Update Blog - 6/11/22 (Patreon)

I knew this day would eventually come, but I'm so glad to see a new major passion project is now alive and bringing back the magic of Animation Lookback. It played a role in giving me a boost this week that I was missing a bit from last time that I was able to get what I started before and now able to go full swing and they are looking fantastic so far. I've gotten my ups and downs so far, but it definitely was a week that kept me up my toes.

- Released Part 1 of Animation Lookback: The Muppets: It's been over a year since the last time we all went on an epic adventure with Animation Lookback, but now it's time to bring it back and go a little beyond the realm of animation to take a look at the history of The Muppets. I know some have debated if it's worth talking about this subject in the show because it's not "Animation", but I love the Muppets and I think they're history is amazingly fascinating, so we're doing this. I've probably mentioned this here when making the video, but the biggest challenge was to avoid any similarities to the DefunctTV special, especially the first part where the show talks about Sam and Friends, including avoiding using the same clips and some pictures. Maybe the comparisons will be unavoidable, but I wanted to make sure this can stand out on its own at least during the first few parts that involve Jim Henson. But so far, I've been getting great reception from the first part (including the introduction of the AniMat puppet), and I can't wait to get into more parts soon!

- Editing the next Special Review: I had a bit of a rough time by the end of last week, so I took most of the weekend off to relax myself and take myself out of work a bit and it helped out much more than I expected. Once I got back into the next special review, I was fully charged and I went through it at quite an amazing pace. I had my focus back and going through the rest of the process was a breeze. In fact, there was one day where I spent the whole time editing, and by the evening, I figured that I just needed to do a few more things to it that I decided to take the rest of the time to fully finish it off. I ended up completing the whole review by 2AM and hit the bed feeling satisfied. I even figured out a perfect spot for its release. It's gonna be a nice review that'll come and one that'll celebrate an important cinematic anniversary.

- Writing the next Top 10: Admittedly, when I opened the files to officially start this one, I wasn't 100% sure, if this would be something that people can be highly interested in, but then when I asked for help on a Facebook group and gotten an overwhelming amount of comments, it gave me the spark that I needed that this is something more special than I initially thought. I went back into the list of the Top 10 itself and made some careful decisions and even some thorough research to make sure this is what I want to go with for each one. As you're reading this, I should be close to finishing the whole script. Either I'm at the final parts to write, doing revisions to it or even at the recording stage. Either way, I'm around that area with my progress, but I think this will be a fun project to get into and I'm excited to see it come alive.

- Dealing with a Copyright Strike: As well as my week was going, not everything went well. I unfortunately woke up one morning to an immediate copyright strike on my channel. No claims to start or dispute battles beforehand, just an immediate strike. This time, it was Studio Ghibli for my Whispers of the Heart review. Of course, I immediately put up the counter-notification to fight it, but it did put me in a little panic that, even if I should've done this earlier, I went into all my anime-based videos and try to put up the Block in Japan setting...that is if YouTube could even let me in the first place. I don't know why, maybe it's because of the strike, but I can't change the settings on that. For now, I'm asking the help of Channel Frederator to see if they can fix it, but for now, all I can do is wait about a month for this strike to pass and pray that Ghibli doesn't come after me for any of my other videos. It's been a long time since I had a strike on my channel and they're never fun to deal with.

- REMINDER FOR PATRONS $50+/MONTH: This month's Discord Chat will be happening on Tuesday the 14th, and Thursday the 16th and both at 2pm EST. Let me know if you're not available for either so I'll organize a quick chat.

So now you see why this was a week of ups and downs. I found my energy again to make more videos, but I also have to deal with some serious problems that's hurting my channel. It was quite a crazy time, but I know that things will be more different coming next week where we will be ready for the next big animated feature, one that will go infinity...and beyond. So, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!