Update Blog - 10/10/20 (Patreon)

Despite being on lockdown, I still had a very nice birthday week. I didn't work as much as I would expect, but I did manage to get back into the game afterwards and more motivated to working on more videos. I'm 28 now, so that means I'll have to be to wiser with my work...if I know how to be wiser in the first place XP Anyways, let's get onto this week!

- Birthday Announcements: On my birthday on Monday, I decided to reveal 3 major things as a way to celebrate. The first was revealing new masks to sell at the AniMat's Gift shop, including the AniMat Seal of Approval and the Orange Fedora. They're both $11.99 US each and, since the shop is set up on Teespring, they will give every dollar for every mask sold to charity. The second is posting the early preview of Part 11 of Animation Lookback: Walt Disney Animation Studios + super early (Coming in 2 weeks). Logan's animations aren't done yet, but I will send you all a message when they're complete and I put up the full version on Patreon. Finally, and this is a big one, I announced a new Instagram account, which will function the same as my Facebook and Twitter account, but now on that platform as well. I'll mention them again later this month when I do the big Update Vlog on YouTube, but this was a little way to spice up the fact that today was my birthday and make it like a day-long AniMat Direct.

- Released my review of Serenity: I honestly had no idea what to expect when going into this. In fact, when starting this review, I didn't know how to present it or anything...but that twist...that TERRIBLE twist...that's when I knew that I gotta make it around that, even if it means spoiling the movie's big surprise. Normally, I would find ways to be positive about movies that can be real bad, but this is a case where anything rarely worked, even the actors. I mean, it's crazy how you'd think it would be great to have Matthew McConaughey as the lead and Anne Hathaway as a femme fatale, but the script ruins it entirely where even that can be awkward and weird, especially factoring in that this is all a video game made by a troubled kid. Maybe some could debate if it's fair to even call this a "video game movie", but something this bad can't go unnoticed. Wanna be a video game? Fine, then be in the ranks of the Uwe Boll movies.

- Finished working on my Editorial: This one honestly took longer than I thought. Guess my birthday and a bit afterwards ended up taking more time than I expected. But thankfully, I did manage to finish off this video and it turned out to be pretty solid :) I'll say right now that a lot of the stuff I'll be talking about will be things I"ve recently repeated form before, but I feel like this subject deserves its own video and since I'm particularly interested in the subject, why not make it myself? It'll be coming out sometime this month, so I can't wait to show you what it is. But for this week, I am glad that the big thing I did was finish this one and finally move on to the next one and get more going in production. I feel a little behind, so let's use some of that new 28 power and get me more ahead ;)

- Starting on some new Reviews: Now that I got that Editorial done, I'm going to be moving forward to making more reviews that will be out in the coming weeks. Ones that I am currently working are another special review that will take a little more time to fully consume the content and also working on a few more ACRs at the same time. I know I'll have some more ahead of me, but it's best to be taking it on one at a time and not think too far ahead with the amount of work that I'll have to do. These ones will also get interesting (and some even are quite anticipated), so I'll be looking forward to bringing these reviews to life and hope I'll be able to make some great commentary on them.  

- REMINDER FOR PATRONS $25+/MONTH: I will have my first episode of the Super Secret Patreon Exclusive Q&A Show ready and released for Monday the 19th. If you have a question you'd like me to answer for the show, message me and mention that it's for the Secret Q&A Show.

- REMINDER FOR PATRONS $50+/MONTH: This month's Discord Chat will be happening on Thursday the 15th, and Sunday the 18th and both at 2pm EST. Let me know if you're not available for either so I'll organize a quick chat.

And that was my big birthday weekend with new announcements. There were plenty of things happening all in that one week, but I'm glad I got a lot of them done as well. I'm ready to start a new week with my new age with some new projects to work on, so until next time...

See ya later, dudes!