Update Blog - 8/24/19 (Patreon)

The hype of the D23 Expo is in the air and we're all excited to hear all the latest and biggest news coming out this weekend, but before we fully indulge on all that, I got some updates of my own to share...from this week.

- Released the AniMat Watches of Cans Without Labels: I've got a funny little story with this one. I knew for a while I wanted to make another AniMat Watches (since it's been a long time since I've made one), but I never knew what to watch. It was very tricky to narrow down what could be the right subject to do. Then, as I was on Facebook, I found a post where the full cartoon was online. I was like Kronk and his little angel & devil looking up going, "That'll work". Originally, I had this scheduled to be released a month ago in mid-July, but lots of change of plans happened, including adding in the Garrett Gilchrist interview and pushing it back to where it fits in August. Then I had an earlier than expected screening of The Angry Birds Movie 2, so I pushed it back just one more week (The one benefit form that is including the update regarding where you can now find it on YouTube, that and it's good to push this back to this week to give more room to Mr. Enter's review to have his stand out more and not have mine look like I'm copying him). Well...I can say that even if it's just 10 minutes long, it sure fits perfectly for the kind of stuff I normally watch for this series. I'm just glad his art style is no longer considered inspiring, or good because this is a pure mess. 

- Released the new Q&A with AniMat: You know what's funny? No joke, I recorded this days before the news broke out of Disney & Sony's Spider-Man deal being over, so I never knew that my answer would be perfect timing with current events (or would fit in the "too soon" category, but whatever). I will say though that I'm very happy with this episode and people giving out some strong questions for me to ask. It did take a bit of searching all across social media to find the right ones, but it has a great blend of stuff about my opinions, my videos and myself. Maybe it can have a bit of the controversial with those Disney questions and especially the #ChangeTheChannel one, but it overall delivers a strong episode and I hope more Q&As will be like this :)

- No More Passwords!: Okay, I think I should clarify something here, because the was even a surprise for me. You may have noticed that the early screenings for my videos no longer require a password to put up. That's because Patreon has a new feature where they team up with Vimeo (the video platform that I normally upload my videos to put them up on Patreon) in order for me to upload onto Patreon directly with no worries of the previews to be found in other places, meaning once you become one of my patrons, you can have much easier access to check out the videos without any password hassle. Really happy that Patreon included this feature and I hope you enjoy the convenience too. 

- Editing AL: Walt Disney Animation Studios +: Admittedly, I didn't have as much time as I'd expected to build all this together with other businesses to take care of outside of videos and my personal life as well. But regardless, I still found the time to do a good amount of editing and now is the time I'm starting to bring to life the actual video. I know there's still a lot ahead of me for both the video itself I"m working on and the entire series, so what I'm trying to do is get a system going to get use to it and know what the flow is to hopefully make the process of making these parts faster (unless I have a crazy and complex idea to pull off in one of these). But so far, with what I have made, it's looking amazing and I can't wait to release this to you guys once Part 1 is complete! Still have more to do, but I know it's gonna be great!

But enough about me, now it's time we get back to what's more important...the news from D23! I wonder what new animated plans they got for 2020 and beyond? Let's find out, but until next time...

See ya later, dudes!