In my opinion, as long as the content can somehow still relate to brickfilms and or filmmaking in general, I thiink you can put it on the same channel. If one started making live action films, or video essays, or even vlogs showing the behind the scenes process of making their films, I feel like you can keep it on the same channel.

If it's content that heavily deviates from what the channel was originally supposed to be (and especially if it's going to be posted at a rate at which it would be served up much faster than, say, brickfilms), I'd probably put it on a different channel. A good example of this would be if you had your brickfilm channel, and decided you wanted to start doing Lets Plays. The Lets Plays, which feature you and maybe a group talking about whatever over a video game, is very different from narrative driven short animated films, it's targeting an almost entirely different subset of the YouTube audience. In addition, one could upload a Lets Play or more every day, whereas a short film can take weeks or months inbetween each project to come out.

If, in another example, you began making video essays on whatever, your target audience is staying the same as your original content. A large amount of people who like watching short films online are also likely to enjoy watching a video essay on some aspect of film or culture or whatever. And you're not likely to be releasing a new one every day, so the channel isn't getting too flooded with content.

Now, for something like Vlogs, you'll have to feel it out. Some can integrate them well into their main channel, others end up splitting it off to a different one. Corridor Digital did so successfully with their second channel. However they already have a much larger audience who already followed their second channel for BTS content, so when it just started come out more regularly it felt natural. A channel of a much smaller size would have difficulty with doing something like that, as you're basically restarting from scratch trying to scrape together a following.

This is a bit of a long slog of a writeup, but this is something I've thought about almost since I started brickfilming. I've toyed with the ideas of doing Vlogs, video essays, Let-Plays, the works, and I think that while there are some more sensible ways to go about it, the YouTube landscape is changing on almost a monthly basis, it's hard to really tell what works and doesn't.

In the end, you'll just have to make a judgement calll and take the plunge, doggo.

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Well all I have been doing on my channel is just  brick films and I really do hate it when someone switches content from one thing to another and I think you should make a separate channel for one type of content but if you're just going to make a video that's not a brick film once then I think that is ok let me know what you think cause I'm going to be making an animation that is not made of Lego for a friend and I don't know if that will effect anything if I posted it on my channel.

If the content is directly related to brickfilming, it's a no-brainer, that's what your subscribers want to see. Personally I have no problem with posting other animation on my channel, and I plan on doing more (hence my name change on YouTube a couple years ago). Live action short films can be tricky. Most of the time when I see a live action film by a brickfilmer in my sub box I skip over it. It's not that I don't like live action shorts, it's just that there tends to be a large disparity between the quality of the two. That being said, I think it depends on the kind of brickfilmer that you are. If you're the person who's releasing a short every other week, comedy focused, lots of IP based shorts, you're probably going to alienate your audience by posting a live action short film. However, if your the kind of brickfilmer who (unless entering THAC or BRAWL) spends months crafting a brickfilm with an original story, careful cinematography and lighting, and creative animation solutions (this is you Rio), your subscribers probably see your channel as the location of your film making efforts; and will likely be much more receptive to you exploring other mediums of storytelling.

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