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How to handle the animation side of things?
🕑 Added 2022-03-02 15:01:27 +0000 UTC(The character poll will go up soon, but THIS poll meanwhile is one that folks on either tier can vote on)
Alright, so! In trying to figure out the best way to integrate the animation side of things to this Patreon alongside the other stuff, I figure it would only make sense to ask everyone here their thoughts.
So far, I've just gone with the fairly simple and straightforward approach of posting work-in-progress animations a week early, with these early versions also sometimes having a nude/uncensored angle to set them apart from the later, publicly posted versions. If people like that current approach, then great, and you may say so in the poll below! But...I've got some misgivings about it. First of all, not every animation lends itself well, either in content or animating logistics or whatever, to having their WIP version be nude, making that part inconsistent. Additionally, WIPs are just that. Unfinished and unpolished. And so I wonder if getting a technically worse version early is still welcome and a fun look at the process, or if you folks would rather a different approach.
Approach #2: while I might still post WIPs as a small bonus, I won't stick with the current approach of posting here a week early as a firm rule. Instead, whenever the animation is good and finished, it'll go up on here and publicly at the same time, BUT with the Patreon version having some special aspect to set it apart. In some cases, that might be a nude version, other times some different tweak to serve as an alternate version, changing the character or mood, or maybe a bonus scene or extra shot. That way, the version here will be as fully featured and tidy as the public version that goes up on deviantart, twitter, and youtube but still have something extra to offer.
Alongside that, I was also thinking of other benefits, though I'm not sure what reward tier they'd be at; I've been thinking of the possibility of adding a lower $2 tier to unlock JUST the animations but nothing else, as well as a $12 tier to add new stuff like getting to nominate subjects for a monthly animation similar to the color fanart system (though $8 people would still be able to vote on which gets chosen). Also, if there were such a tier, would getting credited at the end of public animation uploads also be a bonus anyone would be interested in, or nah? I have no idea! Is being credited for expansion fetish cartoons as cool to you as it is to me?
And how big of a draw would entirely Patreon exclusive animations be?
So below I've listed some possible approaches, and please vote for any and all that you think would appeal to you, or which even just seem like a good idea. Thanks, and also please feel free to post any other suggestions or requests in the comments below!
