Follow up to vote results and details regarding next Live Drawing! (Patreon)

Hello Patrons!

Apologies for the long silence. As the title states, we would like to follow up on the vote results from our previous post, and announce some details regarding our next live drawing session.

Regarding the Live Drawing

With the studio in full throttle with the production of PROMARE, it is becoming harder by the day to find some free time with our animator to conduct the live drawing. I'm afraid we might not be able to conduct a session with our animators until PROMARE is finished at this rate... 

I also feel that's a bit cruel for our supporters so I thought we can make a small exception just this once, and invite Mago to conduct our next live drawing session.

While Mago is not the studio's employee, she is a creator that we like to work with frequently, and is also the character design for Space Patrol Luluco and our mascot characters.

We hope to schedule this drawing session in mid February, and the voting poll with finer details will be provided later this week.

Regarding the vote results and questions
(the poll and post can be found here)

I would like to first thank everyone who've participated and provided a feedback!
I believe we would like to go forth with the digital artbook for the shikishi, and I'll start looking for possible platforms!

Now for the questions and feedbacks!

Maximilian Gottselig

I think digital is one thing, but we all love physical things we can collect. Like a printed artbook, original shikishi and so on. I wouldn't mind spending more money for this.

The short answer to this will be, it's going to be difficult...
We all prefer physical over digital, and I'm no different. If possible, I'd like to make physical versions available to our supporters as well. While there's a multitude of reasons why we would like to avoid this, the biggest factor has to be the shipping and logistic expense. If you've purchased anything from our global store in the past, you'd probably know that the shipping cost is absurd. You'd be paying more for the shipment than the actual product, and that doesn't really benefit either parties.

ShrugLife650

I would be willing to pay for a higher tier around 7-10 dollars if it meant being entered into a raffle to possibly receive a physical Shikishi on a postcard or something. I understand this might not be possible currently, but in the future it would be neat. 

One of my first idea was to actually provide these shikishi as a random gift to our patrons. However, due to the policy with Patreon (quoted below), we cannot conduct any form of raffle as part of a reward.

"Everybody loves the thrill of winning something, that is just part of our nature. In the past, we used to allow raffles but we have recently decided to take a stronger stance against reward tiers and goals that involve any kinds of giveaway.

We decided that this approach was the best moving forward if we want to comply with gambling regulations. We understand that your own state or country might have different legislation, but as a global company we want to make sure that creators can safely offer similar rewards to all of their patrons without being at risk of breaking the law."

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/204199489-Can-I-offer-a-raffle-as-part-of-a-reward- 

We can technically make them available for first come first served basis, but I believe that this can potentially lead to some issues if not executed in a fair manner (both internally and externally). 

Since some of these shikishi's are too good to let it collect dust in our inventory, I do want to continue and pursuit if we can make any use of them in the future.

Martin Lukas

how about a little webseries where creatives from the patreons can participate? something with more easy animations like inferno cop. in other words a cooperation with your supporters this would be the next step after "our" success with lwa. I would deliver a concept :-)

Definitely possible if the requested quality is Inferno Cop. However, it's questionable if the majority of our supporter will be satisfied with that. I guess we can take a vote if there's enough interest.