Update Blog - 1/19/19 (Patreon)

I knew 2019 will be a big year. My YouTube channel's 10th anniversary, The time when I will hit 100K subscribers and making some changes to help make it bigger and better. This week was the time where I get to reveal some of those plans!

- Released my review of Iron Man: Yes, I decided to do two special reviews in a row from one week after another. This time, we're going from musical to superheroes with the first of the MCU movies, Iron Man. The funny thing about this review is that everyone seemed to be surprised that I did this one, but are glad I did anyways. What shocked me was that it did lead to some people immediately jumping to conclusions thinking that I would now be reviewing the ENTIRE MCU movies up until the release of Endgame. I'll say now that, no, this is not the case. Someone on Patreon requested me this movie and that's all there is to the story. I would've made a much bigger deal than this if I were to make a plan as ambitious as that. But either way, even if this one is more straightforward as a review than last week's Newsies one, I'm glad people liked it and I did have a good time with Iron Man 1. Will this make me do a whole marathon of the MCU? You kidding? I don't got time for that! I got work to do!

- Released the Winter 2019 edition of the Update Vlog: This is the one where I reveal some big plans for 2019 and some adjustments that I should've done to my work a long time ago. While I have revealed future projects and new things coming up like Animation Lookback: The Thief and the Cobbler, my Roku channel and making these Update Vlogs, Q&A with AniMat and The Art of AniMat seasonally, the biggest change will be to limit one AniMat's Classic Reviews a month to make room for the bigger projects, which I promise to deliver at least once a month a video that would be either an Animation Lookback, Top 10, Editorial or something that will make me work hard as a content creator. What I was worried about is how people would react to possibly not returning to the Animation Hat because of this, but it seems that people were fine with it as long as it means more of the kind of videos they would want. At least that explains why I jumped from one request to another in the last ACR of Tentacolino. Now you know why and hope it'll work out to bring you bigger and better videos to come.

- Released the announcement of ending What's in the Box?: As I've stated in the video, this was not an easy decision. Long story short, I decided to end off the series, but still keep the PO Box open if you're still interested in sending me letters and packages. If this is not the end, then consider this a break from the show. Like with limiting ACR to a monthly series, this is part of the changes I want to do to help my channel so give more focus on bigger and more ambitious videos. I just hope that for the people who do periodically send me stuff through the PO Box will understand my choice and maybe this could be for the best for my channel in the long run so that future videos will be loved by both longtime fans and newcomers. If you want to know more about my decision to retire What's in the Box?, check out the full explanation right here. 

- Almost finished working on the new Top 10: After I did those vlogs and a good amount of editing, I can happily say that the new Top 10 should be all set and ready. I had some fun with this one and enjoyed seeing some ideas that stayed in my head finally coming to life, but what was crazy is that there ere many things on the list that brought back some old memories and some elements that I still know by heart, even after all years. However, while I'm done working on it for now, I can't say that it's entirely finished. There are a couple of things I ordered online that I need to film in order to put the finishing touches of the video. According to what they tell me, they should arrive sometime next week, if not, at the end of the month so that I can get back to this real quick to finish it off.

- Created a new AniMat's Classic Reviews: Since I had some time this week after finishing off most that I could do with that Top 10, I figured why not jump into another ACR so that I can take care of any reviewing duties that I have in the foreseeable future before jumping into the next big project. What I can say for now is that I have been getting some good luck so far with these and this one was a a lot of fun. Maybe I could've done this later because this would be way ahead of schedule, but I'm happy I did it and it made me feel more confident to get into the next big project. Maybe I'll take a break from reviews for now (or at least until The Lego Movie 2 comes out), but I'm still satisfied that I can add this to my accomplishment of the week and I"m sure this'll be something you'll like too.

- REMINDER FOR PATRONS $50+/MONTH: This month's Google Hangouts Chat will be happening on Sunday the 20th at 2pm EST. Let me know if you're not available for either so I'll organize a quick chat.

And now that I've publicly set out my plans for the foreseeable 2019, I'm ready to head forward and bring out the best I can do for you guys with some big and crazy videos to come. In fact, next week will be a project I'm proud of that I can't wait to show you ;) So, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!