Happy broke my laptop. Yup my new puppy son chewed through my MacBook. It’s ironic because when we got him from the shelter I was like “wow that’s so much cheaper than getting him from an expensive breeder AND we’re doing a good thing.” Now the MacBook repair is like super expensive…. It’s ok though, Happy is simply in debt now, doing some good old dog labor to pay it off, 25 hours per day, no breaks. He’s talking about starting a union, but I’m on top of things.
Sooooo that means I’m on a forced vacation, but luckily I am an unhealthy workaholic and the next two videos are already uploaded on YT, set to go live every Sunday.
That leads me to the actual BIG NEWS:
Starting tomorrow I am switching to animation. The style in the images above is the animation style I’ll run with first. But I’ll definitely be playing around with other styles too.
Why the change? One of my biggest dreams is creating an animated show - this is taking me one step closer.
Why #2 AI has evolved to the point of making it possible. I know some people hate AI, but seeing as all my art has always been AI, I don’t think those people are watching my videos anyway. While I understand the dislike for it, I simply see it as a new tool - as photoshop once was. In my case, it gives me the possibility to fulfill my creative dreams, and hey…. I still put 15 years of script/novel/creative-writing into it. (Also, for example, I’m not upset that AI can be used to write, I prefer my own style and I’m happy others can use AI where they lack the words)
Why #3 The algorithm has changed. I’m sure I’m not the first YouTuber telling you this, and I’m sure I’m not the only one where you might have noticed some videos being completely dead. I figured with the situation being what it is, now is as good a time as any to make some changes.
Will the artwork come back? Possible. I might do some more videos with still art.
What happens to art for members? I’ll do a members poll, but I can still generate art for every video OR they get animation. We’ll see, but they won’t be missing anything.
Will my topics change? No, we’ll still be going back and forth between mythology, ancient history and contemporary history. The only thing I might do is do all of Greek and Norse mythology again, as well as all of Rome. This time animated, with consistent characters throughout all videos. So the same Zeus from the Zeus video will also appear in the Perseus video, and the same Julius Caesar from his own video, will eventually appear in the Augustus video - etc.
Other changes: I will up the pace significantly in these videos - the animated videos will be between 8-12 minutes long.
I might upload twice a week. Maybe. For now we stick to Sunday.
I might experiment with some videos that are pure animation with voice over, without my face - just to see what it’s like.
Aaaand that’s it. Let me know what you think. Anything you completely disagree with, or any input or cool ideas?
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BIG NEWS
Happy broke my laptop. Yup my new puppy son chewed through my MacBook. It’s ironic because when we got him from the shelter I was like “wow that’s so much cheaper than getting him from an expensive breeder AND we’re doing a good thing.”
Now the MacBook repair is like super expensive….
It’s ok though, Happy is simply in debt now, doing some good old dog labor to pay it off, 25 hours per day, no breaks. He’s talking about starting a union, but I’m on top of things.
Sooooo that means I’m on a forced vacation, but luckily I am an unhealthy workaholic and the next two videos are already uploaded on YT, set to go live every Sunday.
That leads me to the actual BIG NEWS:
Starting tomorrow I am switching to animation. The style in the images above is the animation style I’ll run with first. But I’ll definitely be playing around with other styles too.
Why the change?
One of my biggest dreams is creating an animated show - this is taking me one step closer.
Why #2
AI has evolved to the point of making it possible. I know some people hate AI, but seeing as all my art has always been AI, I don’t think those people are watching my videos anyway. While I understand the dislike for it, I simply see it as a new tool - as photoshop once was. In my case, it gives me the possibility to fulfill my creative dreams, and hey…. I still put 15 years of script/novel/creative-writing into it.
(Also, for example, I’m not upset that AI can be used to write, I prefer my own style and I’m happy others can use AI where they lack the words)
Why #3
The algorithm has changed. I’m sure I’m not the first YouTuber telling you this, and I’m sure I’m not the only one where you might have noticed some videos being completely dead. I figured with the situation being what it is, now is as good a time as any to make some changes.
Will the artwork come back?
Possible. I might do some more videos with still art.
What happens to art for members?
I’ll do a members poll, but I can still generate art for every video OR they get animation. We’ll see, but they won’t be missing anything.
Will my topics change?
No, we’ll still be going back and forth between mythology, ancient history and contemporary history.
The only thing I might do is do all of Greek and Norse mythology again, as well as all of Rome. This time animated, with consistent characters throughout all videos. So the same Zeus from the Zeus video will also appear in the Perseus video, and the same Julius Caesar from his own video, will eventually appear in the Augustus video - etc.
Other changes:
I will up the pace significantly in these videos - the animated videos will be between 8-12 minutes long.
I might upload twice a week. Maybe. For now we stick to Sunday.
I might experiment with some videos that are pure animation with voice over, without my face - just to see what it’s like.
Aaaand that’s it. Let me know what you think. Anything you completely disagree with, or any input or cool ideas?
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