This idea is to promote almost non-existent CG porn! If getting naked offends you, best go away now cause I'm exercising some controversy (see me flex!). I couldn't help but laugh through most of this idea, but as usual, the idea does mean something and I hope someone(s) takes it.


PORN!
While you're reading this you should probably multitask and spend some quality time defragging your harddrive in the background, as your Internet Explorer cache full of jpg's have gunked up your filesystem. Every day, I'm informed via email that there seems to be a strong market for "Britney sucking loads of cum!" and whatever else I got spammed about today. Well I'm not in the mood to get lead around by a carrot on a stick so that spam found itself filtered. Like hell you're going to find 'Britney sucking loads of cum' because it's just not going to happen. However, how many people that are being demographically spammed want this dream-come-true? By the size of my spam box and the number of bad photoshopped pics out there I'd say enough. What's the medium? CG baby (computer graphics, rendered models). CG can do many things. This fine model below - all computer generated. Now, convince some people who have modelers that can combine reality and imagination to create a fantasy reality, throw some marketing bucks at it, you've got a growing niche market ready to create an entire industry. The technology is here. Once mainstream enough, costs become so low that a dude in his basement can make the next Jenna Jameson hit without touching a camera. You work out the legal issues.

Maxim featured Dr. Aki Ross as one of their top 100 hottest babes. She's pretty hot indeed. See what a little extra imagination can do? I wonder how many extra copies of Maxim sold due to this CG babe.

One of my favorite lines - "we've got the technology" in which we do, but it can still get better. It's far too bad that the Final Fantasy movie story line sucked so hard, because they really had a good thing going. Final Fantasy represented a very high caliber rendering process. This type of rendering has 'other' uses, as you may have already guessed. So what if someone got so bold as to model up their favorite celebrity, game character, or that hot chic down the block, then molded a skin toned mass of math do his/her bidding? What if you were the person being secretly modeled? Can you make money from such ventures? What are the legal repercussions? Ooo, many questions to be answered.


Possibilities
How about Playboy on CD? Check it out, this month's centerfold, modeled, rendered, with voice overs! Place her on the beach, make her walk around, jump in the water, change the scene, make her put on some of that cute lingerie she had on page 84. Hope your videocard is as strong as your urge to make sweet lovin to your new well shaded g/f. How about ANY model? If you were a fine looking girl (or guy) and had the opportunity to be rendered for ca$h, plus maybe some bonuses, would you do it? Laser imagining can get a quick clean version of your real self (my bro had his face rendered on a SGI machine in under a second, as part of a technology demonstration in Florida, this was a couple years ago). Add motion capture to that and you've got a virtual you.

Ah, then there are game characters. Oodles of them. You've just spent 80 hours playing your favorite rpg watching this hot mage character summon continent destroying spells, wipe evil off the face of the planet, and make a couple cute friends in the process. Well lets celebrate and kick it to the pleasure domes where we can make a bit of a final fantasy of our own! You've spent so much time in THOSE SAME CLOTHES THROUGHOUT THE GAME that only use more cpu cycles to figure out how that robe will flow in the wind, so lets cool down the processor and chill with a tasty beverage. Hang on my pixilated sweets, why don't you take a short nap on my memory card, and I'll take you back to my place where we can get a little Solid Snake action going on. You'll be screaming "up down up down LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A B A START!!!" It'll be more fun than Natasha finding clever uses with Data's periphrials.

Alright, never mind all that. Let's add another aspect of eyecandy. Cel-shading is pretty nifty, and getting that hand-drawn character look can add a certain attractiveness when used correctly. I see a few anime titles that could work with some home grown talent. How about some custom cel-shaded DBZ hotties? Bulma, number 18? You can fill up my RAM any day. Pose you a little like this, and that, and OH! Take a screenshot quick cause that's going into the archives. But where can one find such treasures? Ha. They don't exist, yet.


Non-existent? Whatchu mean?

