About the $60 tier
Added 2019-09-24 13:56:49 +0000 UTCThe end card rewards of the Corrin project will likely be the last set that I'll be doing. From this point onward, I don't have any plans for keeping this tier going. Delivering these rewards has been quite problematic lately, and it's definitely far past doing more harm than good at this point.
Anyone with some familiarity in animation commissions knows that $60 is an incredibly low price for what I'm offering. I didn't mind it that much since I had enjoyed creating them, but there are two factors that started to take its toll:
1. Requests often didn't suit my preferences, which sucked the fun out of creating them.
2. Those requests that did align with my likings, were so restricted by the reward's rules that I couldn't be satisfied with what I came up with.
Time was also a significant issue. I originally expected the rewards to take around 4-5 hours each to produce, but some ended up taking 10+ hours instead. It's quite natural for patrons to push and see how much they can get out of their reward, and the answer is "too far" for sure. For some context, this was my expectation: https://www.deviantart.com/minmax3d/art/MGTS-Growth-BE-My-Lucina-End-Card-792389095
Other solutions apart from nuking the tier have been to raise the price and/or release some restrictions. The former is something I'm not interested in personally; if I needed more money, I'd gladly spend more time on my job instead. The latter will just result in even more time being poured into these rewards. Neither of these solutions are satisfactory.
Since I'm going back to uni next year, I may take on full commissions then if I can't find a decent part-time job. If you have a particular animation idea that you want made, it might be worth looking forward to this.
