I've been making some progress on the Halo video's script recently. I said in my last post on Patreon that I was almost done, but the intended scope of the video has grown a lot since then. My rough estimate for how long the video will be is 20-30 minutes, which is more than I expected for a video that's just about a specific part of a game than an all encompassing review of an entire game.
I've also been working on art in between working on the video. Here's my first Sonic OC and the first member of Team Punk: Talky. There's three characters in the team (just like Sonic Heroes, Team Sonic Racing, e.t.c.) and I plan to release bios for each character after I've finished the art for all three of them. Before that though, there's one more character I wanna flesh out.
The puppy icon in my profile pic was originally meant to just be sort of a branding thing, but I've decided to turn them into an actual character. Thanks to the simplistic design, I've drawn them twice on paper already, and I'm almost done finishing them up digitally. I've just finished giving them a body to match the existing head for drawing #1, and I'm about 60-70% done on a side view for drawing #2. I'll probably post them at the same time with some of the lore stuff I've come up with for them and combine it all into a basic ref sheet. I'm not sure how much of this will end up in any videos though. I'm still debating with myself on if I want my voice coming out of the character for brief cutaways or if I'm just gonna go with a totally disembodied VO. Either way, I want to focus less on live action footage of myself in the future. It made more sense to put myself on camera when I was imitating YouTube reviewers from back in the day, but I feel like less live action fits the video essay vibe I'm going for now a bit better.