Opis
Cancelled commission which was never paid for.
Please note there is no animosity towards the person who commissioned this, they had always been kind and understanding throughout, I know life does get in the way of a lot of things but people do have to move on and I can't just keep holding on to the work I've done.
Quick reminder - I have a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/bee3001
The story:
This does go back around 8-10 years now, when I had only been doing commissions for a year or so maybe. I was asked to animate two wolf characters fighting and this was completed, paid for and delivered. A while later, the same person asked for a new sequence of the same two characters and a few scenes that might combine with the first sequence to make them part of the same fight. This new set of animations was agreed, roughed out and composited with the existing scene, however it was NOT paid for.
Again, I want to stress that I do not blame anyone, the person who asked for these animations had always been extremely pleasant to work with and very understanding when things weren't going well on my end too. But in the end, despite a lot of back and forth, I never received payment for this second set of sequences - 7 years ago is where my initial correspondences regarding this started, 5 years ago is the last contact I had with them.
So with that, I think its safe to say that after 5 years the commission is likely no longer a priority for them to say the least and at the same time, I think that's more than enough time for me to move on too - I am no longer holding on to the work I've done and cancelling the commission. This work is still mine and I don't really want it all to go to waste as I did work hard on this at the time so I am releasing it on Youtube!
Obviously this needed a bit of work before I could do that
+ I separated the scenes from what was previously made and paid for - NONE of the work that was paid for is included, all of that belongs to the person who commissioned it.
+ Both characters were completely changed - Nothing of the characters resemble the characters that belong to the person who commissioned these aside from the fact that they are Wolves.
+ Small re-animated sections and assets removed - Replaced by more generic spells and movements, again so that no resemblance to the commissioned characters remained.
So the original work I'd done had essentially been traced over with two more generic and bland coloured wolves put into the old After Effects compositions to make this, I hope people can enjoy this 5-10 year old animation at last.