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Dien Bien Phu, Revisiting Operation Pedestal - Upcoming Videos!
Hello everyone!Hope 2024 is treating you all well. Here's some quick updates on the videos that will be coming out over the next couple of monthsVietnam Series Episode 3: Dien Bien PhuThis video was originally slated for last autumn, but I postponed work on it after the first two videos in the series performed poorly. I wasn't of a mind to leave the series unfinished, so have been working on it in the background recently, and we're now into the animation stage.We've been working on some upgraded visuals for this battle, really t...
2 New Videos Available in Early Access - December Update
Hi everyone,Apologies for the gap since the last behind the scenes update. Over the last few weeks we've been working flat out to get the videos for december finished and ready for early access. We're just about there now, so I can share what we're been working on.Falklands Full LengthThe first bit of content for this month was a feature-length cut of the Falklands series from 2022. This takes all seven episodes and edits them together into a single cohesive documentary, with a 1hr 25m runtime and all of the various sponsorships fro...
Video Updates: Vietnam, Narvik and More
Hello everyone,Hope you are all keeping well. Today will see the public release of the second episode in the Vietnam series, which will cover the bulk of the first Indochina war in broad strokes from 1946-1954.The final version will be public here at 5pm BST: https://youtu.be/bQQ6SsvD8GoThe next video in this series will be the longest so far and will deal with the epic Battle of Dien Bien Phu in some considerable detail.Lasting three months and ending in a catastrophe for France that ended its rule in South East Asia, we'll be looking at i...
Early Access for Vietnam Ep1 now Live + Autumn 2023 Plans
Hello everyone!It's been a couple of weeks of hard work toward the Vietnam series and we're getting to the point now where some videos are starting to be ready for early access.Episode 1in the series, covering the period from September 1945 - December 1946 now has its early access live for silver and gold patrons, which you can find here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88957526Episode 2, covering the bulk of the first indochina war (France v the Communists) from 1947-1954 is not far behind, and I imagine will be up for early access next ...
Forrestal Fire Video now in Early Access + Vietnam series update!
Hello everyone!It's finally almost finished. The Forrestal video which has been in the works since *checks notes* May 15th is finished.Well, nearly. There will probably be a couple of tweaks here and there before the full release, but the video is now available for viewing in early access for Silver and Gold Patronshttps://www.patreon.com/posts/87889323If any bronze patrons wanted to upgrade in order to be able to see it, that would be really great. Its taken hundreds of hours of work from me, our animator Lund and artist Chris to get the v...
Vietnam War Series Autumn/Fall 2023 - First Look
Hello everyone!As I mentioned in a previous update earlier in the summer, our major series in the autumn and winter of this year is going to be on the Vietnam War(s), covering the grand sweep of history in Vietnam between 1945 and 1975- or at least, as much as we can feasibly fit in.At the moment this series is shaping up to be around 10 or 11 episodes in length, though as always this is subject to a lot of change and revision as we go along.Over the last six weeks or so I've been buried in an intense research, scripting and asset creation ...
Battle of the Atlantic Part 2 - Early Access
Hello everyone!We've managed to resurrect the second battle of the Atlantic video from the animation hell it had been stuck in for a while!Here's the early access cut - it'll be live in a few days. I've opened up this post to all patrons to make up for the lack of other updates recently, even though early access is normally only silver patrons and aboveJosh
June Updates
Hi everyone!Apologies its been a little while since the last update. The last couple of videos we released have done quite poorly, and it took be a while to get my head back in gear to write and update on here. I tend to take it quite personally when we have projects that don't meet expectations, especially on a video we poured hundreds of hours into like the Jutland night battle one.It's also been a frustrating couple of weeks because it looks like the second part of the Battle of the Atlantic series may never see the light of day - we...
Winter 2023 Video Updates
Hi everyone!Hope you're all having a good start to 2023. Here's a comprehensive update on what the channel is working on for release in the next two months or so.As you might recall from earlier updates, one of my biggest frustrations of late is the upload frequency on the channel. We massively increased the quality of the videos over the last 12 months, which dramatically better animation quality, but the number of videos released declined as a result.We managed only 14 videos last year vs 13 between June-Dec in 2021. So a key objectiv...
Sinking of Shinano Ad Free Early Access
Hello & Merry Christmas to you all.Here's early access to the last video of the year. It will be a shorter time than normal until the video goes live- I was sick part of last week and this which has delayed it, and I want to get the video out before Xmas to round out the year.The video is on the sinking of the carrier Shinano by USS Archerfish in November 1944.As a gesture for Christmas, I've given all patrons regardless of tier early access for this one.Thanks for all the support as always- onwards to 2023!
Upcoming Videos - Winter 2022/3
Hi everyone,Hope you are keeping well. Here's an update on what videos are coming up on the channel over the next couple of months.After completing the Falklands series, the name of the game has been a lot of researching and planning, to work out what projects I want to work on and in which order. The easiest way for me to bring you all into the loop is to go through each active project in turn.GlowwormThe next video after the falklands series was orignally intended to be one about HMS Glowworm, the British destroyer that physically clashed...
A Big Thank You + Falklands Series Update
Hello everyone!It's been a long while since I wrote a comprehensive update on the channel. In fact I've been awfully quiet on all fronts other than uploading videos for a few months now.The reason for this, largely, is that my fiancée and I spent the summer going through the process of buying our first home. There was lots of waiting, paperwork, packing and finally moving a couple of weeks ago- but definitely worth it in the end.It took three years of hard saving from us both, and a large amount of the deposit has ultimately ended up b...
