Alexander Howell · 3 September 2026

100 Visits — Thank You. Now Let's Make It 1,000.

100 Visits — Thank You. Now Let's Make It 1,000.

The new Creative Bandit Studios site has now passed 100 visits. I want to mark the moment properly, because numbers like this matter more to a one-person studio than they might look.

One hundred visits is not a viral number. It is not going to make headlines or impress an algorithm. But it is one hundred real people who found this little corner of the internet, looked at the work, and stayed long enough to register. Some of you watched the showreel. Some of you read the DevLog. Some of you dug through the full festival record on the achievements page — all 135 submissions of it. Every single one of those visits is a person who chose to spend a few minutes here, and I noticed.

Building this studio sometimes feels like shouting into a very large, very empty room. The films take months. The submissions take patience. The devlogs go out and the silence afterwards can be deafening. Then a number ticks over — 100 — and it is a reminder that the room is not actually empty. People are out there. You found the work. You came back.

So: thank you. Genuinely. To everyone who visited, watched, read, subscribed on YouTube, or mentioned the site to someone else — this milestone belongs to you as much as to me.

Now let's make it 1,000. Not for vanity — because every visitor is another pair of eyes on films that were made to be watched, and every share helps the next festival jury, collaborator or curious viewer find their way here. If you have enjoyed anything on this site, the single most valuable thing you can do is tell one person about it. That is how a studio grows from 100 to 1,000 — one recommendation at a time.

There is plenty coming to give you a reason to return: Isekai no Meta: Rebooted is in development, the next Character Spotlight is on the way, and the local-first AI filmmaking pipeline experiment is just getting started. The DevLog will keep recording all of it — the wins and the failures alike.

Here's to the next 900.