Patron Update! (May 2019) (Patreon)

Time for the monthly update! Work on new episodes continues at a good pace.

As you may have already seen, the Pokemon Battle Animation episode is complete! It's the longest episode of New Frame Plus yet, and I'm quite happy with how it turned out. The episode hasn't gone live on the channel yet (I'm planning to launch it simultaneously with another YouTube channel's Pokemon video), but if you're a patron at the $5 level or higher, you have Early Access to the episode already! I hope you enjoy it.

In the meantime, I've been working on the next NFP episode, and it's nearly done as well! The 12 Principles of Animation: TIMING is currently in the editing phase and I hope to have a WIP preview ready by tomorrow. Longtime fans may recall I once made a video on this topic for Extra Frames back in the day. If so, parts of this episode will feel familiar, but I've actually made a lot of changes at the script level. Rather than keeping my old approach of awkwardly smashing together a 12 Principles lesson with a game analysis video, I'm going to focus more on the numerous applications each the principle, talking about how the principle of Timing applies to a variety of games in different ways. I think it's going to be a MUCH more effective approach, and I'm excited to continue using it for the 12 Principles series in the future.

And after I wrap up the Timing episode, I'm thinking it's time for another close-up episode where we talk about a single animation in-depth (like the Spider-Man and Skyrim episodes), which means it's going to be time to take suggestions from you! I'll be posting a poll for $3+ patrons soon. I'm thinking of adopting a release pattern where I alternate close-up episodes with longer videos, so we'll see how that goes. More news on that soon!

And finally, in PlayFrame news, I just posted a highlight reel for 2018 this morning! It was fun going back over everything we released last year and picking out some of our most amusing moments.

PlayFrame 2018 Highlights!

But I think that's it for the moment! I'll be back with WIP previews, polls and more very soon. Until then, have a good May!