Patreon Blog - 9/26/20 (Patreon)

That little vacation felt great! It did take a while to get back into the workflow I had before, but I did manage to finish up a good amount of work and now I feel better settled back in and starting fresh with some new projects in the works. But with that said, here’s what I’ve got during this week.

- Released my review of Peter Pan (2003): For me, this was always that kind of movie that I’ve heard about before, like I am aware of its existence, but I never actually saw it myself. I mean, it’s a big-budgeted film adaptation of Peter Pan. It’s easy to glance over it, assume what it is and just move on without a single thought. But now that I’ve actually seen it, I will say that I am quite impressed that it’s actually a pretty solid adaptation. Granted, it does have its fair share of problems like Tink’s annoying voice, the out-of-place humor, etc., but for the things it got right, it did it in a way that most movies can’t even achieve. Probably the biggest surprise for me was the James Newton Howard score. For many years, I always thought it was some music of its own that Disney just so happened to used it for one of their commercials, but here it is and all its glory and I honestly love it. The acting from the kids was also impressive. Peter can get a little creepy at times, but it's not every day that you see a batch of solid kid actors in one movie. Overall, not great, but I still consider this a little underrated because there is a lot of good work that was put into this film.

- Finished the next part of AL: Walt Disney Animation Studios +: Admittedly, the last batch of stuff took a little longer than I thought, but I managed to complete the next part and it's almost ready to go. All I need is some of Logan's animations and it should be set in a few weeks. The little setbacks were from my life getting in a bit of the way as I continue to put myself back to normal after my infection and vacation, but I eventually got myself back up and finish the job. Actually, it was also because Monday was an entire game of catch up by taking care of several things I missed last weekend like the podcast, the Patreon Q&A, the Patreon Discord Chat and being a special guest for another podcast to talk about animation history. But anyways, the important thing is that I'm done with Part 11 and I can start working on some other projects to take a small break before jumping into the next part. I can assure that this one will be quite special because this was weeks worth of work and I had so many life obstacles in the way just so I can make it to this moment.

- Starting some new Special Reviews: With Part 11 complete, I can go and start a couple of new projects I'm planning for next month. While I can't say what they are (because they are Patreon requested), what I can mention is that one is something I can easily do because it's a movie. The other, however, will need a lot more time for me to get into, like hours worth, meaning that I can make the review of one and then check out the other thing after during the same day. I'm sure this'll take a part of next week for me, but I'll be sure to make them be a lot of fun and informative as possible (in fact, one of them even requested to make the review informative as well). How fitting that I put out one special review and I'll be starting another one.

And that's been my week with my work. It was a bigger obstacle than I thought to get back to work without other stuff in the way, but I think things should be fine now and I'll have enough time to keep my focus on making videos and get myself comfortably ahead to keep the focus on their quality. So, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!