I'd like to make an update regarding how I am doing and what I had shared on my last community post.
First however I'd like to thank everyone for the kind words. As well as for the people who recently donated or commissioned me. Your responses have been very motivating!
With that being said, allow me to continue.
My mom and I have settled into our apartment and have managed to slow down our expenses tearing into our saving SIGNIFICANTLY.
Thankfully giving me plenty of time to look for a new job. and the good news is that I found one! Not an animation job as I had hoped.
However one that pays probably the best I can find. I start training for it this Tuesday and I am feeling very optimistic about it.
If the job works out and I don't hate it, it could allow me to chill out and avoid rushing to get skilled at animating in blender,
although I do plan to continue that.
Anyways your probably thinking, what happened to the blender anims you said you were working on? and don't worry I am still working on them.
Its just that I'm learning a new animation software and its taking significantly longer than expected to get what I want out of the animation program.
On top of that there's features that made my life easier in s2fm that either blender doesn't have or needs plugins for. and on top of that I
got way too ambitious for my first proper Blender animation. Which is of course something I should have thought of, however its almost all the way done.
So not turning back now.
I forget that when learning something new I should also go back to the fundamentals. which I will absolutely work on as soon as the blender animation is out.
But honestly what mostly happened was is that I went back to sfm to take a break from blender and it was like putting my head into a freezer after being outside in humid 99 degree weather.
Even though I worked on both animations the same amount of time. In sfm I got the lighting, polishing, and editing done before I finished keyframing in blender. I started in blender first!
So you guys get the Half-Life S2FM before the blender lol.
So the Last thing I wanted to mention is that the fast upload schedule I mentioned may not work out. As blender takes longer than expected to use and I also start working a 9-5 staring Tuesday lol.
Therefore I'm going to do something that I never actually committed to before which is to finish ALL my current projects before starting new ones.
I am spreading myself too thin and I just need to finish what I started.
So here's the Roadmap of unfinished projects I'll continue to work on starting tomorrow.
1. No More Heroes 3 Half-Life modpack
2. Sifu Half-Life modpack
3. Unnamed HL2 Beta animation
4. Current Naruto Blender animation
5. The Freeman Show REMAKE/REMASTER with the new Gordon model
Projects I want to start or continue but I will wait on until I finish the above.
1. Lambda Wars S2 Concept
2. Ace Combat/Half-Life Crossover animation
3. Half-Life 3 Wishlist
4. S2FM, 3 years later
Anyways thanks again for your support guys, I still accept the ways of supporting me from the last community post. (except my commissions are closed now)
There may be some changes coming to my Youtube channel in the near future that I want to talk about.
Not so drastic that I feel any of you would dislike the changes or even unsubscribe for them, just that starting now an at least for a time (hopefully not a long time), things are gonna be a little different. I'm still an animator on youtube, I'm still going to be uploading animations.
What happened?
Recently my mother and I have had 2 different unfortunate circumstances from 2 different households. Started at one, thought we would find a better time somewhere else, then was lied to. Had to spend a lot of time and money getting an apartment for ourselves because clearly we cant trust anyone else with our living situation but ourselves. I'm not going to go into anymore detail than that because because its really personal.
Why the Changes?
Anyways now I'm put in a situation where I have to start paying for things like rent, wifi, and insurance and I am currently unemployed. So unfortunately my savings are being dipped into. I'm currently looking for a job and I'm really trying to avoid one that drains my soul away from me. I applied to some this week so hopefully I hear back soon. I really want an animation job but it seems that even if I have experience with animating in an industry standard level program like blender, its not gonna be enough because I don't have too much to show for it. (most of my blender projects are for NDA stuff)
So my plan is in-between searching for jobs, I am going to make multiple animations in blender with a heavy focus on showing off my skill and range that would make me more hirable to a game dev/animation studio that pays. I will practice, I will experiment, I will learn the ins and outs of blender, I will show that I can do what a company that wants to hire me needs me to. The goal is that this will not only get me a proper animation job, but should also help me improve substantially faster.
What are the Changes?
Your gonna start seeing blender animations from me, and even more so than sfm animations. These are not always gonna be in Half-Life. Half-Life S2FM animations are not going away, but for the time being you are going to be seeing less of them. before this current situation I've had a few animations in development so you might see those soon but after they are done the amount is going to slow down significantly. Likely these animations are gonna be roughly the same length as my shorter animations 10-15 seconds long and I imagine the upload schedule will be weekly (it depends though because I may spend less time lighting or making backgrounds considering that's not as necessary for lets say, player animations.) other than that, not much of a difference. I'll stream from time to time like usual, there will be the occasional half-life s2fm, so hopefully it will all work out.
