Greetings! My name is Nyghtfall3D.
I’m a digital artist specializing in computer-generated, 3D-rendered images made with Daz Studio. I’ve been creating fetish-themed art since 2009.
Personal
I was born in 1971 and have been married since 1994. I make my living as a Customer Service Rep for a call center. My wife is permanently disabled. We are child-free by choice.
Fetish
I’m a fantasy death fetishist. That means I enjoy watching consenting adults role-play fantasy death scenes in staged productions. Photos, videos, mainstream movies or TV shows, if it’s well-produced, I’m interested. I also enjoy fetish-themed artwork.
My fetish dates back to my youth. Thanks to relatively liberal parents and a neighborhood friend’s mom, I saw a lot of Horror movies by the time I was thirteen, starting with The Exorcist at age ten. By fifteen, I was bored with their formulaic plots, especially slasher flicks. They stopped being scary, so I started watching them just to see how many different ways filmmakers could come up with to kill off a bunch of stupid teens. In other words, like most Horror fans today, I started rooting for the villains.
I joined the web in ’94, shortly after it went public. Three years later I discovered a website called Necrobabes and learned I’m not the only one who likes watching people play dead. I’ve been a highly active member of the community ever since.
Why FantasyDeath.net
During the late 90’s and early 2000’s, there was a similar site called DarkSites.net. Their mission was to be the only bookmark fetishists would ever need. Sadly, it closed years ago.
In February 2024 someone on the Deadly Desires forum expressed how much they miss Dark Sites and asked if there are any similar sites today. There aren’t, so I offered to build one. The response from the community was overwhelmingly positive, so I built FantasyDeath.net. I thought it fitting that a directory of death fetish links be named after the very fetish we all share. 🙂
My Art
In 2004 I felt an irresistible need to produce my own content. Unfortunately, fetish videos remain prohibitively expensive to finance, and I don’t know how to draw anything more complex than stick figures. In 2006 I learned about a free program called Daz Stuio and gave it a whirl. Much to my chagrin, despite having been around computers since the fifth grade, its learning curve through me for a loop. I spent the next three years wrapping my head around the differences between it and a premium alternative called Poser. I finally created my first digital comic in 2009, and have been creating 3D art ever since.
My work runs the gamut of my interests and includes portraits, humor, visual perspective, and fantasy death. My workflow incluldes Daz Studio, Affinity Photo, Comic Life, and PaintShop Pro.
AI Art
AI art is a relatively new medium that’s made quite a bit of noise in the art world during the last couple of years, starting in early 2022. As of May 2024, there were about 30 different apps available for creating it.
I first learned about the technology in March 2023 and shunned it hard for artistic and ethical reasons. I spent the rest of the year learning more about it.
Despite the adverse impact AI has had on creative industries, professional artists have found ways to incorporate it into their workflows and continue making a living. Hobbyists told me the ethical debate surrounding its process of scraping the web for datasets is a separate issue for them. As fellow hobbyists, they just want to have fun and test its limits, whether enhancing their original work or creating new images.
As a digital artist, I’m both fascinated by its creative possibilities and terrified by its potential for swaying public opinion on political and cultural matters. I reluctantly added it to my workflow in March 2024 after successfully using it to enhance a 3D art project. As much as I love and prefer working in 3D, rendering engines are simply incapable of producing photorealistic images at the level of fidelity that AI can. It’s the closest fetishists like me will ever get to working with real models.
I use AI to enhance Daz projects when I’m inclined to do so, or find it necessary due to Iray’s limitations. In more extreme cases when Daz proves completely inadequate for a given project, I use pure text prompt engineering.
My AI workflow includes Fooocus, an interface for an open-source app called Stable Diffusion.
A Note about My Hangings
I love a good hanging but grew tired of traditional gallows, nooses, and drop-hangings in general, several years ago. I think they are entirely too cliche.
Today, I much prefer what I call environmental lift-up hangings. They’re the only kind I enjoy anymore because they offer so many creative possibilities for settings, circumstance, and ligature. They also leave characters to struggle because their hands aren’t bound in any way, and I love watching them claw at a ligature that’s too thin to grip. The characters in my hanging fantasies are always taken by surprise as they’re lassoed by an unseen killer lurking above, and then hoisted off the ground until dead.
I’m writing you this because you need to know that, if you find yourself enjoying my work, lift-up hangings are the only kind you will ever see featured.