My first five hours of personal work on Friday, February 24th, are on sale, and the winning bidder may choose what project I commit them to.
It has occurred to me that I not only have $7500 in funding to raise between all my unique projects, and that it'd take 3 1/2 years to fund them all at the current rate, but that I have an additional issue of time as a limited resource.
Think about your favorite highly anticipated project you've been waiting forever for me to finish. The one that you probably ranked a '10' in my poll on Triumphant Artists.com. You've seen that sit mostly on the backburner for months or years and want it done faster. Now you can toss a few pennies in the ring as a bidder, and say, for example, for $0.01 (one freaking penny!) I could convince Matthew to put five more hours of work into the specific project I am actually excited about.
So you may have been waiting forever for 'Isola' to actually be done. I hear you on that. So you place a penny towards that.
But then, someone else wants to push for 'Vivid Minigolf', for example, and raises the bid to two cents. And on and on it goes. Some of you want me working heavily on other things altogether, maybe a particular video project, or what have you. It could even turn into a small scale bidding war!
So the former scouts from Troop 4 who want me focused on the T4 comics and videos, might face off against the Missio Dei/Redeemer people who want me to resume work on the virtual tour of the old church which is now being sold off, and they in turn might face off against adventure gamers hoping for 'Panoramic Worlds' or a certain fangame, or fan-created world, versus some friends who want a movie like 'Eutopia' improved, and even they could get pitted against the family members who want '1999' done right NOW.
Heck, if the bidding goes above $4.95, or $0.99/hour, at that point I'll even open this up to a roster of tasks that are your project, not really at all mine* which might include:
-graphics elements for your web page
-a video vfx shot or two for your video project.
-photo editing of some pictures you want modified
-an online meetup, over an online voice/video chat, to discuss a topic that you want help with or are interested in. (tutoring, interviews, whatever.)
-a 3D model for a game you're developing.
-general-purpose video editing and audio editing/clean up.
-editing passes on a written story/work/article offering proofreading and feedback.
-roughly a few seconds of cartoon animation or about a page of comic/graphic novel content based on your ideas.
and pretty much anything else creative work wise, that uses the 5 hours of time but does not use up physical materials [that] would cost me money.
IF THIS GENERATES ANY REASONABLE BURST OF BIDDING ACTIVITY, I WILL DO THIS AGAIN ONCE A WEEK. If that occurs, it could amount to 20 hours sold a month, or 100 hours in the next five months, enough to make a major dent in even the biggest projects, assuming the same person keeps winning the auctions most of the time.
Note that you will be asked to - upon winning - pay the auction end amount using PayPal.
