woafterdark

Adding video capability to the $15 tier, and new Archive System

Added 2022-08-18 19:18:08 +0000 UTC

We've been experimenting with video, and it's been both AWESOME and also, "oh noes" terrible!

Video is such a fun medium, and it goes well with our goal of creating aesthetic shorts with women and weapons. We have a LONG way to go with improving our in-house quality, editing, and production though, but we're already on the path.

Main "Oh Noes" aspect is that in the future we'll want to try and release photosets and videos at the same time. ACK. This means that everything from prior to this, a massive backlog worth, is now "print only" and kinda second class hahaha. We'll have to fix this by

1. Increasing post production capacity/staff
2. Also accelerating production of new content.

Both are expensive unfortunately, so I'm going to try and make the $15 tier the new "best value" option.

This video for example, was shot on Monday, and edited and released Weds. We've now got a "video guy" on staff to help with filming and editing.

Lastly, we now have a 2 tier archive system. I'm a consumer of the arts on Patreon too, so I like being able to access everything released previously, but I also don't want to have it available to any old joe of the street. As such, we are gonna have a rolling archive at the $50 lifetime level, of the past 12 months, and we'll have the complete archive for folks at the $200+ level, which is a vast majority of you fine folks already in the archive tier.