B.E. Grove

Last month the votes were cast and The Pill ending we are animating this month is Alley-Oop! It promises to be a bit of a tall tale, and will stand head to head (or higher) with the rest of our growing collection! (Okay I'm done with the puns now) Here to take you to the end of the week is a quick v

A quick look into some of the upcoming mocap animations! Hey all, we're getting close to finishing up Of Mice and Manipulations (I've animated 56/64 scenes, just need post work and sound design after that) current schedule is next week. Normally I'd release a couple of scenes as a bit of a tease, bu

We're revolutionizing up how we're animating here at the Grove! After proving the viability of full body mocap, I decided to look into its expressive sister - facial mocap. Luckily that side of things is actually far more integrated into Daz Studio, it just required more purchases (sigh) and a bit o

Meet the newest characters being added to our ever growing collection! This is a tale of power and the subconscious mind and is actually reimagining of an older work I've done, but more on that coming soon. One thing I should note is that the VA we're using had some issues outside of her control and

Hey everyone, for those of you who have been around long enough, you might remember a thing Patreon used to have called "Community Goals". One of our top tier goals was the pledge that I'd purchase a system to input motion capture into our vids to bring all the advantages that allows... A little sto

Howdy hey all, with progress shaping up with the new update to Bountiful Harvest, I thought I'd share some more info about what's coming to the game! First off, as is hinted by the post main image - we've got ourselves a switch around! Erdenvale is a big city and that calls for someone with street s

Hi all! We're well underway with this month's main reward - an animated standalone adventure by the name of "Drink Me"! Now it's your chance to meet our protagonist - Angie. You might notice from her design that I'm going a little more cartoonish than our other characters, that was an intentional as

While Nadia has been having her "fun", we've been working full steam on this month's animation, and are pleased to give a couple of teaser images of our progress so far! Curvaceous Inquest is set in the world of Cursed and ties into Bountiful Harvest as well! Plenty of easter eggs there for those wh

This month we're doing some big improvements to The Pill. We've posted about the new animated sprites to the Belle chapter, and now you can get a taste of the second major addition - we've completely voiced The Intern (Chapter 6)! Using the incredible talents of Kamila Bomb no less (who you last hea

Hey all, as we mentioned previously we've got another update to The Pill coming this month. It has a couple of different aspects to it, but a large one is that we're updating the sprites to Chapter 1. This is not any old simple polish however. The Pill was our first game - made in a time long before

Hey all, this month we're going clean with a soapy adventure! The 'bath' scenario isn't one that is foreign to the BE scene, but it is a classic for a reason! Plus it is one we haven't tackled here yet. This particular story was inspired by a misadventure from our own Lady Grove, who decided to indu

We've got a lot of new things coming in this update to Ample Chests, many of which have been directed by you fine people! Just a quick update today - the new area we're fleshing out is the Den of Depravity, which was formerly a popup, but now has some very shady people milling about (as well as love

Hey all, we're still busily working on the next expansion (heh) to Ample Chests! As previously noted, this one is more game-y and less visual novel styled - so the crew will have to be recruited individually, with a planned large roster of girls to pick from. But every journey starts with the first

Hey all, as you know this month we're working on a big update to Ample Chests. The original game was a visual novel in the same way as The Pill is - story heavy with minimal choices. This new update is introducing a new way to play, involving non-linear location visits and progression akin to a roug

Greetings and salutations! As we mentioned earlier, this month we will be returning to the misadventures of the time-displaced Miranda! Here's a couple of images as a first look into her continued exploration of this new world. (Note, they are subject to change)

Lots more do and tidy up before the upcoming update for Bountiful Harvest is done but we wanted to pop in here to give a little sneak peek of what we've been up to. Attached are various screenshots of some of the new elements of the game. We've got a few new characters added to the mix, updated some

This month we're doing a big update to Bountiful Harvest, which will include a new map (The Mystic Glades), a new minigame, a new currency and most of all - Adelaide! After being saved from dire peril, she joins Belle in her shenanigans, introducing an entirely new growth mechanic to boot! I'm excit

