commoddity

Hey guys I'm going to close this patreon in a few days because I just don't think the business model is sustainable. As I've mentioned in the past the videos are a lot of work. also the set fee of $5 per video also doesn't work for me because it discourages me from making longer or shorter content.

I will post a link to the google drive folder on DA with GIFs and video mp4s from this patreon so they will be public

It's hard for me to close this patreon because it took so long to get you all to come here but at the same time I will be relieved to let it go because it's like some plant I've been neglecting to water for months and I'm scared to look at it.

I will obviously say thanks again for everyone supporting and the money you gave me for the several videos I made. Sorry if I ever gave the impression this would last for ever.

As for future; I'm not currently working on any animated projects because I'm saving lots of my best ideas for one very big big project. Also if you wonder about where I'm going with my life financially one of my shorter term goals is to sell art prints of this other idea I have which I think would make a great series of illustrations (it's not what you might expect but I think anyone who likes macro art would like it).

I've really taken a step back from animation because it's not the healthiest thing to be doing 24/7 and can take a toll on one's mental and physical health so I've been enjoying being more healthy and planning projects that are more time efficient. That being said, I still enjoy animation and I'm not giving it up for good but really my focus is on other priorities right now.

Thanks!

(also any questions or qualms let me know below)

Hi I have some rather bad news and that's that I can't do the video commissions in their current format anymore. This might come as a shock because I only just did the raffle recently but whilst planning the project I just couldn't justify the time it would take for what I would get out of it. It took me a week to really think about this but I put together some reasons why:

1 - Not enough money to make a living from videos. I'm obviously super grateful for you supporting me on here but the reality is videos take a lot more time and labour than I let on. Followers have improved over the 3 and half years I've been doing the video commissions but at the moment I only make half minimum wage for making a video which can take 100-200 hours.

2 - Is a lot of stress and big time commitment that means I can't start little spur of the moment projects.

3 - Lot's of people have lots of different ideas that I don't 100% resonate. I'm only one person and my preferences are furry muscle/fat/curvy so it is difficult for me to do human videos for example because that's not what I'm really passionate about

4 - I prefer making none explicitly sexual content for long form videos, especially because I draw kinky stuff in my other time and I just like to find a balance

5 - There is no good social platform to post this content anymore. It's hard to find a place to put long form nsfw content but things like Article 13 now means websites really don't like using music that doesn't belong to you.

6 - Since I have my video making process sorted now I have a good idea how long projects will take before hand but that also means I'm very concious of leaping into things (whereas before I would jump straight in not really knowing how much work it might be)

My original goals for making the videos in the first place was:

- Get better at flash and get better at making professional music videos

- To help support myself a bit and gain recognition

- Promote some fetish content that I enjoy in a way people might not have seen before

In the future the only videos I can make are ones that I make all myself (like the Brain Tease video) and post to youtube. This patreon will be for those videos. They will essentially be made in my free time still. It is okay if you want to leave my patreon and think this is self indulgent. The reason why I can produce these videos and not video commissions is because they are a full expression of myself; also I understand how to capitalize on my own video making skills and keep it fun and enjoyable for myself to make.

I am considering doing animated GIF commissions as alternative income once I figure out how to make some good quality ones which will still allow you to see your characters animated by me.

Sorry about that news, it was hard for me to admit that the video commissions were not viable but I am feeling optmistic about trying my different options now

Also just thanks for supporting the past videos and the clients who commissioned them because, one of my main motivations was improving my video quality which is something I couldn't have done any other way.

from 101 Dalmatian Street

Also I'm still practising some things before I will be ready to begin the next video and choose it so it will be few weeks before I will be ready for that.

It is finished! You can watch it in my Google Drive folder (I will be uploading it to Tumblr and/ or Newgrounds later on but this is the best way to post to patreon first).

And this is the post that will be charged for this project [SO THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT]

I will give the details here in several days about opening the next Video; I will be pretty open to ideas but I will give the brief then on what sort of things I might be interested in and what might make for a good ~1 minute music video

Hi sorry this particular video seems to be taking forever and my patreon seems mostly deserted but I really appreciate those of you who stick with me whilst I finish these projects. I do love this video and can't wait to share it but I really would like to have thought of this video as only being a 3 -4 month long project if it weren't for me being so distracted with focusing on studying art and learning Clip Studio for the last half of 2018 The video is 62s long at moment and there are 15s more to go so it is nearly finished but I'm just really grateful you still support me because sometimes I'm nervous and expect to check my patreon only to find out everyone has left.

