Contests and all that

Well I just got back from my small vacation. I'm still working on a couple things. Both for contests. I hope I can get these done or else I'll slap someone

Final Fight

As stated on FaceBook: NEXT FIGHT! I think I'll finish this fight first before my cinematic. I still have quite a few to finish before season 2, but this along with my other uploads were 90% done before I announced my cinematic. So I'll finish this so you guys have something before my cinematic. So enjoy the previous 2, and this when it comes out because until December, this is it.

So yeah. Just because this is almost done. I'll do it. Besides, I really hate when people put words into my mouth. I DO NOT hate Spinosaurus. Not at all. So quit assuming I do. I'll make Spino violently kill poor Deinosuchus.... also yes, spoiler. Spinosaurus WILL win this fight 

BIG NEWS! Project on the way

Look at that. Looks amazing for Pivot right? Well. Just imagine that for a length of 7 minutes (Hopefully anyway) I wanted to show this because, I have some news! If you don't know who Alp K is, he is another great Pivot YouTuber, and he recently started a contest. A "Cinematic Contest"

Now previous to this announcement, I had already considered making one inspiring from Phil Tippett's "Prehistoric Beast", which is amazing by the way, and if you even remotely like Dinosaurs, I'd highly advise checking it out. Anyway: I had considered it but had no push for it, and I told my animating buddies about it, and I don't think Alp will ever admit it, but I personally believe he was influenced by my idea to make it lol.

I also wanted to say, I'll only be able to upload 2 fights before the project. One of them is already done and another is close. The reason for this is because this cinematic will by my TOP Priiority.

So right here is a shot from the test footage I made when he announced it. Everything you see will be made by me. Every background, tree, bush, stick. This will be a passion project which I hope will be amazing. I hope most of you reading this will watch and enjoy it, because I will pour my heart into every frame in this cinematic

Season 2 is Lurking....

Previews of current sticks!

Red Eye King is back

So, my Red Eye King vs Spinosaurus video was my third highest viewed video. I will make him re appear for a... much more "even" opponent! and if it wasn't obvious enough, I am talking about Vastatosaurus.

Jurassic Rage 2!!! Promo!: Yay or nay?

So this is a little quick update. I will be making smooth, fluid, and beautiful animations like this with each new dinosaur that I made with the extra parts to promote Jurassic Rage's new season. After I'm done with all the current fights I will upload all the dinosaurs doing their own roar and stuff (as seen above) to see if I get a positive response. If not then I'll save them for Jurassic Rage 3

The ultimate battle (For the future) and Beta Mode Sticks

I think, just the imagery ALONE is enough to hype this fight up. I mean, these guys are basically Super Rex's. Vastatosaurus is a mega evolved Tyrannosaurus and Indominus is a Genetically modified Tyrannosaurus... both are INSANELY durable and built to be ABSOLUTE killing machines. I love Vastatosaurus more, but honestly I don't know who'll win. Most would most likely agree Vastatosaurus would be the winner. I recently chatted with other animators and Vastatosaurus seemed to be the victor. HOWEVER! I will say that people did say that's the ONLY one Indominus would lose to. Everyone else Indominus would kill. He'd win against Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and even Spinosaurus. I will admit, his intelligence and extremely useful arms give him a huge edge. His arms are actually usable which I think is hilarious. I don't think Spinosaurus or even Giganotosaurus's arms would be very useful. Granted they are large, but they can't lean on it. Not at all.

I think I'll save this fight for when I reach 10k subs again. I would have loved to do this on my Predalian5 channel, but... you know... YOUTUBE and their "weirdness"... anyway, so this will be a HUGE Project. As in, I think I'll start working on it now until I reach 10k subs. Not even lying. I want this to be at least, AT LEAST!!!... 10 minutes long. If I can I'll get it to 30 minutes. Well, here we go... but I'll wait on it a bit. Why? because

Beta Mode sticks: I stated before this whole tend of "other parts" won't be used in my videos. However, I am considering my options. Here's what I was thinking for the future:

Phase 1: Season 1. While working on Season 1 for Jurassic Rage. I will continue to make my usual fights. Then, MAYBE Season 2, I will use new sticks like this. Maybe. However, Since I already have a season 2 fight in the works with over a thousand frames, I might just keep using the style until season 3. Either way, one new season will have new sticks after that. I do plan on making a new Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus stick using this new stick and make it for the first fight of season 2, just to test it out. If it get's a positive response I'll keep it like that. If not then I'll wait until season 3. So be sure to give your input when it's released!

