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Baby Bestiary 2023 Calendar

Created by Baby Bestiary

Another amazing year

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Progress Update
almost 2 years ago – Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 07:58:56 PM

Hey Everyone!
Just wanted to give you and update on how everything is going.
PDF is sent out, sorry it took awhile, i thought it was set up so that when you finished backerkit you'd have access to it, turns out the  distibution still had to be run.
Magnets and Coffee are already at the warehouse ready to go (i dont have any pictures of the coffee, but theres a lot of it)
And the magnets came out adorably

Calendar

So the calendar is still being printed and prepped, I haven't gotten a final proof yet, I expect an early copy to arrive hopefully this week (fingers crossed) and the full shipment of calendars to likely arrive last week of December (should be leaving the manufacturer this week, being airshipped to the US which is kinda crazy).

As for something to show proof-wise, I did receive these potter proofs and i created this video, I meant to share it, but things have been crazy with the holidays. Just a note, the proofs in the video were to just show how the print looked with the gold placement  (you can see that here).


Other Things

  • Art Prints - they have been ordered (with the gold foil)
  • CatBat Originals - sorry for the delay, but Ive started reaching out to backers in order to get their preference
  • Backerkit Locking Down - Locking down orders so that we can get the addresses ready and prepped with the warehouse. (if there are any changes to be made, feel free to email me at [email protected])

I'll hopefully have another update this week with an advanced copy of the calendar. 
More to come very soon! (its a bummer that the gold foil pushed out production so far, but we can take this as a lesson for future calendars if we ever do something with this much gold foil in it). 
Also happy holidays,
Andreas


The Price of calendars | Geting into Backerkit
almost 2 years ago – Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 11:03:56 AM

Hey Backers,
I apologize for the delay in updates and not having gotten everyone into backerkit yet.
Simply put there was some chaos in figuring out a manufacturer for the calendars, that wouldn't end up with us losing a lot of money.

So long-ish story, I had an initial quote from CatPrint, but i knew it was flawed, but i thought it was only because it was a lack of pages, so i multiplied it out and estimated that calendars would cost us somewhere around ~$8, an expensive calendar, but it would be worth it.
Once the campaign concluded I went ahead and finished the calendar (and its beautiful!), and then immediately began working with the printer to reaffirm the quotes i had previously gotten. It took a week to finally get a full quote from them, and they told me it would cost $15 per calendar, a bit more than we are looking to pay, and would actually put the project in the red. And to make matters even more difficult, they told us it would take 5-6 weeks to make the calendars.
So with that new information, I reached out to my printer who does my books. I know they can make the calendar at a cheaper rate (heck they can make 1000 one-hundred page books for $3-5/copy), so the question came, can they do i faster and will it still be cheaper if they air freight the entire order to the US?
With some back and forth (and its helpful that the files are done at this point), calendars came out to $2.5/calendar (lower than i expected), but with air freight would add another +$2-4/calendar, which puts it cheaper and as fast as CatPrint. 
So, now everything has been submitted and is moving. 

  • Bonus Art Print is actually going to be printed by our overseas printer and have them inserted into the calendar. (ordered 2k calendars)
  • Magnets, have been ordered. (ordered 1700 of magnets, 3x designs)
  • Coffee, a rough number has been given to Found Familiar so they can add it to their production schedule.
  • Art Prints, going to have to wait to order those until after everyone is in backerkit, but it shouldnt take too long since we have all of the art files completed, but the sooner i order them the better. 

 Timeline
So in all honesty, things are gonna be closer to shipping out mid-December, and unfortunately that all based on the timing of the calendar, so right now my goal is to get our warehouse equipped with everything so they can prep as much as possible (getting them coffee and the prototype calendars early) so that they can get packing materials and start getting packages prepped, to reduce turnaround time when the calendars arrive. 

Backerkit has been ready to import backers into, but i was worried about shipping numbers (as well as what the cost of an additional calendar should be outside of the campaign), esp given the situation above. Anyways, now that the cost of calendars has been figured out, I'll be able to get everyone inside backerkit and we can get numbers finalized and going. 

Again, I'm guessing shipping will commence either mid-late december, so it is very likely shipments will arrive as late as early Jan (unfortunately).  This is the first time I've ever printed the calendar abroad, let alone for a cost reason, as well as the first time we're doing gold foil printing. 
Thanks for bearing with me and these crazy times. 
When i get proofs, I'll be sure to share them when they come in. 

Andreas

We did it GOLD FOIL is happening!!!
about 2 years ago – Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 10:21:23 AM

Hey backers new and old!!
I'm super excited to announce that we did it!! We've unlocked gold foil printing on every page of the calendar!!



This was a crazy goal and I'm super excited that we were able to make it, because it means we can keep pushing the bar on what we can accomplish!!

Also, magnets!! Catbat has been cranking out the magnets for the calendar as well. Here are the designs!!



We're winding down on the campaign but for us theres soo much to do!!
Thank you for all the support and for helping reach our awesome capstone goal!!!

You're the best, and have an amazing weekend
Andreas

Get 1 friend to pledge, then ✨Gold Foil✨ on every page for everyone!
about 2 years ago – Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 04:24:12 PM

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has supported and shared this campaign so far!
I wanted to say thank you for everyone who has pledged so far, because we've locked in the small art print (thinking postcard size) to go with every calendar.

Also, we are only 4 days away from the campaign ending! And less than 100 backers away from ✨Gold Foil✨ printing on every page for everyone who has pledged for a physical calendar!

If 100 of you can get just 1 friend to pledge, we will reach our capstone community goal!!! 

Time is quickly running out 😬, so If you can please share this project with your groups and your networks!: 

🚀 Twitter 

🚀 Facebook 

🚀 Email to a Friend 


And if you tag us (@babybestiary / @metalweavegames) we'll be able boost it 😊❤️☕️

Thank you everyone so much for the support, lets come in with a strong landing!
Andreas

WE NEED YOUR HELP! The ✨Gold Foil✨ Goal
about 2 years ago – Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 03:01:10 PM

Hey Calendar and Coffee Lovers!

Not only are we quickly approaching $25,000 for our final voted stretch goal, but, we're also so close to reaching our community goal of 1,000 backers! If we unlock this, we'll be doing ✨GOLD FOIL PRINTING✨ on every art page of the calendar!!

But, we only have 9 more days to make this happen!

We are less than 200 backers away from reaching this goal, but to reach our goal of 1,000 backers, we'll need your help to get us there, and every little bit of support helps!
If even just a quarter of you know a friend or can get someone to support the campaign (even at the lowest level!), we'll be able to reach this awesome goal, which would make this the most beautiful calendar we've ever produced!

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Thanks you all for your amazing support,
Andreas