leathersfm

Update: Last Month Until This Page Closes and Future Plans

Published: February 2nd 2022, 3:22:54 am

I am going to take a break from Patreon. This February will be the last month that this page is open until things change. I'll do one more video for February, then after that. It's closed. Then, my plans are to do animation commissions on my own time and try my hand at some game dev stuff.

I started a full-time job a month ago and have been working away, only having a few hours to animate when I come home for and on the weekends. This has drastically impacted my available time that I spend animating. Combine that with the fact that I switched to Blender and am still learning the program, content production slowed down to a fraction of what I was capable of in SFM. Before, I would routinely go over 1 minute length videos, now I struggle to reach close to it. I can't produce a minute of video (to my standards) a month any more. But also, I am exhausted every single day I return home from work. It takes monumental strength to open up Blender and slowly trudge along after I already trudged along for 8 hours that day. This Samus video I had to force myself to finish it after I completed the first 40% of it, but I had to produce SOMETHING.

I can't handle having the pressure to deliver content every month that is justified by my current tier pricing. $6 USD for anything less than a minute doesn't sound fair to me. That, and this Patreon page has also left me very little space to do commissions. I tried to juggle commissions AND this Patreon earlier this year at the same time and it was the most stressful and burnout-inducing period of my life. I just don't see myself being able to do all of the things I now have the freedom to do, AND run this Patreon as well.

It was a good run. An entire year of Patreon posts. I will probably open this back up if the situation changes or I must return back to this for some reason. Thank you all for your great support! You've been incredible!