Phase 2: New sticks. After season 1 or 2, make the new sticks. So this WILL eventually happen. As a new medium get's made, I'll have to keep up with it. But that's really it, nothing super dramatic

Phase 3: ALL BACKGROUND FIGHTS! I will PERSONALLY make every backgrounds, every shot I can for each fight, because I will most likely have advanced in animation by then

Phase 4: (Beta) for those of you who have seen my Semi realistic Vastatosaurus, I had an idea the other day. If any of you have seen "How It Should Have Ended" you'll notice the animation style has a particular way of being animated. Basically, they save the arms, and legs as "stand alone" and move them like puppets. So, what I was considering doing was making another dinosaur with Semi Realistic features, and try the puppet thing.

Again, for now Phase 4 is just an idea. I will eventually be learning the ins and outs of Photoshop so I might do it when I really know how to do it.

Well that's it for today, thanks for reading

New stick pack?

It's rather unfortunate really... that I decided to give in. I said multiple times that all these extra figures are unnecessary and what did I do? I went and made one. Dammit...

Well. To give it some credit I do like that the arms and legs don't have to be so... out. I never liked that about making sticks. I have to sacrifice accurate looking dinosaurs so they at least "look" right.  But on the bright side, my fans like my old style better. So I may just stick to ONE STICK figurines. But, it'd be a shame to simply throw this away. I have 2 options

1: I make an entirely new stick pack containing stick figures like this

or

2: I just keep this and make all the parts the same color

I know it'd be easier to go with number 2. But my fans have spoken. Old style rocks. But if it's any conciliation to whomever's reading this, I might do it for season 2 of Jurassic Rage. Next season requires an upgrade after all... hmmm.. Practicing background painting I should make all my fights backgrounds for season 3. Well, we'll see. Depends on how well the channel goes. Other than that, this is currently in Beta Mode. So I won't be giving this out in case any animators are reading this. I'll just give some test footage and all that. See how well it transitions to animation in my style with the backgrounds. Speaking of which:

Next video is done. NOT and animation but I enjoyed making it a lot and I hope you guys will like watching it. So keep an eye on that Subscription tab on YouTube (Also I will update here before releasing)

Moving on to other stuff

So... Yeah, ohkay. Let's address the "Elephant in the room" and get it over with. I've been inactive for a bit now but... crap happens. My YouTube was terminated, My house burned down, I was in a car crash... Just... crap. So if you might have thought I became one of those "lazy artists", that's not the case. At all.

Well anyway. I have a special vid coming up soon and I'm practicing my Background paintings. I know this one doesn't look as pro but this was done quickly for a bud of mine. So the special video will hopefully have better graphics than this.

I guess the main point for this update it just to let you know that I'm practicing stuff... also I have like... 4 vids currently being animated, 3 of which have over a thousand frames, EACH.

Moving on to other things

Well, For those of you who don't know, My house burned... so I am technically homeless. XD Aside from that, there's nothing really going on. I thought I'd just update readers with that.

I am still going to work on my channel while I'm MIA. But for now, enjoy this piece of work I made on my I Pad. On an awesome app called Adobe draw (which is why it looks weird)

these are original characters so don't even think about asking where they're from lol

Pivot Art Preview!

Well I decided to do some Pivot art and I must say, it turned out better than I expected. I recorded most of it, but I forgot to record the last bit because I was changing my music and didn't turn it on... XD

Well, I'll clean this up a little more later. But this probably won't get released right away because I'm going to try and make an anime background to go along with it. Stay tuned folks!

Predalian5 Channel

My Channel was suspended. I have a new YouTube channel

Whether you're aware of it or not, I searched my name and found that  "Predalian5 Channel" was the top search involving my name. So to give those with despair some hope I just decided to be straight up with the title and the first sentence of this post.

CHANNEL:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcLuPusax8AyWqGnsWV_ZZg

For those of you following this I apologize. But I just want to get my viewership back so that way my channel can get more support

thanks for reading

Predalian5: Jurassic Rage!!! Incoming Fighter

In case you haven't guessed people, here is the newest addition to Jurassic Rage's fight list. Let me introduce to you, the smartest Dinosaur to walk into the ring since Vastatosaurus, the recently hyped up DNA Improved Dinosaur, Indominus Rex. That's right folks, I Rex will be participating in Jurassic Rage from now on.