How can I support you?
One of the biggest and easiest things you can do is to just like and share my animations with others, and subscribe if you haven't already. If all my videos got the same amount of views on my most viewed animations, the monetization could possibly be enough to support me by itself.
You can donate to my Patreon. As cheap as 3 dollars a month You get benefits like a patron discord role in my server and wip animations.
Channel memberships. You can be a member on my channel for just a dollar. you get an icon next to your name such as the ones I showed off in the last yt post. If I see it by your name, I'm more likely to respond to your comments.
Commissions. You can commission me through Twitter, Instagram, or Discord dm's you can find the links in my channel desc and my discord profile in my server. It's mainly s2fm commissions right now but I'm open to blender commissions. although pricing and what I can do may be different as I'm still getting the hang of the program.
Another thing you can do is if any of my subscribers or viewers know a game dev/animation team that could use my help and is guaranteed to pay, please bring their attention to me and ask them to reach me through the contact options I provided for commissions, or they can start by reaching out to me in the replies of this post. I will be looking out for these every day.
And the last thing you can do is pray for me that whatever comes up and whatever I do, that it works out. I know prayer works and if it wasn't for God I would not have the success I would have on Youtube today.
Otherwise
Thank you guys for your current support and thank you for helping me reach 80 thousand subscribers. Getting this far is insane to me btw. we are so close to 100k, which I believe is the subcount needed to be verified on Youtube so lets keep it going and again thank you.
Hey Everyone. channel memberships are up. Don't worry, if you don't join you wont be content locked from my finished animations. this just gives you these custom badges created by me and allow you to use these 4(starting amount) custom emojis in my streams. you also get priory replies from me in the comment section if I see the badge. It's also a great way to support me as my animations will get longer with more effort in them. the price is 1 dollar per month
If you havent seen it yet, on May 30th I uploaded my animated remake of the Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Gman speech on my channel. PLEASE give it a watch and share it around!
Komegatze
Komegatze
Hey Guys, Komegatze here.
I'd like to make an update regarding how I am doing and what I had shared on my last community post.
First however I'd like to thank everyone for the kind words. As well as for the people who recently donated or commissioned me. Your responses have been very motivating!
With that being said, allow me to continue.
My mom and I have settled into our apartment and have managed to slow down our expenses tearing into our saving SIGNIFICANTLY.
Thankfully giving me plenty of time to look for a new job. and the good news is that I found one! Not an animation job as I had hoped.
However one that pays probably the best I can find. I start training for it this Tuesday and I am feeling very optimistic about it.
If the job works out and I don't hate it, it could allow me to chill out and avoid rushing to get skilled at animating in blender,
although I do plan to continue that.
Anyways your probably thinking, what happened to the blender anims you said you were working on? and don't worry I am still working on them.
Its just that I'm learning a new animation software and its taking significantly longer than expected to get what I want out of the animation program.
On top of that there's features that made my life easier in s2fm that either blender doesn't have or needs plugins for. and on top of that I got way too ambitious for my first proper Blender animation.
Which is of course something I should have thought of, however its almost all the way done.
So not turning back now.
I forget that when learning something new I should also go back to the fundamentals. which I will absolutely work on as soon as the blender animation is out.
But honestly what mostly happened was is that I went back to sfm to take a break from blender and it was like putting my head into a freezer after being outside in humid 99 degree weather.
Even though I worked on both animations the same amount of time. In sfm I got the lighting, polishing, and editing done before I finished keyframing in blender. I started in blender first!
So you guys get the Half-Life S2FM before the blender lol.
So the Last thing I wanted to mention is that the fast upload schedule I mentioned may not work out. As blender takes longer than expected to use and I also start working a 9-5 staring Tuesday lol.
Therefore I'm going to do something that I never actually committed to before which is to finish ALL my current projects before starting new ones.
I am spreading myself too thin and I just need to finish what I started.
So here's the Roadmap of unfinished projects I'll continue to work on starting tomorrow.
1. No More Heroes 3 Half-Life modpack
2. Sifu Half-Life modpack
3. Unnamed HL2 Beta animation
4. Current Naruto Blender animation
5. The Freeman Show REMAKE/REMASTER with the new Gordon model
Projects I want to start or continue but I will wait on until I finish the above.
