Sunday, April 26, 2015

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

Friday, April 17, 2015

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

Sunday, April 12, 2015

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