Update regarding the rewards
Added 2018-10-01 10:48:48 +0000 UTCHello Patrons!
Thanks to all of your support, I believe our first drawing session was decently successful! At least, for a first time.
Now, for the rewards! I am currently looking into the best way to deliver the .jpg/.psd files at the moment. I've sent an inquiry to Patreon support if they have any suggestions since I feel like there's a better way to handle this matter instead of using external services such as Dropbox.
I'm sure all of you are quite eager to receive your files so if I can't find a better way within a few days, we'll settle with Dropbox.
Edit1: Gumroad seems interesting! I'll take a look into it.
Edit2: I believe Patreon doesn't support .psd or other complex image files. (Not to mention .psd files can easily become huge)
Comments
I’ve also seen people use a password protected Wetransfer link. The link/password is sent as a message to patrons and it expires after a certain amount of time.
2018-10-01 17:54:55 +0000 UTCYou can upload rewards as attachments here (psd, rar, csp...) and for larger files, 500 MB and higher use dropbox or other service
flou
2018-10-01 14:22:09 +0000 UTCGumroad is a good solution (filesize limit : 16Gb), or Google Drive (aka Google One which will soon offer 2TB for the 1TB current price).
Catsuka
2018-10-01 11:49:35 +0000 UTCjust stop giving them advises how to handle things ... this is so annoying for anyone. trigger is doing fine.
2018-10-01 11:40:20 +0000 UTCBecause you have a lot of supporters just be aware if you use the free Dropbox there's a 20 GB/day limit on the total traffic for all shared links. But would love to see Patreon supporting .zip or arbitrary extensions!
WizardTim
2018-10-01 11:28:26 +0000 UTCI support many many creators. Usually I see: - Add the rewards as an attachment to the Patreon post. This only works for small files. - Add the rewards as a Google Drive/Dropbox link. This works for bigger files. - Put the rewards on Gumroad and give Patrons a link to redeem them for free. This works best when you want Gumroad anyway (for example to sell previous rewards), because it costs money.
Nope
2018-10-01 11:02:52 +0000 UTCYeah Google Drive seems to be the most effective - then you just provide the link in a locked Patreon post to the Tiers you wish to have access. Awesome stream by the way, I really enjoyed it!
Millennium Exile
2018-10-01 10:57:07 +0000 UTCMany artists I've seen on Pateron use Gumroad as a distribution service, avoiding the issues of unpaying scrapers and allowing to potentially sell/distrbute the art in the future. I'm not sure of the costs of using Gumroad, though.
T-Patch
2018-10-01 10:55:07 +0000 UTCMost other creators that I've supported do use Dropbox/Google Drive to share PSDs and videos, might have been one of the most feasible approach :)
2018-10-01 10:53:04 +0000 UTCConsider enabling this feature on Twitch, so people who didn't have time (or simply couldn't) join the livestream, can atleast watch the recording: <a href="https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1575302-videos-on-demand" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1575302-videos-on-demand</a>#enable 😉
Thibault
2018-10-01 10:52:51 +0000 UTCPatreon allows to post similart to this and upload files as well, choosing who gets to see it or not according to pledge levels and similar. I bet that could help!
Optimus Praino
2018-10-01 10:50:23 +0000 UTC