1. Lambda Wars S2 Concept
2. Ace Combat/Half-Life Crossover animation
3. Half-Life 3 Wishlist
4. S2FM, 3 years later
Anyways thanks again for your support guys, I still accept the ways of supporting me from the last community post. (except my commissions are closed now)
-Komegatze out.
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Komegatze
Channel Update
Hi everyone, Komegatze here.
There may be some changes coming to my Youtube channel in the near future that I want to talk about.
Not so drastic that I feel any of you would dislike the changes or even unsubscribe for them, just that starting now an at least for a time (hopefully not a long time), things are gonna be a little different. I'm still an animator on youtube, I'm still going to be uploading animations.
What happened?
Recently my mother and I have had 2 different unfortunate circumstances from 2 different households.
Started at one, thought we would find a better time somewhere else, then was lied to.
Had to spend a lot of time and money getting an apartment for ourselves because clearly we cant trust anyone else with our living situation but ourselves. I'm not going to go into anymore detail than that because because its really personal.
Why the Changes?
Anyways now I'm put in a situation where I have to start paying for things like rent, wifi, and insurance and I am currently unemployed. So unfortunately my savings are being dipped into. I'm currently looking for a job and I'm really trying to avoid one that drains my soul away from me. I applied to some this week so hopefully I hear back soon. I really want an animation job but it seems that even if I have experience with animating in an industry standard level program like blender, its not gonna be enough because I don't have too much to show for it. (most of my blender projects are for NDA stuff)
So my plan is in-between searching for jobs, I am going to make multiple animations in blender with a heavy focus on showing off my skill and range that would make me more hirable to a game dev/animation studio that pays. I will practice, I will experiment, I will learn the ins and outs of blender, I will show that I can do what a company that wants to hire me needs me to. The goal is that this will not only get me a proper animation job, but should also help me improve substantially faster.
What are the Changes?
Your gonna start seeing blender animations from me, and even more so than sfm animations. These are not always gonna be in Half-Life. Half-Life S2FM animations are not going away, but for the time being you are going to be seeing less of them. before this current situation I've had a few animations in development so you might see those soon but after they are done the amount is going to slow down significantly. Likely these animations are gonna be roughly the same length as my shorter animations 10-15 seconds long and I imagine the upload schedule will be weekly (it depends though because I may spend less time lighting or making backgrounds considering that's not as necessary for lets say, player animations.) other than that, not much of a difference. I'll stream from time to time like usual, there will be the occasional half-life s2fm, so hopefully it will all work out.
How can I support you?
One of the biggest and easiest things you can do is to just like and share my animations with others, and subscribe if you haven't already. If all my videos got the same amount of views on my most viewed animations, the monetization could possibly be enough to support me by itself.
You can donate to my Patreon.
As cheap as 3 dollars a month You get benefits like a patron discord role in my server and wip animations.
Channel memberships.
You can be a member on my channel for just a dollar. you get an icon next to your name such as the ones I showed off in the last yt post. If I see it by your name, I'm more likely to respond to your comments.
Commissions.
You can commission me through Twitter, Instagram, or Discord dm's you can find the links in my channel desc and my discord profile in my server. It's mainly s2fm commissions right now but I'm open to blender commissions.
although pricing and what I can do may be different as I'm still getting the hang of the program.
Another thing you can do is if any of my subscribers or viewers know a game dev/animation team that could use my help and is guaranteed to pay, please bring their attention to me and ask them to reach me through the contact options I provided for commissions, or they can start by reaching out to me in the replies of this post. I will be looking out for these every day.
And the last thing you can do is pray for me that whatever comes up and whatever I do, that it works out. I know prayer works and if it wasn't for God I would not have the success I would have on Youtube today.
Otherwise
Thank you guys for your current support and thank you for helping me reach 80 thousand subscribers. Getting this far is insane to me btw. we are so close to 100k, which I believe is the subcount needed to be verified on Youtube so lets keep it going and again thank you.
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Komegatze
Hey Everyone. channel memberships are up.
Don't worry, if you don't join you wont be content locked from my finished animations.
this just gives you these custom badges created by me and allow you to use these 4(starting amount) custom emojis in my streams.
you also get priory replies from me in the comment section if I see the badge.
It's also a great way to support me as my animations will get longer with more effort in them.
the price is 1 dollar per month
1 year ago | [YT] | 389
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Komegatze
If you havent seen it yet, on May 30th I uploaded my animated remake of the Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Gman speech on my channel. PLEASE give it a watch and share it around!
https://youtu.be/rMc3WWBlMlU
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