Eddie Bowley

The Oscars (Directors Commentary)

Here I provide some views and insight into the making of the recent video!

WIP: Best Animation Oscar

Here's an early draft of the deep dive I've done about Animated Movies at the Oscars.

The situation is bad. But just HOW bad does it get?

Side Note: I lost my voice to a cold for portions of the script recording! I'll redo the vo when I'm feeling better so enjoy this extra-croaky-edition!

How To Win The Oscar For Best Animation

When it comes to the Oscars, one thing I've always wondered is how do they decide on the nominees and winners for Best Animated Feature. Is it based on technical skill? Is it based on entertainment? Is it just because Disney made it?

I did a deep dive into the Academy Award process and what I found is an incredible infuriating and broken system. So what started as a curiosity has turned i...

Go Woke Go Broke (Deleted Scenes)

In the Disney Flops video, a character was cut from the script. This character was a bad faith commentator dude who would pop up throughout the history of Disney with bad takes. It was inspired by the fact that during the scripting phase of the video, I was so dispirited by the sheer volume of these channels that also discussed Disney flops but in the most hate-bait way, that I nearly gave up o...

Disney Flops (Directors Commentary)

Here I provide some views and insight into the making of the recent video!

PODCAST: Why Do I Hate Chicken Little?

Hey all! Welcome to a NEW Podcast! This is now a series where, during the research for a video, if anything interesting comes up where I don't have a place to put into that month's Eddache video - I share it here instead!

So given it's a small piece of an Eddache video, I'm calling this "Eddache Pill". Because it's small. I am very clever.

This first episode is about my LEAST favour...

Cooking With Eddie (Disney Flops)

Hope you all enjoyed the recent video! 

Those who saw it will spot the return of "Cooking With Eddie" during the sponsored section. Here's an additional 1 minute and 20 seconds of additional material that didn't make the cut!

WIP: Disney Flops (Dinosaur)

Here's another early look of the upcoming video of Disney Flops, this is just a short look at 2000's Dinosaur.

This was edited by a newcomer to the Eddache collection of video editors, CosmicKeyframe.

WIP: Disney Flops (Black Cauldron, Rescuers Down Under, Fantasia 2000)

Here's an early draft of one of the chapters for the next video. This focuses on the films that bookend each side of the Disney Renaissance. 

The History Of Disney Flops (aka Success in Failure)

SO! I'm launching into this year with one heck of a meaty video. 

Following the events of Strange World sadly turning into massively public box office bomb, I wanted to look back at the history of Disney movies that have flopped. Anytime a film underperforms, bad faith grifters love to claim this is a death sentence (which led to a recurring character popping up throughout the script...

Discord Disconnections

We noticed some issues with how Patreon connects to Discord. We have a bot that's mean to let people join/leave our Discord server and this bot just decided to stop working which is a thing it can do apparently.

So to resolve this, we had to do something of a hard reboot and reset the connection between Patreon and Discord. This did seem to solve the issue of telling the bot to wake the f...

Exclusive Content Podcast #17 - ANNUAL EDDACHE REVIEW

It's the end of another year, and as I did last year, here is my annual review! Here's where I go through each one of the Eddache videos of 2022, figure out what I learned from the experience, and what lessons and goals I can take with me into the new year!

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Back To The Future (Directors Commentary)

Here I provide some views and insight into the making of the recent video!

Back To The Future vs Free Will (WIP)

Rough pass of the upcoming video! Lots of missing things of course, but enjoy this early preview!

December Break!

Hey gang! So once the Back To The Future video is done and out this month, I will be taking a short break. I've always been meaning to take December off as a stress relief for the past two years, but things didn't pan out that way and they begin to eat into my festive celebrations. So this time, it's happening. A new video next week, followed by a month's break - then back in action for January...

