May Update: Things Aren't Great, To Be Perfectly Honest

Florence

Take as long as you need, but if you do run an indigo campaign or whatever I’ll support it

Salomé Cheysson

I mean, in a normal society, sick leave would be fully covered whatever your job and employment conditions, so I don't mind my money going to that.

gay of reckoning

Echoing what everyone said. Please take care of yourself. Know that the work you have out there is doing a lot of good as it is. I've been preaching the Alt-Right playbook for a year now to anyone who will listen. I'm happy to support however long this takes. I'm not exaggerating when I say I think it is one of the most important series on youtube.

OliveTree

Ian, please take car of yourself and don’t stress to much. I don’t speak for everyone but I know I speak for most when I say we would rather you take some time to heal and get better then work yourself to the ground.

Sean

Take care of yourself.

Zardogs! Zardogs!

Do what you need to do. I support you for the important content, not a timeline.

Kait Hatch

You are worth more than your productivity. :)

Kass Fireborn

As a member of the permanent-pain club, I actually went and upped my pledge. My partner is on a government paycheck and this feels like the world's most elaborate way to try and cobble together temporary disability payments for someone, but it's what we got.

Steve O'Brien

i will help you fund your crowdfunding campaign. this shit is important to me and you do great work

Gabi Ghita

Please don't feel like you have to spend your energy on anything other than getting well, you are first of all a person who deserves their health and we are willing to stay with you and continue supporting you through these hard times. Please don't rush work at the expense of health, no matter how important we all know that work is. Don't be afraid to rely on others, whether it's work or patronage/indiegogo — in a perfect world, everybody would be contributing to keep each other afloat without expecting anything in return.

Will Bower

hey ian. thanks for the update, and i’m sorry things have gotten worse/not progressed with your injuries. i know that a backer like me telling you to take it easy and not push yourself is easier and said than done when you’re racking up medical bills and losing some backers (and yes i did read your tweets about this lol). that said, i do hope you can do that a little bit still, and i hope these collaboration arrangements help you to make some work progress while you’re continuing to heal/deal with this shit. let us know if there’s anything else we can do (i’d be happy to chip in some money for an animator for instance!) and i hope you can make some small steps through work and toward healing!

SpeckObst

As a fellow content creator who has been struggling with an undiagnosed disease for the past three years, I completely understand how frustrating it is to have something like this forced on you. Although my patronage isn't very much, I just wanted you to that I will stay, no matter how long this takes.

Take care and don't push yourself to hard - not for this.

Jan Martinek

take care & get well soon!

SiberianHussy

I'm also happy to chip in to a fundraiser for work you want to contract while you're dealing with this, but I also fully support you just taking your time and getting back to good health before putting anything out if that's what you end up doing. It's all good :) Godspeed on the recovery!

Alec Simone

Just chiming in to say I'd definitely contribute to an indiegogo or whatever to help pay for an animator's salary. Best wishes for your recovery!

JinxedJoker

Yeah, I mean you're not a replaceable good, you're a person who's work we like to see. That means we're willing to wait and we support you, not just the content you create. All that said, certainly pulling for a good recovery (for your own sake in addition to our vested interest), but stuff like this just takes the time it's going to take.

The Mad Jay Woman

I don’t want to say anything that would minimize your struggles but I can say I support you for the quality of your content, a quality that requires you to be healthy! So if we have to wait, we have to wait. I have struggled with chronic illness for the better part of a decade; people fail to understand how pain isn’t just physically difficult, it’s also mentally draining. I’m happy you have some support systems you can lean on

Ian Danskin

Thanks! This has been a bit of a test run for what collaborating more might look like. I definitely have projects in mind that would require a team. Small moves!

Ian Danskin

Did they finally figure out what was wrong? I'm so curious!

Nathan Saritzky

Shit, that's rough. My mom had this a few years ago and need surgeries. She had a case that baffled her neurosurgeon. It was a long, rough road, but she eventually recovered and is doing much better now. I hope the same happens for you without the complications.

JinxedJoker

I hope the favors and sub-contracting go well. It'd be cool if you could get to a level of funding that would allow you to utilize options like that on the regular, because that sounds like it would help you meet more of your ambitious goals and cover more of the things on your list that you've wanted to do. If there was a campaign to do so and push your studio via those means, I'd certainly help support/promote that. Though getting to a stable (if not back to normal) place with your back certainly comes top priority! Rest well, and I wish you relief soon.

Ian Danskin

I'll put out a call on Twitter for animators soon, but if you wanna get a leg up on the pile shoot your demo reel/portfolio/whatever you've got to innuendostudiosian@gmail.com! And thanks!

Jake Hadley

Mate, you wouldn't be getting my money if I didn't want you to have. Take care of yourself first and foremost, get back to us only when you're comfortable. Best wishes from the UK!

Hey I don’t do much animating anymore but I was literally an animation major at Rutgers Your work is really important so hit me up if you want

Ali

Back pain stuff can be really intense and I really hope you feel better. I am here for the duration but I know from experience how frustrating the pain can be. Please take it easy on yourself, as much as you can!

Maxli Catenby

Good to hear things are moving in the right direction at least, take care of yourself and get well soon!

Got to take care of yourself first. Thanks for sharing where you're at. Hope you find relief soon 🙂