VIDEO UPDATE + WEIRD BONUS VIDEO (Patreon)

Howdy friends.

The RWBY video is nearly done. I'm looking to have it out for patrons in just a couple more days. I'm really happy with it, I've managed to cut and pace it from almost three hours to around two and a quarter. The fun thing about making long videos is every point and joke has to justify itself way more than a 20-minute video, where you can kind of get away with padding it to 30. Counter-intuitively, this is probably the most tightly-paced video I've done.

Normally towards the end of a huge video I'm feeling burned out, but strangely, I'm energised - I can't wait to have something out in public after so long, and feel pushed to get more things out as soon as possible and prove that I'm 'back', as it were. I never left but it certainly seems like it, lol.

The video focuses largely on the show's creation and progress over the first three seasons, and there's another video, analysing the animation of the late Monty Oum, the show's original creator, which should be out soon after. I wanted to talk more about his work in specific but I thought it worked better pacing-wise as a separate video. Once that's out I'll have a poll for $10 patrons on what to do next, be it cover the rest of the show, or something else entirely. Initially I intended to cover the entire show in one video but it ended up threatening to be far too long, and the pre- and post- Monty eras function so differently that it felt like a good idea to segment it like that. I have written most of that second video already and recorded a bunch of it too, so if you want me to make that second part right away, it shouldn't take anywhere near as long as this one did.

I have a bonus video for patrons coming ASAP as well. which consists of a segment I wrote about Trigun, which I really liked writing about, and then decided pretty late in the process to cut from the video for pacing reasons. Ironically, it's the first idea I had to put in a video about RWBY, even five years ago when I first started wanting to write a video about this show, and it turned out to be one of the darlings I had to kill in order to make the video work as a whole. Writing videos is fun!!! And also deeply painful.

Since this video covers a fairly serious and pressing issue, namely systemic racism and how it's handled in media - by way of addressing the show's failure to cover it - I've decided to donate any ad revenue from this video to a cause related to the current events in the US. I'm still looking at where exactly I should contribute to, so please let me know if you have a suggestion. I want to throw my weight behind something specific that needs attention right now.

In the meantime, here's a video I made to show fellow youtuber UpIsNotJump how to use after effects by recreating one of his shots. If you want me to record more weird stuff like this and put it on Patreon I really loved making this so I'll try to take some requests.

- Hbomb