Yay to Crotchboobs.

Yay always

@Background Pony #10D3  
Most definitely a Yay

 
Yay

Sing the song we got this together in your head, I’m sure it’ll make you last…tho i spose you could go with Hoofball stats too.

That’s a big ol’  

Nay for crotchtits

Yay for crotch boobs

Love some good crotchboobs! Fantastic animation.

Nay.

@Haltie  
Thank you for the insight into your line of work. Much respect

@Background Pony #0E60  
<3

@Haltie  
From all the moving/bending assets, I can tell it would require a lot of work. Which is highly appreciated, I can’t even begin a normal video project without it already feeling bloated and full of garbage within the first 30 minutes.
 
I’m fine without having edits, your stuff stands for itself really well even if it has something I or others don’t like. Example being the crotchboobs in this one.
 
Whenever I get the money, Ill probably donate to you since you’re one of my favorites on this platform ^^

@Minus  
I have an overclocked i7-8700k, and depending on effects I use, rendering a single frame in Toon Boom can take from 20 seconds to 2 minutes. So a second of finished 24 fps animation takes 8-48 minutes to render. It takes at least 40 minutes to render this small 119 frame animation once. In case of a longer, more complicated animation (say, ~2000 frames), it can take over 24 hours (though at that point I remove effects until I get something reasonable like 8-12 hours). In a course of creating an animation, I usually have to render it 5-15 times, since the live opengl preview is very limited and doesn’t show any effects (such as shading, overlays, blurs…) at all.
 
Now, if I fix an error, I have to re-render all versions again. Then, when I release the animation outside Patreon, I need to re-render all versions yet again to alter the watermarks. (also, Twitter doesn’t like .webm, so all edits need to be converted to both .webm and .mp4).
 
So yes, it takes time and (really monotonous) work. That’s why I prefer doing just a single version.
 
@Background Pony #0E60  
Just disabling certain layers will not always result in a perfect result, and there is often extra work needed to make it better. In this case, I could pretty much disable the tiddies and it looks alright, so that’s what I did and I’ll post it later. I posted both versions to Patreon at the same time.
 
But in general I don’t like doing edits, because my animations are clusterfucks of hundreds or thousands of nodes. So doing different versions demands either planning how to easily toggle the versions back and forth, or repeatedly finding and toggling the right nodes. Here I have three options:
 

@Gamer_Shy  
I see.  
Well I don’t know many artists and their file managing routines, but I’ve seen more content creators keep everything on small backup hard drives. They don’t just delete everything once a video is uploaded. I don’t see why it’d be different especially since art is a lot smaller than a large resolution video file.  
Hard drives are pretty inexpensive now, 52 bucks for 2tb drive where I live.
 
To each their own I guess.

@Background Pony #0E60  
Layers can only be disabled if you keep the project files, which a lot of people don’t once a project is fully completed. Especially if they don’t intend on making edits. Which I already mentioned.. If you don’t keep the project files, and delete them to save space, then it becomes MUCH more difficult to edit the image as you either have to go frame by frame to edit it, or remove some other parts.  
(This also applies to idiots like me that only use 3 layers for color, lines, and shading)

Great work like always Haltie ^^
 
@Gamer_Shy  
I don’t fully agree with you. Obviously no one should demand a artist of anything, but disabling a layer isn’t difficult. Even if it would take awhile to render, you’re looking at maybe an hour at worst depending on the resolution, framerate, etc etc.

@Minus  
M8, it also depends on if he decides to save the project files after he’s done, or if he yeets them when the project is finished. Also, you’re literally treating an artist as if it’s his duty to bend over for everyone based on their likes. It’s not. Yeah, it’s nice to make alts, but he doesn’t have to.  
Also, to assume that he owns a pc capable of rendering things within 10 minutes is a bit arrogant, as many artists use PCs that are very, VERY, weak compared to what you’d think they’d have. I can easily say as someone who once owned a very low end pc (No dedicated GPU, only integrated Intel HD graphics, and only 1 GB of ram, and a 1.6 GHz processor) that even an animation as simple as this could take upwards of 8-9 hours to process, render, and export.  
Please, don’t treat artists as if they have to bend to the whim of the masses, art isn’t something that should be forced, it’s something done out of passion. Forcing them to do as they don’t want to do tends to ruin that passion, and make artists just quit.

Another yay vote for crotchboobs

very yay

Yay

Nay

@SnoopyStallion  
You’re right

Yay on crotchtits