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Try to get More Attention Island

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Mexico Alien Podcast

just finished a relentless few days of work to upload this piece this morning. I recorded the audio Tuesday evening and rushed to release it by the start of my work week. There is a livestream on my channel if you would like to view some of the editing behind the scenes. the animation is a podcast discussion about the Mexico aliens that were presented to congress, and the real reason they have 3…

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You think you're done but you still have to share it : |

Well I was hoping to work out today, yet here I am on my fourth straight day grinding away on a youtube video that I don’t even find too funny. I published the short version yesterday and it amassed 500 views. Fortunately through tik tok and facebook it’s gather around 2000 total. I am happy that I receive more views than when I began but the amount of work necessary to complete these videos…

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Purposeful experimenting

Just posted my 19th animated video today. I spent more time than normal editing the final footage but I feel it was worth it. I recorded the audio a week ago and incrementally trimmed 15 minutes of material down to 4. My last widescreen video finally received more than the typical 50 views – improving to a whopping 250 (😆😆😆). It’s not a lot but it’s a great and important jump. I rewatched a…

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To Create or To Research

Instead of focusing on trending online discussion such as my last few videos (npc tiktok, aliens on an airplane, aliens in las vegas) I decided to instead focus my most recent animated short on a more relatable topic – being asked not to get someone sick after you cough. I’m happy with how the video came out and actually received a few laughing emojis. The short itself did not perform well on…

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Driving Straight through the Crossroads

Just finished my 17th animated sketch. I released the short version to tiktok and youtube yesterday. It’s my first to receive 1000 views on tik tok, but only had 300 on youtube with one more dislike than like. It’s kind of funny how almost every comment has been negative on youtube, aside from the positive comments from one of my followers here (thank you so much, you know who you are 🙂 ). I…

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Crazy Airplane Lady Attacks Alien

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Another Day Another Dollar (not)

Just finished another video. I’m kind of over it. I once saw that 99% of people who begin a podcast don’t make it to episode 20. As a result I’m determined to complete at least 20 of these short sketch comedy animations. I spent some time learning about different ways to make money with animations. I’m considering doing livestreams as I draw the characters and backgrounds, though it’s not an…

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Moments BEFORE UFO Disaster

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Rolling Boulders

The view count is rising following the release of Paramedic Robot episode 1. I can see that it is finding its way into search engines, but I can also see that many people are only watching a few seconds of it before moving on. I can only assume many of them discovered it through a link in one of the shorts I’ve released this week and they assumed it would be less than 60 seconds. A large part of…

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Paramedic Robot - Full Episode

Alright I’m tired of sitting on this. This is episode 1 of Paramedic Robot. Cost about a year of my life so enjoy.

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It Never Ends

I uploaded my 11th animated short today. I’ve been trying to find ways to complete them fast, identifying the bottleneck during each step in the process. Doing all the work myself from start to finish is a time consuming task no matter how I approach it. The short I uploaded today has only amassed 17 views, which is abysmal considering I was getting over 1000 within 30 minutes a few weeks…

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another day another release

I’ve had some limited success with my youtube shorts so far, but the results have been encouraging. Most videos published receive about 25 – 50 views, but the last 3 shorts I’ve published have each amassed over 1.5 thousand on on day one. This my marketing strategy to build an audience prior to the release of 30 minute episode one. I’m enthused that it appears to be working. Of course the only…

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when a prank GOES TOO FAR

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When A Week of Work gets Flushed Away

I spent the entire week designing a puppet for a specific short idea I had. He was designed in 4 views with 8 different head movements. I had everything set up to go into the programming phase. And then, the file encountered an error, and I was unable to open any of it. Obviously I felt utterly defeated. It was a waste of time and effort, and no amount of research could fix this (I checked the…

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When You Tell Cable News 562 You Identify as a Robot

Here’s the widescreen version.

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Well I finally did something right

So I spent my day yesterday creating a new short. The only difference being that this time I researched key words and took the time to title my video specifically to increase the exposure. To be honest I was hoping for maybe 10-15 more views than normal. I’ve been averaging about 40-60 views a on my last 4 shorts. Well I just posted this one less than 30 minutes ago and it’s already over 1.2…