Some money saving tips! - Use silly sound clips of yourself for alerts instead of commissioning sound bytes - Use pre-made chats, alerts, overlays, stingers, panels from etsy, kofi, etc - Pre-made models are goated in quality & customization - Instead of crazy lore videos, consider making it comic book style/black & white with minimal animation and voice act with friends - Original/cover music is extremely expensive if you outsource all of it, consider just doing a cover karaoke stream before committing to it - There’s tons of copyright free bgm, you don’t have to commission everything brand new every debut - Booth has tons of pre-made YouTube thumbnail formatted graphics to yoink as well as Live2D rigger new outfits and animated backgrounds (just be careful of AI ones) - I legit just used wallpaper engine when I first started as my bg lol - Focus on community building and putting your personality out there, no need to drop thousands on supplementary stuff just yet But definitely do learn how to use Clipchamp, Capcut, Photoshop, and even After Effects because the more experience you have, the easier it is to direct a team to do it on your behalf to get the vision you want!