Indiana Jones and the Perilous Art of The Sequel is now live on ArTorr!
Almost three years ago, I promised a follow-up video to The Awesome Power of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where I would cover all three Indiana Jones sequels in a single video. This approach was decided upon after making the simple observ...
2023-06-12 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! Welcome to the monthly update post! We skipped making last month's update post initially out of circumstance, as I was preparing for and then away on travel to London for Star Wars Celebration Europe at the start of the month. But then the rest of April just wouldn't let up, personally or professionally. While I'm not as busy, a...
2023-05-01 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Welcome to the monthly update post! Here's the rundown on what I worked on over the last month, and what I expect to work on in the month ahead...
At the very end of February, I released Lost in The Last of Us on ArTorr. As such, the last few weeks of the month were entirely dedicated to gettin...
2023-03-10 17:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I first wrote about The Last of Us for a video back in June 2020, only a few weeks before the release of The Last of Us: Part II. It was roughly 4 pages in length, and connected the events of the game to my personal experience with seasonal depression, a breakup, and isolation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, the video m...
2023-03-07 16:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Lost in The Last of Us is officially live on ArTorr!
An ArTorr video on the first The Last of Us game has been in the works since before my video on The Last of Us: Part II almost 3 years ago. I originally wrote a 4 page script in June 2020 called "A Love Letter to The Last of Us," connecting the game's emphasis on emptiness and despair to...
2023-03-01 23:12:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! I've kept so busy lately that I completely forgot to do the monthly update post that I usually share at the start of the month. Nevertheless, here's the rundown on what I worked on in January and thus far in February, and what I expect to work on in the month ahead...
Two weeks ago, I made it official on the channel's YouTube co...
2023-02-14 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
From the start of working on the Mass Effect videos, the video on Mass Effect 3 was the project I was most excited to work on. Getting there was a creative rite of passage-- from establishing the foundation for a trilogy-long discussion with the first video, and navigating the ungovernable structure of the second game-- but now that we were here...
2023-01-19 18:07:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and WELCOME to the first post of the New Year (it's a big one)! Although 2022 flew by maddeningly fast, I still find myself excited and inspired by the prospect of a "new beginning" that every January brings. In this post, we're going to be reflecting on what we accomplished in 2022, what could've gone differently, the GOALS I have for ArT...
2023-01-02 19:18:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Holidays! I apologize for how behind I've been on posts. But now that I'm over my cold, and Christmas is over, I can finally tell all about the writing of The Mass Effect 2 video...
After finishing the Mass Effect 1 video in August 2021, a choice was presented to me. Do I go right into writing the video for Mass Effect 2, or do a tak...
2022-12-29 17:23:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A series of videos about The Mass Effect Trilogy was truthfully one of the handful of projects I started ArTorr for. From the outset, my goal was to explore in-depth why the Mass Effect Trilogy is so compelling and resonant for the many that ha...
2022-12-06 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Legacy of Mass Effect 3 is officially live on ArTorr!
Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing goodies and behind-the-scenes material related not just to this video, but all three Mass Effect videos on the channel. That will include excerpts from rough drafts, deep-dives into the writing of each video, a special look at my approach t...
2022-12-01 03:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome once more to the monthly update post! An exciting month is upon us. Let's talk about what I worked on over the last few weeks, and what I expect to be doing in the month ahead...
Earlier this week (on N7 Day!), I released a short promo video on the channel to announce the official release date for The Legacy of Mass Effect 3: Monda...
2022-11-10 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Checking in once again to let you all know what I worked on over the last month, and what I expect to work on in the month ahead...
Last month, I made it official on the channel's community tab that the next video is indeed Mass Effect 3. Since then, I finished the final draft of the script, recorded it, and have been working...
2022-10-10 16:09:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! Checking in to let you all know what I worked on last month, and what I expect to be working on in the month ahead...
First thing's first: Mass Effect 3.
Back in February, right after finishing the video for Mass Effect 2, I started working on a video for the third game in the Mass Effect Trilogy. As I recorded and to...
2022-09-08 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Writing is usually either my favorite part of making a video, or the thing I loathe the most. There's rarely an in-between. The subtle difference between feeling that your video is going to convey absolutely everything you wanted to do with it from the start, or that you're merely fumbling your way through every point hangs on the words, content...
2022-08-04 16:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post
When I make thumbnails for a video, I usually work through 2 or 3 entirely different iterations before I land on a design that really works for me. At that point, I make small tweaks to it all the way until the video releases, sometimes seeking input from close friends, or my MCN (multi-channel network) manager.
In the case of The Ma...
2022-08-02 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Mandalorian: A Gunslinger's Odyssey is officially live on ArTorr!
Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing a whole bunch of goodies related to the video exclusively here on Patreon. These will include alternate looks at thumbnails, excerpts from earlier drafts of the script, and coolest of all, a full behind-the-scenes commentary of ...
2022-07-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post