Jack's 2023 THG Update (Patreon)

Hello all!

My first Patreon Update, and it comes after just over a year of being with the incredible team at Titanic: Honor and Glory! A year on and I’m just as happy to be here as I was the day I joined. I still remember the day Demo 1 first dropped (I was only 10 years old!) back in 2015 and now almost a decade on I’m still addicted to THG

I came into THG as a media manager for our social media, our footage library, and essentially just the guy who records all the fancy visuals of the demos or the ship out at sea. I’m very glad to say that after a year I’ve managed to overhaul many of our old visuals of the ‘dollhouse’ model sailing across the North Atlantic, remastered much of our old library of interior footage inside our gorgeous Demo 401, and even snowballed an animated video or two… or five.

Within a month of being with THG I was begging for Kyle to send me the 'dollhouse' exterior model of Titanic (originally meant for an uncompleted sinking animation), and within about a week of receiving the model I was already starting to sink it (the team had no idea until I had already animated the plunge), and so that’s where the new Real Time Sinking came from.

I only wanted to keep going with videos like this and soon we had an animated Titanic Launch, an Olympic Launch, and eventually a whole host of Britannic animated visuals, many made in collaboration with Oceanliner Designs. I fully intend to keep animating several moments of the Titanic and her sisters from their eventful lives in the same detail you’ve seen this year and in even more detail as Unreal Engine, my animating capabilities, and our models improve.

It’s important to note that I have not and will never work on the actual game side of THG as I’ve never done so much as a day of game design before and my skillset lays in the animation/video department of THG. Any work you’ve seen from me such as the Real Time Sinking, Dollhouse Sailing Videos, Ocean Liner Designs Collaboration Videos, etc. have taken no time at all from the creation of ‘Titanic: Honor and Glory’ or ‘Titanic Demo/Project 401’. As such, I've essentially been given free reign to create these visuals and animations as part of the wider portfolio of work done under the Titanic: Honor and Glory and Vintage Digital Revival banners.

2024 is going to be a great year for the animations here at THG and I can’t wait for everyone to see the new videos and animations I have planned over the following months. Keep an eye out for some more Olympic and Britannic content as well from myself this year! 😉

I also want to thank all of our amazing fans for the support and encouragement you have all personally given me and the team on these new animated videos. I read as many of the YouTube comments as I can and the support never goes unappreciated <3.

I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, A Happy New Year and a prosperous 2024!