I finally made up my mind, i'll go back from making this page centered around Reincar into being just about my daily work, because i don't think i'll ever be able to have monetary pressure on top of me for this passion project.So i'll be unpublishing this page, trying to redo the tiers, probably only have a single tip tier to give access to high rez images or something like that, and the occasional Reincar thing update, something simple and without pressure.So right now, this is basically a page to tip me if you want to support what i do, and there won't be any fancy early access or exclusive rewards, it's just me sharing what i already share on my main account, along with the occasional CSP file and timelapse.
I have the list of EVERYONE who has supported me over the years through this page and will use this list to make up the patreon credits of the first chapter.This is all quite messy, and i keep beating myself up over it, but I'll stop, that doesn't mean i didn't make mistakes and so on, it just mean that if i want things to get better for me and the peeps who've helped me over the years, i need to stop wallowing in my failures and keep my energy for what i actually can do!------------------------------------------------------------------For those curious about the ridiculous amount of time it's taking to do my project, let me give a very rough summary of the timeline:April of 2023 the demo got done, the demo featured the second scene of this first chapter, that has around 16 scenes or so minimum depending on what a scene is, just that demo had taken me a long time to do.Then if i remember, until the end of 2023, i was working on refining the story, not the one of the first chapter, but the overall one, the story was supposed to have 5 "chapters" per "Books" (aka episodes per season) and i was mostly trying to tie everything together neatly.Then on the first half of 2024 i seriously worked on sprite work and backgrounds and it was quite rocky, but i did as much as i could. Both because of that, because of issues of how to implement the ridiculous number of sprites on Ren'Py, and also slight changes in the story, i decided to revise the story, remove a lot of unnecessary elements, and decided that i'd settle on 3 episodes per seasons.
But i was starting to rethink things in general, as i was working on the few animated segments, i realized i both had more fun, and less difficulty working on those than doing sprite work, and it's at this moment that an unease kinda started to form.Unrelated to that, i was also having a lot of difficulties emotionally because i was neglecting commission work, or at least being way too slow among some stuff from my daily life.Around October 2024 i managed to get into a nice groove, a rhythm, that helped me be more productive on commissions and so on, and while i was able to keep that for a while, in around, December, but tbf it's a bit foggy but basically near the end of the year or at the start of 2025, i kinda made a big decision, I was having more fun with animation, i also realized that animation is the actual thing i want to take my art toward, and i decided that i was going to do that with Reincar, knowing myself and how i tend to constantly rethink things and overthink things, i decided to lock myself on that decision, stopping a possible future me from trying to go back on it, and i deleted a lot of work i had done on sprites specifically.It's extreme, and thinking back on that, i think it wasn't a bad decision, but i also feel pathetic that i felt the need to do it.
To accommodate this change in direction, i did made some changes to the story, but minor ones, and i admit im quite curious on the different reactions that'll cause people to have haha.Ever since i went to Brazil in the beginning of this year, where i had to take urgent comms because of an issue i had, and it ended up making my comm queue ridiculously long, i've been focusing on that, and it's only now, like, last week or so, that im finally getting to the end of said queue, and it's not done yet.Once im done with this queue, i plan on having my usual daily client stream in the morning, only take two comms at a time, and spend the rest of my time on working on this project.Do keep in mind that this is a rough timeline, a fuckton of other stuff happened too haha.So it's been super messy, but, things are looking good in my opinion, as always, im blessed to be surrounded with patient and kind people that help me even when i often abuse of their patience, and im going to make something you can be proud to have supported so don't you worry on that!---------------------With that said, this is the last post of this page for now, the next post, will be made on the new page, thank you everyone for your help!