This is just a little announcement because people have been bugging me to see if I had made a I Rex stick yet (Since most of my fans already know I have a new stick pack in the works for season 2 of Jurassic Rage) The funny thing is, I didn't originally plan on doing so. There were plenty of sticks out there that were better than mine. But recently I've been thinking of doing a Special Project for Jurassic Park before Jurassic World comes out. I have a policy of not using anyone else's sticks because I want to maintain the focus that I can do all of this myself on my own steam (... if I can) which is why I don't usually work with other animators (Well... it's because of style too. But that's a different discussion for another day) so I made one.


Well, that's pretty much it for now. But before I end this little part, I wanted to talk about something. Could Indominus rex be smarter than Vastatosaurus rex?

We all love Tyrannosaurus. Which is why it's been the main focus of entertainment for quite a bit. Those weren't Giganotosaurus's in Land Before Time! With that said, It'd make sense that the most made up ones are based off of Tyrannosaurus. My favorite has always been Vastatosaurus Rex. A fictional Super evolved Tyrannosaurus that survived extinction to this day. With that being said, I personally think it would win against Indominus. Why? well, here's why.

It's had a good few millions of years to evolve from the already insanely perfect predator Tyrannosaurus. It has a stronger bite force, it's definitely larger than Inaccurate JP3 Spinosaurus, and is super durable (It's been thrown around by King Kong... AND had a boulder larger than it's head CRUSH it's head and it was still alive... AND it was still fighting)

So what does Indominus Rex have? Well it's designed to be larger than T Rex.... not a huge asset considering there are plenty that are already larger. Well it's smart. But I think Vasto might be smarter since it's had 65.5 MILLION YEARS TO EVOLVE!!.. and... Idk.

Well, how does it match up?.... not so good. I'll save the fight for season 2, which SHOULD be after the movie's release, then I'll know what else Indominus has. But aside from being smart, not a lot going for it. Let know what you think

Predalian5 (WHAT HAPPENED??) New YouTube channel

For those of you who have already read what is going on, skip the first paragraph.

Hello. Now if you are a subscriber of mine, I have an unfortunate announcement. But if you're looking at this picture... then it should be self explanatory... but for info's sake. My account was Suspended. Now, as of April 26 I have no further information to provide. The previous entry I made with the Email is all I can offer. I have filed 2 appeal forms and nothing to show for it. My old network has completely abandoned me. But I'm a little happy at that. They had me locked in on a contract and they were taking almost all my earnings. So, thanks for that. You money grabbing, greedy, selfish corporation. I look forward to never working with you ever again, and I'm ashamed I tried getting my buddies to join your network. Anyway, so yeah. I have a 90% most likely reason as to why this has happened, but I will make no official announcement until further information has been brought to my attention... but honestly, by the looks of it; YouTube's well known fear of "Copyright laws" has screwed me over. Well what's being done about it now? Here's the breakdown

Currently, since I have no info on my old Youtube channel. I have brought my attention to a plan.

Phase 1: I simply cannot re-upload my old videos. I would but when I tried doing that YouTube questioned if they were really mine or not. Mainly because a few people have been re-uploading my videos. So please, do not watch their videos. I am the real deal. Here's my new channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcLuPusax8AyWqGnsWV_ZZg

K Universe is my new channel. If you've watched my Old videos my intro started with "Predalian5 Entertainment" and "K Universe Pictures" so here it is. Anyway. So that's phase 1. Getting to the viewers and letting them know what's going on.

Phase 2: Re-Upload and Make season 1!! 

I am Resounding all my old videos... kind of. Since I have the original animation file I am in the works of fixing some animations and re-sounding them. I even have a new intro with music and stuff. So anyway. Why did I say re-upload AND make season 1? well. I am going to re upload yes, but I will also be finishing old fights. This includes Giganotosaurus vs Vastatosaurus vs Tyrannosaurus Rex which was uploaded as an unfinished fight in my Sub Special. Anyway. If you see this picture I have named the main video "Jurassic Rage 2!!!" why? Season 2. I want to start off my new fights with a new generation of stick figures and you get a taste of them in that video. I will accordingly re-upload "new sticks" and re-name it "Season 2 trailer" (The video where the little Dinosaur says "I have completely forgotten my line" lol) so that's Phase 2.

