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Going public with my story of a commission gone sour
3 years ago
Disclaimer. I will not be revealing the artists name in this journal.
I am going to start at the beginning.
I had a lengthy discussions with the artist about pricing for a animation commission, which includes storyboard, primary animation and finishing touches,
of which we agreed upon dividing up into 3 rounds of payment given my financial state for a full commission of the entire animation project.
For the storyboard, we settled on further dividing that up into 7 monthly payments for additional ease of budget management and if necessary,
postponed the work if i couldn’t pay one month.
I personally made sure to pay the agreed monthly amount on time when possible and they finished each months work in a timely manner,
but we agreed on postponing payment during November and December because of Christmas.
The delays of receiving the artwork i paid for began in September 2020 when i paid for that month.
From then on, the artist suddenly didn’t finish the work in the same rate as before and left all of their means of contact inactive,
despite my multiple attempts at getting a update.
It was first in November that i got a response again, where they apologized for the lack of updates and promised to finish the work i paid for soon.
However, since then, they once again went without providing any updates
and appears to have cut off all of their online activity on all sites they are present.
Even despite my attempts to get a response once more from has proven difficult given the current status of their online activity
and i am genuinely getting tired of them disappearing like that.
At this point, i had at first settled upon giving them a deadline until May 31st 2022 to finish the work if they come back online and if not,
try to get a full refund for the last payment i provided, regardless of how far they are with finishing the final piece of storyboard work
and possibly cut ties with them working on the animation project with me.
That is unless they return and finish the work i paid for.
However, due to the artist temporarily returning to their FA account between April 20th and April 24th 2022, only to seemingly disable their account on their own accord,
followed by their Twitter account being set to private some time between April 27th and 28th. As such, i decided to revise and tighten the deadline offered to April 30th,
as it was clear they deliberately were ignoring my attempts at getting any update.
And as of May 1st, since the artist did not respond in the revised timeframe i offered, i have informed them of the complete termination of the commission,
as well as made it clear i would take this issue to Artist Beware and demanded a refund coming to a total of 925$ for the 4 months
( which i discovered by reviewing Paypal transactions and dates of received storyboard artwork, concluding i am owed 4 months of what i paid for instead of 3 months ),
i never got the remaining fully paid storyboard artwork for, regardless of whatever progress there has been made on the remaining storyboard.
After i terminated the commission and had done some digging, i found out that i am not the only one that hired the artist for a commission that has been ghosted in the same general timeframe,
of which we agreed to potentially teaming up with sharing our experience with the artist as a warning for others.
While highly unlikely, if anyone feel like helping out with ways to get in contact with the artist despite their continuous lack of communication, be it contacting the artist on my behalf, sharing this journal and other means of helping out, i would appreciate it very much.
I am going to start at the beginning.
I had a lengthy discussions with the artist about pricing for a animation commission, which includes storyboard, primary animation and finishing touches,
of which we agreed upon dividing up into 3 rounds of payment given my financial state for a full commission of the entire animation project.
For the storyboard, we settled on further dividing that up into 7 monthly payments for additional ease of budget management and if necessary,
postponed the work if i couldn’t pay one month.
I personally made sure to pay the agreed monthly amount on time when possible and they finished each months work in a timely manner,
but we agreed on postponing payment during November and December because of Christmas.
The delays of receiving the artwork i paid for began in September 2020 when i paid for that month.
From then on, the artist suddenly didn’t finish the work in the same rate as before and left all of their means of contact inactive,
despite my multiple attempts at getting a update.
It was first in November that i got a response again, where they apologized for the lack of updates and promised to finish the work i paid for soon.
However, since then, they once again went without providing any updates
and appears to have cut off all of their online activity on all sites they are present.
Even despite my attempts to get a response once more from has proven difficult given the current status of their online activity
and i am genuinely getting tired of them disappearing like that.
At this point, i had at first settled upon giving them a deadline until May 31st 2022 to finish the work if they come back online and if not,
try to get a full refund for the last payment i provided, regardless of how far they are with finishing the final piece of storyboard work
and possibly cut ties with them working on the animation project with me.
That is unless they return and finish the work i paid for.
However, due to the artist temporarily returning to their FA account between April 20th and April 24th 2022, only to seemingly disable their account on their own accord,
followed by their Twitter account being set to private some time between April 27th and 28th. As such, i decided to revise and tighten the deadline offered to April 30th,
as it was clear they deliberately were ignoring my attempts at getting any update.
And as of May 1st, since the artist did not respond in the revised timeframe i offered, i have informed them of the complete termination of the commission,
as well as made it clear i would take this issue to Artist Beware and demanded a refund coming to a total of 925$ for the 4 months
( which i discovered by reviewing Paypal transactions and dates of received storyboard artwork, concluding i am owed 4 months of what i paid for instead of 3 months ),
i never got the remaining fully paid storyboard artwork for, regardless of whatever progress there has been made on the remaining storyboard.
After i terminated the commission and had done some digging, i found out that i am not the only one that hired the artist for a commission that has been ghosted in the same general timeframe,
of which we agreed to potentially teaming up with sharing our experience with the artist as a warning for others.
While highly unlikely, if anyone feel like helping out with ways to get in contact with the artist despite their continuous lack of communication, be it contacting the artist on my behalf, sharing this journal and other means of helping out, i would appreciate it very much.
