Saturday, August 1, 2015

Midna animation

Here's the Midna animation. 


I think next time I'm going to try a lower resolution, so I can try doing animation with more unique frames, as opposed to this style. This one was a little rough around the edges.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Restarted poll. because I screwed up -___-

I restarted the poll, because I forgot to add one of the options (that had more votes than caster or Blaze). I switched it out with Blaze since she had the least votes in the Poll.

Another option crossed my mind for next time. (Sorry if this is getting complicated)
Do you think I should make it so the initial suggestions and poll are just for characters, but then while the poll is going I take votes on the actual scenario? (Just in the comments, not in a poll)

Or, do you think I should just take suggestions/poll for characters, and then just decide on the scenarios myself?


Week 2 Poll

I've made a poll of the top 5 voted options. --->

For suggestions that only had one vote, I just took whichever was posted first.

Also, next time I won't make a post just to say there's a poll, It will just be there a few days before each weekend.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Weekly animation Vote

Taking votes for next week's animation,

For now, the voting will be the same as last time, with only added rule being that you can't make the same request twice in a row. (you don't need to read through the last votes, if you made a request last time just don't do the same one or make it different)

As some of you suggested, near the end of the votes I'll try taking the top votes and making a poll out of them, that way it won't be so one-sided.

Here's Last week's animation: (I'll make a page for these later)




Aaaaand now for the point of contention -__-

If you've read the comments from last week's animation, you'll also see that I'm considering doing a Patreon. To clarify to those who have asked about it, this isn't really something that will be taking time away from Noaika. For reference, I spent around 1-2 hours per day on the Shantae animation, over the course of a week (It took like 5 hours total). Even if it took twice as long, it would still just be cutting into personal time, and not my actual work day.

That said, whether I do a Patreon or not I still plan on doing these animations. The only thing a patreon would do effect is the quality/resolution, given that if people are paying I'd have some responsibility to keep the quality consistent (Up to the quality of whatever examples I have by then).

If you have any suggestions for rewards or stretch goals, I'm open to ideas. However I wouldn't be doing any exclusive animations, so options are somewhat limited. The only option I've thought of so far would be to have a stretch goal for an extra animation every "second" week, which would basically look like this,

Extra animation: X
Weekly: O

-------------------------------------X----------------------------------------
-------------------O----------------------------------O--------------------
Week_1------------------------Week_2--------------------------Week_3------------------

In other words, have an extra animation (same quality) that's done over a longer period of time, and possibly make it so only patrons can vote on it (The rest would be open to everyone). I don't want to do more than one animation per single week, though, since then it would be a lot closer to actually interfering with Noaika, A second, lower res animation every week might be an option, but that might take a lot of my time. Dunno yet.

All that said, I still don't know if I'm even going to do one anyway. I'm going to finish the Midna animation this week, and see how I feel at the end of it. I want to confirm for sure how long it takes, but also work out if I should have voting at all, as opposed to just taking suggestions and picking whatever I like best.