There's still a quite a while before the video is finished. Sorry it is taking so long because it got delayed but that was mainly because I took a couple months out to study muscle and fat anatomy. This video has lots of great shots I can't wait to show, especially if you like fat!

This is where the next video takes place

I'm sorry I've not been posting many updates for my next video but I dedicated the last month to focusing on studying art techniques and anatomy because I've really never had the chance to do so before. I finished the video's animatic over a month ago but realised I didn't really have a very confident understanding of drawing fat from different angles so I wanted to squeeze in some time for lots of character studies of all shapes and sizes before starting the proper animation; it has been super helpful for me to understand characters and the way they move more in depth. Sorry the project got delayed a while but it's because I'm always thinking of ways to improve them and it felt like the right time for me to learn those things

Thanks for supporting me for the production of Brain Tease. I will be working on the next video now which might take a couple months. I will try to post some sketches every now and then because they can be fun to do.

Kubwa is the star of the next video

Would anybody be interested in commissioning me for the next video? The price would be £190 for a 1 minute video that can have 2 main characters.

I will stipulate that I would like this particular video idea to either be a muscle workout/ anything sexy with muscle or a weight gain/ eating video where the focus is more on those topics and does not involve macro growth spurts and the character's general height is the same. It can also just be about a muscular character or a fat character being sexy in their day to day life. The video can involve explicit content. It can involve an OC or pop culture character (main character cannot be underage).

If you are interested just say so below and if multiple people want this slot it will be randomly chosen.

Thanks

Here is the most recent folder of videos

Video is finished! This really was a puzzle to make but I got there in the end ,_,

This video was my own idea and I made the music so it is quite a personal milestone for me in many ways. Nehm belongs to Feargrant and I was allowed to use her for this video, thanks feargrant! and thank you for watching and supporting this video over the last few months!

I will be getting into the swing of making some more explicit animations again; I want to learn some new animation software that does everything flash does but better and quicker (like Toon Boom). I will talk more about colloborating on the next video once I've spent a few weeks with the new software.

BEND THOSE KNEES TO NEHMETANIAT

I feel bad saying when it will be finished because I jinx myself so please bear with me, it is over 80% finished though

(I'm putting this here now instead of on main page because patreon has changed their rules a bit)

From Disney's Treasure Planet

Hi I just need ask for some help quick, can anyone who signed up for my patreon recently tell me if they were able to see all the previous posts I've made (i.e. the backlog of GIFs and the download links that have a date of before you joined). And was this archive available right after you pledged? (Providing you subscribed to the $5 next video tier)

I'm told by Patreon the post history should be visible but someone is having difficulty with this so I need to know if anyone has had any issues.

Thanks

Part of the intro for upcoming video!

The sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, then the ants beat up the grasshoppers

Jasiri shows Kion how much she has grown

Val is a fat bat and loves Easter

This was an animation test with object drawing in Flash, which just makes things a bit easier to manipulate. Character is from Squirrel and Hedgehog if you don't know her.

Here's a teaser for the next video which features Tnargraef's character Nehm

I had to cut the ending out because it would have taken another month to finish using the framerate I started with (8fps), and ideally I want a video like this to be a 2 month project. I think in the future I can use less frames to aim for longer content whilst still achieving fluidity in the animation.

Thank you for your support

This was quite a small project but had lots of delicate animating. I will post some gif versions and the full animatic here soon.

I'm very excited to work on the next video, so look forward to that because I really like the idea and it will be fun to make

Still will be while before video is finished and I'm also planning next video in meantime

The video will be over 2 minutes. Right now I've finished the animatic draft and I'm currently going through it a second time and cleaning the lines. The video will be very character and body language focused

It's a bathroom I made in blender for background of the next video. I really like how old ps1 games had prerendered backgrounds so i feel like trying it out. I've used blender a little in the past but this was a good way for me to get more accustomed to it. I think 3D backgrounds have lots of potential for future animations, especially as I get more used to making them.

The characters will still be 2D animated and the next video will be about a curvy meerkat called Meemuu

Kolula explains the secret to her physique!

Starring Kolula and Malvador

{I will also be making the video link available for $1 on DA.

