 So a couple big announcements today. Now that I have everything uploaded today marks an extremely massive change in direction here on the channel because from this point on you know as much as I do I've literally taught you everything I know about 3d modeling animation texturing sculpting and everything game development related that I know which means if you are a completely new developer in unreal 5 we are in the exact same boat and if you follow the channel from here on you will literally see the entire process for how someone goes from knowing nothing about the engine to eventually hopefully publishing something on steam or hio so if you've ever wanted to literally experience what it feels like to go through this process as a new developer from scratch to see how someone navigates it just tag along for the ride and you'll see how developers try and figure this mess out in real time for the past seven years this has basically been a place for me to share everything I know with you guys there has always been a lot to teach and I've always tried to structure things in a series in a way that took you from A to Z in a natural way but as of yesterday I have completely finished every last series that I had originally planned for so now that we're done with all the lessons I'm going to start opening up the channel in a way that's going to be a little bit more organic and interactive opening up a discord taking questions from you guys and starting to have a real time active back and forth once I figured out how to set things up on live stream now this does not mean that I'm going to stop making tutorials it just means that I'm going to be making tutorials as I learn new stuff on the fly so in the past if we were doing something like a modeling series then I wouldn't upload any non modeling related videos until the series was over but now that we're basically figuring things out from the ground up I will be learning things on a need to know basis instead of a series basis so some days we'll be learning about blueprints and then we might need to figure out how to do sound effects so the day after that I might just start uploading how I figured out how to do sound effects so tutorials will still happen they're just going to be slightly less structured and this will actually open up a few different roads for me because now that I won't be locked into series anymore I'll be able to actually react to big important changes in the world and technology as they become relevant for us as computer artists so if some groundbreaking new software or tech comes along that I really believe can save your workflow hundreds of hours of wasted time then I'll be able to address it the following day without having to finish a series first now as far as live streams go I have done a lot of back and forth discussion with you guys on the channel and here's basically what I'm thinking there's already a lot going on in my life right now I barely have enough time to do anything except upload youtube videos as it is so I already work all day every day and ever since I started trying to organize discord which has turned out to be way more work than I thought it was going to be and I really don't want live streams to feel like even more work on top of all of the other stuff so I have just decided that live streams is going to be one of the few points in my day where I just relax completely and talk to you guys you know I'll respond to some of the questions on discord in the comments maybe I'll or in the chat and in the background I'll probably just stream me doing something relaxing like just playing armored core or sculpting a new 3d character or you know something that doesn't really require me to thank or focus so that I can instead use my brain power to respond and have fun just talking with you guys in the stream so probably for about an hour once or twice a week I'll just have something chill happening in the background and basically just talk to you guys about whatever you want I'm not the kind of channel that has millions of subs so I'm really not expecting the live streams to be very active it's more like if any of you just want to get some real time advice or consultations then you'll be able to just drop by and have your question immediately answered so think of it more like drop by office hours if there's a slow day and nobody's in the chat I'll still be there for the whole duration of the hour I'll just be working on something like I normally do but I'm gonna try and be there regularly on a schedule for anyone who needs it now if you've made it this far in the video that means that you're one of the people who watches most of my stuff so if you're hearing this then you might want to know that officially I plan to start the office hours streaming next month but unofficially if I can figure out how to do the whole live stream thing a little bit earlier I will probably have my actual first live stream next Friday evening because that is when armored core six comes out and it also happens to be my birthday many of you guys know armored core is my favorite game and it's been like 10 years since the last one came out and I don't think this kind of coincidence where my favorite game comes out on my birthday will really ever happen again in my life so that's just gonna be a random special live stream where I get to enjoy that magical feeling of playing a completely new game that I've been looking forward to for the first time on my birthday and so I'm just gonna have a good time sit back and be a kid again so next month office hours this month it's really just gonna be about armored core but yeah that's the plan I do have some more stuff to say but we'll go ahead and save that for another video anyway in the meanwhile thank you so much for watching and as always if you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around