Changes to Patreon Tiers and the Future! (Patreon)

Hi guys,

So been thinking on and off the past like, three months or so about spicing the Patreon up now I kinda know what I'm doing with it now. One thing I am looking into is just the value for money - especially with the new US taxation thing coming through from July 1st.

I'm also looking at how stuff is distributed as I normally wait till the end of the month - but that was at the beginning and make sense at the time.

Although I haven't changed the pricing, here are the changes.

Drift Tier is now simply Tier 1. 

So during the course of a month, I'll be releasing picture packs. at the end of each month or after the final picture pack of the month, I'll do a monthly poll for Tier 1. The one with the most votes will be released to this tier :) that way the distribution is fair and you guys can get some more rewards to the current stuff. I'll endeavour to post more WIP stuff too, its been a bit dry of late as I have been doing tutorials and stuff with blender as my 3DS Max license is coming to an end. So been using the lockdown time to learn as much as I can.

Piers Tier is going to simply be Tier 2

So my plan is going to be to make 3 - 4+ Picture packs a month comprising of 6+ pictures each.  A minimum of 4 will be Patreon exclusive. This tier rather than featuring 1 or intermittent pictures here there and everywhere, will feature 2 complete packs at random unless voting is preferred similar to Tier 1.

On top of this, all images released on the likes of Twitter and Discord will be released here on this tier in full 4k resolution (public releases will be downscaled to 720 resolution) alternative images entirely maybe released for Patreon exclusive same as in the past.

Finally, the Dante Tier is being tweaked to Tier 3

So what's different? I have almost exhausted my compliment of animations and I can't animate a full animation and audio the thing within 4 weeks, month after month as its an unrealistic expectation. So the animations are viewed on this tier are viewed as a 'bonus' content. So what does that mean for the pledges? Well this pack is the complete unlock! Patreons on this tier will unlock all images sets, animation exclusive previews (similar to like the Piers x Nemesis sequence) and obviously all previous rewards from the tiers too. When animations are ready in full, they'll release on this tier with a 3 month minimum timed exclusivity. But expect more content on this tier in anyhow.

Importantly

You guys don't have to do anything, as all this new tier set does is load more content for the same value of the current tiers. Feel free to adjust your pledge where you wish :) Also I have noticed a few pledgers after several months have decided to leave which is absolutely fine, and I just wanted to thank them for the support and hope they feel able to continue to do so in the future.

So what is coming for Year 2?

Well I started Patreon in August 2019 and a year has almost flown around! many thanks for everyone who has supported me since then. In terms of those that have visited from August / September / October 2019, shoot me a message as you'll get a FREE COMMISSION image made if you haven't had one a couple months ago when I cherry picked a few. So that's the first thing.

So when I started I had a small handful of characters, so the rogue's gallery is increasing, so year 2, will see the inclusion of:

Xiba (Soul Calibur)

Sean Diaz (Life is Strange 2)

Samuel Jordan (Resident Evil Resistance)

Delsin Rowe (Infamous Second Son)

Rig (Dead or Alive)

James Vega (Mass Effect)

… and more, as well as more monsters, hehe!

I'm slowly migrating from 3DS Max to Blender too due to license expiry, as well as now using professional editing software to really enhance the content which I have been learning over the last month, the results... well they show for themselves!

Ultimately just wanna say a massive thank you once more for your support, it's very humbling and I'm extraordinarily thankful that people enjoy the stuff that I do :)