Phase 3: 

After Season 1 is complete I will begin with the plans I had originally intended for my Predalian5 channel. I will begin new segments this summer. I have appropriated one of them already and it's gotten a good response. So here are some of them

- Behind The Scenes
Basically I just record my animating process and upload them. yeah... lol

- Commentary
So I'll play the fight, then play the behind the scenes segment in a little faster rate. The fight will go as fast as the script I make for the fight. I'll talk about what went into the fight, what motivated me, why I chose who won, Was there anything interesting going on? examples could be like Spinosaurus vs Vastatosaurus. I could mention that: "before I became better at animating, this fight actually only took me 2 hours to do. I remember that day clearly. I had just finished announcing my new stick figures and was testing them out. Especially since I believe I made the best Vastatosaurus Rex figures in Pivot. I'm not usually arrogant but it does look a lot better than others I've seen so far. Or rather, around the time. Because now people are better than me" something like that.

Wasn't that an interesting fact to know?... well... at least it'll give you something to watch. I sometimes go around YouTube looking for channels to watch lol

Time lapses: I will play the entire recording process within a few minutes so you can see how much time goes by while I animate.

Podcast: Before I animate the new fights I will upload a podcast of me and other animator channels discussing the new fight and who we think should win the next fight. Basically the goal is to give a full, un-biased opinion on who should win.

So that's all the ones I have for now. I will most likely try do more because I want to do more with my channel and provide a lot more content

Phase 4: Just... continue. 

If none of my new plans work I will just only continue in behind the scenes and actual fights. So please, give me feed back on the new segments, what can I do to make it better, give me criticism, Give suggestions. I really hope you guys will support me because I want to try and go full time into this. I know it's crazy but some people do this as a career

EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT!!

EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Currently, as of April 17th, 2015 9:52 PM. My account has been terminated. This is not a joke and I hope you have it somewhere inside of you not to joke around. Yes, My account was terminated. If you have liked or Favorited any of my videos you'll find that it's currently unavailable. I can't even access my account! I can't look at it, I can't watch my videos, the best I can do is log into my Google plus. I won't remove the rest of the thread YET. I might because this was supposed to be about updating my channel and stuff so If I start off fresh I might as well remove this. But don't worry. No plans are being made just yet. I do have an idea of what I might do but this whole thing is screwy. Now I'm sure you are wondering. "Why did they suspend you?"

Here's my answer: I know just as much as you do. I got am email saying I violated terms of service however I didn't do anything to warrant any legal action. That's all they said. i tried Email, My partner network, Youtube help, my google email, I have nothing. If there was literally anything else I could tell you I would. But I don't have anything yet.

Solutions?:
As I stated earlier, I do not have any plans yet. However I am considering one. I might just move everything to my Katol Steele account. That's all I have for now. Until I hear back from YouTube this is the best I got. I'll keep you people updated first! Also if you'd like to read the email here is it

My personal opinion: You probably guess that I am a little upset about this. I mean... I didn't do anything wrong. Personally I'm a little more upset about the fact that this was going to be the summer of vids! I was going to provide more content and the channel was actually doing really well. I was top 10 in my network, I was almost at 10 thousand subscribers!!! my videos has millions of views! I'm not going to get that back. Not for a few years anyway. Well, hopefully you guys will support me if this all goes downhill. Please help me rebuild myself if necessary. Thank you all for reading

Also please support me and subscribe to my second channel, I might re upload everything there
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcLuPusax8AyWqGnsWV_ZZg

Major announcement and your help

(You can skip the first paragraph)

Hello. My name is Katol. I have worked on Pivot for a good amount of years now. I started from the bottom and eventually made my way to be known in the small portion of the Pivot community. The Dinosaur community. I remember the first day I was introduced to pivot. Me and my cousin went to visit my best friend and I saw Link on his computer. I was interested to see what he was working on. I knew it was an animating program because I would watch animation shows on YouTube such as eddsworld, and Super Mario Bros Z. In behind the scene segments, they would show what programs they animate on. I tried getting Flash and all that, but being a kid. I had no money. Anyway, I asked him what he was doing. He said he was animating a sprite on Pivot. He told  me about it and I went home and downloaded pivot. After animating a few fight scenes of stick men, I jumped into it like I've never jumped into any project before. After learning how sprites work, I decided to animate Godzilla fighting. I made a stick of godzilla which was... not so bad. But another thing was I already had intense interest in Dinosaurs and monsters such as godzilla. I also watched Jurassic Park 3 around the time I started animating, and Tyrannosaurus being my favorite Dinosaur, I was upset he lost in the Spinosaurus vs Tyrannosaurus fight. These 2 things are what set me up for the upcoming few years of my life, and is also what would build up to; Jurassic Rage.

