Credits And Site Wide Disclaimer

Disclaimer

Although content at Shhhh! Digital Media is produced at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 3Z5, none of the characters in these stories are based upon any residents of the building in which Shhhh! Digital Media's home offices are located is based upon any person from the building or the surrounding community, living or dead.

The books, stories and novels contained on this site are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Talent

The Daz3D facial morph for 3D model of Ai Yuanlin Ying, Heylyn Yates (of The Butterfly Dragon) and now Mila Rendebelle (of A Lady's Prerogative) by 3D artist Amy 'Ai Mei' Wong. Please check out the work of this talented artist.

Amy shares a similar name sake as another talented Toronto artist by the name of Amy Wing-Hann Wong. Please show your support to such artists.

Cora Hau offices and hardware from The Butterfly Dragon II: What Different Eyes See created by Inlite Studio.

Various scene elements (eyeglasses, furniture, facial hair) by Renderosity.

Xenshi's hair and fan was created by AprilYSH of April's Vanity.

Many of the outfits for the 3D models in the various artwork and renderings created by Wilmap Digital Creations.

Various 3D props used in renderings and images that may appear on this web site created by Ghastly.

DNA Image in The Butterfly Dragon I: Heroes Of Our Own web logo by amorimbiotec from Pixabay.

Ox image from Lunar New Year message by AnnaliseArts from Pixabay.

The Perfect Cherry Blossom Illustration used for Mila's and Sato's Ochoko by pixatarou (pixabay.com)

Cora Hau Security Operative's Cap and other miscellany by guy91600.

Tengu and Kami image for A Lady's Prerogative: Sanata Claws short fiction courtesy of On Mark Productions as per the indicated content use guidelines.

Biswarup Ganguly for the HDR interior image located at: Wikimedia Commons, which is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. The image is used on one or more renders as an environment map.

Last Lonely Lounge Image by Tumisu from Pixabay.

ShareCG user Josea for their 3D Model Antlers, used for 3D rendered images in A Lady's Prerogative: Sanata Claws short fiction.

Galaxy spiral, used for portal animation rendering in A Lady's Prerogative artwork available from Pngtree.com at galaxy clipart png from pngtree.com.

ShareCG user Klausdbg for their Grand Piano model, which is used in a render in The Butterfly Dragon II: What Different Eyes See - Vietnam Special Addition and The Butterfly Dragon: A Piano, A Full Glass And The Disappearance Of Time.

Shibashake for their tips and tutorials, which in the case of rendering physics based cloth materials made my work a lot easier than it would have been otherwise during scene composition.

FreeSVG.org for several pieces of clipart used in various places in both 3D renders and the website itself.

The image of Happīu~isuka, Mishima Sato's dog is derived from this image on Wikimedia. I (Brian Joseph Johns) heavily photoshopped it to make it appear like a 3D render of a dog in order to maintain a consistency with the artwork here. The new version of Happīu~isuka is a Daz3D asset by one of their talented artists who are aptly credited on the Daz3D artist's page.

Each of the aforementioned artists have their own gigs and projects going on, so please check them out!

Writing, Application Development, Renderings, some 3D Modeling, Image Editing, Image Compositing, Musical Composition, Video Editing and all other art by Brian Joseph Johns

(brian.joseph.johns@shhhhdigital.com, weltherwithsp@gmail.com, fav.inbox@gmail.com)

Tools

Daz3D for Character design, rendering and animation.

Newtek Lightwave 3D for modelling and scene composition out to FBX or Wavefront OBJ format.

NVidia iRay GPU Accelerated Rendering Technology.

Corel Painter for custom brush work and amazing FX that you just can't find anywhere else since Newtek ditched Aura.

Adobe Photoshop for image creation, compositing and FX.

Cakewalk Sonar, Magix Music Maker for music composition, editing and video compositing.

Corel Pinnacle Studio for video editing, compositing and post.

Hitfilm Pro for video editing, compositing and post.

Embarcadero Rad Studio for multi-platform native application development.

Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64.

Steam Powered for software and entertainment.

Spotify - because we all need a soundtrack for life.

Google Platform for hosting and domain.

Canva Logos, stationary and corporate identity artwork.

Algosyntax.com for Unreal MIDI tools.

Other Credits

Shhhh! Digital for background music.

Bjork for the music and inspiration.

SomaFM.

When your best friend says I need some attention now! Listen.
You'll never know the value of that friendship until its gone. Miss you buddy!
(PS: That lighter in the background is for incense seeing as I don't smoke at all)

Reference

Wikipedia for a great source of information and research on many of the topics covered in the Butterfly Dragon and A Lady's Prerogative stories where accuracy and facts are essential.

Now Magazine Toronto for information related to Toronto and local venues. They're actually going to be a quite a resource for the upcoming The Butterfly Dragon III: The Two Dragons.

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Thank you to my parents, Rita Johns and David Schindler for raising me.

All content was originally posted and published in May/June of 2012 by Brian Joseph Johns under the banner Poetry, Fiction, Software, Music and Graphics.

Valuation: I rate my written work as having the following value in terms of a dollar figure in Canadian Dollars, according to how scripts are valued based upon their sale price. From what I've been told, my work is undervalued (I'm not giving it enough dollar value), but I feel that my valuation is realistic.

This way, it sets a value when I have content stolen from me by neighbours or others who claim the credit for my written work. This is based upon several research references and how I value my time as a writer. Some people might justify crimes such as plagiarism or theft to cover the cost of debts against their victim. By putting a value on your work, you can accurately calculate damages when such work is stolen under such justification and build your legal case from there. Though be careful as there are cults in society that will literally erase people in order to get away with stealing their creative work from them without giving them any reward whatsoever. There are a lot of people involved in such scams, so beware.

Any short story or episode:
$50,000 CDN

Any unfinished book published, or work in progress thereof:
$150,000

Any finished book, first or later draft:
$300,000