Update Blog - 8/3/19 (Patreon)

As we enter a new month, I consider this a brand new beginning. I got many things finished and out of the way, so now it is the perfect moment to begin something new and something highly ambitious. As Rafiki said it best, "It is time!"

- Released my review of The Lion King (1994): What a perfectly monumental review. Not only was the timing great to have this be out the week after my review of the remake, but this is also the 100th animated film I've reviewed for AniMat's Classic Reviews! Honestly, there is no better movie to do it with. What's funny about The Lion King (or now we have to refer to it as The Original) is that even if people have seen it 100s of time by now and know every moment that happens, the raw emotions and the magic is still there. It can still captivate people and show why these moments are still remembered to this day. And the funny thing is, in this age of Memes, there's very few from the movie that even got close to the viral power of either SpongeBob or Shrek because the public has accepted to take this film seriously. It doesn't need to be a meme to still have an impact on people today or to have people remember it. Unfortunately, while my time with Simba and the gang was wonderful, the fun times have to be over with the next review, as I gotta go back to the forest and look at Open Season 2...Somehow, I knew this would happen and I fear the dominoes are gonna fall. Just wish me luck on this one. 

- Cancelled my Amino sponsorship: You may remember last week when on YouTube, I put up a little ad before my Lion King (2019) review about the Amino app. In the last blog, I said this would continue for a bit with a 2nd ad and continue with making extra videos there. Well, CHANGE OF PLANS! SCREW IT! It was honestly getting a bit frustrated working with the Amino people because of how demanding they are and always wanting revisions to the point that they would no longer be my videos anymore. So, due to creative differences, I walked out of my contract because they were obviously not paying me enough to do this (even by YouTube sponsorship standards, what they would pay me is extremely low compared to what they wanted me to do). I won't say this will fully discourage me from doing any more sponsorships with others, but I'll most likely be sticking to simpler stuff that won't ask too much out of me.

- Created the upcoming TV series review: As I've stated last week, I started watching the episodes. But this time, since I had nothing else left to do, I crunched my time to go through the rest. It was a short series after all, so watching the episodes went by quickly, but then it was going through the rest of the review was where the true work began. I will say that I'm pretty happy with what I've made with this one and even experimented a bit with some cinematic shots (or at least, as cinematic as you can get from a YouTube video where one guy does everything). The review is not fully complete though, as I've still got a couple of things in waiting in order to put the finishing touches. But for now, I think it'll be something that both the review itself and the show I'm talking about worth a watch.

- Production of AL: Walt Disney Animation Studios + has officially begun: It is time to fulfill an old promise and return to my beginnings in a new way. As August began, I decided to have it be the moment to start everything on AL:WDAS+, and now I have the script file already made. I definitely have a long journey ahead of me, but I know I gotta start somewhere and I feel like the turn of a new month was right to do exactly what I was doing 10 years ago. Of course, a lot of time will be spent on researching, so I will make the most of it before even starting to write down any of the segments. But I can already tell that, with what I started, this Animation Lookback will return to Disney bigger and better than ever!

You could say it's a turning point week for me, but this is the start of something big and really exciting for my channel and myself. Now if you excuse me, I've got some research on some of Disney's first movies, so until next time...

See ya later, dudes!