Hey all! Wanted to give an update for those viewers not in my discord who are wondering how Reaping Ripper is coming along.
I wrapped up the third-to-last scene in the episode yesterday, and both of the remaining two have been started. I'm going to wait until I have only one scene left to make a date announcement and post a trailer, but I've been working hard to get this episode finished and I'm super excited to show you guys what I've been cooking up. I'm editing this a little bit every day, but I'm also working a lot of overtime at my IRL job for the holiday season right now, so most of the show's progress has been happening on my lunch breaks (my laptop is the current MVP of this show's tech lol)
I'm estimating that, once the final scene has been added, the length will be around 23 minutes in total, making this the second longest episode to date. It's already past the 20 minute mark and I know TRS is gonna add at least a minute and a half, it's all down to how long Choices ends up running. With the endcard, the final video might crack 24-25 minutes - we'll see.
Hey all! Small update time. If you're not a part of my Discord server, the Eel Gang, here's a reminder that it's always open to join and we'd love to have you. We play a lot of games, recently we've been doing a lot of Marvel Rivals and Pokemon Showdown, and we're getting into Sonic Crossworlds too.
The meat and potatoes though is that I just started a "content-updates" chat in that server with some details of what I've been working on for ep 7, and I intend to keep that updated day to day. If you wanna see how the episode's coming along, feel free to join up! discord.gg/XEhmnNs
If there’s one piece of advice I would give any creator who’s not used to doing their own editing, never rely on automatic backups.
Long story short, I lost about a weeks worth of editing on episode seven just now. Thankfully I had a back up for everything I’ve done before that point, and at least a good chunk of what I’ve spent the last week doing is audio and animation, which final cut did not corrupt. I am unbelievably angry about it, but at least I’ve learned the hard way that I need to start manually backing up my stuff every single session.
So, I have an important question for you guys. My original intention was for episodes of the revived Fate/Apocrabridged to go up in blocks of episodes corresponding to their arc. Block 1 was going to include 4, 5 and 6, Block 2 was going to be 7 and 8, then the final block would be 9 and 10.
Recently, Dailymotion deleted most of Fate/Apocrabridged from the site (The episodes are still on YouTube!) due to a copyright notification. Most of why I felt comfortable doing the block structure was that I felt comfortable uploading episodes on other platforms temporarily while I waited for the appropriate time to get them on YouTube, but with Drive being screwy with large amounts of playback, Patreon's native video player being what it is and Dailymotion proving to no longer be a safe place for the show in the long term, I'm reconsidering.
The whole point was to prevent mass copyright strikes on my channel. Fewer total uploads meant fewer strike targets. But if I can't keep the show up on another platform, I'm not sure it's worth doing anymore. Should I commit to the block structure fully, or just go ahead and drop episodes as they're done?
The results of this poll may or may not influence my decision but I really want to get some feedback on this choice.
I've once again started mirroring my YouTube shorts onto Tiktok after a few years of not bothering to. Wanna follow and make it worth it? www.tiktok.com/@bluedrakma
Hey all! I'm not feeling super well tomorrow and I'm gonna tentatively say tomorrow will be a 9-hour stream starting at 3 instead of a 12-12. I've been experiencing a lot of allergy symptoms these past couple months and it's bad today, might need some extra rest
Since Friday, we've already raised $3400. I can't put into words how happy this makes me - the debt I took to pay for my wisdom teeth and my move are both entirely paid off now, and it's a wonderful feeling. I'm gonna keep crossing my fingers we can get closer to the overall goal, but even if we don't, this fundraiser has already changed my life.
We're going to continue with the weekly streams. This coming Sunday, we'll make an effort to finish Tunic (since it went longer than planned), and I'll be sure to figure out some fun group activities for the tail end. Codenames was fun last time, so I'd love to do it again.
I'll have a schedule for the stream in a few days. I hope we keep this ball rolling, but already I can't thank everyone who donated enough for what you've done for me. Thank you, thank you all. <3
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BlueDrakma
Hey all! Wanted to give an update for those viewers not in my discord who are wondering how Reaping Ripper is coming along.