First and foremost thank you patreons for supporting the art and animation I do! You are very encouraging. I have lots of different video content planned for the future and some different animation techniques to explore so stay tuned!

And sorry to be business but as I mentioned, I will be offering the exclusive download link for a $1 fee on DeviantArt too for people who do not use Patreon. This is because I am struggling to support myself for the amount of time I spend working on content (especially animation) so I really hope you understand. I think by making my video content exclusive (like how some people sell comic books) I could have a more sustainable model for myself.

This video is nearly done. It's quite short and simple and really helped me better understand 24fps animating (there is not growth in this one and it's a bit like the Kasplat animation I made a while ago).

I will be posting the video on here once it's finished and hope you like because I like making these and want to keep making them and keep improving

I still will not be taking video commissions for a while whilst I make some of my own animations like this one; making my own animations for a while will allow me to focus on the animation side and get a good idea of time management and things like that

Thank you for sticking around, the donation per video means so much to me

Clip from a little video I'm working on, it'll be just over a minute long

It's very similar to final thing, sometimes I just scribble and hope for the best

Here's the link to the most recent dropbox folder with all the animated video mp4s so they can be downloaded

Here is the finished video hope you like it

I will be taking hiatus from animated commissions to work on practise and different software and see what I can come up with. This patreon will still be live during that time but as normal you will only be donating whenever I post a completed video like this. I will try to give updates when I have things to share.

Anyway thank you for sticking around and contributing to the production of this video!

Really Sorry it's taking so long to finish; I only get to work on it several hours a week and videos take many many hours. I normally only think a few seconds ahead when animating otherwise I'd stress myself out. I am enjoying just making this animation look a bit more polished too just to push myself a bit (which is another reason it's taking so long).

I will be taking a break from video commissions after this video to experiment with things, just so you know

Sorry I haven't posted much info on the progress of the animation; I'm working on it a bit slower than usual because I took a backseat to animation over the past month. This is a fun project and I love it though I've just been working on it when I can bring my best effort without forcing myself. It's still got at least a month to finish it, thanks for sticking around

It's still a long way from finished but I'm having fun making it, just progressing steadily on it when I can.

Video is still in early production (just finishing animatic) but this gives an idea of characters and sub characters

Thanks to you few for continuing to pledge!

The next Video will be about the Arcanine Wendy (above), is set in a theatre and follows her as she grows lustfully for her fiance Rolan. It will be 2 mins long so production time will be a couple of months.

I'll be trying out some new visual and animation techniques again using everything I've learned so far, and I'm looking forward to making it look as lovely as possible.

Currently I'm working on the rough animatic, will post some clips once I've overcome some of the initial hurdles.

I wanted to base his body shape on simple shapes so I could easily visualise animating him from different angles. It's always nice to plan and think about these things before jumping straight in to animation; imaging how something will look is one thing, but imaging yourself actually doing it is another thing entirely.

I was going to give the chicken in Boom Moof a more Kaiju -esque and complicated design but I wasn't feeling too confident in my ability to animate it and make it look lively (especially because I was already experimenting with a different art style than I've done before). In the end I wanted to settle on basic shapes for it's design and just make it look less threatening.

The start to any video is just drawing the characters involved and getting to understand their key features and how to make them animate-able.

It's also important to understand exactly how I'm going to be drawing and assembling the character puppet to animate in each shot; thus it's important to think about how the character's body parts break down in to layers.

Thank you for watching and enjoying the main video with Amarini :)

This is the full animatic I made several weeks ago

This took 3 weeks to make (the main animation then took 6 weeks). The faint lines are the original draft and the darker lines are of the 2nd draft (which I made to polish certain shots and make it super clear what needed to be drawn and redrawn later on). Completing an animatic is like climbing a mountain, it's a rough and messy journey that involves lots of planning, starting and stopping. Once it's finished though, you can see exactly where you need to go and it's a fun ride to the finish line!

There's not much that differs from the main animation. I did the logo at the start but then redid it because it didn't look right and seemed a bit self-indulgent. All in all this was very fun and flowed very naturally; I enjoyed working from Wolfcow's script and passion very much!

Following the exploits of Balina Amarini as she gets jacked and kicks rear ends

Hi, I've got another open video commission raffle going.

