I've been a member of these two for the last month (and am in fact a returning member of CG_CF). Below are a few bullet points on my experience of both.
CG_CF
Cost (UK) - £8 a month for the top tier (plus another 20% VAT - Stupid Patreon - just post the full price including tax)
Pros
- This guy seems to cater for a number of different body types which is cool. Some are to my personal taste and some aren't but there is variety which will appeal to a broader fan base.
- There are some very well observed fights. I particularly like Waifu War 3, Besties Bust Up and Dayshift Disaster because they all feel pretty real in the movement of the fighters and the execution of the scenes.
- He is pretty communicative and rather than waiting for him to finish an entire fight he does at least post parts of fights as he's working on them.
- I imagine it is difficult to do what he's doing and whilst not perfect, the clothes ripping in his catfights works pretty well.
Cons
- What he does takes a lot of time which I totally understand. When you have to render every bit of the fight yourself, it's great because you have full control but it is slow. He'll have a life outside of this which means that you won't see tons of updates a month.
- Mega as the choice of distribution. May not be a problem to some but for huge files over 4gb it has been a bit inconsistent for me. This isn't really the creator's fault bu there must be a better way of transferring large files.
Stiletto Fight Club
Cost (UK) - £4 a month (plus 20% VAT). There is only one tier.
Pros
- The character models are decent for AI. You could argue they are a bit plasticky and video game-y but they work for me. Less variety in body type but I like how they look.
- They are perhaps the best AI fights I've seen. Catfight Island looks better from the trailer, but it is too violent for me personally.
- Does what it says on the tin. Because it's animated, I'd always have women fighting in high heels because it isn't hurting anyone and you don't need to worry about balance or anything.
- Rapid updates. You usually get 2 - 3 videos a day.
- When it get's it right, it can be really engaging. Fights such as "The TV Hostess War", "Tinder Match Went Wrong", "Business in the Alley" and "Wild West" are pretty fluid and the action is exciting.
- Cheap - Although there is a reason for this.
- Distribution through YouTube
Cons
- It's AI. I get that it's an emerging technology but there is a lot of weirdness in about half the videos uploaded. Clothes change, characters just fall over, there are scenes where water gushes out of some of the fighters for no discernible reason. This is the key difference between this and CG_CF. The person running this Pateron presumably only has control through prompting whereas CG_CF can customise everything. There are limitations to how a computer interprets text commands. I imagine it'll get better eventually.
- The fights are fragments. Some of the videos are 10 seconds long, some make it to a minute. The person running it writes a short back story with the post but ultimately, we're limited to the best of what the AI has to offer which doesn't really give you a beginning middle and end.
- Not that it's a problem for me but there's no nudity at all.
- There is an argument to say that with AI generated fights, you could simply buy something like Dead Or Alive on Xbox and set the computer characters fighting against each other and get a similar experience.
Ultimately, I think.they're both good for different reasons but it depends what you want from your 3D fights.
