July 2025 Production Update

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I’m STILL working on the next 50 Ways to Live video. The core part of the video, not including credits or announcements, will be a bit over 14 minutes long and I still need to animate one more character talking through the last minute-long scene. Once that’s done, I’ll need to make a few more small tweaks, do the credits, and do the subtitles before the Patreon version is ready. After that, I’ll still need to make the Patreon plug at the beginning, thank you folks at the end, make a few more announcements, and make the thumbnail before I can release it to the public.

After that’s done, since I should have started working on the next 50 Ways to Live video two weeks ago, I’m going to get straight to work on that instead of 50 Ways to Die in Elden Ring. I’m extremely frustrated that this next video took me more than a month-and-a-half and stole away 50 Ways to Die in Elden Ring production time for what will probably be 3 months in a row.

Last month, I explained why it’s impossible for me to judge how long a video will take to produce until I’ve finished writing the script, and that if a script turns out to be too long, it’s difficult to judge whether it’d be faster to just try and make that video as fast as I can or to risk wasting EVEN MORE time trying to brainstorm a shorter idea. This time, I tried the first way and it ended up taking me more than 7 weeks. If I'd realized it was going to take me THAT long, I'd probably have tried to start over sooner. So next time, I’m going to try the other way.

When I decided that I was going to make a small video each month, I was inspired by the RL Craft and Create+ trailer videos. Both of them were pretty good and were just over 3 minutes long each. The video I’m working on now is probably going to be longer than 15 minutes. That’s about 4 times as long. So next time, I’m not going to accept a script that’s longer than 4 minutes. If I end up with a script that’s 12 minutes long again, I’ll either find a way to divide it into pieces, or start over with a new idea. No matter how long it takes, I’m going to force myself to write a script for the next 50 Ways to Live that's less than 4 minutes long.

Unless, of course, this next 50 Ways to Live video is so successful that it PAYS for those 7+ weeks of production. I doubt that’ll happen, though.