upcoming changes to patron tiers and rewards (Patreon)

Since this project started, some significant changes to the initial workflow were made to get the highest possible video quality, but this increased also the workload. Switching from sfmvr_stitch to blender for the 180° stitching makes the videos look sharper and allows up to 8k resolution, but requires also a lot more time and memory to process. I don’t want to complain about this, but think some may be interested in how much more it takes to make 3D content for HMDs than for videos designed for a 2D monitor.

To be able to continue with this project to deliver high quality CGI videos, I’ll have to make some chances to the patron tiers and rewards that will hopefully attract some more backers while the VR market is growing.

The patron tiers are changing like following:

There is a new tier called “Supporter”, it’s for the people that don’t own a VR HMD but still want to contribute in supporting this project.

The basic supporter tier is renamed to “VR-Supporter” and has the choice for more different quality versions of the videos now to fit any iOS or Android phone and PSVR. The old rewards remain (early access to the short animations and exclusive access to the longer ones), except the for the new 4k videos, that are now 4320x2160@60fps and available to the next tier of support.

The tier “4k Supporter” is new. Here the high-end HMD owners can get the new 4k videos that have an increased resolution of 4320x2160 compared to my older encoded 4k videos, additionally to the previous tier rewards.

Another new tier is the “8k Supporter”. This is for the PIMAX HMD owners that will get here the 8k videos additionally to the previous tier rewards.

The “Big Backer” tier is removed. I just don’t have the time for requests if I want to steady improve in animation and video quality. When I feel like I can pull out any kind of animation in no time, there will be made a new tier for requests. Suggestions for new animations remain welcome.

The “Investor” tier is removed. No exclusive work in process posts anymore, only public for all supporters.

Regarding the cost for the new tiers, I would like to ask you therefore in a separate poll.