Raid on Pebble Island - Early Access
Episode 5 in the Falklands series - out tomorrow!Two more to come: - Battle of San Carlos- Battle for StanleyBoth of these will be at the end of Sep/start of Oct
The Raid on Kronstadt - Early Access
Early access for tomorrow's video on the 1919 motor boat raid on Kronstadt harbour. Hope you enjoy it!
Exocet Attack on Sheffield - Falklands War
Episode 4/6 in the Falklands War series. Wasn't able to get this one to Patrons before release due to tight deadlines with the sponsor for this one- my apologies for that.Last two Falklands vids will release in late August/early September - I have to complete research on them.There will be some videos in the intervening period - the long running video on Operation Spring Awakening, Germany's last WW2 offensive, is up next.
Raid on Zeebrugge - Early Access
Early Access for this weeks video, which is on the WW1 Raid on Zeebrugge and has been put together in collaboration with Drachinifel.It also functions as a sequel to the Aboukir video from earlier in the year.Next up will be a video on the sinking of HMS Sheffield (Episode 4/5 in the falklands series), and there will be one more video at the end of this month.Thanks for your ongoing support!
The Falklands War 1982 - New Series Starting Tomorrow
Hello all,It's finally here. After months of work, I'm finally ready to start publishing the big series on the Falklands War I've been talking about for ages.And its only *two* days late.Over what I expect will be eight videos (it could be nine if I can fashion a Pebble beach video), we're going to look in detail at the Falklands conflict, about 40 years after it took place.I am hoping to be able to get the whole series wrapped up by 14th June, to match with the time the war itself ended 40 years ago. Hopefully we can avoid it s...
A Quick Update...
Hello everyone,I just wanted to put a quick note here to reassure you all that I'm still hard at work on videos.I know that its been a while since a video was published and since an update on Patreon, but the truth is I've been just been absolutely immersed in research for the Falklands War series that will be coming out in the spring.I've decided that its going to be the biggest and most ambitious Historigraph series to date with as many as NINE videos running from Late March until Mid-June.I've reached 20,000 words of research...
Submarines, Submarines, Submarines - 2022 Update 1
Hello everyone!Happy new year to you all. I hope you all enjoyed a restful festive period however you spent it. Let's get right into the updates.Ramage's Rampage Video - a smash hit!Just before Christmas I published the 2nd Pacific Submarines video, on 'Ramage's Rampage'. I'm delighted to say it has done terrifically, which is greatly encouraging at the end of what had been a bit of an up and down last few months of 2021.Thanks for all the support through the whole of 2021. Overall not always the easiest year due to real...
The final push to Christmas - 2 videos almost finished!
Hello everyone!Hope you are all keeping well as we approach the end of 2021. I'm currently deep in the animation phase for not one but two videos on the US submarine campaign. These are going to be released as planned on 14th Dec and 21st Dec.PosterAlongside these two videos I've made an accompanying poster which you can see below.This will be going on sale over the weekend, and as a thanks for all your support this year I'm going to give two posters away tpo randomly-selected patrons. If you get drawn, you can nominate any of my po...
Pacific Submarine Campaign - Update 1
Hi everyone,Hope you are all well, and I hope you enjoyed the HMS Edinburgh video last week. It was a lot of fun to make, though perhaps hasn't got the same views as some other recent videos. YouTube is a fickle business!Today I want to give some updates on what will be the final miniseries on the channel of 2021, on the Pacific submarine campaign.In my last Patreon post I gave some general updates on the Videos I've been working on. Since then a couple of things have changed, namely that the 'Jutland: Actually a British Victory'...
October Video Updates
Hi everyone, here's a full update on what's going on with the channel at the end of October!This month I published two videos: Operation C and a more experimental one on the illegal salvaging that has taken place on the Java Sea wrecks in the last decade or so.I'm quite happy with how both are doing so far, and taken with the really successful Battle of the Java Sea video at the end of September, it means that things are better financially than over the summer.This is important as the end of the year is traditionally the time when a...
Biggest Grave Robbery in History - Final Cut
This is the latest and final cut of the Java Sea Salvaging video. There's about 25 seconds of extra content added since the early access version, and some extra polish here and there.Thanks for the feedback and support!
The Salvaging of the Java Sea Wrecks - Early Access
Early access on tomorrows video! This is a slightly experimental format, so any and all feedback is eagerly anticipatedLet me know what you think!
Annual Memberships, and changing Patreon currency - Updates
Hi all,Just wanted to put a quick note here to let you all know of a couple of changes I'm making on the Patreon backend.Firstly I'm enabling annual memberships, which allows Patrons to opt to pay a years worth of pledges in one go, and in return gives a discount which I believe to be two months' worth. This seems a no-brainer and gives another option to everyone.Secondly I am going to change the currency of the patron page from USD ($) to GBP (£). This is due to the fact that I am UK based, so having the Patreon income in my local...
Battle of the Java Sea, Operation Spring Awakening - Video Updates
Hello everyone!Hope you are all keeping well and that you enjoyed the video on the Fall of Singapore. I've been busy working on video plans for the autumn, and can give you all some comphrensive updates on videos below:Battle of the Java Sea MiniseriesThe video that is currently closest to completion is the first video in two-parter centering on the Battle of the Java Sea. This first episode focuses on the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, picking up in December 1941 and ending on the eve of the naval battle of the Java Sea, which...
Fall of Singapore, Eastern Front Autumn Videos
Hi everyone,Hope you are having a good summer, and I hope you enjoyed the most recent Malayan video! It hasn't performed particularly well on the views front, but I hope it added to your enjoyment of the series nonetheless.It was the penultimate video in that series, and at the end of next week I'll be publishing its big conclusion- The Fall of SingaporeIn this video we'll look at the battle for Singapore island itself (pictured above), which raged for about a week in February 1942 before the eventual Japanese victory.Once it is fin...
