Update Blog - 7/23/22 (Patreon)

After looking at the progress that I've done with my next upcoming big video, I think I've come to the conclusion of what will be my plan for the rest of the summer. I'll explain more in this blog, but it was always something that I've been determining to see if it would even be possible to have it be ready by the end of this month, and considering the time I've had lately, maybe it's best to keep it waiting until it is truly ready. Good thing that I got a backup plan in case. So here's what I've done for this week.

- Released my review of Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank: After several years of the film lurking in development hell with the title Blazing Samurai, we finally have our golden opportunity to finally see what this movie was all about and...well, is anyone surprised that this wasn't good? The only good thing about this feature is that it gave me an excuse to watch Blazing Saddles, and going from that feature to this is a massive downgrade. It really is if you take Saddles and make it play completely safe so that the kids could watch it and have it be as inoffensive as possible (and even the latter is debatable). And I don't even want to know what I just saw with that Big Nate short because it was one of the most confusing experiences I've recently had in a movie theatre. Despite their flaws, it kind of makes me miss the other animated summer flicks like Lightyear, Minions and The Sea Beast, because any of those offerings are much more enjoyable than the bland crap I had to sit through with Hank.

- I've Appeared in Other Podcasts: One interesting thing that happened this week was that I did NOT do an episode of AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast. That's because last week was such a dry week for animation and entertainment news that I was left with little to no materials to work with so that I can put some informed commentary onto (although I will return next Monday. Things have thankfully picked up in terms of what I can talk about). However, to compensate for that, two podcasts appeared this week where I was lucky enough to be included. The first is PaleoSteno's POS Podcast. Saber was absent for the episode, but me, Paelo, JaxBlade and Hirosashii got together to talk about a bunch of geeky stuff like the recent superhero stuff, Craig McCracken's reboots and more. Click here to check out the episode on YouTube. Another podcast I was in was Tony Goldmark's Escape From Vault Disney. This was another fun one to be involved with where we talked about an episode of Jungle Animal Rescue where we see the weird ways they try to save a tiger and a snake, along with hanging out with a really clingy elephant. Click here to listen to the episode on Libsyn. They were some fun times and I'd be down to join them again for another episode, but soon I'll be back on my own podcast and revive that craziness ;)

- Working on Animation Lookback: The Muppets: With the additional time that I had, I managed to make the most out of progressing Part 2 of AL: The Muppets, and it comes with some good news and bad news. The good news is that I've advanced a lot this week, where I finished up the script, along with give it a good long revision, and I did the narration where I recorded it all and polished up the voiceover so that it's ready to edit. There are a few more things that I'd need to do like filming the segments with the AniMat puppet and wait for my fact checkers to send me the updates I need to finalize the script, but I'm at the point where I am ready to edit this all together and really get Part 2 going. The bad news is that it will not be ready by the end of the month. There's still a significant amount of work that still needs to be done, so Part 2 will have to wait until August for its official release. On the bright side of that, this means that you'll finally see the Top 10 I've been talking about for a while, so there's still something to look forward to. But still, some good work is still done to the video and I'm ready to have this part prepared for you all, especially when this is where we see the Muppets as we know it truly shine!

And that's been my week of work. Lots of significant progress made, but still a lot more needs to be done. Next week will be a little more tight with time with the return of ACCC and the Super Pets coming to the big screen, but I'll be sure to make the most out of giving the Muppets a spectacular Part 2. So, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!