#Jeffcrafts

[jeffcrafts]

Hey guys, let's talk. What's new and where I've been. First of all, what's up? I feel like it's been a while. How are you? I've just been working.. a lot. I've had close to no free time. I know that's kind of life. But I don't know.. If you've caught up with the "YouTube's over party" whatever that is. It's probably no relevant to my channel in anyway. To make a long story short. I never started this channel "to make money". Yes I'd love to do this for a living. I just enjoy making videos. That's why I started this channel, to make videos. The YouTube is over petty covers how advertisers are pulling out and viewership is going down. Why? Because everything you say people get upset, systems like the copyright bot are being abused, and frankly. It's getting cramped. Now is probably one of the worst times to try and start a channel. Now, if you've had a channel and actually have footing... ittts not much better. To be honest, as of now the industry is really going down hill. Now I'm not here to say it's over, just sayin. If you can get a patreon or something going, do it. YouTube seems to be making plans to weed out smaller channel lbs anyway. So enough of that. Where have I been, and why has there a been a big drought in videos and more importantly, papercrafting videos?! I can assure you, whether I want to or not, I am constantly working on things. Whether it's writing, or papercrafting. 3/4 of my freetime I feel the need to work on something. Now I can write scripts all I want, but making them is another thing. I'm not gonna sit here and complain about how I'm not in the preferred field of work I'd like to be. But whatever. I have a job and I'm making money. Great. Gotta pay off those loans somehow. So everyday I get home around a little after 4:30 and have only a couple hours to work on things till I can go to sleep and go to work the next day. What that means is a lot less videos, or rather, less frequency? They take longer to come out. Where I would normally be able to make all the props and film in a week or two, now with work full time it's closer to a month per video. Which really sucks to be honest. It sucks because I want to make videos, and you subscribed to see those videos. And I'm sitting here like "sorry, gonna have to wait". Anyways.. so it goes. Little note: yes, I have the enchanting skit almost ready to film. It's written, animatic, and props are just about done. There was a skit planned for the slamacow gameboy; that was scrapped. It will be in the enchanting skit normally. What I'm trying to say is, thanks for sticking with the channel if you did. I'm trying some new videos that I can actually make in between the drought of papercrafting videos. MOC and stuff are a lot easier to edit compared to sitting down and making papercrafts. They just take a lot of time to make, no way about it. Ok, well I think that covers it. There's probably a lot more I can say. Buuut. I don't want to bore you. Thanks again, I really appreciate if you've stuck around. I'll see you, in the next video, thanks for watc-uhh reading. Cya Jeffcrafts,

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What's PaperJams?? Ok well.. as I'm writing this I am pretty sick.. so no videos till I recover. And that also means no PaperJams yet.. gah, I hate being sick. Anyway, let's talk about PaperJams; I have been hinting at it on Twitter. PaperJams is a vlog series, a more behind the scenes series. Not vlogs in terms of my Buddy LordPigSteve, but more like camera on the tripod and me just chatting with you. I've wanted to do this for a while, but now that I have a little traction with current projects, I have something to talk about. I've been writing a lot more in terms of animatics (like DBuddy skits, and the Flowey skit, or fnafcraft) so maybe we can talk about that. Might also do stuff that doesn't have enough content for a video, like manga review or something.. I dunno. I might also show off the papercrafts that don't make it into videos. We'll see. I was thinking about making a second channel.. but then I'm like. What's the point? I mean, I throw everything on my channel, and it's not like I have a figurative brand dedicated to one thing or the other. I mean, yes it's called "Jeffcrafts" but I do gaming as well as papercrafts. Why not also updates? The other reason is that the more complex videos get means less video frequency. By doing this I can tell you "hey I'm not dead, look forward to a video". So these are the tentative plans for that, and onto the next subject! Kingdom Hearts. Ok. So with KH I first need to finish of KH1.5, and we are almost done! I'm at the final world, and I just need to grind and level up a tad more before I'm ready. If you saw on Instagram I bought a PS4, for the upcoming KH 2.8 (1/24/17). I preordered it and everything! The next games would be Re:Chain and 358/2 days which I want to play side by side. And then KH2, and KH3D is in 2.8, and then we got Re:Coded. I think that's it, lol. Well. That's everything; for now! Thanks for reading :) stay tuned for PaperJams. Make sure to follow my twitter for even the smallest updates because that's where I'll be. Jeffcrafts,

