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$50 goal reached! New stuff!
🕑 Added 2018-11-15 10:33:04 +0000 UTCQuick summary at the bottom
Thanks!
We've reached the $50 goal! That means I can upgrade my dropbox to at least 1TB, which again means I can throw in just about anything, especially future animations. Thank you guys so much for your support! I'll be making a post and updating the dropbox once I've got it up and running.
Commission rewards
Some of you guys have been supporting me long and hard(sorry) from the very beginning, and are starting to hit a pretty high lifetime sum, so I've been thinking about converting that lifetime support into commissions. I did commissions some time ago via tumblr, but removed it after a while. Now I want to try out doing them as a sort of loyalty reward thing by letting patrons build up to it over time. The base price for a still image was $40 and increased depending on the complexity of the scene itself(amount of characters, setting etc.), so I'm upping it to $45 but at the same time allowing any level of complexity to the scene. This means that if you've pledged a lifetime amount of at least $45, you'll be contacted with the opportunity for a "free" commission! There are some basic rules that applied to my commissions back then and still do, though:
-Only characters from my tumblr and a few select from the dropbox will be available for the commission. If you wish to see some of those from my dropbox, just ask and I'll check if I can make it happen.
-Whether or not the render is made public(with your permission of course) will depend on the current state of the tumblr "lore" and how well the render fits into it.
-Once contacted for the commission, you must reply with your request within two months or the reward is invalidated. This is to prevent potentially large amounts of work from stacking up over time.
And that's about it. I'll be reminding you of the rules when I contact you for the reward if I can't make them easily available somewhere. I'm super stoked to see how this pans out! That's not the only reward I've been thinking about, though:
Monthly wallpaper polls
My renders rarely have the widescreen aspect ratio for artistic reasons, but I do want to make some wallpaper material as well. So I'm going to try doing a monthly poll where you guys pick a setting and a girl, and I make a simple 1920x1080 wallpaper from it. The poll itself will be restricted to the $3 Copper Azma tier and above, but the finished wallpaper will be made available to all regardless, and with all patrons getting an early preview. The first poll will appear in a couple of days or so, and the resulting wallpaper somewhere near mid-december if all goes well.
Wait what? "The Copper Azma tier"?
New tiers
It's still mind blowing to me that anyone would be pledging to my patreon, the amount of support I get feels just incredible. I want to give something back to those of you who've been pledging increasing amounts, but whithout taking anything away from my fundamental $1 supporters. The commission reward and wallpaper polls will be my attempt at that. I've created some new tiers to give a sense of aknowledgement to supporters who want to give a little more than usual – because holy shit are you awesome! Aside from the wallpaper voting power, the tiers are more or less "boosters" towards the commission reward and merely cosmetic at the moment. But they also serve to express that I see you people too. I hope that's something to you.
There's also a top tier for anyone who simply want to straight up order a commission.
You must select the new tier yourself even though you've already pledged the amount, as patreon doesn't put you into new tiers automatically!
And that's all for now
Summary
So, in short,
-Dropbox is being upgraded!
-Commissions available to invested supporters($45 lifetime support)!
-New tiers and wallpaper voting!
Love you all!
Comments
Yeah, I've mentioned it in this post. The wallpaper poll is a new thing meant to give those who've been pledging higher amounts over the last few months some extra benefits. They'll decide the contents of a monthly wallpaper. The resulting image will of course be available on tumblr and the dropbox, with all patrons getting an early preview first. There are a couple more patrons with access to the poll, but they haven't registered to the new tiers, so they aren't part of the statistics yet, it seems. Anyway, what this means is basically that those few patrons just generated more content for all, which is pretty neat ;)
Rawls311
Love your work and all but you just posted a poll that from the look at the patreons only 2 have access to?
Cryphius
Cant wait to see all the goodies in the dropbox :-)
