Contemplating a paid stories/pinup website now...
Been thinking…
Family and Friends have been encouraging me to start telling my long-form adventures ideas and multi-panel gags, video, and original musical creations on a paid platform.
Life has been so crazy, and one interruption after another in RL and SL work, have kept me from fully flushing out a predictable method to the madness for “deadlines” and such. Most of the images I post here, are shot very quickly and use very little touch-up in post. I just don’t have the patience on ideas that just sort of happen.
I’m always long-form sketching ideas in my head. Not just visual things. That’s where I’m willing to put crazy-effort and care in to the images, 3D builds, stories and music.
Over the years, I used to subscribe to various artists, writers, musicians, and actors’ paid sites all the time. I believe in supporting creators where ever and whenever I can.
I often write complete songs in my sleep, but have been very timid about returning to that, because it takes up even more time and effort than visual work for me. Back in the day, I used to rush to my notebook and/or multi-track recorder to get my sleep-songs down as fast as possible. Home-recording used to be a VERY loud process that I don’t wish upon anyone. But these days, I have all the appropriate hardware and software on, or attached to my Mac, for RL video-assignments I do.
The reasoning in my head ( and from others ) is that I should attempt to make a little income from all the silliness ( and sometimes sick ) I cough up all the time. Some ideas would be much easier for a ( hopeful ) audience to keep up with elsewhere. On occasion, some ideas may be too risqué for Flickr, without putting them behind a censored tag/blocker. I have nothing against erotica or porn obviously. But it’s never been the emphasis of my own Flickr. But some ideas may need those elements more seamlessly integrated into a story or gag, than single a image document on Flickr typically does.
Some story and thematic ideas would require specific 3D mesh builds, backdrops, avatars, and NPCs I can’t find anywhere in SL or the SL Marketplace. There are thousands of extremely superb designers and builders in SL. But some ideas I have would have me going broke ( hunting for even more props than I already have ) in attempting a cohesive look for certain types of stories. And I definitely cannot afford a sim, or the time to maintain it, to create ( possibly ) an ever-changing world in. Since I don’t have specific genres, locations or eras I prefer over another.
Like many people, growing up on 6-minute cartoon-shorts on local TV, may be a factor? Where the characters’ locations change from episode to episode, or sometimes minute to minute. My brain seems to do the same thing, all the time. Stream of consciousness stuff. Hahaha…
Anyway, I’m gearing up to finally create better stuff for the long neglected store. Not just clothing. But fully realized props that may end up previewed here and very much on a paid story-oriented platform.
All ten fingers and eleven toes crossed.
Mimi <3
Contemplating a paid stories/pinup website now...
Been thinking…
Family and Friends have been encouraging me to start telling my long-form adventures ideas and multi-panel gags, video, and original musical creations on a paid platform.
Life has been so crazy, and one interruption after another in RL and SL work, have kept me from fully flushing out a predictable method to the madness for “deadlines” and such. Most of the images I post here, are shot very quickly and use very little touch-up in post. I just don’t have the patience on ideas that just sort of happen.
I’m always long-form sketching ideas in my head. Not just visual things. That’s where I’m willing to put crazy-effort and care in to the images, 3D builds, stories and music.
Over the years, I used to subscribe to various artists, writers, musicians, and actors’ paid sites all the time. I believe in supporting creators where ever and whenever I can.
I often write complete songs in my sleep, but have been very timid about returning to that, because it takes up even more time and effort than visual work for me. Back in the day, I used to rush to my notebook and/or multi-track recorder to get my sleep-songs down as fast as possible. Home-recording used to be a VERY loud process that I don’t wish upon anyone. But these days, I have all the appropriate hardware and software on, or attached to my Mac, for RL video-assignments I do.
The reasoning in my head ( and from others ) is that I should attempt to make a little income from all the silliness ( and sometimes sick ) I cough up all the time. Some ideas would be much easier for a ( hopeful ) audience to keep up with elsewhere. On occasion, some ideas may be too risqué for Flickr, without putting them behind a censored tag/blocker. I have nothing against erotica or porn obviously. But it’s never been the emphasis of my own Flickr. But some ideas may need those elements more seamlessly integrated into a story or gag, than single a image document on Flickr typically does.
Some story and thematic ideas would require specific 3D mesh builds, backdrops, avatars, and NPCs I can’t find anywhere in SL or the SL Marketplace. There are thousands of extremely superb designers and builders in SL. But some ideas I have would have me going broke ( hunting for even more props than I already have ) in attempting a cohesive look for certain types of stories. And I definitely cannot afford a sim, or the time to maintain it, to create ( possibly ) an ever-changing world in. Since I don’t have specific genres, locations or eras I prefer over another.
Like many people, growing up on 6-minute cartoon-shorts on local TV, may be a factor? Where the characters’ locations change from episode to episode, or sometimes minute to minute. My brain seems to do the same thing, all the time. Stream of consciousness stuff. Hahaha…
Anyway, I’m gearing up to finally create better stuff for the long neglected store. Not just clothing. But fully realized props that may end up previewed here and very much on a paid story-oriented platform.
All ten fingers and eleven toes crossed.
Mimi <3