I wrapped up the third-to-last scene in the episode yesterday, and both of the remaining two have been started. I'm going to wait until I have only one scene left to make a date announcement and post a trailer, but I've been working hard to get this episode finished and I'm super excited to show you guys what I've been cooking up. I'm editing this a little bit every day, but I'm also working a lot of overtime at my IRL job for the holiday season right now, so most of the show's progress has been happening on my lunch breaks (my laptop is the current MVP of this show's tech lol)
I'm estimating that, once the final scene has been added, the length will be around 23 minutes in total, making this the second longest episode to date. It's already past the 20 minute mark and I know TRS is gonna add at least a minute and a half, it's all down to how long Choices ends up running. With the endcard, the final video might crack 24-25 minutes - we'll see.
Hope you're all doing well!
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Hey all! Small update time. If you're not a part of my Discord server, the Eel Gang, here's a reminder that it's always open to join and we'd love to have you. We play a lot of games, recently we've been doing a lot of Marvel Rivals and Pokemon Showdown, and we're getting into Sonic Crossworlds too.
The meat and potatoes though is that I just started a "content-updates" chat in that server with some details of what I've been working on for ep 7, and I intend to keep that updated day to day. If you wanna see how the episode's coming along, feel free to join up! discord.gg/XEhmnNs
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If there’s one piece of advice I would give any creator who’s not used to doing their own editing, never rely on automatic backups.
Long story short, I lost about a weeks worth of editing on episode seven just now. Thankfully I had a back up for everything I’ve done before that point, and at least a good chunk of what I’ve spent the last week doing is audio and animation, which final cut did not corrupt. I am unbelievably angry about it, but at least I’ve learned the hard way that I need to start manually backing up my stuff every single session.
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BlueDrakma
So, I have an important question for you guys.
My original intention was for episodes of the revived Fate/Apocrabridged to go up in blocks of episodes corresponding to their arc. Block 1 was going to include 4, 5 and 6, Block 2 was going to be 7 and 8, then the final block would be 9 and 10.
Recently, Dailymotion deleted most of Fate/Apocrabridged from the site (The episodes are still on YouTube!) due to a copyright notification. Most of why I felt comfortable doing the block structure was that I felt comfortable uploading episodes on other platforms temporarily while I waited for the appropriate time to get them on YouTube, but with Drive being screwy with large amounts of playback, Patreon's native video player being what it is and Dailymotion proving to no longer be a safe place for the show in the long term, I'm reconsidering.
The whole point was to prevent mass copyright strikes on my channel. Fewer total uploads meant fewer strike targets. But if I can't keep the show up on another platform, I'm not sure it's worth doing anymore. Should I commit to the block structure fully, or just go ahead and drop episodes as they're done?
The results of this poll may or may not influence my decision but I really want to get some feedback on this choice.
5 months ago | [YT] | 27
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I've once again started mirroring my YouTube shorts onto Tiktok after a few years of not bothering to. Wanna follow and make it worth it? www.tiktok.com/@bluedrakma
5 months ago | [YT] | 9
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BlueDrakma
Hey all! I'm not feeling super well tomorrow and I'm gonna tentatively say tomorrow will be a 9-hour stream starting at 3 instead of a 12-12. I've been experiencing a lot of allergy symptoms these past couple months and it's bad today, might need some extra rest
7 months ago | [YT] | 54
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SECOND FUNDRAISER STREAM ABOUT TO GO LIVE: youtube.com/live/bw3A51j0vOM
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DEBT FUNDRAISER AWARENESS STREAM 2 SCHEDULE:
If you need context: youtube.com/watch?v=vCPpk...
The ko-fi: ko-fi.com/bluedrakma
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Hey all! Fundraiser update.
Since Friday, we've already raised $3400. I can't put into words how happy this makes me - the debt I took to pay for my wisdom teeth and my move are both entirely paid off now, and it's a wonderful feeling. I'm gonna keep crossing my fingers we can get closer to the overall goal, but even if we don't, this fundraiser has already changed my life.
We're going to continue with the weekly streams. This coming Sunday, we'll make an effort to finish Tunic (since it went longer than planned), and I'll be sure to figure out some fun group activities for the tail end. Codenames was fun last time, so I'd love to do it again.
I'll have a schedule for the stream in a few days. I hope we keep this ball rolling, but already I can't thank everyone who donated enough for what you've done for me. Thank you, thank you all. <3
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Link to the stream is live! Please be sure to turn on your notifs if you don't wanna miss it tomorrow!
NEW LINK
youtube.com/live/K4LKmiN5xto?si=qP6q_mDP1S0_5jLh
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