Post-video update #1 (Patreon)

Hey all, thank you for staying patient regarding last video - every week I thought I'd be able to finish it something either came up or I critically underestimated the time required.

The reception has been nothing but positive and I'm incredibly thankful for the warm comments and Tweets, really is gratifying considering the work put into it and I'm excited to start on another video, whatever that may be.

However, through all the ups and ups there's a couple downs that I'm having trouble ignoring:

Under-performance and isolation.

As none of you probably know, I quit my retail job a little over 5 months ago to put my all into  freelance and video production. Keep in mind, I'm riding on the joy and success of The Fear Video so I'm cautiously optimistic, but 2 months after-which, I published my first ever commercial and personal flop: The New York Video.

I didn't like working on it much, every single day felt like a burden, and the finished result wasn't much better - shots are bland and uninspired, the story itself is generic and uninteresting, and the theming is foggy. And just to add insult to injury: it under-performed as hell.

There is a bright-side: the ending was exhilarating to work on.

So I made the ending again, but this time, as an entire video building off of The New York Video's ending; and although I was incredibly skeptical initially due to the personal failure of my previous video, my gosh was that one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Between the writing, voice acting, audio editing, animation, compositing, and editing, everything just worked and fit together way better than I ever thought it would and the incredibly nice comments and messages I received because of it really inspires me to keep on going, despite the poor YouTube traction it's gotten, so thanks guys :)

I don't have an outstanding way to end this, the last 3 months I've been increasingly feeling more isolated and stranded in my own home, so I'm making up some resume's and shooting for a client acquisition or account management based job unrelated to animation and art in an attempt to keep them sacred and fun -- all while getting out of the house at the same time.

Thank you for reading (if anyone is), and I'll talk with you soon with another update relating to ungulates and the housing crisis of 2008.