End of the break and incoming changes

Hello everyone, 

I'm very happy to say that my break is officially finished. August was a test month for me, and despite the unfortunate huge data loss I had to deal with, I managed to deliver what was promised, namely two artworks and one animation (even if for this one, the true release with sound will have to wait for early September). All of this means that billing will start again on September 1st. 

Incoming changes to tiers and content

As maybe some of you noticed it, the Scientist tier disappeared. Like previously said, I decided to get rid of this tiers as almost nobody subscribed to it. People who are still in this tiers will keep things as they were before with access to feed and rewards delivery, but it won't be possible anymore to subscribe in this tier. 

The Kunoichi tier will mostly stay the same, the only change being that, also as mentionned, given my lack of experience and ease in animation, I'll be alone to decide which girls I animate for the time being. I'll bring back this ability for you all to choose when I'll feel way more confident in animation. 

Following demands of some people on Discord & Twitter, the DOATEC tiers will grant access to the Blender projects of my future scenes. Two things to know about this tho: 

• These projects won't include paid models/maps/props. And by "paid" I mean all assets that are locked behind Patreon subscriptions or that you need to buy on CG Trader for example. 
  
• Given of how big their size can be, and since it may not interests everyone in this tiers, projects won't be send with the other rewards through DM but will be uploaded on a Mega or Google Drive archive. And since the cloud storage isn't unlimited, files won't stay forever on the archive. The idea will be to keep these online for 1 month after the scene's release. 
  

Regarding content, from now on my aim will be the to create at least two artworks (with girls chosen by you all through polls) and one or even two animations each month. I recently discussed this on Twitter and Discord after watching a Youtube video on the subject. And it appears that focusing more on quantity (without letting down quality neither) helps to improve skills and productivity. So my idea would be to, instead of releasing one 40 seconds long animation each month, have two 20 seconds long scenes per month in order to practice & challenge myself more and improve efficiency & skills faster. 

Monthly artworks poll changes

You all know that even if I love DoA chicks, Tifa and Jessie a lot, I also like variety. 

And it becomes clear to me lately: almost all girls I didn't showcased yet that I include in polls have almost no chance to win any poll when they have to deal against Kasumi, Momiji, Ayane, Marie Rose, Tifa, Jessie or any other of the main girls I already... perverted in my work. And it's a problem to me as my content will never reinvent itself this way. 

So to avoid this issue, I decided to add a carryover system. It's pretty simple: all girls who don't win a poll will be automatically added in the next poll if they got a least one vote and will start the new poll with the number of votes they got as the outcome of the last one. So let's say that Lara looses 1st poll with 2 votes, she starts the 2nd one with 2 votes and if she gets another 2 votes but still doesn't win, she'll start the 3rd poll with 4 votes, and so on and so on... This system will be initiated with the September poll and votes of August will be reported. I'll make sure to remind you all the results of the girls who get their votes carried over. Also, girls who win a poll will be excluded from at least the next one to make some space for other contenders. 

It's also a way for me to satisfy people who almost never see the girls they vote for winning.

I'll finally make one last change to polls. Until now I tended to start polls of a given month at the end of the previous month to get results early. But I realised that this leads to have some people who chose to unsubscribe to be able to vote for a content's poll of a period they don't subscribe for, which is not fair for other people who, on their side, subscibe for it. So from now on, all polls will always be initiated on the 1st or 2nd day of each month with a time limit of 7 days. I'll take advantage of that time to work on animations and models.

Alright, that's all folks! 

Thanks a lot for reading me and catch you all soon!