Patreon (+ Life?) Update

Hello my beloved Patrons. I hope you’ve enjoyed the past few Übel posts so far. I do have some explaining to do as to why I kinda disappeared for a bit. I wanna tell you guys a story (but if you’re not interested, just scroll down to the tl;dr, we’re still cool ✌️)

As you guys are well aware by now, I fucking love making art. I literally threw away my engineering scholarship (and risked being disowned by my asian parents) to pursue a career in art and animation and I do not regret a single thing. I’m lucky enough to get a lot of great opportunities after college and land an animator position in one of my dream studios.

Years later, management slowly shifted into a direction I didn’t totally agree with. I thought to myself maybe this is just a blip and I can power through this until everything goes back to normal. I couldn’t leave anyway since I’m supporting my family and my own life. Spoiler, management gets worse. Overworked, quality tanked, and talented folks started bailing. Ended up hitting full-on burnout mode. Both physical and mental health took a hit, and I started second-guessing my whole artistic journey. I thought of changing careers, but I’m gonna give this another shot before I do. And thus “Frantic” was born.

I started posting art for myself for the first time in years. Literally doing whatever the hell I want and somehow people were into it. Got me fired up about art all over again. Sure, it meant working past midnights after work and sacrificing weekends, but damn, seeing all the love roll in made it all worthwhile. Months passed, I opened art commissions, then launched a Patreon a year later. Thanks to your unwavering support, I hit a point where leaving my day job felt like a real option. And that’s exactly what I did 3 days ago.

Dude, the relief I felt when that resignation letter went through was insane. I feel invigorated, I fucking love art again. And now, with more time on my hands, I'm all in on pumping out content I love, all thanks to you guys.

All that shit being said, I want to focus my efforts here on Patreon and see how it goes. More content, more often, and some cool new stuff in the works too. Beyond just art, I'm thinking tutorials, critiques, animations, and more stuff to get you guys involved instead of just being viewers. 

Still knee-deep in resignation paperwork/processes, but we'll be back to our regular (and more frequent) programming real soon. Massive thanks for having my back through it all. 🙏

tl;dr

Quit my soul-sucking job, more Patreon content incoming. Also I love every single one of you and I’d give you a hug if possible.