We’ve reached the end of 2025! Thank you all for making this another exciting year for the channel!
While I’m still having quite an uphill battle trying to survive here on YouTube, I’ve still pursued and created some new fun animations for you all! “Sonic in JAWS: The Finale Retold” was a huge hit gaining over 3 Million views, “Sonic, Tails, & Mel: Smiling Friends” brought Mel back for a small taste of what’s to come, and “Christmas with Sonic: Road Trip” was the most well received episode yet!
There’s still a lot in the works right now, and “Sonic in Scared Stupid: The Final Chapter” is on the way! This project is massive, easily the biggest I’ve ever done. I deeply apologize for how long it’s taking, but you must remember that things are very hard right now for the channel. We fully intended to release it in 2023, but YouTube has hit the channel hard, significantly reducing the time I have to work on it, but I am working as much as I can to get around this grievous and unfair platform. Despite everything, it’s absolutely more of a matter of when, not if at this point. Right now we’re working on assets like models, rigging, environments, and so on. There will be a lot of behind the scenes updates for our Silver/Gold Patrons on Patreon frequently!
The Patreon is still going, but I could really use more help! We were only able to make a new episode of ‘Christmas with Sonic’ because of our amazing Patrons, and we’d love to make another! If our Patreon was fully funded, we wouldn’t need to worry about YouTube anymore, and we even already have plans for the next ‘Christmas with Sonic’ and it would be very different! If it’s fully funded, we’d make “Valentines with Sonic”. We’d turn all of the shipping tropes upside down, and it would be a hysterical mess. This can only happen if you help us reach our goal! So head over to https://www.patreon.com/c/balenaproductions/membership and pledge today to help keep us going!
We’ve also been streaming every 2 weeks! We started in July while we worked on “Christmas with Sonic: Road Trip, and they’ve been a lot of fun! As we go forward with these streams, we’ll be working on “Sonic in Scared Stupid: The Final Chapter” on stream, and continue taking drawing commissions! Our next stream is on January 10th at 4PM Pacific / 7PM Eastern so be sure to join us!
I am not entirely sure if there will be any new Blender animations anytime soon, but if time allows it I’d love to make some more short animations just to keep you entertained as we work on “Sonic in Scared Stupid: The Final Chapter”. I greatly appreciate your patience, and I hope 2026 brings some good news for us all!
That’s all for now, I wish you all a very happy new year. I’m hoping to attend more Sonic conventions this coming year, so keep your eyes peeled so you can meet me, and if you already haven’t, please be sure to join my Discord server so you never miss any news and you can talk to me directly if you have any questions! We’d love to have you! https://discord.com/invite/balenaproductions
Take care!
-Steve (Mr. Productions)