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Next episode incoming & situations
3 years ago
Hey, it's been a long time since the last journal.
The final parts of Episode 15 are rendering at the moment. As long as there's no issues with them, the animation should be releasing tomorrow. Failing that, thursday. We've got some interesting scenes in it, and things are starting to ramp up for the B team as well.
There's also an extra surprise coming with the episode. It's something I've been working on during the infinite renders. Seriously, some of these scenes this time took over a week. One scene is about 2500 frames long and was managing 2min50 per frame at several points of it. The main news though is that the guys over at Patreon spotted some issues, which are being fixed. That's the second part of the journal as well.
I've been running a Patreon for a while now. I've also been working my job for a while now, and I'll be honest, the working conditions aren't exactly...legal. One of the reasons this has taken so long is a ramp in my workload at work. This is while being about £3.50/hr under minimum wage. It's eaten into the rest of my life and meant I'm managing maybe 2hrs an evening on animation, if I'm not exhausted or just completely depressed. It feels like the job is reaching a boiling point. They've said and done things that have really pissed me off. I've stuck with it because I thought they were my friends, and it's a startup which we've been trying to get off the ground. However some of the things they do make the job hard to achieve, and I get the shit for failure to complete.
To explain a bit, I'm supposedly a software developer. I get given a project to do, say for example a website. This is how the process goes:
1) They give me a design and a week to do it in
2) By wednesday, I have most pages a good amount of the way, even though I'm also getting multiple long helpdesk tickets to deal with solo
3) Thursday, they decide they don't like the design and it has to be changed to something new but not clearly defined
4) friday rolls in, and I get sent to install hardware for the day
5) Monday arrives, I get shit for not completing the site. Deadline is now friday
6) Tuesday. They decide the site needs additional pages and custom images.
7) wednesday happens. They decide to go out for the day, and I end up doing managerial meetings for things I have no knowledge of and only found out about 5mins prior for most of the day.
8) Thursday. Apparently there shouldn't be much left to do, I should be able to manage it by the end of the day. Requirements change again.
9) Friday. They are pissed because it's not done. The site just needs a few images and it is done. A redesign of a large page is demanded. Also, several other pages need a redesign...
And it goes on. Progress is made, but it can never be finished as the endpoint shifts constantly. The inability to finish is my fault, I get the shit for it, they say they're going to make me do one of the jobs I absolutely hate and they'll hire a "real developer".
Long story short, the time I tell them to go fuck themselves is drawing near. I'd like to try and get an alternative income before then, so I'm trying to push for more Patreon in the hopes I can maybe make this stuff work.
https://www.patreon.com/methodiaRascal
The main benefit at the moment is you'll get to see episodes usually a week before they get released, as well as snippets of scenes and Patron access to Discord where you can tell me how much I suck. I might actually make a specific abuse channel if people want it. The surprise also has a Patron adjacent thing which I'm still figuring out, and I'm thinking of pushing more Patron only content, though I'd prefer to make everything available so a bit of a dilemma there. I'd do timed releases, but I have a shit memory and would never remember to properly release things a few days afterwards.
TL:DR; Please consider supporting me on Patreon so I can try and push this to fulltime. Also I like to talk to people because I'm a sad and lonely human-adjacent semi-sentient lump, why not join the discord or something.
The final parts of Episode 15 are rendering at the moment. As long as there's no issues with them, the animation should be releasing tomorrow. Failing that, thursday. We've got some interesting scenes in it, and things are starting to ramp up for the B team as well.
There's also an extra surprise coming with the episode. It's something I've been working on during the infinite renders. Seriously, some of these scenes this time took over a week. One scene is about 2500 frames long and was managing 2min50 per frame at several points of it. The main news though is that the guys over at Patreon spotted some issues, which are being fixed. That's the second part of the journal as well.
I've been running a Patreon for a while now. I've also been working my job for a while now, and I'll be honest, the working conditions aren't exactly...legal. One of the reasons this has taken so long is a ramp in my workload at work. This is while being about £3.50/hr under minimum wage. It's eaten into the rest of my life and meant I'm managing maybe 2hrs an evening on animation, if I'm not exhausted or just completely depressed. It feels like the job is reaching a boiling point. They've said and done things that have really pissed me off. I've stuck with it because I thought they were my friends, and it's a startup which we've been trying to get off the ground. However some of the things they do make the job hard to achieve, and I get the shit for failure to complete.
To explain a bit, I'm supposedly a software developer. I get given a project to do, say for example a website. This is how the process goes:
1) They give me a design and a week to do it in
2) By wednesday, I have most pages a good amount of the way, even though I'm also getting multiple long helpdesk tickets to deal with solo
3) Thursday, they decide they don't like the design and it has to be changed to something new but not clearly defined
4) friday rolls in, and I get sent to install hardware for the day
5) Monday arrives, I get shit for not completing the site. Deadline is now friday
6) Tuesday. They decide the site needs additional pages and custom images.
7) wednesday happens. They decide to go out for the day, and I end up doing managerial meetings for things I have no knowledge of and only found out about 5mins prior for most of the day.
8) Thursday. Apparently there shouldn't be much left to do, I should be able to manage it by the end of the day. Requirements change again.
9) Friday. They are pissed because it's not done. The site just needs a few images and it is done. A redesign of a large page is demanded. Also, several other pages need a redesign...
And it goes on. Progress is made, but it can never be finished as the endpoint shifts constantly. The inability to finish is my fault, I get the shit for it, they say they're going to make me do one of the jobs I absolutely hate and they'll hire a "real developer".
Long story short, the time I tell them to go fuck themselves is drawing near. I'd like to try and get an alternative income before then, so I'm trying to push for more Patreon in the hopes I can maybe make this stuff work.
https://www.patreon.com/methodiaRascal
The main benefit at the moment is you'll get to see episodes usually a week before they get released, as well as snippets of scenes and Patron access to Discord where you can tell me how much I suck. I might actually make a specific abuse channel if people want it. The surprise also has a Patron adjacent thing which I'm still figuring out, and I'm thinking of pushing more Patron only content, though I'd prefer to make everything available so a bit of a dilemma there. I'd do timed releases, but I have a shit memory and would never remember to properly release things a few days afterwards.
TL:DR; Please consider supporting me on Patreon so I can try and push this to fulltime. Also I like to talk to people because I'm a sad and lonely human-adjacent semi-sentient lump, why not join the discord or something.
