After a lot of thinking and consideration I've finally decided to drop the entire current commission model I have in place. Which means I will no longer be doing model/race swaps, custom models and futa.
Only regular simple texture/asset swaps and (custom) background set swaps.
I know this will dissapoint some people, as I know some have been patiently waiting for the commissions to re-open. But for my own sake, I have to draw the line here and be honest to myself - I no longer enjoy making them.
While I genuinely enjoyed making those early commisions and learned a lot from doing them, the moment I started taking on more complex requests like custom models and race swapping -something that was fun and quick to do- slowly became frustrating and time consuming.
The problem with race swapping and custom models is that it varies wildly from which animation is being swapped, for instance: This jaina animation is extremely simplistic and easy to replicate as it's literally 2 characters doing an up/down motion while the feet and wrists are locked in place.
But then there's this draenei animation which is a lot more complex and introduces a lot of problems -in short- it basicly boiled down to remaking the entire animation, which was not worth the time.
Some of you are probably already thinking "Why not up the price?", and yes, that had crossed my mind before, but ultimately I knew that was not the solution.
It became clear to me that remaking the same animation over and over again started to become dull and uninteresting.
And something like Futanari -while I know it's very popular- is not of any interest to me. I've tried to be as open-minded about it as possible but in the end, it was difficult for me to work on and was very draining.
And that pretty much sums up the reason why I will now only be doing basic texture/asset swaps. As those are easy to do and gives me a little extra income.
Will I ever open up commission work for unique new animations? Maybe. But it's highely unlikely at this point. But I don't want to outright dismiss it entirely.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and for your understanding!
