Watchcat Year in Review 2: Electric Boogaloo

Will this be the year of the Watchcat?

Let's take a look back at 2018.

Watchcat Films, our Youtube channel began the year with
121 subscribers and has gained 63 new subscribers, we begin 2019 with 184 subscribers. 

Our Watchcat files blog views have also increased in size. We began with 20,250 views and grew to 46,891 views or 26,641 new views in 2018. I guess some people like what we are doing? 

We started 2018 with this New Year's Greeting...

Posted several Watchcat Reviews of different films that we enjoyed this year.

Also started a new segment called "Jim Draws" where Jim drew stuff and talked about it. 

Time was hard to come by to work on episodes this year, but we managed to turn out two. The Halloween episode was boarded like this, https://youtu.be/wGP6iDWodrQ, 
but it was a lot of work to produce and so, creative editing was used to tell a different shorter story.

My thanks to Joel Brinkerhoff for helping me animate Mikey. 

And we finished 2018, by finishing the Holiday episode this time, playing around with black and white.

What about 2019?
Its time to concentrate on writing a complete Watchcat story which could be turned into a graphic novel or a series of shorts. Greg will be writing it this year, complete with a Backstory, Character flaws and development, a 3 act story structure to tell more of a complete story, if one exists as a graphic novel, screenplay or TV series?

Planning to get a table at this year's Burbank Art Festival , May 18 & 19, to help promote Watchcat to the public and hopefully sell some merch. We were there in 2017 and had a 
great weekend.


In 2018, we donated to $200 to Big Cat Rescue. With your ad clicks, we reached our first Google $100 goal and are continuing to do so. 

As always, please click on the ads to help us get to the next $100 goal. We are now only at $9.57 with $1.03 this month so far. I haven't been pushing the ad clicks, because I feel like a broken record or CD, but every click on the ads does add to the fund and shows your support!

Click now to wish us a Happy New Year!

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Here's hoping you have a great 2019 in the New Year and thank you for your continued support! 

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HAPPY

Watchcat Wednesday Halloween episode

Its the Halloween Episode and you can listen to the music version beginning Tuesday Oct 30th on Woodbury University WU Radio. The show will play for a week every day from 4pm -5pm pdt and 10pm to 11pm pdt.

Below are the interviews from the show, including Preston Meyers's Kilpetto's Evil Toy Shop, Mike Wellins with his Freakybuttrue Peculiarium and Museum in Portland, OR and an interview with the makers of "Noir".

Watchcat Films reaches $100 goal!

You Did It!

With all your help, we have finally reached our first $100 goal by clicking on our ads. Please don't stop clicking, we want to donate to other causes as well and need your continued support. We surpassed our $100 with $15.02 in clicks this month, giving us $9.88 towards the next $100 goal.

Sc3:Mikey from Toondini on Vimeo.

Scene 2: Mikey animation by Joel Brinkerhoff

Last weekend, we went to the Starlight Bowl in Burbank where I stood on the stage with my son Marco holding up our two Foster kittens Barney and Betty. We were there to promote the VBAS Kitten Adoption program and let people know there are a lot of kittens that need good homes.                                                                                                                        This Saturday, July 21, I'm bring Barney and Betty to the VBAS Kitten Adoption Fair. Hoping to adopt them as a pair since they are related and make a good team. If you are looking for two cute kittens and are in the Burbank area, come on by.

 

At the end of July, we will receive a $100 check from Google, which we will award to the Burbank Animal Shelter. To make this official, we are currently looking for a bank that prints out those giant checks, if anyone knows of a bank like that, please let us know. 

Wanna play with a virtual kitten? This website could help.

Next Week: Watchcat Reviews Returns!