Patreon / Life updates! (PLEASE READ)

Hey friends,

I hope everyone is doing well! Finally found some time for housekeeping, restructuring stuff internally and.. offload some personal thoughts!

Pricing adjustments: After 3.5 years I had to increase the pricing a little bit for each tier. Going forward some tiers that are hidden, will not get updates anymore - as I am trying to gently push people to actively support- and all other tiers will see 4-5$ bump. I hope you will find this fair, considering the amount of content everyone has access to for the last 6 years or so. I totally understand if this can be a burden to some. I hope that you will still find what I do valuable over time.

Annual membership: It is finally here, check it out on "Promotions" tab or try to change your current membership and option will appear (not sure how it works)

New "Studio" tier: For small studios and companies so employees can have access. Plus access to private Discord channel.

Student tier: Considering a very affordable option for people that are on their first steps in universities. Upon request and let me know your thoughts here please.

Content updates: As I am switching to full time educator - oh yes, this is happening soon- I hope that Patreon and other things that I am planning, would be my main source of income going forward. This way I can finally dedicate myself to this community, to find free time for more personal/meaningful work and RND in order to help people find jobs and meaning in an industry that is not what it used to be.

Life: In full transparency, the last few years client work has been in the middle of my educational path. I spent 1.5 years at Apple, effectively leaving me with 0 things to share, despite the fact I did thousands of frames and RND. None of this will ever see the light of day. Rest of client work, even in great studios, is usually of low quality and purely serving client needs or under NDA. Which again, leaves me with nothing to share in this Patreon or excited at the end of the day. Nothing wrong with client work and I am blessed to have it; just does not really align anymore with what I am passionate about.
I have been juggling my time like crazy so I can catch up with our amazing community and with my family at the same time. Doing RND on my limited free time solely for providing more content, advising, mentoring, casual chatting while same time trying to evolve and stay up to date, it had a significant toll on my health. Yesterday was my birthday, I am 45 - quite old for motion design if you ask me - and got me really thinking what would next steps might be.

Mentorship: As you know I introduced a new mentorship tier 2 months ago to help people in a more effective way. I am intending to expand this -for those that repeatedly ask for more spots. Apologies, my time right now does not allow me to handle more than 10 individuals but this is something that will soon change! And luckily for me, noone is leaving so far. I guess that is good?? haha

Courses:  Again for those that keep asking: Yes god damn it, they are coming and I hope it will worth the wait. Apologies, its been promised for a very long time, that is why I had the need to explain myself earlier.

Burnout: Its f***ng real. Add on top some health issues that I am dealing with last 2 years... It is the first time I share personal things like that publicly and feels a little weird. On the other hand, Patreon felt always personal space to me, thanks to all of you being so open and kind about everything. That is why I wanna do things about myself going forward. Not getting any younger!

I am grateful for the support and kind comments I received over the years. It fuels me and full fills me, as I find real purpose in sharing my knowledge to younger people, while at the same time helping professionals overcome day to day obstacles. I wanna dedicate myself to this venture and take the next step. I have something in the works for the upcoming months and I am super excited about it.
Cannot say more for now. All I can say is that expect me to be more present and involved while helping everyone to get their motion design obsession to the next level. Provided that I am still relatively healthy -has been challenging recently- and still relevant with what motion design evolves to next.

One more time, HUGE THANKS TO EVERYONE! Your support and kindness has been instrumental these last few years. Stay tuned!

Have a great weekend!
T.