Update Blog - 12/22/18 (Patreon)

The week before Christmas always seem to be one of the most stressful ones of the year. You gotta make sure you get all your work done before you can even settle in the holidays. However, I'm glad to say that at least I made it to this point, but before I head off to my little Christmas vacation, here's the summary of  my crazy week.

- Released my review of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse: After weeks of stress of how I would react to this movie and how audiences would react to my review, the time has come and now I can publicly come out to say...yea, this movie was awesome. I can see how audiences are viewing it as the next Lego Movie where people are just blown away at the technical innovation and already placed it at a high pedestal as the best thing to happen in animation since the creation of Squash & Stretch. Granted, I might be a little more critical on it where I don't feel like everything in the movie is as perfect as some would frame it to be, but I can't hide that what it does good here is done amazingly. I'll admit that the team at Sony did a great job on this and if this is a sign that they are heading towards a new direction and reject their cheap cartoony garbage that has poisoned their name with some of the worst movies of the medium, then I for one happily welcome this new and improved Sony Animation. Let's hope this will be a brighter future and not a false alarm like what Blue Sky did after Peanuts.

- Created & Released my review of Mary Poppins Returns: Considering how there will be so many big movies during the holidays, I can't just look at one and call it off until Lego Movie 2. As it technically count in the Disney Live-Action Remake category (it's made to capitalize nostalgia, you know it's true), I knew I had to take a look and analyze Mary Poppins Returns. While it may be mostly just copying the first film to a fault, I can't deny that I had a great time watching this one and even got a bit teary eyed. Plus, I admire some of the elements delivered here like the strong acting, amazing art direction to deliver a new take on the Disney classic and the animated moments were spectacular. Not sure if it's controversial to say that this looks better than Into The Spider-Verse...but Disney can still triumph Sony over that XD On a side note, this was what I worked on the most this week, where I got myself quite busy doing all the necessary research (including watching the original Mary Poppins) and thinking hard on the writing while getting creative with what to do in front of the camera. It may not be a great sequel, but I'm glad I watched it and I'm glad with the review that came out of it.

- Created the new What's in the Box?: As we are getting closer to the holiday season, I have to make a special holiday episode of WITB? where I can celebrate Christmas with all my viewers and fans by opening up presents with them. This particular episode was quite special and a major stand-out one compared to the recent videos of the series. Tough to really say the stuff I've gotten here because, as you're reading this, the episode is up to watch as a sneak peek here on Patreon, but I will say that some people have gone up and beyond with the packages they've brought from the quite strange to the unbelievably amazing. Even with the letters, many of them have been heartfelt and more than just to wish me a Merry Christmas. If you're looking for a fun way to have some Christmas cheer with an unboxing PO Box video, then this is it!

- Finished the new Editorial: Funny enough, the last thing to mention for this week is the first thing I did. I spent quite some time doing a lot of revisions to fix things up, especially when it involves green screens, it can take hours of time to make sure everything is set to look as strong as I would envision it. The final touch-ups have been made so far and I'm really happy with the end-result. Can't wait to have some interesting discussion about what I have to offer with this one, because it will be quite fun to hear what others would have to add to this.

And that should cover not just the stuff I did this week, but also everything before I'm off celebrating Christmas with the family. Hope you guys have an awesome time in the coming days and I just want to say thank you all for your amazing support, happy holidays and until next time...

See ya later, dudes!