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Heyyo! So I have a little more room to talk here compared to Twitter. Let’s talk about Mapples! Mapples will be my second channel. I have specific plans for some series over there, but in reality it’s just a place for me to put “the rest”. I’m gonna be putting unfinished projects, tutorials, and blogs over there so Jeffcrafts doesn’t get so clustered all the time. Here my ideas; Also, MOC will actually stay on Jeffcrafts for the time being. Manga/Chibi Review: I’ve mentioned plans on reviewing manga, and I do a chibi paper craft review already. So why not merge them? Here is an example. I read the first volume of “Silent voice”, so I figured id review that. Not huge spoilers because it’s just the first volume. I also have the two paper crafts from that manga I wanted to review. A little two in one episode. Vlogs: Not that they are going to be as consistent as my buddy Lord Pig Steve, but vlogs and stuff will be over there. Might consist of hanging out with friends, or a review of the new setup. I dunno, we’ll see. Tutorials/other: I was thinking about tutorials? I don’t know what I’m going to do yet, but just kind of placeholder for that stuff. If Jeffcrafts is the center of the Buddy Skits, then Mapples will be the “how I did it” portion. ———— Unrelated: Quick quick, very quick topic I wanted to mention. I mention all this stuff because I’m constantly testing out and evolving the trick-of-the-trade that is my channel/content. If I ever mention “I want to do this” or “sorry, won’t be a stream tomorrow”. Just know two things: 1. I LOVE this, and even if I sound stressed or out of time, just know that I love making videos, and hanging out with you all. So with that in mind, also note that I’m doing all this in my free time, and for free. I don’t care about money, and thats not why I brought this up. What I mean is I work for a living, I’m covered money wise. But, all this stuff like streaming, and making videos comes out of the little time I have after work. So just know that if I mention something, and it doesn’t happen. I’m trying to get to it, but sometimes I just run out of time. Thanks for understanding! 2. When I say I’m doing this out-of-pocket, I mean it. I haven’t made a dime since I started. And I’m not like “gah.. I wish I could make some money off of this”. Well, if we are being honest, it would mean the world to me if I could turn this into a living. But, if I can’t? Who cares. Honestly, all this stuff, most of the time I can handle to do in my free time. Like, paper crafting and stuff? I do that in my free time already, so making videos about them isn’t that much of difference. I just want to make it clear that I love doing this, and I’m over-the-moon grateful that you enjoy what I do. In the end, I’m just doing this in my free time, and what better way to spend it, with all of you! Thank you so much for reading if you did! I’m so excited to kick off some new content! Stay tuned over on twitter @itsjeffcrafts for more info! Cya in the next video!! Jeffcrafts,

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Ok so, let's talk about papercrafting. A lot of you probably know me for my papercrafts. Either from PixelPapercraft, or the skits I did with those papercrafts. Don't get me wrong, it was so much fun making those videos, and they were relatively easy to make. Yes, they could have been shot and edited a little better. And I guess I did bump up the quality/writing in mod elf the newer ones. But, as it stands now. It's just not, as fun. For the most part, I don't have time to do them because of work. And then what little freetime I have, it just takes way to long to make them, and film the skit. It's hard to make them better each time if it seems like I have less and less time. Im not saying I'm done with the minecraft dbuddy skits, im just trying to figure out what to do with them. Maybe I'll make shorter videos, that focus on one mechanic like they use to? We'll see. Nothing is going away, I just want to keep you posted. Now that I'm streaming twice a week and all. I just want you to know, I haven't forgot about what is essentially the base of my channel. Thanks for reading if you did! See you in the next video! Jeffcrafts,

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Hey, hows it going? Got some free time so lets talk! Ok so, I’ve done a lot of thinking about the channel, and really.. what I want to do with it. As I’ve said multiple times work just kills a lot of my time. It brings in money, but I have like no time to do anything. And, when I finally do have the weekend, I’m usually hanging out with friends. So, lets see. Streaming is really fun, I really enjoy it, and its s lot easier to just sit down and play some KH with you for an hour or two. I don’t have to edit the video and everything, and I feel you (and me) get a lot more out of it. Does that make sense? Ok, so not saying this will be a definite thing, but how about KH streams every Thursday? Every week we’ll switch to a different KH game, for example last week was Re:COM, so this week will be Re:coded, so on and so forth. So that covers gaming.. I have some other games in mind, but lets not worry about that now. Ok, so paper crafting, and MOC. For paper crafting, I actually post updates of what I’m working on every other day over on Instagram. Most of these I just do for fun, might not even be video related. But, I do still work on things for my videos time to time. I still have the newest Desktop Buddy skit ready. And have plans for another Chibi review. Really, all I can say is it just takes time. I kind of let the ball roll these past couple months because of work, but I’ll kind of reform a schedule. Sorry, but it’s just gonna take a little while longer to make them. For MOC, I know there has been a lot of Funko reviews lately, I had some plans for non-funks related reviews. Those might be once a month (or further apart). They are meant to be that close together, it was just the easiest to film at the time. Ok, I hope all this makes sense. I’m still trying to relax into my job and build a schedule for all this. Just know that I’m doing this for fun, and if you guys like what I do, it means the world that I can share that with all of you when I’m just screwing around with paper crafts at home. Thank you for supporting me, I’ll try to keep you posted a little more often. Ok, see you in the next video, thanks for reading! Jeffcrafts,

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Big news! (Minor update) Hey, how's it going? I wanted throw a little update out there considering the new news, but lack of videos. Ok, so exciting news out of the way first; I'm getting a PC! Up until recently (recently meaning once I get it <a week after this post>) I have had laptops, or consoles. I originally had a Dell with 8GB of ram. Essentially I could edit my videos, and play portal. Which I'm all honest is all I ever did. Not knowing the difference between mobile and desktop graphics I decided to get a gaming laptop. (This was around when I started going to university). To be fair, it was the best fit because I didn't want a huge tower, I wanted something beefier that I could still lug around. It did its job. I mostly used it for recording and batch rendering videos. Anyway, now having a steady full time job, I'm really making some money. So I thought it would be best to finally buy a tower. What I want from it? To play games with ease. Using lower end computers, I always had trouble with lag, but I never had the problem on consoles. I'm thinking a pretty hearty computer can help with that. And between you and me, this might mean 4K videos. (But that means a new camera..so we'll see). Very excited and I'm gonna keep ya'll updated on twitter or Instagram! Ok, part 2. DBuddy skit wise I have some plans. I have an animatic for DBuddy ended chest. I just have to make it, haha (and that means both the papercraft and the video). As for other types of videos, we'll see. I want to play all the KH games (including 0.2, and the remasters coming out in March). I don't have much to say about that now, time will tell I guess. Thank you for supporting my channel and somehow subscribing during my hiatus, lol. I really mean it when I say you have made this a dream come true. So expect some exciting moments in the next couple weeks! Jeffcrafts,