>>10332678>I don't suppose you could put them on cults3d or something where I could just buy the individual files instead of needing Patreon?Yes but only the body types, not full characters, and at an inflated price. My Patreon tiers will be 5$/month for an action figure plus weekly updates of 2 sets of hands and 2 heads, so a total of 9 pairs of hands and 9 heads. Then a 10$ tier which adds daily updates, totaling 39 pairs of hands and 39 heads. I would probably even do requests on what sort of expression or hand poses people want and add it as a bonus.
The Patreon route is basically a loophole for copyright laws. Patreon, the company, does not offer any content whatsoever. Its product is a subscription service, so from a legal standpoint you're only paying for access to my posts where I decide to post for "free" anything I want. So if I'm posting something for "free" copyright laws are hard to enforce which means I can safely post copyrighted material. This enables me to create an action figure of any IP I want because I'm technically not making any money out of it, I'm just posting it for "free" on my "blog". This is why this has to be done on Patreon.
A lot of people on Patreon are making a ton of money out of stuff they have no licence to create. I'm guessing some companies complained and tried to put a stop to it yet here we still are with people making hundreds if not millions of $ on someone else's IP. This loophole doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.
Initially I wanted to create SCP themed action figures (pic related, it's a Shy Guy wip) but while doing my market research I discovered the whole Patreon loophole so I changed course.
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