Tough luck strikes: what rare CG porn that's out there takes some dedicated time to find, especially in any kind of quantity. How could we forget the everlasting popularity of our favorite tomb raiding action packed Lara Croft? She's got a following in this field unlike anyone else. Look over to Quake3, and we'll find almost 40000 downloads of the Hunter nude patch at FilePlanet. Not bad, I guess. The Sims tops the nude downloads at 52k+ downloads (via FilePlanet). People go through some fricken hoops to get their virtual mac on. EGM even made a little side note about how some hardware hackers modified their home console system (I think it was the PS2?), to remove the clothes from the fighters in Dead or Alive. I verified it with a mpg download (found elsewhere), and life was good.

There's a sub market waiting to be tapped into. It can be simple, it can be elaborate. The better the quality, the more recognition. Imagine the detailed artist capturing all appropriate angles to get all the right curves and surface structures, rendering them into his very own proportionally correct Julia Roberts. He's watched her movies, collected the magazine pics, used a little imagination where necessary - what happens? an accurate duplication unfolds. Tedious and difficult work. A rewarding challenge. 3d modeling, rendering, lighting, physics... there's no assembly line, no mass production. It comes a piece at a time.


Legal anarchy?
No law as of current can stop someone from putting their evil genius to work, rendering bodies on the black and grey market. Clone laws can't touch this. Identity theft laws can't touch this. I don't think defamation of character would work particularly well either. Unless the subject hits the House floor of Congress, anybody is free to use their imagination at will. Is this a bad thing? I answer that with "what if it was me being virtually cloned?" A lot of people would have heavy objections, but since it's the owners' creation, and nothing of copyrighted material is actually being duplicated: if you don't like it - well it sucks to be you (and since I'm no lawyer that's all you get). What, you gonna sue someone for painting your picture with a red mustache? Or drawing you with your nuts hanging out? Zip it up McFly!


Sell nude patches, make !GIGABUCKS!
Oh yeah, my flux capacitor is charged! Can you imagine the extra cash flow the makers of Dead or Alive, Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur, and many other would make just by some sort of mail order (or online order) for a cdrom patch that takes the developer like an extra day of work? Soft wonderful vertex light shading and glorious 3d polygon bounce physics all requiring no more than a bit of extra skinning to induce hours of obsessed fan love. What would you do to have "physics designer (I make breasts bounce)" on your resume? A winner every time! Well, maybe in a little bubble world, but that's OK. In fact, play your cards right and don't be limited to 3d. There's more Street Fighter porn out there than you can shake your stick at. Are there moral objections to this? Check your business practices and you tell me you're not trying to capitalize every dollar you can. Morals go right out the window. Yes, people will happily fork over hard earned cash to delight in their favorite character romping around without a care in the world that the camera and 10's of thousands of livingroom onlookers never shy away. Keeping the media and politicians calm is easy too. Are you 18? Can you prove it? Ok! Here's you copy, don't get it sticky! What, dad bought it for you for your 15th birthday? He's older than 18 right? (I'd hope so!) Good! Now go find a girlfriend and don't hide in the basement for the next 15 years.

There's a lot of fan art that takes the fore mentioned idea to sometimes unreasonable extremes, but no one's complaining. I'm not, do what you want and have fun, someone will enjoy it. Fan art is some of the most imaginative material I've set eyes on. No corp in their twisted money making mind could accurately come up with such amusing nonsense - wait, well maybe they could. And have. Whoa. But no one gets naked and pays to see CG get naked, because no one has taken the opportunity to sail their popular licensed product into uncharted waters and risk the risky.

We are entering a time in fear ridden media television where nudity is becoming more accepted. American network tv just this year is allowing for relaxed rules on frontal nudity. YEAH! Well, this doesn't really do much for me since I hate network tv. That's a topic for another time. It's a step in the right direction, with possibilities.

It is possible that the Japanese may have already attempted creating famous model/person renderings. I have a few connections to their subcultures, but not nearly enough to know if their cleverness has already made this idea happen.


references:
CG - computer graphics
naked - good
cel-shading - check out Jet Grind Radio
EGM - Electronic Gaming Magazine
Maxim - Maxim Online
FilePlanet - Lots of files for games n such