Changes to My Content Schedule

Hey everyone! First of all, I want to thank each and every one of you for giving me the support and motivation I need to create Embarrassed Development! I lack to vocabulary to express how grateful I am to not only have your support, but to have met you all along the way! I never in a million years thought I’d ever have an actual audience for my silly little ideas lol. You guys are amazing <3

When I started this Patreon, I was just making little 1 to 2 page comics with basic plots and next to no character development lol, but as that turned into videos, it’s quickly evolved into the full on web series that we have today! I’ve had so much fun building a whole little universe with more indepth stories, characters, and dialogue! But unfortunately, that comes at a cost :/

Originally, I spent about 5-10 hours a week making my first videos, but as it’s evolved to what it is today, I’ve struggled to spend less than 40 hours per video. Writing a script, doing the voice over, building each scene and rendering each image, then editing everything with music, sound effects, etc. takes a LOT of time! I’ve tried my best to keep up over the last several months, but as deadlines come and go, I find myself cutting it closer and closer each time. Since about April, I don’t think I’ve had more than 5-6 hours of sleep each night!

With the holidays not too far away, I’ve been getting asked by family about what days I’ll be visiting and stuff like that and it dawned on me that I literally couldn’t afford a single day off at this rate… between school, work, and content creation, I’ve been known to skip dinner just because I lost track of time lol.

But that’s my problem and not anyone else’s, and I swear I’m not looking for sympathy! However, as I’ve been writing out scripts and planning out videos for “Season 2” of Embarrassed Development, I’m finding myself either cutting out big chunks of the video or scrapping ideas entirely based on how long I think it’ll take me to make. “There’s no way I could fit that in, that’s an extra day of rendering”.

So, all that is to say, I spent the last few weeks really watching my workflow and reevaluating what my content schedule should be to maintain my sanity, while also not making any sacrifices in the quality of content that I’ve come to feel is my standard now. And it really pains me to say it, but I’ve made the decision to change from weekly videos, to biweekly videos.

I really am sorry, because I feel like I’m letting everyone down :/ but I just keep telling myself that I want to remain focused on quality over quantity and at the level of effort needed to make what I make now, I have to give myself a little more time.

Also, I want to be able to continue being active in discord and having fun with all of you, without feeling like I’m falling behind every time I spend a few minutes replying to people 😅 I love our little community of weirdos and I want to keep up with you guys :)

Lastly, I want to be able to have time to grow. Which means learning new skills for video creation, practicing animation, working on new ideas, etc. and that all comes at a time cost.

I will absolutely still be sharing bonus content images every Monday, that won’t change, but after this week’s video, I’m going to be posting videos every other Friday. I really hope you all understand why I made this decision and I promise it wasn’t a decision I made lightly. I love you all, and I hope you all will still support me so I can continue making content for us all for years to come :) if anyone has any concerns or questions, please feel free to DM me. Thank you all again <3