June Updates (Patreon)

Hi everyone! 

Apologies its been a little while since the last update. The last couple of videos we released have done quite poorly, and it took be a while to get my head back in gear to write and update on here. I tend to take it quite personally when we have projects that don't meet expectations, especially on a video we poured hundreds of hours into like the Jutland night battle one. 

It's also been a frustrating couple of weeks because it looks like the second part of the Battle of the Atlantic series may never see the light of day - we're currently unable to render it out without crashing or freezing. We spent a bunch of time trying to work out what the issue was, but without any progress so far. Considering that the first one in the series performed so poorly, I've decided at the moment that its not worth continuing to plow time and money into chasing a fix, when we can spend that just making other videos. 

If anyone is an expert on after effects and is able to offer a fix, please do get in touch. 

Other than that disappointment I've been working on researching for series that we're planning for the summer/autumn, the most developed of which is: 

Forrestal 

First among these is a video we're working on covering the fire onboard the carrier US Forrestal on July 29th 1967. It was the US Navy's largest single loss of life since WW2 and is a fascinating story. 

This video is being designed to fit into a later series on the Vietnam war, which I've begun major research on in the last few weeks. 

The Forrestal video has a completed script and nearly complete 2D assets, so we'll be moving into animation soon. 

Not sure exactly when it will be done, hopefully in July. 

Hope to have more to share on that soon, as well as other videos that are in the pipeline that I haven't mentioned here yet!