Why did I bring that up? well. Today's post won't be about the next fight. I want to talk about something important. A... "jump starter" if you will. I know what this sounds like, I have not set up a Kickstarter/ Indiegogo/ Go fund me for anything. Not even a patreon account. But, that is one of the things I want to talk about. But first, I want to talk about my channel.


YouTube: I enjoy animating Dinosaurs very much, and I'm glad I can make stuff some people enjoy... Well... I did said "some" *cough* haters *cough*, anyway... After being partnered up on YouTube, I have learned that, Providing more content is... a good thing. I already have my main segment, Jurassic rage, and recently "Behind the scenes" But. I want to see what else I can do with channel. For those of you reading this, I was going to make a discussion segment where I live stream the next fight, make highlights and upload to my main channel. I'd feature other animators to talk with me to see who will win, and why we think they should win. The idea here is to give the best unbiased opinion and that will determine the outcome of who'll win. The main point is, I'm hoping new segments will work. I want to increase content as much as possible because animation isn't supported as well as it should on YouTube. Which is something I also wanted to talk about.


Does Animation have a future in YouTube?:
Well, from the way things are going. I'd say it doesn't. A while back YouTube changed how earning are done. Before, you'd get money based on views. That was a good thing because animation parodies often get a lot of attention for being creative and well thought out. It also didn't rely on how much they'd upload. Someone could upload monthly and get over a million views, and STILL make a decent amount of money. That however, has changed. Now YouTube's earnings are determined by "Watch time" and is also determine by how often you upload. People who upload daily will get HUGE earning, and as you know. This is near damn impossible for animation. Me being at the VERY bottom of the barrel in animating. All I can say is it's very discouraging. YouTube is kinda screwing people over with work that requires hard work (Not just animating) It favors people obnoxiously screaming at camera's while they play a game. Hell, People make TONS of money just for uploading game play. They can make thousands without even including a commentary. I mean... damn. 14 hours of work can make next to nothing compared to someone recording a play through of something like Halo. I now understand why people upload vlogs, behind the scenes, "the making of" etc. Recording a few minutes of work can be hours in real time. Just... pushing for more can result in "extra's" that look like not a lot of effort was put into it. So it makes content creators look like sell outs. It's just sad really. I mean, I'll still animate. For sure, but I don't even know what to do.

Solutions? :

For those of you who don't know what Patreon is, This is a site where you can set a monthly detonations to "content creators". Basically you're showing your support for the work you love watching or looking at. Now, originally I hadn't considered doing this. Because the majority of people I saw going on was people who made beautiful artwork on DeviantART, and has rewarded people righteously like Sakimi-chan. But then I saw that, people who just review movies and shows for some reason can still qualify for patreon. Apparently it doesn't matter what you're on there for, but as long as people support your work, then Bam. You're on. So I was considering doing this, as my animations are something that some people enjoy. Maybe people would like to support my work. I have no idea. I think after I open up more segments and get more attention, THEN I will. But, for you hardcore fans reading this on wherever I posted this, send me a Message on Facebook or YouTube and please, tell me if you would support my work. Even just 1 dollar a month would help me out a lot.

Anyway, that's what I wanted to talk about. I'm going to try do more with my account, and hopefully you'll be there with me. The more watch time I get the better earnings I get. Meaning more content. Keep your eyes on pages like this, hit me up on youtube, and subscribe

Re doing, once again

It surprises me to note that I've been busy.... I've ACTUALLY been busy lately.. HA! I usually don't have things to do, aside from my anime, University hasn't been bothering me with work. It's all stuff I can read and then put down on a paper and I'm done.My student film's been the busiest lately though

Anyway: So once again, I stated I'd be finishing some "part 1" videos and that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm quite enjoying this fight actually. The smoothness is what get's me... maybe a little too smooth. The walking out of frame in this scene's a little slow. While I purposely changed my animation style to give the Dinosaurs more weight and to give them a "large" feeling, this scene was... clearly shown to me, that maybe I should speed up a little more. Well as soon as they walk out I'll do exactly that. I know what I'm going to do to end this anyway

Well I didn't want to leave you readers of my pages in the dark, so you get a speak preview. So thanks for reading!