Free Will vs Time Travel

In stories where characters can travel forwards and backwards through time, how can free will exist? If they're allowed to do anything they want, it can cause disastrous paradoxes! But if they don't have free will, how can they grow and learn important lessons?

Time Travel has always been fascinating to me so I decided to explore the ultimate Time Travel Trilogy, Back To The Future, to fi...

Exclusive Content Podcast #16 - feat. Samination

Our latest guest is animator Samination, someone I've known since the Newgrounds days!

And we talk about horror games, YouTube worries and I share a story with Sam of how he became one of the biggest animation influences in my life!

Previous Podcasts: 2022-11-03 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Cartoon Dads (Directors Commentary)

Here I provide some views and insight into the making of the recent video!

The Evolution Of Dads (Bluey) (WIP)

This is the rough draft of the second half of the upcoming video (obviously it's missing a lot of things)! The first half digs through the different generations and this reflects Millennial parenting - it's positives (especially compared to the generations that proceeded it) and it's flaws.

Plus I really love Bluey.

Enjoy!

The Evolution Of Cartoon Dads (aka I just wanna gush how much I love Bluey)

I've been doing a lot of self reflection as a father, comparing myself to my own father and other fathers, unsure if I'm doing the right things etc. Meanwhile, I've been adoring Bluey and wanting to find some way of talking about it in a way that a general audience who never watched Bluey may find appealing.

So it lead me to an exploration of the fathers throughout generations, how they w...

Cartoon Dads

For my next video, I want to explore the way that fathers and father-figures are characterised in animation. 

While fathers in real life are nuanced and complex because, you know, they're human - naturally animated characters tend to be simplified (or over-simplified) versions of their general architypes so it makes for a neat way to see how the dads are conveyed according to differe...

Previously On (Directors Commentary)

Here I provide some views and insight into the making of the recent video!

Exclusive Content Podcast #15 - feat. Nando v Movies

A little later than planned, but our latest guest is Nando v Movies, YouTuber video essayist and comic book fan!

In this we talk about Jackie Chan Adventures, Speed Racer and have a lot of MCU Speculation!

Previous Podcasts: 2022-10-05 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

The Problem With Previously On (Full Uncut Version)

Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed the latest video! 

If you've been seeing the WIP versions of the video, you may have noticed there was quite a lot cut before the final uploaded version. This w...

The Problem With Previously On (WIP 2)

Here's an updated draft! Now includes more elements like animation!

The more mellow version of the voice at the start has it's positives but I think I'd like a mix of the two versions of voice over.

The use of the TV to frame the clips works really well. We just need to refine some elements and glitches and we're very close to finished!

The Problem With Previously On (WIP)

Very early rough draft of the next video! This is the very first pass (usually I share a second pass), so there's rough parts (like volumes not balanced) and missing parts of course, but I want to hopefully show a bit of the evolution of a video being made. For example in this I don't like my VO at the start (after my Previously On skit). I think the energy is too big too early so I re-recorded...

The Problem With Previously On...

I have a problem with recaps. You know, those short montages at the start of tv shows that remind you what's going on? Yeah, those.

They spoil too much! They reveal too many plot details and telegraph clear and obvious twists that spoil the surprise. But then again, maybe that's on purpose? And maybe it lets you enjoy the shows MORE when you know what's going to happen?

Yeah, the "P...

BONUS EDDACHE VIDEO: Where Is Wally Anyway?

Moving on from Wall-e and onto Wally!

For a recent episode of Try Hards, I hijacked the video to make a bonus Eddache video where I solve every page of Where's Wally to find the most common location of a Wally!

This was edited by Apotha...

Exclusive Content Podcast #14 - feat. Rebaka-Chan

We're back! And our guest this month is storytime animator and graphic designer Rebaka-Chan!

We discuss Camp Lazlo, Princess & The Frog and just what's wrong with Teen Titans Go?

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Wall-e & Hello Dolly (Directors Commentary)

Here I provide some views and insight into the making of the recent video!