Let's the the big thing out of the way first: I currently have no income outside of YouTube Memberships and Patrons. As of the October 28th I quit my job with 5 months of savings to keep me afloat.
So how does this effect me right now?
Well, I've got a lot more time and a lot less money. This means I'm able to work on things I never had the time to feasibly do, as long as the info for that is available for free. I'm currently working on a website that will act as both a central site for all of my projects to be displayed (I have quite a few outside of videos), but will also be a bit of a portfolio to hopefully get me hired. Uncertain how long that will take, but I'm confident I can self-host it without any further cost to myself.
On the topic of this site, once I have it running I'll have patron/membership only areas where people can view all of the hard work I put into my videos. That includes hopefully finding a way to view the entirety of my notes Obsidian vault. That's the picture down there by the way. If you've never seen Obsidian... it's awesome. It's a great way to take notes that naturally forms your own wiki over time. Problem is, I'm not sure how to share it yet. I'll be working on this.
Anyway. Vid-e-ohs.
OK so the next video is a series retrospective on the OPUS series, which is getting its fourth installment sometime in the next month or so. See that gigantic mass of nodes in the image? That's all the notes I've taken for this. I've recorded all the footage I need, but going through said footage is taking a while as I flesh out the notes and find new info about it. I fucking love this series and hopefully I can get this video out before that next game drops. I'm operating on a budget however, so I may have to sacrifice a bit of quality to get this out.
After that's done, I'm returning to my Library of Ruina script. That script is like... I wanna say 80% done, but I hit some real writers block and I knew with my current status I couldn't do the video justice anyway. My goal is to finish the script and drafts and immediately go into production mode as soon as I have the finances.
Other than that, we will be releasing the combined version of Lobotomy Corporation's story video. Unfortunately the second half -- the significantly bigger half -- of that video did not do very well on release, despite phenomenal responses in the comments. I really love everyone who responded to that video btw, it's giving me a big emotional boost right now. I'm hoping that by releasing the combined video we'll solve some of the problems that video had.
Finally, to anyone who's deciding to continue supporting me through all this -- holy shit thank you. I know stuff is incredibly tough and I was aware of that when I finally decided to quit. I'm just hoping that I can last long enough to figure out my income sources before finances run out and all of you are making a sacrifice that I know is hard as hell right now. You may not think you're making much of a difference, but even a dollar a month is huge to me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
NewtC
Let's the the big thing out of the way first: I currently have no income outside of YouTube Memberships and Patrons. As of the October 28th I quit my job with 5 months of savings to keep me afloat.
So how does this effect me right now?
Well, I've got a lot more time and a lot less money. This means I'm able to work on things I never had the time to feasibly do, as long as the info for that is available for free. I'm currently working on a website that will act as both a central site for all of my projects to be displayed (I have quite a few outside of videos), but will also be a bit of a portfolio to hopefully get me hired. Uncertain how long that will take, but I'm confident I can self-host it without any further cost to myself.
On the topic of this site, once I have it running I'll have patron/membership only areas where people can view all of the hard work I put into my videos. That includes hopefully finding a way to view the entirety of my notes Obsidian vault. That's the picture down there by the way. If you've never seen Obsidian... it's awesome. It's a great way to take notes that naturally forms your own wiki over time. Problem is, I'm not sure how to share it yet. I'll be working on this.
Anyway. Vid-e-ohs.
OK so the next video is a series retrospective on the OPUS series, which is getting its fourth installment sometime in the next month or so. See that gigantic mass of nodes in the image? That's all the notes I've taken for this. I've recorded all the footage I need, but going through said footage is taking a while as I flesh out the notes and find new info about it. I fucking love this series and hopefully I can get this video out before that next game drops. I'm operating on a budget however, so I may have to sacrifice a bit of quality to get this out.
After that's done, I'm returning to my Library of Ruina script. That script is like... I wanna say 80% done, but I hit some real writers block and I knew with my current status I couldn't do the video justice anyway. My goal is to finish the script and drafts and immediately go into production mode as soon as I have the finances.
Other than that, we will be releasing the combined version of Lobotomy Corporation's story video. Unfortunately the second half -- the significantly bigger half -- of that video did not do very well on release, despite phenomenal responses in the comments. I really love everyone who responded to that video btw, it's giving me a big emotional boost right now. I'm hoping that by releasing the combined video we'll solve some of the problems that video had.
Finally, to anyone who's deciding to continue supporting me through all this -- holy shit thank you. I know stuff is incredibly tough and I was aware of that when I finally decided to quit. I'm just hoping that I can last long enough to figure out my income sources before finances run out and all of you are making a sacrifice that I know is hard as hell right now. You may not think you're making much of a difference, but even a dollar a month is huge to me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
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