Update Blog - 1/4/20 (Patreon)

Welcome everyone to 2020! I hope you're all settled at this point in this new year with the first few days to text things out, because I know that's what I did. In fact, most of this week was spent celebrating the new year with family and friends and to take time to recover from that. So there's not necessarily a whole lot to talk about regarding what's been happening with my work, but I will still give you all the scoop of what's to come.

- Released my review of Spies in Disguise: To start off the year, I only have one more thing to take care of from 2019 before I look ahead to the new year, and that's Blue Sky's latest film. I am aware that there have been some positive responses to hit (or at least more than the usual Blue Sky standards), but for me, it really is just...meh. I'm sure this is the kind of film where some elements could be a make or break deal, especially with the Emperor's New Groove style plotline. Maybe it'll work for some, but for me, I feel like this only highlights the bad writing, resulting in an unoriginal kids flick that plays too safe for its own good. I look at it and feel like this is nothing more than a novelty feature where it's all about Will Smith as a spy turns into a pigeon. I don't think it's all around horrible though. It does provide some fun action scenes and Will himself is enjoyable. However, this is overall an easily forgettable film that will gather very mixed results of people who like it and people who don't.

- Setting up something new for 2020: In between times where I celebrated the new years and recovering from a hangover, I only took the time to work on some small side projects meant to help grow my channel and my business, including improving some things like the audio for my podcast. One that I can share with you all (in case you haven't noticed on my YouTube page already) is that I moved AniMat's Gift Shop to Teespring. Keep in mind that I'm not going to close off the Spreadshirt page yet, but I wanted to make this update so that the merchandising will be more noticeable for viewers to see literally under my videos and to expand my options for merch, including one that I've always wanted to make, AniMat Seal stickers. If you wanna see what else I'm selling, check out the new AniMat's Gift Shop here. As for the other project I worked on...I'll save that for next week, but hopefully this will help out one of my shows a lot to grow independently on YouTube.

- Started editing the next part of AL: Walt Disney Animation Studios +: Since my schedule was quite busy these past few weeks, I didn't immediately wanted to start any big projects yet and cover some small things beforehand. But now that I don't have as many plans ahead of me, I can finally shift my focus back onto ALWDAS+ and actually make the videos. I've had the materials on the shelf since before Christmas like the entire script written and got all of my recordings and filming done, so now I can return to editing and get back on this project. And I better do it soon too because I'm starting to see comments getting a bit restless about when the next part is coming. Sure, I've already publicly mentioned this before, but since when are commenters known to be patient? Anyways, I'm back on AL and I'll be using it to put myself back from the holidays.

And that is all that I've got for this week. Don't worry if this blog is a little small. Now with the holidays over and things are back to normal, I'm sure I'll be back in action with my work and will tell you what I have in store for 2020. So until next time...

See ya later, dudes!