Behind-the-scenes: Shred Force YT Short (Patreon)

The tricky thing with YouTube shorts is finding the right balance of effort and quality. I'm not really interested in uploading something that I'm not proud of, and I definitely don't want to push out a video just because it's been a while, so shorts work as a nice middle ground between main channel uploads.

But that's a big double edged sword: How many hours of my life to I really want to dedicate to 1 minute of video? The great thing about making the camwing doodle a 3D model as opposed to traditional 2D animation is that creating keyframes becomes trivially easy, so lately I've been making animation mockups with key poses that I can edit around.

This is the rough draft I sent to some friends to get some feedback on, and I ended up changing a couple lines and adding some additional animation in the final release.