Who’s This Guy?!

Hi, my name is Alexander Emenheiser and I’m an animator; I create cartoons that move up, down, and all around! It has been my great ambition to become financially independent doing what I love rather than to wholly depend on having a “real job”. Since 2011, my plan of action has been centered on creating animation, and I have been practicing and making cartoons relentlessly ever since then!

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I do other things like compose music for video games & cartoons and I co-host a Let’s Play show called Totally Good at Games with friend and voice actor Darren Leeds. However, the purpose of this Patreon campaign is animation!

Animation on Patreon?!

Yes! I follow the 2D, digital, frame-by-frame method of animation, similar to cartoons like those on 90s Nickelodeon and early Disney, but done on the computer instead of on celluloid. This category is called tradigital animation and it’s cheaper and more efficient to create than traditional animation by far, but still expensive and time-consuming to make nonetheless. The amount of effort it takes to create a single cartoon—let alone frequently and with utmost care—is well outside my ability to reconcile it financially.

FRET NOT!!! This is where Patreon and you come in! If you enjoy my work so much that you want to support the creation of the next cartoon, become my patron and set up a donation! Each donation, whether it is $1 or $10 or $100, goes toward the development of my animation. I will be able to hire helpers, voice actors, & background artists to improve the production quality . I will be able to focus my time and energy towards animating in order to release them more often. Becoming a full-time animator is my utter dream and this can only happen if you help me out!

If you only want to do a single, one-time donation instead, go to my PayPal account at www.PayPal.me/adesyndicate.

I’ll be posting updates and news about what project I am working on. I’m currently working on a set of cartoons like Anti-Joke, The Kid Who Runs like Sonic, and a few Game Grumps Animated cartoons!

The Plan!

The goal of this Patreon is to have a stable financial support thanks to generous fans so that I can safely focus on animation , as well as pay the production assistants for their work (co-animators, background artists, and so on). In order for this to happen, I’ve crunched the numbers!

Crunching the Numbers

There are on average 21.74 weekdays in a month. Currently, the federal minimum wage is $7.25. A part-time job has, let’s say, a six-hour shift. For the part-time equivalent, working six hours per weekday at minimum wage, I would have $942.50 before taxes. (Math check: $7.25 per hour x 30 hours per workweek x 4.33… workweeks per month = $942.50 per month.)

If I were to work five days per week and eight hours per weekday at minimum wage for one month, I would have $1,256 before taxes. That means that in order to become a full-time animator using Patreon , I would have to receive approximately $1,250 per month. (Math check: $7.25 per hour x 40 hours per workweek x 4.333… workweeks per month = $1,256.67 per month.)

Currently, I work a janitor job part-time at $8.50 per hour, paid bi-weekly, for fifteen hours per workweek. I currently make $552.50 per month. (Math check: $8.50 per hour x 15 hours per workweek x 4.333… workweeks per month = $552.50 per month.)

Goals

The donations are spent on new equipment and the production of the animation! To produce an animation of great quality and value on a frequent basis, it takes a team. The background artist creates a series of paintings in order to create the world in which the characters live, the co-animators weave in the in-betweens to bring fluidity to the characters’ movements, the musician composes the incidental music that adds to the necessary atmosphere and theme, and the voice actors & actresses vocalize the characters’ words and emotions to breathe life to the imagery! All of these talented people need to and should be paid for their services, even if they are done purely for fun.

With your support, I can do this!!

Rewards!

In gratitude for your generosity, I’ve set up a tiered series of rewards! The more you donate per month, the tastier and sweeter the reward.

For $1, you get my honest appreciation.

For $5, your name (or an alias of your choosing) will appear in the credits of the next animation.

There will be more rewards coming soon!

— Alex Emenheiser