Red's Wrap-Up (November Edition) (Patreon)

Hey everyone, welcome to the last wrap-up of the year! (There will be a December wrap-up, but it will be out in early January and will probably be a bit on the lighter side.)

Here's a big batch of sketches from throughout the month.

As I mentioned in my last report, I have been focusing almost exclusively on the Samus animation. I am going to need a few more weeks to finalize the scenes and composite the scenes together, but I do have a WIP video for you that shows the complexity of the scene and a glimpse at the rig I've put together for it. 

It feels like with each of these animations I do, I'm learning something new about Spine and coming up with better ways to set up my scenes. It's definitely been good to get more practice in.

Anyway, hoping to get that wrapped up soon, shooting for the end of the year but with the holidays coming up it may be hard to find all the time necessary. I'm also hoping to hit this mark so I can really dedicate my time towards finishing Pod's New Program, and doing so at the very beginning of the year would be good way to start. And like I mentioned in my last update, my first task will be getting a fresh build out since it's been a good while since the last one.

Speaking of which, another topic I want to talk about is the restructuring of this page and my available tiers. I've been thinking about this for a while, and here's what I'm thinking so far:

• Tier 1: $1
  • For folks who just want to throw some change my way, I want that to still be an option.
  • This tier will include voting abilities! I post a pile of sketches about once a month, so now I'll take a vote to see which one my fans most want to see finished.
    
• Tier 2: $3
  • This is the “main” tier, containing my monthly wrap-ups which will continue to include in-depth summaries of what I've been working on, sketches, and other WIPs.
  • This will also include any and all finished art I produce, including variants and high-res packs.
  • Major game builds will be released here, but not super frequently.
    
• Tier 3: $7
  • For those who really want to show their support, this tier will contain all of the above, and also include more production files like .PSDs and earlier game builds.
    

I also wanted to reiterate my reasons for doing this, for the sake of transparency:

• I will admit I've had a hard time producing all the content I've offered in the past. So I want to scale back, and really focus on what I enjoy doing.
  
• In turn my hope is that this makes things easier to keep up with, and I can maintain my creative momentum a bit better, instead of switching gears so much.
  
• My following is still pretty small. By lowering the cost of entry overall and simplifying the options, I'm hoping to make it easier and more worthwhile for new fans to join up.

Something else I'm considering for the new year, and to support the reboot of my page is to purge all the previous work that's posted here. If this happens I will plan to make it available somewhere like Gumroad so people can still grab it a la carte. We'll see, I'm still 50/50 on that one at the moment.


If you've made it this far, thanks for reading, and thanks for your support. I have some good feelings about next year, I will see you there!

-Red