Megste Studios

Megste Studios is an animation team, led by the user Megste, that made a fan-made version of Songs of War Season's 2 and 3. They released their first episode on August 30th, 2020 and finished their version of Season 2 on June 17th 2022. They also worked on a fan-made Season 3 from Mid 2021 to around July 2022, but it was cancelled on September 25th, 2022.

## History

At first, the team released animations of specific scenes from the Songs of War Season 2 and 3 script in mid 2020, after Songs of War was cancelled and the script and production material for Songs of War Season 2 released. They then started to do complete episodes of Season 2 in August 2020, and would release the first 3 episodes between August 30th through November 19th. Megste would then announce in the episode 3 video, that his team would stop producing full episodes for private reasons. He would release some other (now privated) Songs of War related videos after this, but then went silent on Songs of War for a few months.

On April 11, 2021, he then announced that he was not only returning to Songs of War content like script scenes, but would also continue producing full episodes of Season 2. Episode 4 was released on June 29, 2021, and it was also seen as a pretty big improvement over Megste Studio's previous episodes as the animation and lighting was much better. Episode 5 wouldn't release until November 28, 2021, as Megste Studios was also working on their own version of Songs of War Season 3 at the same time. They would also release a now deleted trailer about their Songs of War Season 3 in November, 2021 aswell.

During the start of 2022, Megste Studios would make big changes to how they produce Songs of War content, they would scrap all Songs of War Season 3 work they were currently doing and begin over again. Megste Studios also decided to work on Episode 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 around the same time, so they could be released weekly. Megste himself was only the only one animating at this point, as all the other animators who worked on the previous episodes have left the project. Megste decided to add some composers to the team, so custom music could be made for Songs of War Season 2, as up to Episode 5, he was mainly reusing After Infinity's Songs of War Season 1 OST, and was also using various stock music.

After all this, Megste would release a trailer for the upcoming Season 2 episodes on May 17, 2022. Episode 6 would then be released 3 days later on May 20, 2022. The rest of the episodes would release weekly from eachother (7 days). Until Episode 10 was released on June 17, 2022, ending off Megste's Songs of War Season 2. On June 21, 2022, he would release a Movie of Songs of War Season 2 that combined Episode 6-10, he didn't include the earlier ones as they were not as good as the later episodes, quality wise. Megste would then take a break after this and restart work on Songs of War Season 3, again. He would then put Songs of War Season 3 on hold during July 2022 as he was now working on applying to become an animator for Black Plasma Studios. Megste would also have Diamond Blazer update the video thumbnails of episodes 1-3, to have them be on par in quality with the rest of the episodes' thumbnails, Diamond Blazer also made all video thumbnails for episodes 6-10.

On August 10, 2022, he would release the soundtrack for his version of Songs of War Season 2, that was composed by mainly Cobalt, but PringleSauce also contributed a piece for Episode 6. He would also release a QnA video announcement a day later, offering to answer viewers questions (The video was cancelled). Unfortunately, a month later, after thinking about this for 2-3 months, Megste decided to cancel production of his fan made Songs of War Season 3, he was getting burned out on the project for being the only animator doing significant work, he didn't have much time for animating fan made Songs of War stuff anymore since he signed up to be a contract animator for Black Plasma Studios, and he was losing interest in the Songs of War series in general. He has decided to release all animation work he had done for Season 3 however, including a mostly complete Episode 1, various scenes from other episodes he completed, and various incomplete scenes from other episodes. He would release the mostly complete Season 3 Episode 1, on September 30th, 2022, about a half complete version of Season 3 Episode 3 on October 8th, 2022, a partially complete version of Season 3 Episode 4 on October 14th, two complete scenes of the Felden arc from Season 3 Episodes 6-7 on October 20th, the Nether throne room battle from Season 3 Episode 9 on October 28th, and finally the final major battle in SoW from Season 3 Episode 10 on November 4th.

After this, two days later he would release the soundtrack for what was made of Season 3, and then a compilation of 25 minutes' worth of Songs of War scenes that he did work on, but never fully completed. These would be Megste's final two Songs of War videos and in his own words "It concludes the era of SoW on his channel".

## Members

### Current Members

* Megste - Director, Animator, Dialog Editor
* Cobalt - Composer, Additional Designer
* KevinSlowMunch - Dialog Editor, Additional Designer
* Varek - Dialog Editor
* Diamond Blazer - Additional Designer and Thumbnail Artist.
* Dino-Pack - Additional Designer
* Lord\_Cringefest - Additional Designer
* Siredian Mendoris - Additional Designer

### Former Members

* King Dyron - Animator, Renderer, and Effects Designer
* Khalaf - Animator
* Danger Zone - Animator
* Volotaa - Animator
* Yourboi - Animator
* PringleSauce - Composer
* Aquagon - Composer
* Supernovablade - Voice Actor for Aren
* CentreBlaze - Former Voice Actor for Borgen
* AndyHandy - Former Voice Actor for Denny
* DynamoMC - Voice Actor for John

## Links

Discord: https://discord.gg/QmJCfYm4Ky

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MegsteStudios

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MegsteStudios