@LittleEvilMeI am from california but its a coincidence about the AV club Being in LA. I really liked the atmosphere in the Pictures. I made a transparent logo for my modified scene of the club where the V in AV is a martini glass whith an olive being dropped into it.
I like the rain image in my default so a modified a scenes and made a ocation called the rain club. The transparent logo has a little umbrella. I made a couch scene with an absinth theme.
I have been looking at your scenes and some of them are really clever. Like the scene with the cut out of the mirror where you watch her strip on the couch and then pan and watch her strip in the mirror.
I think the issue with the backgrounds is just you have to zoom in in the extreme. I think that is why when you put color on the girls and make some of them further back hazy, it melts away the skepticism a bit and you feel like you're there.
As far as criticisms, I think your logos are bad. lol. and you put the model name too big. I had to turn off the model names because i got pulled out of the scene by them.
I can really see what you're doing and i also see what you were able to do with the whisper club and the bare elegance sceene as what you're capable of with a high quality image to work from. Some of these are better than others. I am looking at it on a 4k monitor with 3k strippers and its 55 inches.
Your choice of where to put the models a lot of times times out perfectly. It looks like they are dancing together sometimes. The lap dance scene is good. The face once was a little distorted. But the task scene where they wiggle their ass just above the task bar is perfect for a lap dance effect. I think it works,
Here is my clip art from some of the stuff I have put together. The AV club interiors are all in here.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qehedkkp910c1bo/AADfkrssfj53fv--JD1tuETVa?dl=0