Update: What is going on, what will be released in the next few months? (Patreon)

Hey everybody! I want to give you a short Kurzgesagt update and what is going to happen in the next few months video wise.

So right now we are probably going to hire more people. Another producer/project manager and an office manager to take care of all the back office stuff. Because, holy shit I did not expect this would be such massive time sink. Company things are hard.

Then another illustration trainee (we found someone really talented!) and a part time animator that will slowly transition to full time over the next few months. For me the team now feels complete and I do not want to hire any more people.

Right now we are on the verge of becoming too big and I don't want to become so expensive that we feel the need to do things we don't want to do. Let's see how everything works out. It's an interesting phase right right now. Scary but exciting. 

Then content. Right now we are entering a phase where more time will pass between videos because they are longer and then hopefully a lot of stuff will come out in rapid succession.

- In early June there will be the big automation video, about 14 minutes long. All in all this video is about as big as CRISPR was in terms of time invested. 

- In early July (hopefully) the "Basic Income" one, which will also be 10 minutes or longer. 

- After that we hope to publish 2 videos about space and black hole stuff (we are trying to finally do some of the videos we promised in the last few years). 

- Then an experiment – something talking about the philosophy of our videos. Or the world view that is behind them. Lets see if that is a horrible failure. I'm a little nervous about that because it is different from what we usually do.

- We are also actually working on a behind the scenes video. It will involve real world footage. We are working with someone else on that and it will be a kind of bonus video. Our problem with behind the scenes videos has always been that we do not want to "waste" our time talking about ourselves when we could do content for you guys instead. So just filming us work and narrating over it solves that problem. Let's see how this goes.

- Late August/September we plan another two part video series. It's about a big topic we think not enough people are taking about. I'm trying to convince other creators to join us for these videos so the topic shall remain secret for now. (It's not climate change, we are still unsure how to tackle this one)

- "AI" is getting longer and longer and longer. We really want to publish it this year but yeah wow. This one is a real challenge.

- And a lot more I don't want to reveal yet.

I always feel a little bit guilty to be honest. While the videos are getting better and better the volume thing is just not improving. It can be really frustrating sometimes. I have such a huge topic list and seeing that we are just physically unable to produce more videos is incredibly annoying. But growing the team more does not make sense since the bottle neck are scripts and I can't clone myself. There would be more overall videos we stopped making them longer and longer. But it feels better to give certain topics 10-14 minutes because sometimes there is just so much to say. So yeah. Sorry that there is not more stuff out – I promise we are working hard to deliver and I hope the new producer and office manager will help us clear our heads so much that we can be more efficient. All in all I hope we will again animate more minutes in 2017 than in 2016.

Thanks for supporting and enabling us here, without you guys Kurzgesagt would not be as big as it is right now and I would not have dared to grow more. –Philipp