Announcement, changes coming and various other matters...(speaking my mind)
Hi everyone, I hope this message finds you well.
Wanted to open up and take a moment to apologize for the lack of activity and content the past weeks.
I understand that you have subscribed to my page with certain expectations and I regret that I have not been able to meet them consistently as I would like.
I want to assure you that your support means the world to me and I genuinely appreciate your commitment to my work.
Unfortunately, some circumstances that I'll explain a bit further down, have impacted my ability to be productive in this side job for you guys.
Some of you guys that text me may know that I am currently back to going to Uni as my previous career path was a great mistake that brought me nothing but distress and after getting my contract terminated I was unable to get a new job with a income similar to what I had before.
I've spend a lot of time trying to land a new job in my previous field but every time I was told I was not good enough. In other words, after failing so much, the reason I am going back to learn and change my career path is because I gave up.
Now that I am back to learning, my goals have changed once more.
The thing is that, Uni takes some serious time and dedication, precious time that needs to be addressed.
I am not feeling down nor depressed, not one bit, in fact I am happier than ever due to my ability to study a more interesting field (IT& Design is my faculty, going to go for either the business differentiation or Software Engineering) and gives me a lot more hope for my future, beyond Uni.
Now, on the SubscriberStar matters, there a some new things that you need to know.
As you guys can see, we are quite a few people here, 17 so far, to be honest I've never known we would get this far. I thought I would have quit before getting this far.
I appreciate you guys a lot and I would never get tired of thanking your for your support.
With this amount of subscribers, this SubscriberStar adventure/project that started as a sort of a hobby is morphing into something a bit more serious like an actual small little side business.
it is in my mind perhaps already somewhat of a business as PSMP is now comprised of not only me but MisterSteel, my comics partner, writer and director for, well, pretty much everything.
As a small side business or side job, demands some obligations of providing services to you guys, also for us to do our best and to provide the best content we can muster, those are our obligations.
With the current situation of UNI I want to inform you guys that we are working on making a an actual schedule for production that we are going to test out and apply to actually try and pump out as much content as we can without burning ourselves out.
Also I am going to be testing on SubscriberStar for a new structure of the page (that may or may not be successful, we have to wait and see - I would also require your feedback when the changes are live)
I personally think I need a new start, before we start with a new comic project.
Restructure this page slowly for it to be more coherent.
As I see it currently, the Google Drive is a mess and messy to organize and to keep updated, my SubscriberStar page itself is a mess with no structure.
I am going to get remove soon of all the Google Drive Links as they are going to become redundant and like I said, the drive is a mess and still poorly organized.
Also you can expect some changes to some of the details for the various Subscription Tiers, I really want to add more value for the Subscribers paying more and make everything worthwhile.
I need your guys feedback as well for this so I can try and provide a good package that can compete with, well, the competition, so other 3D artist or 3D comic artist etc. on SubscriberStar or Patreon and/or other premium platforms.
Some of the (potential)changes are:
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Character Profiles and Promotional Comics cover for free to everyone on SubscriberStar (so non-subscribed people)
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VIP Tier (5 USD) get Main Comics (where we tell a story issue by issue and are part of the main continuity), Side Comics (which are supplementary to the Main comics to enhance the narrative or show a different perspective. These are shorter in format, not more than 8 pages) and Pinups
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Executive Tier (10 USD) get everything the VIP Tier gets along with another product we call Mini-Comics (which can be anything really, usually fun sexy scenarios with characters chosen from a poll voting system) and poll voting privileges to influence the direction of the Mini-Comic itself.
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Board Members (15 USD) get everything of everything!~ along with some new features as well like the ability to choose 2 characters max to add to the poll voting system (can be any existing character) and also insight in all the work in progress material and time-lapse video of the character creation process to view first hand how the characters take shape and life!
That is the bulk of this update announcement, I wanted to have you guys informed first before rolling all this stuff out out of nowhere.
If you guys have Discord then you can join my server and hangout.
I am inside Voice-Chat from time to time and I stream 3D and editing and other stuff but feel free to come hangout and say Hi sometime, I often chat about random stuff that we can all have a good time.
-Discord Server Invite-Please look forward to these changes rolling out slowly over time.
If you make it this far then thank you so much for reading.
Please look forward to Henry Johnson, Gina and Vybe's Character Profile coming out soon.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments and thanks again for reading and until the next post!
PS: Forgot to mention that we are looking into expanding our reach a bit as well, you can find PSMP Comics on Gumroad and in the future we might go onto Patreon.
Let's get everything in order first though before we make some further steps.