I hear it over and over again how people LOVE vore so much yet they still do not want to help donate or offer any kind of monetary support for the sites that bring them this fantastic fetish. As been discussed numerous times over the years, it costs money to run a site. Yes, it’s free you all of you, but it costs site owners time and money to run a site, especially when custom art needs to be created. Your time is just as valuable as ours.

Yes, you say you know all of this, yet as time passes, you see legendary artist and sites disappearing without a trace. Does anyone ever bother to ask why or find out why or what happened? I just found out the other day that the amazing Reddmann left the game because he got sick and tired of people requesting things and asking him to do it for free. Unfortunately, since we had some past problems with him we never got a chance to team up. I personally think that would have been a great venture since we had the same names, just that he did a live action and we did animations.

From doing this for 7 years and seeing all it’s ups and downs, I strongly believe that even greats like PD got sick of people distributing his works without his permission and also got sick and tired of all the demand for free vore art. Him and all others realized that their time is more important than heeding to the demands of users who just WANT something, but never give back.

Now the great DisturbedThings forum is having problems with registration. Wake up people. Doc and Flipper probably just decided to say “FUCK THIS” and I don’t blame them. Running a forum is a lot or daily work and maintenance… and for what? They do it for free so that’s their own time they spend moderating the forum. They could be out enjoying themselves in the sun and relaxing. Maybe they’re the guys who hit the lotto and said “SEE Y’ALL LATER!” And if most of you didn’t know, the hosting provider will ALWAYS notify you that a domain is going to expire at least a month in advance and how much you have to pay to keep it going. They will always warm you about going over your bandwidth limits as well way in advanced. Wake up people!

That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong and probably am, but I strongly believe there’s some obvious hesitation going on there.

Doc/Flipper, if you need help with funding to get DT back up, let me know. I would like to help you guys! You guys have welcomed us throughout the years and we consider you close family! If you just sick and tired of it all, I don’t blame you.

In the years that I have been doing this, I’d say there were about 20% of you who are truly into this and would support the sites no matter what. I can tell that in what you write to me and your questions and how engaged you are in the subject matter. The rest of the 80% of you just needs a quick outlet to wack themselves off to for that day, and then looks to grab free stuff from many other different sites to get your rocks off for the remaining days of the week. You’re the guys who can “get by” without having to support the sites you love.

All I know is, and I guarantee you this, if you offer more donations and monetary help to the sites you love, you will surely see them around much longer. No one runs a site merely for the kicks of it, unless you’re a super young prodigy with no family life and worries, or you’re very rich and do not need the money.

No way, no how. Not in this world does anyone do anything for free, let alone pay for something out of their own pocket and not get a single thing out of it. Everyone has a reason and motive. Mine is to just survive in the screwed up economy.

- Stacey

SO THIS IS IT. If the opening weeks of Voreville does well, it will live on. If it does not do well, it will be time to move on. It’s going to really be up to you, the fans out there, to decide the fate of Voreville. I have convinced almost all my old crew members to come back IF the opening weeks statistics perform well. In the meantime a few of them are now helping me complete our unfinished pieces that we were working on before the split up. I will NOT have resources to hire any new artists at this time.

April to August – Complete tear down and rebuild of gallery.
This includes porting over 2000+ vore manipulations into the new gallery one by one and property tagging and describing each of them for easy search. This also includes rebuilding all current videos to remove the old troublesome DIVX codec. As many of you experienced, you were forced to download a codec before you were able to view our videos. This proved to be cumbersome and unreliable over the years causing lock ups and crashes. With the new gallery you will have instant viewing pleasure. No need to wait for super long downloads. You can now leave comments on everything as well. In the old gallery you could not leave any comments, so we never knew what you all really like and disliked. This new gallery will help us determine that much easier.

July to September – Completion of all unfinished projects.
This includes all those projects that we once listed the statuses of somewhere on our blog or on the DisturbedThings forum. We had a lot of stuff partially completed. This will give us 3 months for pure rendering time to complete our renders. I was fortunate that one of my associates works for a company that had a lot of old machines lying around. We were able to gather a few of them to create a small render farm again.

