Update Blog - 10/30/21 (Patreon)

It's the spooky time once again! Maybe you'll be getting your costumes ready, maybe you'll be having a sugar-loaded Thanksgiving-style meal, or maybe you'll be relaxing at home watching horror movies and stuff like Muppets Haunted Mansion. However you celebrate Halloween, make it a good time for yourself. At least for me, I know it's a time that I'll give myself a break after having quite a productive week. Been working a lot on some upcoming projects, and I'll let you in on what they're about here:

- Released my review of Ron's Gone Wrong: I can guarantee you that this will not be the most memorable animated film of the year, especially when it's being buried to obscurity since Day 1 in theatres because of Venom, Bond and Dune. However, it's honestly not a bad feature in itself. Yes, a lot of it is very generic and offers very little of anything legitimately unique, but I do appreciate the bond of Barney and Ron where their friendship does feel genuine and I did get some good laughs out of Ron. In fact, I think it's safe to say that the B-Bots are the best parts of the picture, both with the animation and the ideas behind them as this advanced smartphone. Sure, some will call this a watered-down Mitchells vs The Machines, but the movie on its own is not that bad and pretty pleasant.

- Working on an upcoming AniMat's Classic Reviews: Yes, I'm continuing to do more work on ACR, but this time, this is another review for the future and it was surprisingly quite straightforward to make and felt like the production went through quickly. It's not really because this review will be shorter than usual, but I just had more of an idea of how the review will be and which clips to use to show what I'm talking about. However, what will make this one different is the epilogue where I hint out the review after that. This is a very rare case where I put in as much work on that one as the whole review itself. Without spoiling what it will be or what I'm gonna do, but let's say I brought out the green screen again to do a little bit like what I did on the Top 10 Weirdest Animated Films. There's a special reason for this, but you'll only find out why when that review comes later. 

- Working on an upcoming Interview video: Here's something I haven't done in a while. This isn't necessarily to promote anything, but I got contacted with someone from the animation industry to have a chat about the business. The big goal for us is to create a video giving viewers an idea of working in the industry and how they can get themselves in a major studio, along with how it is to be working during the pandemic. It was a very optimistic and very insightful experience that even inspired me a little when it comes to pursuing my own goals. I have this video planned out to be released in the next few weeks, but I think this will be a nice contribution for animation fans and aspiring animators to help understand more of their passion.

- Working on a Sponsor Plug: As you're reading this, I'm only preparing to do a sponsorship and get elements like the script and a few parts in the editing done for it. The only thing I'm waiting for is to actually get the thing itself so I can record myself using it. This won't be anything elaborate, just something that'll be less than a minute and added to one or 2 of my videos on YouTube. I just thought that it be worth mentioning in case you notice something completely different between the video you see here and the same one on YouTube. I've done it before where you don't get the plugs on Patreon, but still, just a little extra thing to do as part of my job.

So that's been my week of work, but now it's time we get into spooky mode and indulge on the Halloweeness before we throw that away the next day and go straight to the holiday hype. Happy Halloween, stay safe, have your masks (I don't mean for your costume) ready in case and, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!