Transparency post and future of the Patreon

Hello everyone! 

Sorry for this (long) post, which is going to be a downer on model release day, but I figure I should be transparent with you all as you've been supporting my work, which means the world to me.

So I had a pretty big scare yesterday, as the organization I work for announced they were undergoing a restructuring of our organizational branch, and cut 10% of the employees right then and there.  Both of the employees cut in my department are close friends of mine, and one of them was hired at the same time as I was (the other was a 15 year veteran). That leaves me as the newest member in my department (and probably first one on the chopping block in the event of another surprise culling). Needless to say, while I'm extremely grateful for my position and still having it, my sense of job security is out the window.

That said, my Bachelor's degree (Psychology) isn't exactly a solid job-securer. I've taken various programming courses in the last couple years in the hopes of moving to a field with more stability and security, but in the last year it's been mostly relegated to the backburner in favor of my passion, 3d sculpting (as I felt my position was relatively secure til now).

So now I'm thinking it's in my best interest to seriously pick up programming again so that I can build a more marketable skillset, which sadly means eating into the time I was previously using for sculpting.

Regarding the Patreon, for December I currently have 7 out of 8 Melty Blood/Anime fighter sculpts done, as well as the 5 planned Digimon and a set of Pokemon. For January, I finished 2 Smash Bros related sculpts, 4/5 Digimon, and I have a selection of Pokemon I've already sculpted to pick from. I'll at least finish the last December model and likely all of January, but beyond that I'll likely have to slow my output way down.

I won't be done sculpting, however, and will still release a model here and there that I manage to work on in my free time, just not 15+ a month anymore. As for distribution, I'm not sure yet. Perhaps I'll lower the Patreon prices significantly and promise no more than 3-5 models per month, or just use Patreon to notify you all when I release something on Cults3D/Thingiverse/MMF. I'm open to ideas as well!

But that is where I'm currently at. Thanks for reading my sad ramble, and a sincere thank you for your support and interest thus far.

TLDR; Job scare. Scaling back on 3d model creation in the coming months to focus on career prospects.