September to October – Finalizing all new changes and QA of new gallery.

November – Planned Re-opening

November to December – Statistics analysis of the month to determine if Voreville will continue in 2013.

With that said, this will be the final push to get anything and everything I have thrown into getting Voreville back up and running. When we do open back up with new material again, I will gauge the opening months and how well it does. If it does well, I will make sure to keep pushing to keep Voreville alive. If it doesn’t do well, Voreville will just have to close permanently. The future of Voreville is really up to you!

So if you really enjoyed our works, show us your support when we need you! Spread the word! Keep watch on the blog for new previews of what’s to come!

Thanks everyone for your patience!

- Stacey ^_^

Summary:

- Webhosting (needed to host the website)
- Paying artists (custom models, specialized riggers and animators)
- Production costs (computers, equipment and software)
- Services (rendering services needed for final render)
- Purchases (sound effects and music for a particular piece)
- Energy consumption (leave in a single power hungry workstation at home continuously for weeks and see how much your energy bill skyrockets. Now imagine how much $$$ it would take to run 2-3 of them.)

Do you recognize these sounds and clips? Of course you do! It’s our newest logo and trailer right? We’ll since I couldn’t afford to hire foley artists and motion graphics artists, I had to purchase templates that allowed editing it to our works. Every video you see, costs some kind of production money.

Logo with music $53

$50 http://www.pond5.com/after-effect/921265/ink-drop-logo.html
$3 http://www.pond5.com/sound-effect/680885/hours-of-death.html

Trailer with music $108

$18
http://www.pond5.com/stock-music/842301/devils-revenge-1-minute-version-a.html

$90 http://www.pond5.com/after-effect/981349/water-color.html

Sure you can buy templates, but just take a look at how much the software to run it costs. It’s not cheap, but you get professional results! Of course we purchased this awhile back but it still costs to upgrade it!

$923.61 Adobe After Effects on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2287436011

Also take a look at how much resources and money it takes to render a single animation. Why do you think they have websites like “RenderRocket” so small shops like us can pay to get our projects done in a more timely and efficient manner. Without them trying render one 1-2 home machines would take half a year to render a single 3 minute animation. And most of ours are only about 1 minute or less long.

Rendering costs:
http://www.renderrocket.com/pricing/

Mid level rendering costs $99 per server per week. Our renders usually need about 3-5 servers running 24-7 for a month to get though our pieces. With 5 servers that’s about $2,000 a month for one single animation.

Crazy huh? It sounds crazy, but it’s reality. One small animation less than a minute long can cost up to $2000 or more to produce. And that’s only the finalizing part of the animation!

Remember before all that happens, you need to create the assets and animate them, but I already discussed that process a few blogs back. You know those cool new monsters I have been posting around? EACH ONE of them had a price tag of over $800 to have someone custom create them from scratch to our specifications. That’s not including animating them either. Sorry, those models will never go on sale or be released to the public. If you want your own monsters created, you can hire talented artists on Guru and oDesk.

Here’s the bottom line. I don’t believe in GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). I strive to produce the best works I can. That is my specialty. That is my skill set. That is what I do best. All of that takes money.

Support us and we’ll return the favor by giving you the best vore experience we can give to you.

What I have learned in all of this is that I really needed to stop wasting my energies those who oppose us, and turn my focus to those who really supported us though the years. I am now lying my trust and directing my efforts to those who understand the process and are willing to support us no matter what. You know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart! Listening to all of you these past few days has really opened up my eyes to the whole picture… the important picture… to take care of our supporters and ignore the haters.

- Stacey ^_^

I really did not think downloading was the problem. The problem was that some of you decided to re-post our videos. Why? What do you gain in that? All you do is hurt the website that you joined to get the movies in the first place. I does not make any sense.

Then there are those who post our videos on YouTube, claim to be us, take our exact words, and even make up things like “FULL VERSION LEAKED” just to get people to look at their video and see the SPAM link embedded into our own video. Really???

