R.B. Ashton

Ashton Updates - Juneclusions

Another month ends, and so it feels like time for a long update to let you all know where I’m at with everything. Or rather what I’m brainstorming/obsessing on at the moment.

As I said, I had a bit of time off after Under the Table, so it’s been a quieter month, though we now have the Under & Over and Doctor Aphra animations out. July should have a few bigger things on the way…

Comics

The main ...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 18

Cooper’s heart was racing again, flying towards The Borough and the promise of another disaster zone. She wasn’t supposed to be here – hadn’t expected anything of the sort when she’d contacted Steel Ruth. Who else, after all, might listen to what she had to say with anything resembling a sympathetic angle? She’d have preferred Washington Fury, but considering she was preoccupied on a very public mission, and very hard to get in touch with anyway, Ruth had to do. All it had taken w...

Picking Up A Doctor - Complete Animation

Alright I'm back at the computer properly now so here it is in full, my animation based on the comic book cover from the series Doctor Aphra. An expanded scenario of the giant menace grabbing up and holding three little victims...

Watch it here or above: https://youtu.be/JeEtZOOYDBc

This is up here exclusively for subscribers at least for a week or two before I share it elsewhere (so please don't share the link)....

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 17

Washington watched The Borough burning with deep irritation. She’d figured just standing here in full view, in her combat shorts and vest, intimidatingly martial, would calm them down. It had, in small part, but not much. Swarms of people were moving from one street to another, in hoods and masks with petrol bombs and blunt weapons. Smashing windows, kicking cars, attacking each other. Small lines of police held a couple of positions, all this underfunded city had. Other civilians trying to...

Picking Up A Doctor - Handheld Giantess Animation Preview

Just a quick one this week (as I said, I'm technically off for a couple of weeks - a quick preview of my Doctor Aphra comic-cover-themed animation!

Should have the full animation with you next week or the week after; it's a little minute of hapless fools getting nabbed by a giantess...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 16

Ash had started to appreciate the possibilities of her new life. She had expected to die on Steel Island, having spent her life savings getting there, but was more thankful every day that she hadn’t. It felt karmic, almost, that she’d put everything into bringing down Ruth, and getting her revenge, and while things hadn’t panned out as she’d expected, and the global picture seemed increasingly unstable, she was seeing a positive change. Though Pelican promoted programs of gia...

Under & Over - Final Animation

Here it is, UNDER & OVER, a feature-length (by my standards!) Under The Table animation. Will our adventurous shrunken office worker escape the clutches of her dangerous, giant coworkers, and reach Ailyn in time to survive? Obviously not.

Watch it here, or above: https://youtu.be/93ceaO4nVBM

This is the last bit of Under the Table media I'll do for now, on to other things!

I'm going to take some time o...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 15

It was over a fortnight before Naomi Cooper felt she’d really come back into her senses, after a blur of hospital beds, panicked doctor meetings, and phone calls with work where, somewhere along the line, she had been put on indefinite leave. Initially so she could recover, but later because Solomon took exception to her continued questioning of what was going on with the Sentinels and Pelican Crystal. He’d told her in definitive terms that she was not to pursue her angle on this: and if ...

Giantess Comic Art and the Inspiration for My Next Animation

Something a little different this week, to introduce my next animation I thought I'd go into a bit of a deeper dive into my thinking about comic book art! Shared here for subscribers before I post this publicly along with a couple of my favourite comic covers!

Comics that play with size have always been one of my favourite things, for a reason which makes or breaks most size media I enjoy: they provide a sense of genuine interaction. Most forms of art play with scale by either stitching...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 14

Ash had a front-row seat to a meeting that she was sure would go down in history. More than front row: an aerial view. At the heart of proceedings, riding in the chest pocket of Sloane’s cropped denim jacket, which felt made for a person. She could hear the giant woman’s heartbeat, and rose and fell with her breath, as world leaders agreed that the stirrings of inequity in unchecked communities was inspiring the return of destructive forces, and they all pledged to do better, to improve, ...

Under & Over Animation Preview

Late this week but I have an update! Here's a quick preview for a longer Under The Table animation I've got on the way. It's a dashing scene split between first person and third person POV as our plucky character tries to reach Ailyn via the main office... with terrible results.

Watch the preview above, or here: https://yo...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 13

It was hard for Ruth to be around so many people. Over the years, they’d developed various narratives about her and the others to explain their reclusive behaviours: Viking Mary liked the great, cold uninhabited outdoors; Washington Fury roamed national parks to breathe in that intoxicating fresh air; and Steel Ruth, unsurprisingly, was too moody to tolerate big populations. But it wasn’t any of that. The little people never really got, or never exactly acknowledged, that growing giant ha...

Under The Table is OUT NOW!

Under The Table, the complete visual novel game, is out today, available to buy from my store, on itch.io or 2025-05-15 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Under the Table v1.0 - Full Game Download

Two days before the public release, woo! Here it is at last, the final version of Under the Table - with a few extra animations and some dialogue options. As always, please don't share this link.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GTgHRtOm_McdtgBOuMsABe5g2p_F8yjr?usp=drive_link

If you like the game please let others know about it, wherever you can â€...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 12

Though the debate was forever ongoing, people generally fell into one of two camps with regards to Professor Cracknal, the man credited with creating the Bikini Sentinels. Either he was a scientific genius who planned everything to go exactly as intended, or he was a different kind of genius who adapted tremendously well to bizarre circumstances. No one knew for sure how he came to deliver the five giant Sentinels to the world. Sure, the basic story had gone down in legend – the eccentric p...

Bikini Kaiju - Complete ARC!

