FUNKe January Update | New Video This Week (Patreon)

FUNKe January Update | New Video This Week

Chow Ameecheee. My last video was right before the start of October, so it's been a while. The reasons are a mix of, learning a few new programs for videos and spending (too much) free time chasing down some non-video content (music) and not being finished by the time I initially aimed for.

[ NEW VIDEO - Friday 21st ]

So, just to catch you up, my next video will be out this Friday. It's another FUNKe Study in the vein of my last Movement Shooters one, in that it has a lot of segmented games split up between animations (both head-only overlays and full scene animations in SFM). All i'll say is that it's VR centric, but it's not a 'State of VR' so much as just a study piece on a certain type of design I like in VR games (and also a subject I don't really hear covered).

[ BOMBI PLUSH - Friday 21st ]

Launching with the video, will be a BOMBi plush that runs for about 3 weeks. (Image attached to this post). It's a head/turtleneck portion of my 'Mascot', 'OC', 'Marketing Ploy', whatever term matches your liking. I've rarely ever run merch, so this is a really funky way to support my stuff (and then drop your pledge lower if you're so inclined). The build quality is really good, there's lots of awesome touch-ups to the plush so it keeps shape, stands upright, and most impressively to me is just how accurate the model itself is. Don't feel obligated but also, you are obligated because you're a financial investor and if I lose we both lose so buy one.

[ AFTER THIS- 2022 Planning ]

After a video releases, I tend to stream actively for about two weeks then recede back into video mode. I expect that to remain throught the year, but more specifically I want to keep steady with 1 video per month while streams sort of hop-scotch in between uploads. Last year I found a really good stride for uploading, then I fell out at the end of the year after some overambitious planning fell through. So instead this year I want to stay at a canter, experimenting with more animation-infused stuff but still ultimately keeping the topics about media, and stuff I like to talk about, as opposed to just talking about myself for a video.

[ MISCELLANEOUS ]

This non-video stuff keeping me busy, in no particular order, has been learning adobe animate (for 2D compositing over my 3D animation), learning audio engineering/mixing, i've also been improving a lot on guitar/keys, but I still don't have anything released to show for it because my endgoal is being able to make fun proggy/jazzy/math music and it's taking a lot of practice, learning and mistakes to even break through the gates of being happy with it. On top of not being in a band and doing all my video work solo, it's just hard to dedicate the time needed to finish music right now.

Last year was massive for my mental health, i've found more active friend groups to participate in which helps me a lot when i'm feeling detached from stuff. I'm a long way from where I want to be but i'm also really thankful for still being able to do this content so many years after I started committing to a desire to create stuff and just see where it and I go. 

I hope you've done well this last year, or that its problems can be behind you with this new one. Thank you, see you on Friday (and if you're a stream person, you'll probably also see me in the following days as well.)

Justyn With A Y