I also realize that no matter what videos are already out there, it’s really YOU the individual member that decides whether to help support our website or go look on the web and look for torrents. By speaking to many of you these past few days, I am convinced that a lot of you do understand and are willing to support us no matter what. You loyal members are the keys to Voreville’s success, which is why I do not want to give up on you for supporting us all these years

Anyway, instead of fighting it, why not try embracing it. I have decided it’s time for a huge change. I am implementing a whole new system / gallery that will make things faster and more efficient for everyone. I am hoping this new change will help me raise enough funds again to pay artists to get the projects on the back burner finally complete. Since I do not have funds to pay anyone currently, I am going to take the next few months to complete this idea myself. This new setup will be much much more interactive and fluent than our current gallery.

Members will no longer need to wait an extra 10 minutes for long downloads. Members will get instant gratification when watching movies by clicking play and seeing it play right away! No more having to download that pesky DIVX codec and having codec deciphering issues! Members can now message each other, leave feedback comments and rate every video, picture and audio. All of which we did NOT have since we started our website. Previous members know how clunky the old gallery was and the was no way to communicate or leave comments.

In light of all that has happened, it was a good change for us. A whole new revamp and reprocessing of our entire gallery will occur in the next few months. It will give me some time to kick some of the newest renders back on since the computers have no artists working on them. Once the porting is complete, I will open Voreville to the public again.

All I can do at this point is ask every member to please play by the rules. If you really like us and want Voreville to stay around for awhile, keep our videos to yourselves please. Membership fees are very important if you want us to keep trying to make movie quality vore videos, and maybe even a movie one day! And members, please be aware out there and let us know if you see unauthorized postings of our works. You are our extra pair of eyes and we need you!

If our supporters have anything to say / comment / suggest what I should and should not be doing with the new setup, NOW is the perfect time to speak up.

Here’s a full list of features to look forward to in the new PROPOSED gallery!

- Supports Multiple Languages

- Members can not only share videos, but also pictures and audio with other members.

- Member controlled e-mail alerts for video conversion completion notification, video comments, picture comments, audio comments, profile comments, private messages and friend requests.

- Tag Clouds – Audios, Pictures and Videos
Multiple tag clouds for audios, pictures and videos have been added to the homepage.

- Website Statistics
Detailed website statistics have been added to the homepage which include users online, videos, pictures, audios, channels and comments counts.

- Recently Uploaded Videos
Shows videos ordered by the most recently uploaded.

- Featured Videos, Pictures and Audios
Featured videos, pictures and audios, which are shown on the homepage.

- Top Videos, Pictures and Audios
The top media are show on the homepage

- Categories
A listing of the video categories, picture categories and audio categories is shown on the homepage for easy access.

- Profile Pages
Upload Profile Background Picture
Members can upload their own profile background picture if they wish, otherwise the default background is shown.

- Social Networking Profiles
Advanced member profile pages encourages social networking by allowing countless interactions with other members.

- Subscribe To Member
Logged in members can subscribe to other members.

- Send Message
Logged in members can send the member a message from their profile.

- Add To Friends
Logged in members can send friend requests.

- Member Statistics
Detailed member statistics are shown on the their profile including profile views, videos, comments, subscribers, etc.

- Member Videos
The last 5 uploaded member videos are shown, with a link to show all the member’s upload videos.

- Member Pictures
The last 5 uploaded member pictures are shown, with a link to show all the member’s upload pictures.

- Member Audios
The last 5 uploaded member audios are shown, with a link to show all the member’s upload audios.

- Member Channels
The last 5 uploaded member channels are shown, with a link to show all the member’s created channels.

- Profile Comments
All comments on the member’s profile by other members are shown.

- Member Favorite Videos
The last 5 favorited videos by the member are shown, with a link to show all the member’s favorited videos.
- Member Favorite Audios

The last 5 favorited audios by the member are shown, with a link to show all the member’s favorited audios.
- Member Favorite Pictures

The last 5 favorited pictures by the member are shown, with a link to show all the member’s favorited pictures.

- Member Subscribers
The last 5 member subscribers are shown, with a link to show all the member’s subscribers.

- Member Subscribed To
5 randomly chosen members the profile owner is subscribed to are shown, with a link to show all the members the profile owner is subscribed to.

- Member Friends
10 randomly chosen friends of the member are shown, with a link to show all the member’s friends.