Hey all, just a quick pop in to give some preview shots of May's main reward - Keeping Abreast of the Times! It is a standalone BE animation, which will be headed patrons way. This one has been a bit of a journey in the making of it, which is in part why we haven't been overly active - it's very muc

Greetings all! Here for your viewing pleasure is an early scene from the in-production Cursed ep 9! You may recall the unwelcome interruption at the end of Cursed ep 8 - well they've got some explaining to do! What are the odds they'll all work it out and just have a lovely cup of tea? I asked Chat

Howdy hey all! Another mini update as we progress on our Ren'Py retrofit of The Pill. I have completed the reworking on the Luca animations and have moved on to doing the updates to some of our oldest achievements. We've got two comparisons in the post title (and attached) as an example of the chang

Hey all, just a super quick one here. I'm still working on the Luca rework animations and wanted to share a side by side of a particularly dramatic visual change. I've already shared a comparison vid, but this still of the exact same moment really illustrates the many subtle changes coming together

Hey all, hope you're all having a great new year. As part of the massive Ren'Py retrofit, we're looking to fix up some of the old animations that were not using some of our more recent techniques. The biggest of these is in Luca's chapter, where I've never been completely happy with the lighting. Th

A first look at the x-mas animation we're making this month! Greetings all! We'll give another update to our progress in the Ren'Py conversion of The Pill tomorrow, but for now, enjoy this mini-look at the Xmas vid I'm working on right now. Lady Grove is back! And rocking a new silly jumper for the

Hey all, I've got another behind the boobs animation walkthrough, and sneak peek of Cursed Episode 8! In this animation walkthrough, we're taking you through the animating process of a short scene in the upcoming Cursed 8 (plus a sneak peek at the scene itself). Progress is going well on it, compute

Hey all, here's a sneak peek of the full animated conversion of Programmed issue 1! This is your first change to see the new set, and the revitalized Hayley (converted to a later generation of model that I have many more tools for). As always with the WIPs, this isn't the final audio, edit or appear

Hey all, we're busily working on the next update to Bountiful Harvest, but in the meantime, here is a WIP of one of the animations with some extra bits of behind the scene info with both the game and the animation tactics in use. Download Link Hope you enjoy! Bountiful Harvest v0.2 WIP (SproutVideo)

With production well underway of this month's standalone BE animation, I thought I'd share the opening scenes to give you a taste of what you're in for!* We've got two new VA's at work, and I've been very impressed with what I've been hearing so far. This story is has the standard crude humour I can

A little behind the scenes look at making some animated sprites! Hey all! We've got a work in progress to show you for the upcoming game release later this month (unless things go tits up... which given I'm really stretching myself in terms of coding is always possible). Just showing off a new featu

Hey everyone, just popping in to give you a quick peek at this month's animation - The Stuff of Dreams! We've got the incredibly talented Cottontail back to voice her (plus a great new VA for our other character, who I'll announce when it is released). There are slight spoilers in the video above ob

Hey all, so our main reward for May is going to be a new animated story called "The Stuff of Dreams"! As production proper is underway I thought it was a great time for you to meet our main character - Dream. She's a little bit sassy, a little bit cheeky and extremely curious. More to come as produc

Greetings all, we've both been going full ball on our new BE game Ample Chests this month, but thought we'd come up for air and let you meet the crew of the Ruby Diamond! They're a rowdy bunch, but occasionally get the job done! In terms of actual progress the script is written and Lady Grove is abo

Without further adieu I present the first look at March's main reward - Secret Desire! Download Link Here or attached below With all the fun we've been having with our March Madness competition, you'd be forgiven for thinking that's all we've got going on this month - but you'd be wrong! Wrong like

Hey everyone, just here with a quick WIP from the upcoming "The Pill" ending animation coming as the second reward this month. Hopefully you'll notice it from the vid, but I'm... trying something new with this one. Something I've not successfully done in any proper production before. Needless to say

