CLIP: Soul sword + Patreon Payment changes?

A really small snippet of animation featuring the Munkshrooms. Featuring VOICE ACTING and MUSIC and SOUND DESIGN.

I've gone back and forth over the past few days over whether I wanted to show this. And then I thought, ahh, why not, you people are paying me money after all! You get a little treat. And I also need to be posting twice a week on here. And also, I'm just really proud of this little snippet!

This moment is occurring at a very climactic moment in the story. My hesitance to show it off was mostly because I can't wait for everyone to see how it all comes together. May this five seconds hype you up, then!

I'm actually really proud of the sound design here. The bit of voice acting sounds really good, like a little bit too good for how silly of a setup it is. I have to applaud myself a little bit here, especially considering the tribulation I forced myself to endure to produce it.

It's not just the voice acting though. The sound effects! I have a lot of sound effects from Kirby's Return to Dream Land that I've used in animations for YEARS now. It's a very versatile set of sound effects.

This is what the actual project file looks like for this five second snippet. I had to layer a bunch of them atop one another here, to get that "sword magically manifesting" sound effect to sound really impactful. Some of the sound effects are directly repeated from Alvin's plush announcement video, where he turns into a collectible plushie. This is a deliberate creative decision with lore behind it that will get explained in the cartoon.

Anyway, yeah. Tons of sounds. I actually really like getting into the grove of adding sound effects, because it largely consists of plucking from a large library I have downloaded from various sources, and mixing stuff together until they offer all sorts of fun new effects. It's like making soup. I made soup today so that was a very readily assembled simile.

Oh yeah, I should address the other thing that I wrote on the title of this post.

Patreon Payment Changes 

So, apparently, because of iOS store guidelines, this whole website is soon forcing every user to switch to the "Subscription" method of pledge payment.

Basically, as payments on my page work now, you pledge whenever, and are only charged money on the first day of every month. Now everyone is going to switch to the Subscription model, where you are charged upfront the moment you become a Paintron, and the charge is refilled on whichever day of the month you first signed up but for all subsequent months. Essentially, the way all other online paid subscription services work now.

In all honesty, I had considered switching to the Subscription model on my own, very recently in fact, since it appears that's what people are more adjusted to these days. Sometimes I get paintrons that seem a little confused on how it works, on when exactly they're going to get billed for their pledge and whatnot, and I would attribute that mostly to the fact that most people are more familiar with the "Subscription" method.

Well, now I don't get to make that choice, it seems. That's OK. I will continue to update the Sketch Requests on the first of every month. The changes to when you get billed won't be enforced until November of this year, and even then, I believe it's only going to affect new paintrons. So if you plan to stay pledged from now into November then you're not going to notice anything different as far as which day of the month your payments go through.

Does that make sense? Have I yammered on enough? Well, if you have more questions about this, I'm sure there's some kind of popup window on here that will divulge into much further detail on this matter than I ever could. I just felt the need to address it, since this is YOUR money we're talking about here!