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Inflatable Boppers/Dakis and Future Plans
5 years ago
Hey all! Just thought the post about my layoff is slightly old news by now, so I feel like updating the page with something a little more relevant and upbeat, as well as possibly picking some brains on some future ideas.
So the orders I ran on the boppers are locked in, and the manufacturer ought to be working on them currently. I'll be posting more up-to-date notices on them on my twitter, such as how production is coming along and when the first of them get mailed out. It took some doing, and the whole thing was a bit of a learning experience for me. Gathering the orders via google forms was a bit tedious but not overwhelming, and there were a few other points of the process I could improve, but I resolved myself to see this through, even if it's just to prove that I can deliver on the order.
That all said, due to a miscalculation, I came out slightly in the red on this endeavor. I didn't want to further adjust prices on people after payment was made, so for those of you who ordered on this run, consider yourselves the beneficiaries of a special, introductory rate!
And yes, by "this run" I am suggesting that I may do more runs in the future once everyone receives their product, and I wanted input on what characters to do next! As a general rule, I want to put characters of similar size and proportions together, and have these be characters enough people would want inflatable boppers/dakis of. I'll probably hold an actual poll to gather numbers, but so far my pairings for future runs are:
- Holly and Belle: extra tall boppers, with Holly in her fishbone bikini and Belle in her t-shirt and short shorts.
- Mirig and BAPPERS: extra wide boppers, with Mirig in her AWOO's uniform or her green beltkini, and BAPPERS in just about the only outfit she's ever worn.
- Nymph and C-Nine: Two-sided boppers, with the front being the girls posing, and the back being a pose from behind with their heads detached and on the ground. C-Nine would be in her usual outfit, and Nymph's outfit is still in the air, but I'll probably go with her black and white swimsuit.
Of course, I'm also open to other suggestions, if anyone can think of another two (or more) characters than would work for identically sized boppers (comment below!). If there's enough demand for it, I might also do a repeat run of the Sofi/Gena boppers down the line. Just random musings...
As usual my commission queue is here! -> https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9454663
And if you'd like to tip/donate, I have a ko-fi here! -> https://ko-fi.com/aygee99
Also also, I'm like to remind people that I stream Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday(sometimes), and Friday evenings, at least until further notice! -> https://picarto.tv/AyGee
So the orders I ran on the boppers are locked in, and the manufacturer ought to be working on them currently. I'll be posting more up-to-date notices on them on my twitter, such as how production is coming along and when the first of them get mailed out. It took some doing, and the whole thing was a bit of a learning experience for me. Gathering the orders via google forms was a bit tedious but not overwhelming, and there were a few other points of the process I could improve, but I resolved myself to see this through, even if it's just to prove that I can deliver on the order.
That all said, due to a miscalculation, I came out slightly in the red on this endeavor. I didn't want to further adjust prices on people after payment was made, so for those of you who ordered on this run, consider yourselves the beneficiaries of a special, introductory rate!
And yes, by "this run" I am suggesting that I may do more runs in the future once everyone receives their product, and I wanted input on what characters to do next! As a general rule, I want to put characters of similar size and proportions together, and have these be characters enough people would want inflatable boppers/dakis of. I'll probably hold an actual poll to gather numbers, but so far my pairings for future runs are:
- Holly and Belle: extra tall boppers, with Holly in her fishbone bikini and Belle in her t-shirt and short shorts.
- Mirig and BAPPERS: extra wide boppers, with Mirig in her AWOO's uniform or her green beltkini, and BAPPERS in just about the only outfit she's ever worn.
- Nymph and C-Nine: Two-sided boppers, with the front being the girls posing, and the back being a pose from behind with their heads detached and on the ground. C-Nine would be in her usual outfit, and Nymph's outfit is still in the air, but I'll probably go with her black and white swimsuit.
Of course, I'm also open to other suggestions, if anyone can think of another two (or more) characters than would work for identically sized boppers (comment below!). If there's enough demand for it, I might also do a repeat run of the Sofi/Gena boppers down the line. Just random musings...
As usual my commission queue is here! -> https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9454663
And if you'd like to tip/donate, I have a ko-fi here! -> https://ko-fi.com/aygee99
Also also, I'm like to remind people that I stream Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday(sometimes), and Friday evenings, at least until further notice! -> https://picarto.tv/AyGee
Any consideration for doing boppers featuring other people's characters? I'd be up for commissioning ya, just so I could get some of my gals on boppers :D
It's not impossible that I would do a commission for other OC's to appear on a bopper, but that would be a very special case.
And damn is that a high res image or what, I didn't realize they'd have to be that large but I guess if they're gona be printed on something so big they need to have a decent amount of detail to 'em.
As for customs of other characters, if you agreed to let it be part of a run and I was convinced it would sell, it would probably cost at least twice as much as my rate for single figure images, plus the cost of buying the bopper. For a one-off, however, we'd be looking in the ballpark of 500 USD, give or take, just to make it worth the time of creating the image and getting a single bopper produced and shipped. Both of those would be a -super- case-by-case deal, so I would NOT expect to see me opening up slots for those.
To be fair, for a one off that's not the worst I heard cost wise.