Dynamic hair, dynamic boobs and dynamic cloth! These are some dynamic tests! So far this month I have been working on improving my Blender skills, and specifically the simulation side. I have devised a pretty good way to get the models / content I create into Blender to make use of its simulation pr

Check out a side by side comparison of the new animations for The Pill! As you know, this month we're releasing a new update to The Pill, focusing on improving The Party chapter. We've already shown how the stills are being improved, but we're improving the animations as well. To really indicate thi

As part of the upcoming update to The Pill, we're doing a revamp of The Party chapter's graphics! These new versions will be double the resolution and will use all the new skills and plugins I've added to the arsenal since it was first created. Above is just one of the examples of the improvements,

Howdy all, I've come bearing a little sneak peek into the upcoming Cursed Ep 7 (minor spoilers, obvs). This one I decided to record the whole process of creating the scene, in addition to just showing the scene itself. The whole thing took about 1 hour 40, but I've condensed it down to less than 4 m

Hola everyone! We're deep into production of our latest addition to Change Deck, which goes by the name of Midnight Run! The new additions will come later this month, but I thought you fine folk may want to have a gander at one of the 17 new animations that will be added to the game. You can check i

So this month we are doing an update to Change Deck, and it's a biggun. The working title for it is "Midnight Run" and it is going to take the girls of Change Deck and put them in a gauntlet of card based challenge! The 'gang' above is who the classic Change Deck girls will be facing off against, an

Hey everyone, courtroom antics aren't the only vid we're making this month! We're also doing part 2 to Sharing! If you haven't seen it in a while, this is a great time to check it out, as part 2 takes place immediately after the events of part 1. EDIT: for those getting errors streaming you can now

Just here with a little quick GIF. Some backstory - part of the process for me in creating content that goes into the more... extreme sizes... is to make sure that the tops that I use are up to the challenge! Download link for high res This is a top that I made from scratch (a process I don't normal

We're deep into the production of the next installment of Cursed! Enjoy the first few moments from the beginning of the ep. [Spoiler Warning] The girls return and this one introduces a new plucky character. If you were wondering, yes it is her. And we've even got the same VA to voice her lines in th

Another episode of Cursed, another character joins the ranks! Update: Apologies, I blanked on the fact that I also rendered out a 360 degree video! ----- As it says in the title image, hark thou fellow adventurer, if you wish to proceed I would recommend catching up on Cursed Ep 5 (as well as gettin

Hey all, I've been busy working away on the big community voted on reward Ocean's Gift. It's a biggun, which may end up being the biggest animation we've done so far (it certainly has the most scenes). Here are the opening moments, which will hopefully give you a taste of the girl's personalities an

The community voted animation is in full production mode, and we have our two main girls! You wanted to see some new faces, so I present to you Piper (voiced by CottontailVA) and Abigail (voiced by VoiceLikeCanndy)! One's sassy, the other is up for anything. Though inevitably it can only end one way

With production underway on our latest animation, and a couple of preview pieces out already for it, we wanted to get a vibe on how people felt about the behind the scenes content that we've been making. Specifically on the quantity and nature of it. So select any and all of the choices below, even

Production is underway for the next animated BE short! Now that you've met the characters, take a quick look at the opening scene and... well that's pretty much all you can do right now. Stay tuned! This vid features the talented voices of Freestyle VA and CottontailVA. They'll be joined by the equa

Lady Grove here with a preview of the upcoming Cursed Ep 5! I've grabbed a few bits for you all whilst BE Grove wasn't supervising me. Attached are the character images for Eimear, Havana and new character Captain Fenrick. There's also a quick preview video. The incredible Oolay Tiger returns as Eim

While our March Madness is getting to the nipply end, I've got a preview of the main animation for this month's Sweater Stretcher rewards! It's a standalone animation based around St Patrick's day itself! View the WIP here Where there are Leprechauns, so there is hijinks, and this time will be no ex

Hey all, just a quick Behind the Boobs to give you a taste of this month's second reward - the standalone fully voiced animation titled "The Subscription"! I'm sure you know that here at the Grove, we're a fan of terrible fake TV ads, and this one is no different. This animation will also be the deb