This has taken about twice as long as I expected, but I can now share with you in the highest tiers the complete book of Bikini Kaiju! I've done a cover for it which I rendered myself but I'm not all that happy with how it's come out so far, so I'll probably do another one before the final release...

In the meantime, enjoy and do let me know what you think. As you'll probably guess, I'd like to continue this story.

Download it via the link below:

2025-05-09 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

The Results Are In!

One more update to close out the week - I know it's been a lot, but the game is almost here, so you can expect me to be quieter after it's out!

So, with 20 votes cast, our poll for the extra stomp animation was not exactly a triumph for the democratic process but we did have a good mix of choices – only poor Brian failed to receive a vote! Combining results from here and Subscribestar, and presented as percentages so they look more important, our Top Three champions in ascending order...

Under the Table Animated Trailer 02!

The second animated trailer for Under The Table with a new little scene at the start, this time a stomp. (Note, this is a separate scene suggested in to the poll we're doing right now, though if the poll goes Rita's way I guess it'd make things easier for me...)

View it above or on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/TRU9nkcqHc8

I'm releasing this to coincide with the demo going public today – if yo...

UTT Bonus Animaton Poll!

We're just over a week away from the Under The Table release and it's been great to see people signing up to try the beta – thanks for joining me and I appreciate everyone here's support! I know a lot of new subscribers are likely here for the old-grab-the-game-and-run but I hope some of you will stick around; I have plenty more to come.

And on that note, I have enough time to add one more mini animation to the game to make it an even 20 total (with m/f versi...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 11

Steel Ruth squatted low in the ruins of San Francisco with her elbows on her knees, catching her breath. She was too old for this, she told herself, but no. Not too old, just too lazy. Tired. Age was the least problem: seven decades since the mad incident that had changed all their lives – and the world – she wasn’t physically much worse off than before, save a few creaks, creases and scars, but she had long since stopped pushing herself as far as exercise went. It could have got her ki...

Under the Table - Demo Download!

Delighted to say I've now completed a demo version for Under the Table. This is available exclusively to subscribers now, before becoming publicly available next week.

You can download the demo for PC, Mac or Android here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BkH5NWSQSg0zIsL6Qbz6JIwDUP3fppnh?usp=drive_link

The demo represents maybe 10%...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 10

**The thrilling conclusion of the Sheerwolf battle! Woo!**

The Sentinels were taking a licking and everyone around Cooper was barking into their phones, either to organise some kind of (useless) national response to this disaster or to relay whatever news they could to add to the story. For her part, she quickly got over the irritation at not being on the scene this time – as was evident by the live news being broadcast for them ...

Under The Table Beta v0.9 Download NOW!

The time has come, the game is here! I’m excited to share the final beta version of Under the Table with you. We’ve still got a couple of weeks before its release so if you have any thoughts or find any issues please let me know.

I may add one last little death/animation for the actual release if I can find time, but otherwise I think this is complete. One thing I’d really like to test is the new Android version (the .apk file in this collection), so if y...

Under the Table Release Date, Mobile Games and Subscription Updates...

I’m confident enough with the Under the Table game now to confirm its final beta, which I will be sharing tomorrow on Patreon. It will be available to download for top tier subscribers, now titled Size Hero ($25) and Belly Filler ($50). I’ll also send out a link by DM to active subscribers from other tiers with over $30 total spend.

I’d welcome all your feedback here, so I can iron out any remaining niggles before...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 9

**First up Happy Easter everyone! And second, things are kicking off in this chapter! With advance apologies that this chaos is something of a two-parter...**

Steel Ruth and Ramona Dynamite were in their cups when the alert came through for another kaiju attack. Ash had endured a nightmare as the pair drank heavily from tankers of what smelled like pure alcohol, becoming slowly inebriated and talking nonsense about old times. Ramona managed to draw oc...

Under the Table Animated Trailer

I've just managed to squeeze in a little time to produce this dinky trailer for the Under the Table game! Featuring an all new animated intro and a bunch of screenshots with a couple of brief clips.

https://youtu.be/xjxMnu6nde8

I'm aiming to get the final beta finished by the end of next week – so far I've extended some of the animations with extra internal scenes, and have added one grabbing ...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 8

Washington Fury made Sweet Sloane look almost childlike as the pair stood in the entrance to the cavernous Pelican Estate building. She was taut with muscle, especially those piston-like legs and bulging shoulders, and she wore combat boots, cargo shorts and a military-style vest, all practical, fighting clothes. Not that she had a military background: Washington had once been a model, and a fitness instructor, but she had grown increasingly soldier-like as she’d adopted the role of America...

A Gulp GIF

A quick kind-of-looping gif for your weekend! I've been rather up against it this week and not had a chance to get much extra stuff done but I have started animated a few extra bits for Under the Table, this here being another angle to bolster one of the videos I already shared (not sure if I had the male or female version before...)

Big thanks to everyone who's given feedback so far; I'm picking up a few errors and slowly tweaking up towards the final game!

Finge...

Bikini Kaiju - Ch 7

People were shouting. Some screaming. The unmistakable sounds of a panicked crowd. It made little sense behind the quietening rotors of the helicopter as Cooper’s transport landed on the Pelican Crystal Estate, a remote private island way down the Alaskan archipelago. There shouldn’t have been anyone much here, a long way from anything and everything, especially as they’d been invited for a press event which was supposed to be an exclusive affair.

Cooper wondered if she was imagin...

The Under the Table Early Beta is Upon Us

It’s big news time – I have finally reached a stage with Under the Table where it’s in a complete playable state! The game now includes:

·       60,000+ words of story/dialogue text

·       1,022 images

·       14 mini animations

·       Many paths to doom!

I’ve been doing some mass editing of the images and videos to give them a bit...