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Animation Schedule Poll
🕑 Added 2023-04-04 13:55:20 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
In the light of a couple of animation schedule hiccups, as well as a very vocal support for changes to my animations in general, I've opted to create a community poll on the matter!
Presently I update with animation loops with deadlines on Mondays. Most of the time I am able to maintain this schedule, but sometimes there is a lapse in it owing to my real life schedule, sickness or other factors. While it's overall a consistent way to deliver content, it does lack in flexibility and is generally limiting in scope for what can be accomplished in the time frame it affords me. The alternative is to have bi-weekly updates, with a more ambitious animation scope, which also has its considerations. Large project work, comics etc are of course entirely separate from all this, so this poll has no effect on my work on those.
To settle the matter, I'd like to see what the community thinks. The options are as follows:
1: Keep to my current schedule where I update Mondays, which tends to average to about 4 loops a month. Nothing changes.
2: Change to the more ambitious animation format and schedule. While this opens up for potential creampie endings and for the animation to last longer, it also limits my updates to 2 loops a month, potentially fewer extra angles (depending on scene load), and no strict Monday updates. This also leaves the regular update schedule entirely in the purview of the $10 tier, who will maintain their 2 monthly polls to decide what characters to feature.
3: I am fine with either schedule. Keep up the work, DH!
Choose below! The poll will run for about 2 weeks, so you have ample time to choose. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments or in my direct messages, and I'll try to answer them as well as I can.
Comments
The Ageless Ascetic
for the record, i voted #3, but I actually hoping for 2x #1 and 1x #2 in a month, either way keep up the great work big guy, we appreciate you!
The Ageless Ascetic
I'm going to agree with @Rxxez, I'm also for a 50/50 split. And I think it'll be a benefit to Patrons AND Artist. We know the longer animations take more planning, effort, time....and LIFE happens, and you may not be able to crank 2 longer animations out every single month, which then (to no fault of your own) that month only having 1 animation released. Doing a 50/50 split will generally allow for at least 2 animations released (on a rough month), 3 on a happy month :)
DH
They'll be closer to loops than they will be full videos as finishing full projects every 2 weeks would be impossible. While I'm yet to figure out the format entirely and will have to experiment a bit, I'm of the mind that they'll be a bit longer than loops and, whenever I find the time for it, finish with creampies.
WOWMage95
Are the ambitious videos, loops or full videos?
longer cooldown periods would be great!
Musou_Tensai
I Love the Loops
Cameron
I'm fully onboard for the more ambitious loops after all these years :P. The change up would feel refreshing
DH
Indeed, I have considerations for longer cooldown periods for characters so as to mitigate that, should that option win out in the poll.
Drew
my big concern is giving full control to the alley crew polls for content. They seem to pick the same 4 or 5 girls everytime. I worry that this will lead to stale content.
could be nice with 50/50. 2 animations like the normal monday and then 1 ambitious so its 3 animations a month
Dhaddy
Maybe should do a trial period with #2 see how things go
WOWMage95
I prefer the loops every Monday. Loops are more interesting to me.
It could be a good mix between the 2 but personally i would love to see some more ambitious projects every second monday, it may be more strict in terms of characters but the return in quality its really worth it in my opinion
DH
This definitely is one large upside to the 4-a-month format, indeed.
superwhispers
Great point
rbuy
I feel like the 4-a-month, while more limited in scope, also allows for a wider variety of characters to be used, so people who don't like certain characters won't be a little bummed for 2 whole weeks if you chose to focus on them for a large scale animation/if they won polls.
