2015 UPDATE

Find out what's going on with Shippiddge!

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0:09 - Thanks For Subscribing
0:34 - Starter Squad
1:34 - Twitter
1:54 - MAGFest
2:14 - Smashtasm
3:37 - Other Works

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Smashtasm - Episode 6 Plot:
http://i.imgur.com/EL6mQJX.png

Smashtasm - Episode 7 Plot:
http://i.imgur.com/DuZ66oF.png

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Music by Shawn Smith:
http://rocketdogshawn.tumblr.com/music

Shipp's YouTube:
www.youtube.com/shippiddge

Shipp's Twitter:
www.twitter.com/shippiddge

Shipp's Alt Channel:
www.youtube.com/shippiddgealt

Shipp's College Work:
www.youtube.com/PierceHunterShipp

Group 5:
www.youtube.com/Group5Show

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Here's why I'm not doing Smashtasm anymore:

- “If you've already written the ending, just make it!” I've tried to write the script for Episode 6 for years. And every time I do, the dialogue comes out forced, unfunny, and lackluster. I've seriously gone back to it multiple times, and come up empty. When you lose passion for a project, it really shows. I really wish that I had gotten around to doing it when my heart was in it, but that spark is just straight up gone.

- A lot of people tell me I should make a half-assed ending, and wrap everything up “real quick”. But I would rather not make something at all than something really crappy. I would much rather Episode 6 be my “Half Life 3” than my “Duke Nukem Forever”. If I were to finish the series, I would have to dedicate real time and effort into doing so, and I'm not willing to do that.

- Making Smashtasm: Episode 5 was an absolute chore. After putting it off for two years, it took me three months to actually make it, and the process was painstaking because of how little I enjoyed doing it. As soon as I submitted it to Machinima, it was rejected for being “Not of brand interest” and I had to upload it to my channel. Compared to my other work, it's doing very poorly. It has a fraction of the views any other video would get, and an audience retention rate of 39%, meaning that over half of the people that watch it get bored of doing so after the first minute. I don't want to make something people aren't going to watch.

- If we're being honest here, the plot of Smashtasm is really bad. It has a lot of holes, and as a concept it is really improbable, requiring a lot of suspension of disbelief. I made it up when I was fourteen. Seriously. It's about Mario, but he's not actually Mario, just a guy playing as him, in a hypothetical scenario in which Smash Bros was a server-based MMO with voice chat which is apparently first person and you can be knocked out and kidnapped in it. It's really hard for people to “get it” if they're not completely immersed in it, and that is really annoying. I could never show it to anyone because introducing the concept was so difficult.

- A huge complaint I get from new viewers is “their mouths don't move.” Machinima is essentially lazy animation. And because of that, it's not digestible for the general public. I really want to work with something people can understand right away, like regular animation. Doing machinima does not improve the skills that I want to be building right now.

- I haven't contacted some of the voice actors in years. I honestly don't expect them to voice for me if I approach them out of the blue with the script for the new episode.

Видео 2015 UPDATE канала Shippiddge