Zer0 Weekly #21

Hey folks, hope you've all enjoyed the last animation.

[Rest]

Again thank you all for your patience and I hope Bunny Hour has been a pleasant watch for you all. At the moment I'm mostly trying to allow myself to rest as I was seriously in the burnout zone by the time things were wrapping up and while I myself am very happy with the results, I know at the back of my mind that I wanted to achieve an even higher quality.

[Reshuffling]

It's certainly been a fun ride this year but I definitely need to consider downscaling the animations as they take a lot of work and the costs/time multiplicatively stack when I start to make them more complex/longer due to VA costs and just simply means more time needed editing etc.

Part of me also just wants to try small fun tiktoky kind of stuff, or more interment stuff (personally I think it's been far too long since Cora and Lillith got some quality romancing) but we'll see as at the same time I don't want it to seem like am just trying to cut my workload down while I regear so that I can actually deliver the BIG projects like the Resident Evil, Cyberpunk, Sexy G0th Fighting Championship themes we've previously touched on.

[Re-aligning]

Now I apologize in advance for this one as it's gonna come across as incredibly sad and whingy but I assure you I'm only doing it cause it's been causing some massive financial stress and headaches.

But to cut a long story short, Patreon's new system has made it incredibly difficult to gauge my actual income (as Patreon is by far my largest source of revenue) since now payments are taken from patrons at several times rather than all at the start of the month like they use to. Chunks seem to get processed at the end of the month, then at the start of the month till about the 2nd then it's all over the place based on when newer patron started pledging.

This makes it an absoloute pain working out what my funds are actually like and it has a habbit of feeling like I'm making less cause I need to keep guessing if an estimated amount will still come through or if 5 patrons will cancel right before their due date (which ofcourse they are more than free to do so).

To help mitigate this chaos I would like to ask that for those of you that get charged in the middle or so of the month (likely those of you that have been with us for only a few months) to please maybe un-pledge after your payment and then repledge at the start of next month, but only if you're cool with that, I can understand it being a pain so not wanting to force anyone.

Also after reviewing my income the past few months I am going to request that all of you pledging via apple iOS store to please reconsider and just pledge via patreon directly. Not only are you genuinely paying more for the apple tax, but that money is stuck in pending for 75 days till I'm able to touch it (and thus adding to the whole estimation being massively off each month). Not forcing obviously but please do consider just swapping to pledging directly via Patreon or even swapping over to our Substar.

[Reloading]

I'm gonna do my best to start hopefully giving you guys an idea of what's coming next shortly but for now I appreciate all the support and time you guys have given me and am looking forward to getting back to delivering high quality goth entertainment when am ready.

As always cheers for the support ^^