This one is for furry/ anthro characters only though so I've posted it to furaffinity

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8225275/

Will be held between 14th -17th May

Animation is over half finished; should be completed in 3 weeks. And will be doing raffle for next video commission in 2 weeks, more details on that when the time comes. Ty for your patience

Just so you know the animation is about more than a chicken

There's so many fun and cool shots in this that I can't wait to show but I don't want to spoil too much. Over the past Week or two I've been doing the proper animation. It will be 2 mins long in total and I always try to aim for 20s a week. I've got about 35s done properly so far.

The joy of planning all the animation and shots out in the animatic stage of production means I can just relax and focus on making it look nice. The new animation style will be very apparent throughout the whole thing and I will try to explain in more detail afterwards the techniques I used because they're quite interesting.

This is another clip from the animatic which I finished a while ago.

I have started animating the proper visuals this week. I've adopted a different style that better suits the anime feel and it's looking very pretty. Will show some clips of that once I'm a bit further ahead.

Starring Balina Amarini

This is preview for Boom Moof, which is still a while away. I've finished the animatic and am really happy with it. I just need to finalise my character refs and retrace some animatic shots better before I can start animating the main thing (which will be very straightforward because the planning and raw animation is all laid out).

Just letting you know that I'll take donations each time I post one of the animated videos (which is about every 6-8 weeks); it's a better system than me taking donations monthly and I definitely feel more comfortable with it. Also the recommended $5 pledge remains the same (except it's now for every 6-8 weeks instead of each month).

As normal (nothings changed) I'll still be posting art to DA regularly and posting animation updates on here when I can. Thank You!

Now all animations in mp4 for download

Rough draft of Shortcake. You can see how important the animatics are to making the actual animation, all the primary animation gets covered and visualised here.

Some of the drawings got erased by accident so might look a bit choppy

As requested, here's the link to download the latest animations (last 3)

OKAY RESULTS ARE IN

I randomed "B" as the winner of the animation raffle, so if you'd like to get in touch with me "B", please do so on DA! I have couple weeks to wrap up current animation but I'd like to hear from you as soon as possible.

These 6 people were entered:

GreatdragonAD

Jsiejkd

MarkyMark

B

Alexander Opst

Abby

I love exveemon, he's my boy T^T

It's about 80s done. Will be wrapped up in 3 weeks.

Also any patreons who are interested in next animation slot can you reply and let me know. It will be £50 for 30s. It's going to be randomly chosen between patreons and a few other people I'm close with.

As usual thanks for supporting this. I do work on the animations every day in between work and drawing commissions so it's very encouraging that people do donate.

Aiming to finish next animation within 5 weeks. Will share some clips soon, it's got similar visuals to this Bella Gif so looking pretty NEAT.

Short clip from new animation,

This animation will have 62 shots, will take about 6 weeks to finish, gonna be a load of fun. Main character is Ahri from League of Legends

This animation is nearly done, just got couple more shots to do. It's taking a while because it's been a challenge exploring some new techniques and that. Thanks for being patient though

New animation should be finished in 2 weeks, looking pretty swell so far

Got about 1 minute animated, this is about 40s in

This animation still a while away, it's about a werewolf (tis the season)

Thanks for supporting and a welcome to new patreons!

It took 5 weeks to make in total.

I got to experiment with a couple things. It's always in my interest to find a balance between quantity and quality so I switched to lineless art for animation.

I used this style mainly for efficiency. It has its pros and cons. I personally prefer the 'disney style' of doing contours were the colours of the outlines match the fill colour (I use this for regular art); but it makes everything take juust that little bit longer; and over a long period of time this adds up. Also drawing solid lines in Flash over and over again and making them look neat is a pain.

The lineless style means you can be a lot 'looser' with the character puppets, overlapping and crossing of parts is much less obvious; so overall it allows for a greater variety and freedom of animation and movement.

I'd like to keep working on this style. Overall, I'd prefer to use outlines, but this way is just easier and more enjoyable.

Will start work on next animation this week.

Tromping n stomping

Snippet of what to expect

Thanks to everyone for choosing to pledge so far, your generosity does not unnoticed!

This animation features some audio syncing and looping, which went rather nicely. The music in the video is Bom Bom by Sam and the Womp.

The animation stars Dynamo the Axolotl; she's always trying to outdo herself but can't help being ham handed. Malvador the Degu gets the unfortunate role of being the test dummy but don't worry, he'll be back once they find a cure for a 200 tonne slam to the skull!

Peace, Commoddity

-the fun part of animation: rough and rushed sketchiness