Gamer Superstar - Chapter 192

Chapter 192: 192 – Episode 01 Done
Looking at the results of the first episode of the documentary, I was quite pleased.

Creating the animations for this episode was quite challenging, but I found a few ways to get around that and reduce my workload.

Instead of creating realistic backgrounds, I focused mainly on the characters of my mother and Liv, keeping the backgrounds very simple, and the same was done with the other characters that needed to appear.

Characters such as the judges of the violin competitions my sister participated in, the audience of these competitions, random people who said something relevant to the story, all had blank faces, no facial expressions, and very poorly detailed clothing.

If I were to detail each character, it would add weeks or even months to the production time, and the time I gave myself to do this was only 2 weeks, so I couldn’t waste the little time I had.

So I was able to put those things aside after doing some simpler drawings and focus solely on my mother and Liv’s characters.

The advantage of developing this animation was that my Digital Illustration skill, which hadn’t been leveled in over a month, made progress again.

[Digital Illustration Lv 31 -> 33

With digital illustration, you get better 33% faster, and you have a 33% higher chance that other people will like your art].

With two more levels in the skill, my experience in this area increased by 8 months, giving me much more agility with the mouse to draw, since I had developed this whole skill while using the computer mouse to make this art, and this made my speed much faster and the drawings with much higher quality!

Looking at what I could do with a mouse, I was really curious to see how I would do with a tablet for drawing.

Another good thing I learned about my skills from this documentary was that even if I didn’t use them for weeks or even months, as was the case with [Digital Illustration], my skills didn’t deteriorate, as if I had practiced them every day to keep my level up!

That was great news!

With that, I knew that even if I learned dozens or even hundreds of skills at some point, I wouldn’t have to worry about losing the practice of that skill and its level dropping due to lack of practice.

So I could just dedicate myself to learning and improving the skills that were most important to me, and when I needed the skills that I didn’t use as much, they would be just the same as the last time I used them, just waiting to be used again.

This made me very happy, to the point that my good mood meant that I finished everything for the documentary 5 days before the day I had scheduled to post the first episode, two days before the time I had originally estimated I would need to prepare everything.

When Liv and my mom watched the full episode, they were already a little more used to talking about the sensitive subject of their relationship because of the acting rehearsals for the documentary, but I still noticed that they both became more emotional when they saw the animated parts that represented the things they had said during the interviews for the documentary.

“Noah, that was really good!” Liv said, surprised at how interesting the whole program had turned out.

The episode was only 10 minutes long and focused solely on Liv and my mother’s relationship, how they fought, how their relationship was very toxic and destructive, and how I listened to it and felt bad all the time.

I used that as inspiration to write the songs Numb and In The End.

The first episode of the documentary would just focus on that, and the battle with Dark Pistol would be left for the next episodes of the documentary, with just a short teaser at the end of this episode.

If it were up to me, I’d drag this documentary out for a long time, with several episodes, just to get as much of Dark Pistol’s audience as possible and burnish their image as much as possible.

Especially when I saw their reaction to how they wanted to buy Selena with two million dollars, it made me even angrier at them, because I wanted to get as much out of them as possible for myself and my career.

Of course, I wasn’t going to continue as I was now, where I had to stop my career for two weeks just to focus on the documentary, I would go back to doing shows and making new music, but the production of this commentary would continue on my channel, attracting as many viewers as possible.

Today was Monday, the day I planned to post the first episode of the documentary was Friday, so I had a few more days to practice my skills in peace at school.

My singing, acting, guitar, and stage presence skills all took a break from training during this time, as my focus was completely on developing the documentary, so I could get back to practicing them so that when I returned to the stage, my level would be at its maximum!

The advantage is that with the bonus I had at school, the level of singing, stage presence and acting went up very quickly.

[Singing Lv 40 -> 41

Effect: +41% efficiency when training Sing, +41% chance that whoever hears your voice when you sing will like what they hear].

[Stage Presence Lv 17-> 19:

Effect: Develops a better understanding of stage presence techniques, increasing the singer’s confidence and skill by 19%. This includes mastery of posture, body expression, audience interaction, and emotional control during performances. It also improves lyric retention and practical application during performances by 19%. Gain a tangible advantage by absorbing the fundamentals of captivating and engaging stage presence].

[Acting Mastery Lv 30 -> 31:

Effect: Develop an enhanced understanding of acting techniques, increasing your confidence and skill by 31%. This level includes advanced skills in technique, emotional expression, and character interpretation. It also improves retention of theatrical theory and practical application during performance by 31%. Gain a tangible advantage by absorbing the fundamentals of agile and expressive acting].

Even my guitar skills, which I only practiced at home, saw a significant increase with one week of practice.

[Guitar Lv 38 -> 39

By playing guitar, you learn 39% faster and you have a 39% higher chance that other people will enjoy listening to you play].

With Guitar almost at level 40, I would have a very large increase in this skill again, so I was excited to see how it would turn out.

My singing skill had taken a giant leap forward in terms of how I could use my voice and the levels I could reach in both the treble and the bass.

So I imagined that something of the same magnitude would happen with my guitar skill, since it would be an increase of just one level that would give me a year’s worth of experience!

But I didn’t focus on that alone.

Especially when Friday came and it was time to post episode 01 of the documentary.

I had already uploaded it to MeTube and set it to premiere mode, where the public could watch and comment on what they were seeing, just like a live stream.

This helped give the public more engagement and interaction, as well as giving a set time for the video to go live and adding the option for people to add reminders in the app so they could come and watch the video as soon as it was released.

With 30 minutes to go, there were more than 5,000 people waiting to watch the video, and as the time until the video went live decreased, the number of people waiting to watch increased.

With 10 minutes to go, the number increased from 5,000 to 30,000 people, and the number was increasing faster and faster.

With 5 minutes to go, I went into the living room to watch the show with my family, turned on the laptop, and put the comments aside so we could respond to what people were saying.

My mom and Liv even made popcorn for us to eat while we watched, and Ethan was very excited to be able to eat popcorn and watch with us.

I noticed that even though he didn’t really understand what the documentary was about, he realized that it was a story from before he was born that had made my mom and Liv sad, so we were surprised that he actively tried to make them both feel better during the weeks of taping and after.

Whenever he learned a new song on his ukulele, he would get both my mother and Liv to listen to it together.

It was even funny that he would ask me for friendship songs, songs about people being together, so he could play and sing to them.

Because I thought it was so cute, I even took out my cell phone and recorded his attitude, which I knew would be kept as a cute souvenir for us and posted on my Instagram to show that their fight wasn’t fake, to the point that even my little brother was worried about it.

After he saw that they were fine with each other, he was very happy and proud, considering it a victory that he was responsible for.

The little boy was very cute…

Looking at the TV screen again, a huge smile appeared on my face as I saw that there were more than 80,000 people waiting to see this video.

The comments ranged from people supporting me, to people who were fans of Dark Pistol and came to attack me, to people who were just curious and I would let them draw their own conclusions after watching it.