Pre Pre Production Malarkey (Blog) (Patreon)

It turns out I actually had a draft of this post I made a week ago and forgot about, but in the week since I've made more progress and made a big decision regarding the future of a project I've been working on which will hopefully make it better in the long run.

I would say this means good or bad news... but anything remotely bad involves a project I haven't properly unveiled to everyone yet anyway... so it's just an update really!

Changes to plans:

The biggest change to this big plan I've had is that I've decided it's best to hang back and allow it to happen later than I originally intended. I've mentioned it several times in previous posts but the idea was to do multiple videos with a common theme in January 2019.

This was even supposed to happen in January 2018, but I ran out of time and held it back a year... And while the same thing has happened again, I won't be delaying it for an entire year as I've actually got pretty far into what I call pre-pre-production this time around, and the delay could essentially double the size and quality of the final production!

I'm honestly hoping for this to be a massive deal for the channel. Like, a special event. Hence all of the oplate spinning and preperation!

People will know what I'm working on, and how it;s being delivered as soon as I make the announcement official, and hopefully people will keep returning to the channel for more until the project has run it's course.

A 16 second piece of game play footage has been masked and key framed to ridiculous lengths in order to make a cool teaser trailer for the project and I have many, many custom Petronious logos already made!

I know I'm being very vague about all of this and while I can't show you the logos just yet... you guys will see a teaser trailer for it all before I upload any kind of announcement on the channel as a way of saying thanks! 

Other changes:

Delaying the bigger project has actually freed up more time for the two immediate videos in the future. Spyro Reignited and Christmas 2018!

Spyro Reignited is out this week and I'm 100% going to do a video on it. I have an idea for the intro and I'll be wearing my snazzy new Spyro branded T-Shirt for it when filming!

And generally speaking I'm feeling much better about revisiting the trilogy for the sake of a video now I've freed up the time to do so.

Having the original games so fresh in my mind means I'll likely have better comparisons to make, not to mention direct visual comparisons with all of the HD footage of the original trilogy I have sat around...

I don't want a rush job of a video but I also don't want to beat around the bust, so I'll aim to have it done within the month of November.

As for December, I have the game picked out already and it was mostly funded by your pledges so I'll show you what that is a few days before the video goes live as an exclusive sneaky peek closer to the time...

Again, sorry for the vagueness of the details for the bigger project, but hopefully you'll like what I have planned in the new year! :D

Feel free to ask questions or chat to me about stuff in the comments or on Discord. Cheers guys.

- Pete