LOS ANGELES — Hentaied.com, which bills itself as “your #1 tentacle porn source,” reached the goal for its first crowdfunded adult project in less than 48 hours.
Starring Russian phenom Purple Bitch, the elaborate sex scene sees the performer invited by a friend to check out a mysterious arcade game. When she touches the machine, she enters another reality and gets impregnated by a giant alien monster.
It marks the biggest work to date for the outrageous sci-fi meets porn site that received a nomination for Best Niche Series or Channel for the 2022 AVN Awards.
The scene includes extensive CGI elements with a tentacled monster taking care of Purple Bitch, aka Taty, a two-time AVN Award-winner with a penchant for hardcore.
With a budget of more than 50,000 Euros, Hentaied sought crowdfunding exclusively for the CGI elements used in the scene. The site targeted a minimum crowdfunding goal of 15,000 Euros, noting that everything collected over the minimum would be spent on additional CGI. At press time it had raised more than 19,735 Euros for Purple Bitch's scene.
Romero, the Budapest, Hungary-based creator and producer of Hentaied, tells AVN, “Hentaied is one of the very few productions that have successfully raised capital via this approach.”
He says the crowdfunding success was nothing short of “incredible,” demonstrating “how supportive and enthusiastic our fans are.”
“We see this as a really positive feedback and it gave us a lot of confidence in continuing with this new model of funding for our future projects and keeping improving the quality of our content,” Romero adds.
Purple Bitch tells AVN the Hentaied scene was challenging to shoot.
“The shooting lasted three days in a row from morning to evening,” Purple Bitch says. “I have some scenes with tentacles, too, and the shooting process for Hentaied was similar.
“Romero has a wonderful team—the whole team works together and the result is great. I’m glad that I worked with Romero, it was a cool experience for me.”
The Hentaied crowdfunding program outlines three steps: first, fans may vote on their favorite proposals and decide which ones they should open for crowdfunding; second, fans may support the proposal with different packages by pledging financial support; and third, fans can reap exclusive benefits for their support, watching as their “dream scene” comes to life.
Romero says the scene with Purple Bitch was “probably the first porn scene where a CGI character interacted with a human.”
“Normally they do not tend to get mixed together but we love experimenting and trying new ideas, and we are extremely happy with how it came out,” Romero adds.
In addition to CGI, he incorporates 2D anime in the three-part “The Arcade Game” series, making the production what he claims is “one of the highest budget projects ever undertaken in adult.”
The technical team at Hentaied placed the monster in numerous positions during the scene and also recreated Purple Bitch’s vagina for eye-popping shots of “cumflation”—shot with a POV from the inside.
Romero reveals it took approximately 20 hours of pre-production, 36 hours of filming and about 550 hours of post production to bring the scene to life.
“I cannot thank the two teams enough that worked excessively on the post-production,” says Romero, who launched Hentaied in 2020 with a small, but dedicated crew. “The CGI team took two weeks to create the monster and another two weeks to rig it—and again one month to incorporate it into the scene. One member of the same team worked solely on the 2D cartoon and it took her about two weeks to finish.
“The 3D animation of the cut-off view of the internal organ took the team three months of half-time work.”
Romero says he already has received a wide range of feedback on the scene.
“The feedback was contrasted; we received quite some complaints in the comments section. Certain customers had very high expectations; others found the animation unnecessary. It’s hard to please everyone,” Romero reasons. “But after all, the sales speak more than everything. It quickly became our No. 1 top seller on the website and remains in its position til today.”
The Hentaied boss experimented with offering an NFT as a perk within the top-tier packages of the crowdfunding campaign for each scene.
The NFT package includes Hentaied t-shirts and sweatshirts that are coming this summer and Hentaied gin, which is set for delivery in early 2023. The forward-thinking Romero says he pays close attention to how new technologies are going to shape society, impact the adult industry and his work. He notes the initial NFT offering is “a dip in the water” and there will be more side projects like this in the future.
“Plus the gold and diamond NFT also includes a lifetime membership on all our sites," Romero adds. "So it works more like a ticket to gain exclusive access to our insider community. Just instead of labeling it with a price and sell it, we use NFT as a gift and offer it to our most supportive customers.”
The second part of the “The Arcade Game” series—starring Japanese sensation Rae Lil Black—already has surpassed its crowdfunding goal of 25,000 Euros. At press time it had raised 28,145 Euros with six days left.
The scene involves Rae Lil Black and AVN Award-winner Jia Lissa, who are streaming online when Jia gifts her the mysterious arcade machine. Rae goes into the game dimension where she gets screwed by the monster, “loses it” and gets pregnant. Then she comes back to the real world, giving birth to alien life.
In the final part of the series, which is billed as “Jia Lissa’s First Anal,” the Russian star is trying to bring a monster from a different reality into real life. Using Purple Bitch and Rae Lil Black, she makes her dream come true for an inter-galaxy love story. That project has been funded more than halfway to its 15,000 Euros goal with 38 days left.
“Both episodes have been filmed,” Romero explains. “The filming part was the least time consuming, although it was tough as well.”
The Rae Lil Black episode at press time already had been in post-production for more than two months with a release date that could be as soon as later this month. It marks the first of several collaborations with Black, who has agreed to a six-figure performance contract with Hentaied.
Rae tells AVN working with Hentaied is “a very interesting experience.”
“I just like experiencing new things and trying things out,” Black says. “Hentaied is very different from the mainstream (or classic) porn shoot, and it’s fun for me to try more of an acting.
“Also I like how Romero is trying to expand his platform, porn/non-porn, so I agreed to try new things together. I’m trying to focus on my non-porn career as well, so it was a good opportunity to see other people doing the same thing that I wanted to do.
“I’m pretty excited to see what we can do and see what’s gonna happen!”
Romero notes that Part 3 starring Jia Lissa had yet to begin post-production because his entire team remains focused on finalizing Part 2.
“We do hope to be able to release [Part 3] in August 2022, but to be honest there might be delays,” he admits. “When it comes to quality control we’re very demanding, and we try our best to bring out the coolest, most unique and cinematic product possible with a tiny fraction of the budget cinema productions usually have. We will nevertheless do what we can to bring it to the audience as soon as we can.”
Romero adds, “This is the beginning of a new Hentaied, and we’re exciting to see how it evolves with time.”
