SaturdAI February 17 Status Update (Patreon)

Thanks as always for your support. I just blew the dust out of the Z600 (my main 3D PC) and cleaned the fans and case for the first time since installing the new RTX card. I'll be dropping a 4TB HDD into it as soon as I backup my current storage drive. All of this was made possible with your generosity. We're closer to the project's sustainability bar than we've been in a while.

I'm still experimenting with AI-enhanced animations, but I have to strictly budget my time these days, and results have been pretty underwhelming. 

Adopting AI art has been a mixed experience so far. Overall, I find Stable Diffusion to be a great tool for creating and enhancing my still art, adding realism and flexibility to poses that are difficult (if not impossible) to achieve in 3D apps, and more. It's still a struggle to get good hands. In terms of audience, I may have lost a few supporters, some more vocal than others, but there's been a definite increase in support since adopting AI.  

There have been a few new people who pledged for the $10 tier expecting immediate access to all the animations, and complained when it wasn't given. Patreon gives you access to current and recent archive posts until your payment clears in order to prevent "dine and dash"/discourage scraping, and grants full range access after a certain point.

The animation links are in the posts, you can filter by tier or "expanimation". They're not collected links (except for that YT clip dump).