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Hi everyone, and welcome to my Patreon ^^

First off, let me thank everyone reading this; I sincerely appreciate your support, whether your level. I've been blown away by the support; I'm already about half way to the goal of being a part time animator for this fandom, which I was really not expecting this early on.

I'm really looking forward to the concept of crowdsourced direction of my animation, through your voting and nominations. I'm also really keen to hear about any comments or suggestions you may have; I want to shape my patreon to suit you, so please let me know what you think about the rewards I have on offer, or if you have any suggestions for improvements or adding new ones.

Aside form that, this post is mainly for me to run over the rewards as they currently stand. Please look it over when you get the time so you know what's on offer, and by all means, share your thoughts or concerns.

STREAMS:

I'll be aiming to do at least two streams a month. I'll try and animate over those streams when I can, but sometimes I may have to work on something less interesting (such as model, texture, rig etc.). I'll post the date and time, as well as task in advance.

These streams are for my patreon supporters; however in my experience, streams have been more fun when more people participate as then you get conversations happening. If the pledgers in the stream want, I can make it public. If not, I will keep them private for you guys <3. its up to those in the stream at the time.

DEVELPMENT/CONCEPT IMAGES:

I'll be putting up any test renders, concept sketches, interesting screenshots and test results which I come across for any given month. Some months may have more images than others, depending on what I have been working on for that month. Spoiler alerts :)

DEVELPMENT/CONCEPT VIDEOS:

I usually do regular playblasts (quick computer renders) of shots in various levels of development; so I will compile a collection of these, as well as fully rendered teaser shots (when they exist), and anything else I think could be interesting. I may withhold some content though, so as to not completely spoil the animation before it's released.

VOTES:

When each project is completed I'll send out a ballot to all eligible supporters to decide on what my next animation will be. The first election will be sent after the 5th of September, and will have 5 options to chose from. I'll Post about them soon.

In order to prevent votes getting split among similar options, I'll be using preferential voting (otherwise know as an instant runoff system). So you'll get to number each option from 1 to 5 in order of your most preferred to least preferred. This link explains more if you want to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xs1TUGwqiE).

Your vote will be multiplied by however many votes you have allocated, depending on what level of pledge you're at. Most months, there will be no vote, so in these months your votes will bank for the next election.

If for whatever reason you stop pledging before a vote, but you have some in the bank, then I'll try to still honour those votes when the time comes, depending on how easy it is to contact you.

NOMINATIONS:

Nominations for ballot options are reserved for my long term, highest pledging supporters. You will get nomination credits each month, and they will bank form month to month. When you bank 6 of them, you will get to exchange them for a nomination on the next ballot. If you have 12, you will get to two nominations on the ballot.

however; I reserve the right to reject the chosen nomination(s). There are certain animation concepts I do not want to touch, and some concepts may be too big for me to develop and animate for, so please check with me if your concept is acceptable before committing to such levels of contribution.

Also, please note that I used poor wording on my initial pledge descriptions, for which I sincerely apologise. I called these 'nomination rights' rather than 'nomination credits', and even though I explained this system on my main page above it, I can see that some people could get the wrong idea of what they are entitled to based on that name. So please consider downgrading/withdrawing your pledge if you were under any misconceptions before any money changes hands. I appreciate your support, but I don't want it to be under false pretenses.

CREDITS:

I'll be adding the name of supporters that are eligible for credits at the end of the animation, at the very least. Ideally, I will want to provide a clickable link in flash videos to the supporters page, if they would like; but I will need to see if I can acquire the skills to do that before I can make that a promise.