A Handy Addition?! (& Patreon Changes) (Blog) (Patreon)

Hey everyone.

First of all I thought I'd start by being upfront and saying the page from now on is "per video" and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. I've also NOT charged for this post, and won't be for anything that isn't actually a video.

I thought I'd be back on track by now, mentally speaking... but due to by day job frankly being the worst it's ever been and it still causing me stress and frustration, I just don't have the energy or willpower to be fully working on videos right now.

I am hoping to find other work and perhaps be in a better frame of mind by the time 2020 comes around but... we shall see.

On a more positive note I'd like to show you something pretty "handy" I've been working on this week! As you can see from the video above, I've gone ahead and made myself a little puppet hand to use with Puppetronious!

I've liked the idea of him having actual hands since day one, but buying a puppet with hands isn't something I'm prepared to do (yet, at least) and I thought taking the time to create glove of my own would be something fun and different to do.

It was made by getting some faux fur and using a rough but inflated template of my own hand to allow for the seams between both sides when stitching them together. Simple but very effective in the end!

There's method to my madness here as I'm thinking with enough practice, this could end up being my way of doing more short form content in the future, by having him host a short video with a simple camera segment at the start and end...

Right now I need to practice getting better at positioning myself to handle him, as well as perhaps make some modification to my glove pattern to make it more comfortable for me to wear, and to make it more seamlessly fit into the current puppet design...

I'm honestly thinking of buying another puppet entirely to attempt to modify the entire thing to be more like an all-in-one blanket styled puppet (think something along the lines of Arlo) as it would save the arm randomly drifting away, and the body would then move WITH the arm... but I'm getting ahead of myself. This is just a test, after all!

Anyway yeah, sorry for the lack of any updates on videos but frankly... there hasn't been much happening on that front. I've almost finished the script for Crash Tag Team Racing but life in general has been preventing me from making any significant progress with anything else.

At this rate I might be able to continue where I left off in January but in the mean time I'm going to practice my puppetry and think about how I can make it work in my videos as it's something I like the idea of.

Thanks for your support, and a second reminder the page is definitely per video now, and I will not be asking for anything this month (unless I somehow am able to make a video) so don't worry about me being a sneaky prawn and asking for more pledges without a video to show for it. Cheers everyone.

- Pete