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***IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ*** The Animation Conundrum
3 years ago
Wassup guys, it's fuzzbutt Daniel again!!
I've wanted to animate for a very long time, but I have always had obstacles between myself, and progress. However, recently, practically every single issue I ever had with animating has been solved, except one:
Time.
I have a full time job outside of furry art, so what I post here and on Patreon is done in whatever spare time I have left. Also, right now I'm struggling to animate even really basic stuff because I'm rusty. It doesn't look that good yet either, and it's going to take a really long time to work my skills up to decent quality. And the way my Patreon/general art-flow is currently structured, I have no time to work on them.
In order to really get good, and post regular content here, I would have to restructure my entire Patreon, tier rewards and output around animation.
The part which worries me is, I'm not sure I can really do it. I am so rusty now thanks to lack of practice for nearly a decade, and even when I did animate during University, I wasn't that great at it. I just loved making them... and hated making them at the same time.
With that said, here's the proposal:
Alternate my workflow every two months.
Month A: business as usual. 2D still art, sketch tier, $5 early access, $10 reward tiers, commissions, etc. No change.
Month B: I work on animations. During these months, I'd post far fewer fewer still pieces, no commissions and fewer sketches. The various tiers would get access to different levels of input.
On these alternate months, instead of the usual workflow, I would upload animation scripts, WIPs, storyboards (if I make them) and polls on what to animate. The majority of updates and WIP's would be Patreon rewards.
During production, patrons could also discuss animation progress, improvements/criticisms.
The final animation would be posted to Patreon 14 days before their public debuts for $5+ patrons.
I posted a poll on Patreon where folks can vote on this, even on the lowest tier.
But, I also really wanted to hear opinions over here. What do you folks think? Should I work on animations every two months? Heck, maybe you've got an even better solution than I do?
Let me know in the comments below.
Time.
I have a full time job outside of furry art, so what I post here and on Patreon is done in whatever spare time I have left. Also, right now I'm struggling to animate even really basic stuff because I'm rusty. It doesn't look that good yet either, and it's going to take a really long time to work my skills up to decent quality. And the way my Patreon/general art-flow is currently structured, I have no time to work on them.
In order to really get good, and post regular content here, I would have to restructure my entire Patreon, tier rewards and output around animation.
The part which worries me is, I'm not sure I can really do it. I am so rusty now thanks to lack of practice for nearly a decade, and even when I did animate during University, I wasn't that great at it. I just loved making them... and hated making them at the same time.
With that said, here's the proposal:
Alternate my workflow every two months.
Month A: business as usual. 2D still art, sketch tier, $5 early access, $10 reward tiers, commissions, etc. No change.
Month B: I work on animations. During these months, I'd post far fewer fewer still pieces, no commissions and fewer sketches. The various tiers would get access to different levels of input.
On these alternate months, instead of the usual workflow, I would upload animation scripts, WIPs, storyboards (if I make them) and polls on what to animate. The majority of updates and WIP's would be Patreon rewards.
During production, patrons could also discuss animation progress, improvements/criticisms.
The final animation would be posted to Patreon 14 days before their public debuts for $5+ patrons.
I posted a poll on Patreon where folks can vote on this, even on the lowest tier.
But, I also really wanted to hear opinions over here. What do you folks think? Should I work on animations every two months? Heck, maybe you've got an even better solution than I do?
Let me know in the comments below.
Animation is def a time vampire, and I've only done a little bit of it for personal amusement besides the casual stuff I did in high school (failed the shit out of that class, let me tell you).
Hope I'm not overstepping but I have some blanket advice.
Make sure you keep the projects small scale though and I do mean small. Test yourself with simple 100-frame animations and build up. Since this is a patreon thing it sounds like it could potentially be very easy to become totally overwhelmed even if you do dedicate more time. :0