Plans for the Next Month (Patreon)

SO! This is very exciting! Thanks for jumping on board so quick (especially with no backlog of previous posts waiting for you!)

Honestly, I'm really excited about the prospects of this whole Patreon thing. I promise I won't talk money much, but I just activated ads on YouTube earlier this month two, and between that and this... well. Pie-in-the-sky dreams, it'd be really cool to be able to just think about making tutorials and creative work than also having to stop all the time and make money.

Effectively my triangle is :

-BEING A HEALTHY HUMAN WITH SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND ALL THAT
-DO WORK AND GET PAID
-DO PERSONAL WORK I'M ACTUALLY EXCITED ABOUT


And, you know, I get to pick 2. Because on any given day, that's all I have time for, which means I always kind of feel like I'm falling behind.

The big big dream since forever has been figuring out some way to combine two of them into one.  What if I got any sort of human interaction while I worked (in general all the work I do, both personal and paid, is done sitting alone in a building)? What if I was able to do my personal work with the people I most enjoyed being with? Or- and this is the lil' pool I'm dipping my toe in now: what if I could make money doing the work I'm excited about?

And so yes! Thank you for helping me get one step closer to that rad possibility! 

JUST released the teaser for Dynamo Dream tonight, which is ridiculously exciting. I haven't released any personal projects since, like, 2018 (and it was a solid 5 years since I released anything before that), so all of this stuff coming together is feeling really good (also HOT DAMN it's getting spread around on twitter in a way I've never seen before).

I'm going to be posting a ton of breakdowns from this shot pretty soon here. I'm trying to decide how much I want to break down this shot specifically, and how much I want to flow into a short tutorial series where we basically make a shot like this from scratch.

The sound work from Impossible Acoustic turned out SO GOOD- it feels so real, especially considering the original audio was basically 0% unusable.

OH! HAH! Brendan sent me this clip. This was them recording the "distant drunks in distant alleys" sound effect. I think I always assume they just have libraries of every type of sounds, but they actually record a shocking amount from scratch.

ANYWAYS! Back to the title of this post: Plans for the next month!

Ideally I'm going to be able to fall into a rhythm here. I have a few lazy tutorials I'm excited to put out there, and I'm so darn close with the end of the first episode of Dynamo Dream- I really want to push through and wrap that up.

That said, once I do wrap that up, it'll still probably be over a month of sound work. It's an INTENSE episode. It's going to be like 19 minutes of straight intense sound design. I really want Impossible Acoustic to work on it- hopefully they're available!

After that, there's a bunch of additional episodes that are pretty darn close to being wrapped (like, 45 minutes worth), but I think I might talk about that in a different post (mostly: this first ep is pretty darn over the top, so later more "standard effort" episodes might be a bit anticlimactic??)

FutureProof wise (for those of you who don't know, I live in an old church compound where we make films and crazy stuff, called "FutureProof Workshop"), there's a bunch I should get started on ASAP. The steps up to Sean's house are way too sketchy (like, in terms of rotten lumber possibly collapsing and killing people), so we should probably jump on that the next time we're going to have a couple nice days of weather.

I keep almost going off on tangents, but I think I'll save them for later. I was worried that I'd have trouble coming up with stuff to write in these updates. But I think I have the opposite problem... (although, on that note, would you guys prefer more granular updates, or BIG OL more infrequent updates? I'd kind of planned on this being the granular place, but let me know if you have preferences! Or I guess you can just tweak your notification settings, but yeah! Lemme know.)

I think this is going to work out alright.