Wired: Animated Porn Could Be Next Big Thing

SAN FRANCISCO — With the traditional adult DVD market experiencing a slowdown, might animated adult movies make a splash, and more importantly, turn a profit? The answer to these questions, along with an analysis of the animated porn industry, is the focus of a new article in Wired.

Wired asked its readers to imagine a world of adult entertainment that is not bound by the laws of physics or 2257 record-keeping requirements. At the moment, producers don’t need to worry about either of those laws if their performers are computer-generated, Wired reporter Regina Lynn said, so animated or illustrated porn could break new ground.

“The adult industry is too stale,” Tahl Price, co-founder of Priceless Films, a 3-D modeling and animation studio, told Wired. “Porn really needs to add some spice, to be more creative, more innovative.”

The brothers took a demo of their productions to the 2006 Adult Entertainment Expo and after receiving what they said was a positive response, experienced disappointing follow-through.

“People in the adult industry can be very nice, very receptive, but it didn’t seem like they were always there,” Tahl said. “You’d call them up one day and they’d not remember you.”

Tahl chalked up the resistance of most porn producers to not grasping the technology and dismissing his company’s achievements because they don’t have the creativity or skills to do it themselves. Additionally, the brothers did not feel most studios they spoke to would be willing to give an animated production the budget it would require.

Lynn was surprised to hear about the resistance the brothers were experiencing, but noted, “the porn business is also accustomed to churning out the same old stuff with the same old marketing on the same old [low] budget.”

Priceless Films’ first feature, “Sex Agent – 0069,” took almost a year to complete, but now the brothers have quickened the pace on production to only four months. Their second production was a gay film, “Penetration Penitentiary,” which was produced after the company solicited suggestions from the MySpace.com community.

Tahl said the potential for animated porn is larger than hentai, because there is more opportunity to script realistic sex scenes. Priceless Films is exploring themes of sex and violence that could not be achieved by live people but doesn’t go into fantasy sequences or themes common to hentai.

“As I see it, this is erotic entertainment for the generation that made geekdom cool, those of us who grew up reveling in nerd culture and who don’t see why online porn is a big deal,” Lynn said. “We like sexy, we like edgy, but we’re suspicious of big media and marketing engines that repurpose the same characters and memes over and over and over again.”

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