AstralBot3D
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READ ME: Changing Things Up
🕑 Added 2019-03-22 00:54:01 +0000 UTCGood Day Everyone,
I have been thinking a lot of how I share my content and have come to conclusion that I will be releasing my comics for free to read. I believe it is better to have more content accessible and free for people to read. I first started out this journey of creating comics on December of 2018. I am still a relatively new/developing content creator around 4 months old as of writing this post. There are many things I am still learning from creating comics, posting my comics online, and communicating to the community. Initially I started this as a way to contribute to the community and I thought that keeping my content behind a pay wall would be good since it would help me sustain myself as I create content.
I am switching how I publish my online content. Not sure how many of you guys know about TGComics, but I would like to get my work there if possible in the future. I have used other websites to post my work and I feel like I am losing part of the community I wanted to give back to as I keep my work censored. There may be some opportunities in the future to create premium content, but for now I want to open up my work to the community.
I want to build an audience/community where I can share my stories and creations with everyone instead of keeping things exclusive. While I will publish the whole comic story in due time there are some things I thought of for those who choose to support me.
As a Patreon supporter, I am super thankful for your support in me. It's like you believe in me and in my work and that is what keeps me going on in creating more comics in with these themes. Your support literally helps me be able to buy new assets, invest in better hardware, and cover for other expenses.
So here is what I can provide to you as my supporter.
- Immediate access to comics (I'm thinking of using Google Drive to distribute comics.)
- Early Access to comics before I release it to other sites.
- See Work In Progression
- Ability to vote in poll that will influence the comic. (Such as voting characters, actions, story directions, and anything else that comes to mind within my ability to create.)
- Extra images renders that were not shown in the comic.
- Wallpapers available for download.
I will be using Patreon as a tip jar for those who want to support me at any amount they want. Patreon supporters will always be my priority when I post my work, update status, uploading images, communicating with you, etc.
Any questions, comments, concern, or suggestions that you have please let me know.
Thank you for all your support.
- AstralBot3D
Comments
AstralBot3D
Thank you Bruce, I will come up with a plan of how I will release my content for free. Most likely I'll release it on a later date. Patreon supporters will get it ASAP and see the work in progress as usual. The free content will still be released in 720 resolution and still have the patreon URL/watermark. Patreon supporters will continue to have the comic released will only the watermark and url at the cover(I may change this) and the resolution will always be 1920x1080. In the future I may look into 1440p as a high quality. Another way I would show value to my Patreon supporters is to delay the public releases. I want my Patreon supporters to be the first to read my comics and be spoiled as much as I can. And you guys are my top priority and are always going to be up to date with all comic creation vs the public. Any suggestions/solutions to better value my Patreon supporters are always welcome. I want to provide the best experience and stories so any advice to help me improve is always welcome.
Bruce W. Liu
I think the censored "public" versions was a good way to grab attention (it got me here after all). But it also gave the Patreon a value, by supporting you got the full "effect". But to grow the audience more I understand the change.
AstralBot3D
Thank you for your support FW!
FW
I fully support your decisions dude. "be excellent" and I'm looking foreword to more comics
