“I find the proportions to be fairly bulky, with wide shoulders and smaller hips to my taste.” “The vanilla artwork doesn’t appeal to me very much,” Caliente said. The fame is strange…and kind of fun sometimes…but since it’s relegated to an internet name, it’s sort of like having a secret identity.”Ĭaliente initially saw the Skyrim version of CBBE as a way to “fix” the character models. “It feels really amazing to have so many people using and enjoying my work, and I like thinking that I’ve helped make the games a little more enjoyable for people. “The popularity was a little unexpected,” Caliente said. Caliente made it from scratch, using 3D animation programs such as Blender.
A programmer with a love for digital art, CBBE was actually the first mod Caliente released to the public. I caught up with Caliente via email to ask about the vast, racy modding empire inspired by CBBE. As of this writing, CBBE has been downloaded a whopping 8.2 million times. CBBE characters spread through the internet with the speed of, well, naked pictures of attractive women. Created by a modder who (appropriately) goes by ‘Caliente’, CBBE is a large part of the reason people associate “ Skyrim modding” with naked vixens. At the center of this all is a popular mod called ‘ Caliente’s Beautiful Bodies Edition‘, a Skyrim modification that gives players more control over the customisation of female characters.
