Update Blog - 4/20/19 (Patreon)

DUDES! I'm making a 420 blog :P LOL #BlazeIt. Nah, but for real though, it is Easter time, and I'm sure that means for many of you that it's family time. Don't worry, I won't take too much of your time with this one, it'll be short and quick so you can get back to your time worshiping the Easter Bunny.

- Released my Spring 2019 Update Vlog: While I haven't made any big announcements on this one, I have however revealed that I wanted to make some big steps to upgrade some of my stuff, including my Patreon and AniMat's Gift Shop. For the videos, I went into details of my full plans with AL: TatC and giving viewers a heads up regarding how, in the coming months, there might be more weeks where I will be posting both on Friday and Saturday to compensate the surplus of special Patreon requested reviews I've been getting. However, moving on to other websites, I've revealed some new Goals and a new $30/month Tier (you can check 'em out on my Patreon page) and as for AniMat's Gift Shop, I've added some new hats like some Baseball Caps and a Snapback. You can check 'em out right here if you're interested in getting one yourself.

- Released my review of Missing Link: After some frustrations from last months movies due to their low quality like Wonder Park and the live-action remake of Dumbo, it's nice to get a solid original feature, especially one from Laika. While I won't rank it among their best like Kubo and the Two Strings or Coraline, it was at least better than what we got with The BoxTrolls, so at least it is something. Of course, the animation is quite stellar, but I also really appreciate the heart that's in it with the bond between Sir Lionel and Mr. Link. There's a good dynamic that even helps get into some of the humour and can help characters that start unlikable improve over time. It's the kind of movie that has a great charm that leaves audiences feel good...that is if it can get an audience in the first place. No joke, at my screening, I was the only one in my screening. Very rare that it ever happens to me, but I do appreciate the amount of room I had (and by that, I mean literally all of it). I guess in the long run, I can count it as a rare gem and I'm happy to be one of the lucky few to know about it.

- Worked on a Special Review: After my major week of reviewing, I still had one more to make. While I can't say a whole lot about it, but the most I could say is that it kinda counts as a new anime review (it's hard to explain, but you'll get what I mean when you see it come out). The Patron who requested me this one said it's a rare case that it's so obscure that it doesn't even have its own Wikipedia page (and it's true!), but I will say that the subject I'm reviewing is just absolutely adorable. Rather if it will do anything to the quality or my rating will be remain to be seen, but rarely do I get to review something where I find a character to be so cute :3

- Returned to Editing Animation Lookback: The Thief and the Cobbler: Now that I've gotten all of the reviews out of the way, I can finally get back into editing a new part of AL: TacC. Admittedly, out of all the parts I'm working on, this future one is my most anticipated to make. While it will get into a major part in the production with a lot of good info and discuss about some theories related to the feature, I will be doing something that I've surprisingly yet to do on AL. I've done this a few times for my reviews, but never for this series, and it's about time too. It won't be the last part of the series, but it will be quite a finale for the part itself. I've had a blast making it so far, so I can't wait to see this crazy idea come to life!

And that should be your little Easter eggs for this weekend from me. I gotta get back to my family now and spend a little Easter time with some fun...and by Easter time, I mean convincing people that an entire chocolate bunny sculpture can count as a meal. So until next time...

See ya later, dudes!