- Member Information
Profile member information is shown on the the profile page, including name, birthday, gender, city, country, description, website, etc.

Account Status

- In the My Account page, member can see detailed statistics of their account including their account status, e-mail status and summaries of all interactions.

- Account Functions

Members can change their e-mail, change their password, change their avatar, toggle their family filter, edit their profile, change their profile background image, as well as change their profile picture.

- Avatars
Members can use one of the provided avatars, or upload thier own custom avarar which is shown on all comments throughout the site.

- Family Filter
Before members can view mature content, they must turn their family filter off, which is on by default for new members and guests.

- Messages
Members have an inbox, where they can view received messages from other members, as well as reply to them.

- Sent Messages History
All messages the member sends are recorded in their sent messages history, which can be deleted.

- Member Friends
Members can view as well as remove their current friends.

-Friend Requests
Requests to be a member’s friend are shown, where they can accept or reject it.

-Channels, Videos, Pictures and Audios
-Members can view, edit or delete any of their created or uploaded channels, videos, pictures and audios.

Search System

- Popular Searches
A record of the search terms are kept, and the most popular search terms are shown on the search results page.

- Multi-Search
When you search for something, the number of results for that search term for other sections are also shown for users convenience.

- Search From Any Page
With our advanced search system, users can search from any page they are on by clicking “Search” on top of the page.

- Add Video To Channel
Logged in members can add videos to channels.

- Subscribe To Member
Logged in members can subscribe to other members.

- Social Bookmarks
Viewers can add the media pages to their favorite social bookmarking website.

Upload Channel Background Picture
- Members can upload their own channel background picture if they wish, otherwise the default background is shown.

Join Channel
- Logged in members can join the channel without page re-loading.

Rate Channel
- Logged in members can rate the channel without page re-loading.

Channel Video Player
- The latest video added to the channel is shown on the channel video
player.

Channel Comments
- Comments made to the channel are listed.

Channel Videos
- Videos added to the channel are shown on the right of the video
player.

Channel Members
- Members who joined the channel are listed.

Sections

Video Section
- Video section of the script lists all videos, with the option to order
via recently added, most popular, top rated, top favorites, featured or by runtime length.

Picture Section
- Picture section of the script lists all pictures, with the option to
order via recently added, most popular, top rated, top favorites, or featured.

Audio Section
- Audio section of the script lists all audios, with the option to order
via recently added, most popular, top rated, top favorites, featured or by runtime length.

Members Section
- Members section of the site list all active members, with the option
to sort by recently joined, recently online, profile hits, video
views, featured, only men or only women.

Channel Section
- Channel section lists all channels created by members, with the option
to sort by recently created, most subscribed, most viewed, featured, top rated or most comments.

Account Help

Forgot Username
- If members forget their username, they can now request it by entering
their e-mail address and have it e-mailed to them.

Reset Password
- If members forget their account password, they can now request it by
entering their username and have it e-mailed to them.

Comments Paging
- Video comments, audio comments and member profile comments have paging support so comments can be limited per page.

Delete Comments Instantly
- Members can delete comments they posted, or delete comments other members posted on their video, picture, audio or profile

For years we try to get anyone in the community involved in collaboration projects either with us or other vore artists. We even tried to bring the community together by starting up a contest and trying to get the best works out of the vore artists in hopes we could gather all of them to make one nice piece together. We tried to make a free vore magazine which some of you did help create. We never got any feedback about any of those projects so it seems like it was just a waste of time. We can’t read minds, we just go by the stats. It boils down to numbers… if the stats are high, we assume people are interested. If they are low, we’re going to assume no one gives a hoot. So I decided that it was “time”. Time to just let it all go, get my own life back on track. I thought it may be time to move on. Maybe my ambitions were just too high for what was available.

Then everyone comes out of the woodworks telling me it’s sad news that this has happened. Where was all the feedback when we had asked? We’re not mind readers, my team had no idea people cared this much about our efforts otherwise they would have stayed.

