuff out there. My corner of DA might have busty barbarian swordswomen, but all they do is stand there looking pretty.

LR: What projects do you have coming up that people can look forward to?

T: Well, I’m trying to learn animation but it is very, very hard. My hat’s off to people who can do it. I did make one short thirteen second animation in Carrara just to see if I could do it and, while I liked the results, don’t have Flash or Winzip to render it in a manner uploadable.

I’d still like to do a webcomic on Chaz and Dora, but I don’t have the patience for even a weekly webcomic and I’d still like to get a nice bikini top for Dora, somehow. Technology is getting better everyday, so maybe someday soon Chaz and Dora might be a reality.

I also have a sequence voted on by the fine folks at amaz0ns that I promised them I’d do involving Billie Piper from Doctor Who and Alysan Hannigan from Buffy. It’s pretty much a question of sitting down and making the models, but it’s hard work I just have to gear up to do. I do plan to deliver on that, make no mistake.

Finally, National Novel Writing Month is coming up. While my prose might lack the descriptions necessary to make really dynamite FMG scenes, I might try to write a decent 50,000 word novella about the fictional Titaneer and the lovely ladies of Brustaville. Could be fun!

LR: Finally, what are some artists you really admire and wish you could emulate?

T: I can’t play favorites. There are a lot of talented people, both on DA and not, that work their fingers to the bone trying to make art both fetish and non-fetish related. There is some stuff out there that doesn’t look the greatest, but it’s still a lot of work to them and they should be supported whenever possible. Heck, you should see some of the renders I first made starting out. So embarrassing…

If I had to name just one artist as a major inspiration, it’d have to be ReadyArt. I know he doesn’t do FMG, but the way he draws ripping clothing I have never seen matched by anyone else. He keeps getting better and better, and what’s more, he loves posting his stuff for free! And reading his journal entries and comments, he responds to every comment people write on his web site. Among artists, I have to say that he’s a rare and generous breed.

I also have to thank Foxtrot 3D for getting me started. He’s got the ornery disposition of a drill sergeant sometimes but he’s honest and one of the best lighting guys I’ve seen in 3D art. And he makes his women big breasted. I can honestly say that without him, Titaneer Labs would not exist. Even though he’s made his own pay site, he’s earned his dues. He’s one of the best and dang good at what he does. And he does commissions for folks interested.

Everyone I’ve met here at DA has been a treat to talk with. Art needs an audience to exist and none of us disappoint. I love how all of our work tends to feed off of each other and build and build. There’re a lot of artists I could name, more than I can remember, but suffice it to say the FMG community here is great and understanding. To everyone who puts pencil to paper or paint to canvas, to those who love to imagine cute and busty women exploding out of the confines of their everyday bodies, each of you is awesome. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.

LR: Thank you very much for taking the time out to talk with us today, Titaneer!

T: Thanks, Lydia, and thanks for putting up with my little corner of insanity. Hopefully the best is yet to come!