Spreadsheet with Head Sculpts and Bodies

I prepared a spreadsheet, which shows the head and bodies in my doll collection which fit well together.

--- Addendum: this is an old version of the spread sheet. A newer version has been posted in a separate post.

Problems with Video Creation

Here is some information about my experience with various video making tools that I have recently used.

Google Photos

Within Google Photos, short and simple videos can be created in a very simple way: just select up to 50 images, and Google Photos merges them into a video. One can arbitrarily select for each picture how long it should stay. No explicit duration can be selected, nor can be any transition be chosen. Royalty-free Music is automatically added by Google Photos. 

Here is an example:

Adobe Premiere Elements 12

This is an ancient software - I got it, I think in 2012. Paid. It still works fine, but is not very well compatible with Windows 10: the high-res screen GUI resolution is translated into tiny fonts, as there is no Windows-controlled scaling of the GUI. But it works ok and has great professional features: several video tracks and audio tracks, good transition features, fading in/out. 

Disadvantage: it cannot have arbitrary video sizes, e.g. no portrait. There are many fixed size templates with various resolutions and compression, but it is not straightforward to choose the one that would fit best. And there are no recent video Codecs. 

Example: 

Microsoft Movie Maker

That was a good program once - have used it in the past for several little video projects. But when trying to add a series of about 150 3000x4000 pictures, the encoding crept out: stood steady at 2%. Wheel rolling, but no action. Also accidentally clicking on something caused the app to halt. Something is not OK with this software.

I upgraded to PRO, because the standard version allows no saving of projects, only saving of video. But the same problem occurred with that PRO version.

This is all what MovieMaker is showing:

And no further progress.... had to abort and close the app.

Microsoft Video Editor

In Windows 10 hidden is a tool simply called "Video Editor". Simple to use, not many options. No transition between photos. But at least it worked and did not crash after importing the same 150 images as I had tried with the MovieMaker. Duration of each image could be set. Background music could be selected from a range of pre-recorded royalty-free pieces. Not great, but can be used for simple videos.

Here is an example:

I also downloaded "ClipChamp" which was recommended when I started the "Video Editor". Have not yet tried it, but looks simple and contemporary.

The OneSixthual Metaverse: DeviantArt, Twitter, Blogger, Google Photos, Google Sites

Initially I have used this blog for all kinds of info related to "OneSixthuals". I also had a few photo stories here. But in recent months I have trimmed this blog site. It is now aimed at only providing general information about OneSixthuals. 

I hope that this blog site will develop further, depending on my activities. But I have only a limited time which I can devote to this, so I am looking for most efficient ways how to use this time.

Here is how I now structure my activities across the various sites:

1. DeviantArt. https://www.deviantart.com/onesixthuals . This is currently my main outlet, where I post images frequently. It goes very convenient from my mobile phone, from sharing pics within the Google Photos app. There are also quite friendly people there, other artists who sometimes post comments in a good-natured way.
2. Twitter. https://twitter.com/onesixthuals . This is the second outlet. Also works well directly from within Google Photos on my mobile phone. Twitter is very permissive regarding NSFW imagery. I can post here things which I cannot post on DeviantArt. Also I can post simultaneously up to 4 pictures in a single tweet, without loss of quality.
3. This blog will provide (hopefully) up-to-date infos and announcements to everyone across the web. No account needed, just read the blog post. I hope to be able to inform about new interesting developments. Some things here are also kind of a reference to sites, procedures, ideas.
4. The official OneSixthuals web site. https://www.onesixthuals.com/ .  This is used as the overall reference site, with links to books, publications, and back stories. Will also have more detailed and longer-lasting info about certain works and products that have been created.

The following sites I may abandon, because I have no time to keep several sites afloat:

1. Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/onesixthuals . Patreon is actually a great outlet for all kinds of adult digital things. Is the standard for much of the 3D art world. But I have not seen any comment yet, and there seems to be no "community" of sorts. I do have one patron tier there at $1/month, "See all dolls in full nudity", but no patrons have yet taken it. There is a $1 payout fee for paypal payouts. I just have noticed that in the past 2 days 2 pics have automatically been uploaded to PAtreon from DeviantArt. Not sure how this happened... I was not aware of it. Is fine with me - the more the merrier.
2.  SubscribeStar. https://subscribestar.adult/onesixthuals . A nice site with good support for adult things. But same story as with Patreon: very few views, no likes, no comments. I also have a $1/month tier there, but no takers. Therefore, I will keep this alive but not post anything there. Is  not worth the effort.

YouTube Account

I have just created a YouTube account. This was so that I could comfortably host my first video - the female pianist.

The Channel is here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__X-0iJZ8gkb8bNSypjPXQ

Video: Female Pianist plays the Piano

With Adobe Elements 12 (an ancient software which still works OK) I have created a video with one of my dolls, Audrey, playing the piano. This was inspired by one of the stories on DeviantArt, for which I will create a longer photo series. 

The music for this is my own composition resp. improvisation which I recorded on the piano. Sounds somewhat better than those royalty-free background elevator music scores...

Core Account at DeviantArt

A few days ago I accepted the offer from DeviantArt for one year Core membership at $20. 

This seems to me a fair deal.

It gives me the following options which I find useful:

1. Being able to charge for access to a special tier. 
2. Being able to upload videos, e.g. MP4 and other formats.
3. Having sub-galleries within galleries, although those are limited (no text description is possible in sub-galleries),

I have already made use of those features:

1. I did establish a "Strictly Adult Dolls" tier, in which I am now able to offer more explicit pictures and videos that was possible before at the free access.
2. I have created and uploaded a few videos with my dolls. Some have been created directly within Google Photos, but of course the free sound track is mediocre and limited.
3. I have begun to create one gallery just for info about the dolls.

If someone does not have any DeviantArt account, my site may look like this:

With an account, the page can look like this:

Further Changes on OneSixthuals Homepage

The job is never done... I did a few more changes at my homepage:

https://www.onesixthuals.com/

1. The list of dolls was now completed, to include all 15 heads. Only 4 heads now have more detailed descriptions and a picture, but at least the list of names with the manufacturer ID is complete. https://www.onesixthuals.com/16-uals-home/the-female-dolls
2. I revised the page with all the photo stories and published eBooks. Did some experiments with sharing a Google Doc file, but that was not very appealing. Also tried to enter some custom HTML to add a real table (Google Sites does not have tables), but that was annoying to handle with image links. So I did stay with the white limited tools which Google Sites offers, and created a page which I hopefully can extend further with copy-and-paste: https://www.onesixthuals.com/graphic-novels-e-books .
3. I have removed the photostories which were directly hosted on this site. I did this so that I have more control over the adult content and the access to it.

The site is evolving further. It is aimed at complementing my other sites, in particular the DeviantArt site https://www.deviantart.com/onesixthuals .