Anyway, I am already toying with the idea of a whole new, more secured gallery setup that may work for us with full on tracking and monitoring for any suspicious activities. Months of testing needs to be done. It may allow me to open Voreville up to the public again. Thanks to all of your for your excellent ideas and tips on how to make life easier on us! I do appreciate it! My team will appreciate it once they see this. It may even peak their interest to come back!

Stay tuned…

I’m sure they ALL do have the same problem of users re-posting their videos to the public without permission. What they don’t realize is they are making current members angry and causing the studios to lose money. Larger studios can take the hit better than smaller mom and pop shops like ours.

But what most people do not realize out there, and I really wish they did, that creating animations and special effects takes a lot more time, special software and special artists to work on the special software. Filmmakers have it slightly easier in terms of time and resources. They pay a model for a days work, film one day, and they have TONS of clips to work on and create a lot of new releases with.

Animations and special effects on the other hand takes someone to create the characters, texture them, create the scene environment, animate the people/creatures, light the scene with all the models in it, and render it. The WHOLE process can take more than 1-2 months just to setup and perfect whereas, videographers can just setup and shoot the following weekend and have a shit ton of clips to play with and work with again. After the setup is perfected, animation takes over and that can take another few months to perfect. After that the rendering process takes over and that is probably the LONGEST length of time in the process. I’m not taking away from the difficultly of any one’s tasks, but as I said in my other posts about how long it takes to render some of these scenes, you can see how much more time is involved in animation.

And that is why you do NOT see ANY other special effects house that does what we do, trying to get CG monsters eat sexy hot models in movie quality. You’ll see some of that in SCI-FI channel movies, but how often did you see a team like ours who tried the things that we have been? No one… unfortunately.

Hence we heavily relied on memberships to keep things running. Open your eyes, do Google searches on the cost of producing animations and special effects. Most companies that do that are 100+ workers strong. We were only 2-4+ workers strong. Now down to 1-2+.

Let me begin by explaining why I’m even writing this post. First off, I want you all to know that this is a terrible business to get into. It’s demanding, and there’s never enough resources to do the best 3D / CG you can. It requires artists with extremely special skills that you can’t find out there often. When you do find someone that can work with all the high end software, they cost an arm and a leg. Most vore fans are Poser artists, which made it difficult for us to integrate into our pipeline. Sorry about that Poser guys. It just so happened that 3D Max has been our choice of software since we started. Rayzor did ALL his animations in 3D Studio when we first began. Anyway, long story short, we also enjoy VORE which is why we kept doing it for so long. We just put so much man hours into it all it was always hard to let go. I guess in a way, this angry user who released all our hard work to the internet helped me realize it was time to let go. We had a great 7 years with everyone in the community. Now it’s time for me to concentrate more on my life which is what really matters. I got so tied up trying to please everyone that I lost sight that I am ageing and getting old! I need to do things before I die! …or get eaten! Ha!

Anyway, I learned one big lesson out os all of this. No one really cared about high end HDRI lighting or renders that took 2 hours a frame. No one really cared about seeing movie quality vore as much as we did and that was the problem I did not see from the start. Actually I shouldn’t say “no one”, I meant a very few. I still have that passion to push for the best in everything.

Simplicity was really the key. That’s where I messed up. We tried the full 3D route and we tried the CG / live action route as well. Both were great methods but one required too much computer power and one required hiring real models to act out being eaten correctly. 90% of the time the acting and expressions was not convincing enough according to the feedback we got.

It’s too bad because we were almost there. I should have known something was up when we lost contact with John at DevilClown. This would have been such a supberb piece. John, what happened???

We had some exceptionally great collaboration works with DIDVP and a lot of great footage, but now no artists to help finish it up our projects unfortunately. We had some really great shots too. Very HOT! A model in red hot lingerie, being constricted and eaten alive by a monster snake, what more could you ask for? Yes I know, a naked girl would be HOT too, yes I know. I had to take baby steps, ok? If this was successful, then we could have gone that route as well.

Voreville & DIDVP Collaboration - Snake Vore

After John left I thought I would try different and new things for Voreville. All 3D took too much time so I though why not get half the work done with just filming a model acting, and then slap CG right no top. Of course this required even more special skills from artists so they charged us more. I figured a change would have been nice, but apparently it did not work.

