Hello good people,

TL;DR
- I'm considering Patreon/SubscribeStar/etc... as a mean to finance the hobby without locking my stuff behind a paywall

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I said multiple times how I don't want to make a Patreon, but in reality it's more complicated than that.
There are many overlaying factors and I'm not quite decided on the topic of a subscription service

[Pros]
I could afford the following:
- Custom assets
- Paid Plugins
- Software license
- Render farms
This will also lead to a great increase in the quality of my work as I will be able to focus more on my animations than all the assets and background work.

[Cons]
- I want to keep this as a hobby, Money usually invite expectation and this can stress me out.
- I am inconsistent, I don't follow any sort of schedule, my workflow is entirely dependent on my mood.
- I want to keep all my animations and render completely free for everyone.
- keeping my animations for free severely reduces incentive for people to donate.

So over the last few weeks I thought about a potential solution.

My ideas right now for the Reward system are as follow:
- Credits ( end of video )
- Polls ( maybe once a month or something )
- 3D project file ( could be background, entire animations or even experimental stuff )

Unfortunately, I may not be able to share every 3D scenes, All the characters I've used in my animations were done by other people.
I don't think I have the permissions to share their assets. So I will have to work around that issue.

Right now there's nothing official, I need to look more into it.
I would love to hear your opinion

Thank you!