May Animation Update
Added 2025-05-26 13:53:34 +0000 UTCHi! Ashty here!
Mental, Physical, and Financial Situation
Well, what can I say about May... The beginning of May was really nice and productive. I finished all animation-related parts for my next animation that should have been already out today-tomorrow, but life does give good challenges. In the mid of May Patreon suspended my account for not following their guidelines and I had to delete my DanDaDan animation and they asked to delete some progress for other animation so it is easy to assume that if I use those parts in my next animation, page will be suspended again so I can't even show my next animation that is already done.
As I thought the situation couldn't get worse, life showed me it was just the beginning. After that, I had a family situation that was and still is dragging me mentally down until the end of this month, and I was also not able to physically work on something else. And as soon as I tried to change the situation and get a small window to work, I got sick. Second half of a month did all its best to destroy me both mentally, physically and financially, so I am yet to resolve all of this shit but I will end here about all of that.
What's next?
As I know what to look for now and how to be more careful, I decided to change my approach to animation and what I will do. I would switch my animations much more into my OC's and will do more original animated stories. For now, I am working on the Male character as an Ashtart partner. They both will be themed around ancient Egypt and I hope you will like their pair. I have more plans to add more OC's with other themes, but for now, I will start with that, as creating a new character for me can take quite a while.
Is this the end for animated parodies?
Not really, I am still very interested in doing animations around other shows. However, the main problem with them is that I do not always watch popular shows and often want to do animation around characters that most people might not be interested in. And I also don't want to do an animation about characters that I don't know or am not interested about. I will most likely do small loops with animated parodies and maybe in the future, with the ability to work with a team, I might come back with short stories for parodies.
What will happen with the voted and other projects?
I still very much don't know what to do with those that are almost done. As for Kayoko's animation, I won't post it in Patreon or Twitter. As for Medusa and Shiro, I will have to cancel it fully as Shiro's age in the show can be questioned and I don't want to risk it. As for Spice and Wolf animation, I am mostly sad about it as I was working really passionately about it and a super big fan of the show. It should have been my biggest project ever, around 10 minutes long if not more. As I understand Patreon guidelines, Holo does not seem mature enough as she is a thin lady. I might try to make her look more mature, but I am not in a position right now to invest so much power into an animation that might get suspended. So my plan for now is just to do an animated loop and see how it goes. Hopefully, in the future, when it wouldn't be risky for me to try, I could come back to it and finish it. As for I-No and Axel, an animation will be finished and posted on all platforms.
What will happen to future votes?
I am open to suggestions on how to handle it right now. I can continue making votes for characters, but instead of the short story, it will be loops now, or we can switch to OC's voting, but it will be only possible when I have more OC's to work with. As another idea, I could gather your suggestions of what can happen with Ashtart and vote on a story that she and her boyfriend will get into. If you have more ideas, please feel free to leave a comment under the post.
As for now, that is all I can give for this month. I am really sorry for not being able to give some sort of animation, even as sketches. I hope that kind of situation won't be common and I could have a normal and stressless life ;3;
With all love,
Ashtart~ ₊˚⊹♡
Comments
It’s a weird rule of course but I can understand them as well. I am not against regulations and it is sad that for now those are the rules. We can try to ask to change the wording to make more room but still be under control. I’m sure they don’t do those rules because they want to. Most likely they try to prevent problem with local laws or let’s say “sponsors” interests. I am skinny myself so of course I would love to draw more of those kind but for now some people don’t look at characters too deeply and some styles can look much less mature. I am not a fighter one to tell people what is good or bad and not in a position to do it right now. Hopefully there will be the way to find some ground to it or I can find a way to draw in a style where I won’t have problems and I would like to draw. I am sure there is a middle ground there to be found! Not loosing a hope and working with what we have 💪
Ashtart
2025-06-01 17:41:08 +0000 UTCVery odd with that spice and wolf animation. With what patreon said, doesn't that mean all very thin adult women, especially those in Asian countries are not mature enough? Even if they are literally 20, 30, or 60 years old? Determining someone's age and maturity based on their body weight and size is wrong, getting old and stupid. There are alot of people, again especially in Asian countries that are really small and skiny. Its literally their biology. My fiance is 26, finished college and is 4/11. People sometimes mistake her for a minor because of her size and she gets IDd alot. If we go based on patreons policy and completely disregard someone's real age and actual maturity and just say "No they don't look fat enough to be an adult" which is what they are pretty much saying. Does that make me a pedophile for being engaged and soon to marry my fiancé cause she is too small of a person due to their biology?? Personally I think some things should be able to be disputed, and just gotta say the right arguments. I'm sorry you're going through all that and dealing with all those troubles. Hope you get well soon and everything clears. Every want to game with some folks and clear your mind from all the stress dm me. Goodluck with everything
Tech_Priest
2025-06-01 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
