Quick Status Report

Hey everyone, this update will be quick; a more "complete" update will come in a couple weeks, once Kinnikuman EVF drops.

I am on the home stretch of the Kinnikuman video, which is great, but I will be occupied for the week with my family. I'd love to work on the video, but much of my time will be spent with relatives. I will still work on the video during downtime, but I will prioritise "lighter" tasks.

I am about 15 minutes into "finalising" the footage. The first part has a lot of After Effects animations, many of which I'm very happy with, but starting from Ultimate Muscle onwards, there are fewer "complicated" animations, so hopefully once I get to that point, I start flying even faster. This isn't the full picture, though, as many animations throughout the video are done. Namely, the "word bubble" animations are complete as are any info boxes (Voice Actor Profiles, quotes, etc.) and random animations I decided to do ahead of time as I knew they'd be complicated (e.g., all "TV" animations).

Here's what's left to do:

• Finalising animations and text (15 minutes in)

• Balancing narration volume

• Adding and balancing music (most of the music added is in the M.U.S.C.L.E. part)

• Capturing more GBA footage (will prioritise this over the next week during downtime)

• Adding credits

• Finishing the next episode preview (all it needs is text animations)

• Finalising thumbnails and titles for A/B testing (will prioritise this over the next week during downtime)

Also, I just bought a 10TB Western Digital 3.5" hard drive for $200! This will be wonderful for archiving old projects and ripped Blu-ray discs and DVDs for episodes. This was partly made possible by YOU! Thank you all so much for your continued support! I will install the drive once the Kinnikuman video is out.

This week the channel just hit 500,000 views across all videos on the channel! And PaRappa EVF is approaching 100,000 views!!! This is all amazing news!

There will not be a Patreon status report post next week. To my fellow Americans: Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Weekly Bonus:

Glad I finally got the animations done for the "full story of M.U.S.C.L.E." comic! This looks WAY better in motion, of course, but I love how this turned out. This comic is from the back of the 28-pack box. I may include the fifth panel, too, but I didn't feel that one was as necessary... we'll see.