Making of Dreams of Luisa 5
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Current Status (April 2007)
Most of the "normal" scenes are ready and i'm really satisfied with the shots. But the actors and actresses are still on the set and working hard. That's because we're shooting the sex scenes now. Dreams of Luisa 5 includes numerous hot scenes and i want them to look most brilliant. SimPose2 is a great help, even it hasn't been updated since ages. From time to time i release a teaser page with special content and nice poster artwork. It's also very funny to do and helps the fans to forget about the terribly long production phase...
I will try to let you know more about the current status of the production. Yes, i say "Production" because a "Dreams of Luisa" Chapter is nothing i can realize over the weekend. There are many many steps to complete till a story is finished and ready for release.
I don't want to lift the curtain too much yet. But it can happen from time to time that you will get a hint about the new story.
When i think that i lift a secret i will mark that as "Spoiler!" If you want to read those parts you can mark the white lines with your mouse to make it visible. But please don't post those content in forums, send your friend to this page and let them decide what they want to know about chapter 5 and what not.
The Story
Dreams of Luisa was actually made to show some hot content, but apart from that a cool story is most important. For DoL5 i wrote many scripts, and finally ended up having a large one, splitted into exactly 40 Scenes.
There are three main strings in the story which will slowly fit into each other in the course of the story. To name it very simple they are "Luisa's way", "Cabo Drago People" and "Sin Zity People".
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Telling the story is still a dynamical process. I often change a few smaller things and dialoques to add more humour, curiosity or more dramatic parts. And i'm very happy to have a pretty good ghost writer, R'bell, who changes my bad english into cool english.
The Cast
The idea was to create a sims-story that works like a real (porn)-movie. So i had the idea to let virtual porn-actresses play roles. For example, the main story character is Luisa Blacksmith, she's been played by the actress Lena Luv. The result is that every in-story character has somekind of "real" identity as an actor or actress! Very funny, in the case of Lena Luv is no longer beeing interested in playing anymore chapters, i just could engage another hottie to overtake the part :)
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Some more Actress-->Role Combinations in DoL 5 are: Vera Ricardo-->Vanessa, Lucy Stevens-->Juliet, Dolly Madison-->Liz Roberts, Richie Rokk-->Frank Roberts, Paula Sweet-->unknown woman, and many more.
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The Sex
The most important thing why people downloading Luisa's naughty stories is, yes, because the stories are naughty!
So i always try to find some interesting "combinations" that are mainly based on my own fantasies and also on the fantasies some of the fans told me. I must say that most of those ideas came from female fans! Even some of the more aggressive scenes. The "Beauty and Beast" theme also seems to be a very popular female fantasy.
Further way up i wrote about the three main cornerpoints of the story. Well, every of these strings is again splitted into two halfs: One half for the telling story, and another one for the sexual story.
For every chapter i have concrete wishes for sexual scenes which i need to fit into the storyline. I want to do this in a way that looks believable to the reader.
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In Luisa 5 i will concentrate on smaller group-sex scenes, mostly threesomes. I can easily add them into the story, they are better to realise, always look beautiful and are a favourite fantasy of many people. Also there will be a good dose of harder, bizarre practices and the "beauty and best" theme will also get its space.
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Technical Issues
I´m actually usings The Sims 2 and the expansions University, Nightlife and Open for Business. I don`t know if i buy "Pets" as well, i've read that it can`t use former saved games. Is it a rumour? I need to find out.
For most of the sex scenes i will use SimPose 2, it's not a perfect program right now, but great enough anyway. I have the feeling that it's more work than doing the in-game-photo-montage that i did in the first four chapters, but the poses look much (!) better. Have a look at the pleased-3d magazine, it shows what i am talking about.
I'm also able to add better picture resolution to the story. But this takes lots of harddisk, my Chapter5 production folder is about 2.5 GB plus all the game-files from the "My Documents" directory.
There is still a lot of picture editing to do! For most of the manipulations i use Photoshop, triggered by a trackball and Graphic-Table.
Also i have to create numerous new 3d-meshes. I think almost every main character needs one, two or even more own meshes! Not to count the related Skins! Note that i not only need Skins and Meshes for in-game running; almost every of those must exist in a SimPose2 compatible form.
Needless to say that SimPe is one of my most important tools.
I create some low polygon 3d-objects as well. Like so many others i use milkshape-3d for meshing. Together with the brilliant plugs by wes_h it's seems to be the best program for such Sims 2 work-outs. And it's pretty cheap ;)
This should be enough for now. I'll try to give you more infos soon. Thanks for reading and keeping this project alive!
