Usually I find my agreeing/disagreeing with Niara to be around 50/50. What page is the critique on in this topic if you recall (if not don't worry about it)? Really don't want to go through 24 pages of forum posts.
Heya, glad I'm at least thought provoking ^.^
Others are referring to two threads that I made a while back.
The first is a thread examining the Minthara scene specifically, in terms of its construction, delivery, choreography/shooting, atmosphere and other elements. It uses screenshots from the game to support itself.
The second thread is a more general discussion of the process of creating intimate scenes, how to construct shoot and choreograph them, and the considerations you need to make regarding tone and atmosphere, and the impact on those things that your design choices have; it discusses much of what we can see in game already, as part of that. This thread, in particular, if focused around the considerations that need to be taken into account when writing intimate scenes involving small-sized characters (such as halflings and gnomes). Unfortunatly, the second thread used 3d models to support itself, since game screenshots were not sufficient for the discussion, and as a result the larian mods felt the images had to be removed - the thread itself is a little difficult to rally wrap your mind around without the supporting images though, so I'd recommend anyone interested in reading it seriously contact me for a link to the unedited document instead; I can't link it directly, but I can supply it privately on request.
