 All right guys, I'm Shane the online media tutor and this is my first channel update video. Hello so the Purpose of this video is to give you guys my subscribers. Hello and a bit of an idea of what I'm planning on doing with this channel Sort of between now and the end of the summer So as you can see I've decided that it's time that I've had to give in an appear on camera Because it'll allow me to just be able to put videos out that much quicker so I can be a bit more responsive And so I can get content out on a regular basis, which is something I've struggled with in the past But in order to aid me with this as you can see I've had to get a bit of a rig set up So I've got a beautiful camera in front of me. I've got some external sound happening just here But more importantly, I've decided to try and build myself a bit of a set here. It is as you can see I've got the nice faux leather sofa going on a kind of loosely relevant cushion And a little bit of faff some faff going on up there just to try and build it up some white space here So that I could if I wanted to maybe do the weather But mostly fair sort of putting up any graphics that might be useful as I'm going through the videos But that's not the best bit the best bit about this whole set thing that I've decided to build is Oh Hey, what about that? So a little bit of backlighting as well just to really set the mood so in future videos I'm going to start with that on because I think that really is the star of the show Okay, so what I've got coming up in future videos I'm going to start with revamping my beginners guide to Maya tutorial So I first created that in 2013 and it's certainly very well It's had a lot of views. It's helped a lot of people through learning the basics of Maya And that includes modeling and animation But it's sort of now approaching the end of its useful life I think it's time that was retired and I replaced it with a newer model might have changed quite a lot since 2013 And I don't think that the version that I made in 2013 although it's still good is not as fit for purpose as it once was So I will be revamping that in the coming weeks or months depends how long it takes me to put that together But keep an eye out for that I'm quite excited about that. It's been sort of the biggest draw to my channel since I started it So I'm quite looking forward to getting that underway So once I've got my Maya 2016 tutorials live What I'll then hope to do is to create a beginner's guide to another piece of software So I'd like your feedback to kind of influence what that might be I'm thinking along the lines of something like mud box. I'm thinking it could be Unity it could be 3ds max something 3d based Just to keep it interesting for me really But I've never used any of those pieces of software before so it'll be a learning experience for all of us But that's something I'd like to get into to really sort of push my own education as well Another thing that I'd like to get on the way on my channel is something like a Q&A At the moment I'm calling it in in my own head ask online media tutor And the point of that set of videos Will hopefully be when I get questions from you guys I'd like to be able to answer them quickly and again, that's the reason for this whole setup So it can be a lot quicker so I can get responses out there to you guys In a timely manner So what I need really from you lot is some questions So I need to give you a little bit of background on what what I know and what I'm willing to share with you So by now, I think you're aware of the 3d stuff So especially Maya But anything I'm willing to look into but my education is also in general media production And also some media studies as well So it might be things like Audience it could be narrative structure. It could be Any part of the media? So if you're studying media or you just got a question in your head Then get in contact with me through any of the usual methods. I will put them On screen. Maybe I'll put them up there using any of the methods to contact me get me a question And then I will put out some videos In which I can answer so we get a bit of back and forth going. That's my hope anyway I am going to keep on doing the theory videos with the little animated guy So if you have got anything that you want to see covered in that series of videos Then again get in contact with me and I'll put something together at the moment I'm still working my way through 3d theory But I am also now looking to move on to some general animation theory And I've already scripted something out on persistence of vision frame rates and the fire phenomenon So hopefully it won't be too long before I get on to that But if you've got any topics that you want to see me cover get in touch And one last thing that I'd like to share with you is more an idea than anything I'm definitely going to do And it's been inspired by watching another youtube channel another youtuber Draw with jazza if you haven't already subscribed to that guy, you're definitely sure He's awesome. I will pop a link in the description down here And you should follow that but that gave me an idea Especially because I'm going to be learning new pieces of software What I thought I could do is what I'm tentatively calling let's learn videos I'm trying to create my own youtube subgenre there And the idea is is that I find material so let's say I'm learning unity So I might go to the unity website and find their introduction to your tutorial videos And work through them But the idea is that I would do them live Possibly using twitch or I would just stream straight to youtube so that you guys could either follow along with me or see the process So really I'm just looking for whether or not you think that would work as an idea Because I think that would be the biggest time commitment On my part to put something like that together. So if you think it would work Maybe I'll crack on with it If you don't think it would work, let me know and I'll I won't waste my time Okay, I think that's it. Thanks for sticking with this one. It's a little bit different to the uh The guff that I usually put on this channel And I hope it does help to keep you lot informed of where I'm hoping this channel is going to go in the future But that being said I do want your input as well So if there's anything that you want this channel to include Drop me a line, uh, and I will look at how I can incorporate that into the the channel. I'm trying to build here So I think that's me done in this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one