So then I tried building up our base library with professional high quality monster models. They were super high quality all right. The best looking I have seen! Unfortunately rendering them in an animation was virtually impossible. It took 2.5 hours just to render this one huge HD image. Just a 33 second animation will require about 990 rendered frames (30 frames per second). If it took two hours to render one frame, it would take 1,980 hours to render the 33 second animation in HD. That’s 82.5 days of non stop rendering on one machine. I meant business when I wanted this to get to movie quality. I wasn’t kidding!

Voreville Spider Monster Full

After all that was said and done in the last few years, there were only a handful of people that genuinely reached out and spoke to us like friends. I personally thank those of you who did that. It really made a big difference. Voreville went through some really tough times and you helped us get through that.

This time however is different. My team is gone, and I just do not have the time nor the energy to keep this up. Running the site was fine, but dealing with users that blatantly disregard our wishes not to post videos outside of Voreville was the last straw. Why? What do you gain in doing that? All we wanted to do was make cool vore art.

When you re-post our videos with erroneous titles, you mislead others into thinking something else. They join and become infuriated that they don’t see what’s posted inside the member gallery. We have to do damage control. You waste our time and time is money. And after all that I get accused of being stingy?

When you share memberships and give out logins you take away funding for paying the high end artists. If you think they’re cheap, just find one that will animate for you, then tell them they have to animate “vore” and see how much rates go up.

All the time spent policing the videos could have been spent on making new vore art and animations. But you all have heard this spiel before. John has mentioned this time and time again and so have I. At this point it’s a moot point.

Memberships helps pay for the hardware and software needed to create digital art. Autodesk and Adobe products are NOT cheap. If you haven’t noticed we don’t use pen and paper to create our art. I never understood why users got so angry just to support the people trying to make this specialized art for YOU.

TheVoreTube is hosted by Arvixe.com, take a look at how much a year it costs just to host the site under the VPS Pro. The site makes NO money and it purely for YOU all to enjoy. And yet a few of you still choose to abuse it by posting other’s art.

Users won’t ever get it so there’s no point in me wasting MY time anymore. As we get older we realize the more important things in life. I had no idea WHY I got tied up and so involved in this, especially for all the ungrateful users out there. I will only concentrate MY time on those who are true Voreville fans.

So with all that said, those of you who had corresponded with me before more than once, or have the specified requirements (see previous post about access), just contact me and we’ll talk about details. If you don’t meet the specifications and you don’t want to do the homework, then too bad. To weed out all the current bad seeds, everyone will need to sign up again only through Verotel which requires a valid credit card. I will check the card myself and will require a valid phone/text confirmation from you as well. Email me for the complete details.

All those who could care less about all of this… great! …the less headaches for me.

Less is more. See you all on the flips side!

Stacey ^_^

The user found our site by searching “plant vore”
The user landing page was /browse/videos/z/0/1/RecentlyAdded
Language is de-de German
The user is located in Western Europe, Austria, Vienna
The user runs Firefox 11.0
The user is on a Windows machine, 24-bit, and 1280×800 resolution

On 3-26-2012 at 3AM our time, you decided to be stupid. We see all activity that goes on, you know.

Not like that extra detail will help most of you out there, but it will surely help us!

We DO thank and appreciate all our supporters over the years. You helped us get through all these years!

For those of you who really really really want back in, there’s much work to do. Everyone who spoke to me over the years and worked with me, you have instant access right back. Any other people I do not know well, will have had to been a member of the disturbedthings.com forum for at least 1 YEAR and have a least 20 relevant, meaningful posts about vore. You will need to send me the links to those posts and I will check and read every single one. If you don’t have a YEAR then you can write a 4 page word doc in 10 point font about what vore means to you, who your favorite vore artists are, and what kind of vore do you like the most and why and a little vore story short.

I’m a busy girl, so I probably won’t get to everything until the weekend. This USED to be my first priority, now it’s not and you can thank the morons who made this all happen. I value my time as much as you value yours.

For those of you who do not want to do this, I’ll be more than happy to refund you. I could care less about the damn money. Our art is more sacred to us because we put so much time and effort into it and we get a slap in the face in return???