Suffer For Your Art is the long-awaited ZFX computer animated feature and while it's a very ambitious project, to me, it was a mixed bag. There's a lot to like and some aspects that I wish had been done differently.

"Danni Denning" is the female victim that Masters created for the movie, and she's an artist who's interested in creating erotic artworks, so she places an online ad for someone to bind, whip and fuck her for a night to inspire her. Okay, not exactly a nonconsensual beginning to the story, is it?

Danni's art studio is invaded by 3 tattooed tough guys, one of which handgags her from behind while the others berate her with sexual threatening as well as punches and cracks from a riding crop. They force her to finger herself and eventually to remove her clothes while they watch.

One of them tapes her wrists together behind her and tell her to get down on her knees and suck their cocks. When she objects, she promptly gets her face slapped, which makes her glasses go flying off. That moment that gave me a big smile since I didn't like the glasses to begin with. She is forced to suck 2 of the men's cocks, and they both explode on her face.

Then they knock her to the floor and she spits out a huge puddle of cum on the floor ("All that protein wasted", one of them remarks). They remove her panties and instead of sticking them in her mouth, which is what I would do, they put them on over her face. It doesn't exactly improve her appearance.

It isn't long before all 3 of them are sexually assaulting her, with 2 of the men simultaneously raping her butt and pussy while the third pounds away inside her mouth. It's the type of scene one only sees in X-rated porno flicks. Naturally, she gets flooded with an unusually large amount of cum on her face, cunt and asshole. It looks like she squirts out a half gallon on the stuff. One of the advantages of animation is you can exaggerate scenes like this and get away with it.

This is followed by a segment where Danni is again on her knees, still wearing the panties over her face. The leader of the 3 men (you can tell he's the leader since he has the word "BOSS" tattooed on his chest) takes a lemon from a bowl of fruit and sticks it her mouth to gag her. He tells her to hold it in her mouth and not to drop it unless she wants her ass to get fucked.

Over the next several minutes, he whips her over and over with a riding crop on her tits and pussy, while one of them holds her tight with a belt wrapped around her neck. There's some impressive red whip marks that appear on her skin, and there's even a shot of more cum leaking out her pussy while it gets smacked. The scene finishes with him repeatedly rubbing her clit with the riding crop while she is slowly choked to unconsciousness.

When we see her next, they have with her legs tied apart and attached to a spreader bar, forcing her face down into what looks like a puddle of cum on the floor. They crop her ass some, then insert the riding crop deep inside her pussy and then into her ass, sticking it in what looks like a good three feet. Another creative benefit of doing animation, I guess. They somehow squeeze about another quart of cum from inside her, and one of the men is so excited he cums into her face.

At this point, they finally remove the panties from off Danni's face and stick them in her mouth where they belong (better late than never), sealing them in by wrapping the tape around her head a couple of times. She's laying on her back with her hands still bound behind her. The boss man holds her legs wide apart and impales her ass with his giant cock while another guy holds her tight with a strap around her neck. He cums all over her while one of the other men jacks off on her, too. It's probably the most successful scene in the movie, although it's disappointingly short, just a couple minutes long.

Then the men tie Danni in a precarious and painful position, tied upside-down and impaled on the huge erect cock of a statue in her studio. There are electrodes wired to her nipples and pussy and they're all connected to an amplifier that sends electrical jolts to her sensitive spots. They go off and leave her thrashing about, "grinding herself into oblivion", as one of them men remark. I wouldn't have left; I would have stuck around to watch. It's another enjoyable little scene.

The final scene happens much later as we see Danni and her 3 villains all dressed up and attending her new art exhibition, entitled "Suffer For Your Art". She thanks them for the inspiration to finish her project and suggests they should do it again some day. "Might be sooner than you think," one of them comments, as Danni passes out from whatever drugs they had put in her drink. She awakes to find herself bound and gagged in the trunk of the bad guy's car, speeding away to its destination. It's about to happen all over again. Fade out.

There's also a hilarious in-joke after the credits roll. I won't give it away but it was laugh-out loud funny. You'll have to check out the movie to see what I'm talking about.

My biggest problem with the film is the entire look of the male characters and the victim. Masters wasn't going for photo realism and as the result, the Poser depictions have a freakish, dehumanized look about them. In the best ZFX movies, I'm usually able to put myself in the role of the bad guy as I'm watching the movie. While they said all the right "villain" things, I had a hard time identifying with any of these monsters.

Even worse, I didn't particularly find the animated victim to be attractive. She has relatively short hair (not a real appealing look in my mind) and wears annoying purple hippy glasses for the first several minutes of the movie. And then just when they get rid of them, Masters has her wear her purple panties over her face for nearly the rest of the film. That's not a creative choice I would have made.

I know it sounds silly to criticize the appearance of a cartoon character, but it all goes back to my number one axiom when it comes to judging bondage films. It starts with casting, first and foremost. All throughout the film, I kept asking myself if this were live action, would I be enjoying it more? The answer was no, probably not. If the girl doesn't move me, the movie's not likely going to work for me.

The best part of the film is the cruel and often quite humorous dialogue Masters peppers the movie with throughout the film. He did the voices of all 3 male villains and does a great job keeping the movie rolling along, saying all the right things and giving the movie a much-needed edge. The girl voicing Danni was just fine, although she isn't given much to do except play a generic victim.

The animation is, for the most part, quite impressive, even if it's a bit overly stylish and a times draws attention to itself with long sweeping tracking shots. One of the best aspects of the film is the musical soundtrack, which appears to be (intentional or not?) reminiscent of the HOM Bondage Classics from John Blakemore in the 1970s and 80s.

Overall, it's an interesting experiment, but I felt the final results were more amusing than arousing. Rick has expressed a desire to make another animated film, and I hope the look of the visuals improve greatly over the cartoonish look of the Poser program he used this time around. ZFX still has a winning formula, they just need a more realistic presentation.