We begged makeship and it's happening! He's BACK!
Updated with a more accurate skin tone, more secure neck thingy AND removable gun!
He's up for 21 days, after that he's gonna be gone forever!
https://www.makeship.com/products/shrike-sanchez-2-0-plushie
2024-07-08 15:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This is your last chance to get a hold of Neen before she's gone forever!
Just 99 more to sell before we break into the 30% profit bracket.
https://www.makeship.com/products/pirate-queen-tyneen
2024-07-01 14:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostQuick updates for the coming week;
1) Tyneen plush has 3 days left to go, get her now before she's gone forever!
https://www.makeship.com/products/pirate-queen-tyneen
2) The Shrike re-issue goes on sale around the 7th of July. More info on that when the time approaches!
3) There won't be an update next weekend as Ash & I are traveling to see family for July 4th. We'll be...
2024-06-29 14:06:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick update to let you guys know there won't be an update today (expect this one) as not much was done this previous week.
Expect a bigger update to come next weekend however!
2024-06-22 16:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostAnother week evaporates by another update for your eyes!
Tyneen only has 16 more to go before she's funded and becomes real. I doubt we'll hit the 400 sold to break the 30% profit threshold but a man can dream!
Anywho, update will be light next week as I have a couple small freelance things to finish up.
Until next Saturday~
2024-06-15 14:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostAnother week flies by, another update for your eyes!
Progress is steady as we're rapidly approaching the first 100 shots being complete.
Just 412 more to go...
In other news the Tyneen plush is only 55 pre-orders away from becoming REAL, so don't forget to check her out to help start the funding of ep 5 before she's gone forever.
Thank you for your continued support!
2024-06-08 14:29:09 +0000 UTC View PostWow, Half way through the year already? Where DID the time go???
Anywho here is a little update from the previous week. Working on the trailer for the Tyneen plush as well as a secret thing for Joel ate into episode animation time so this weeks update isn't as crazy as the previous 2 weeks.
Should be going back full tilt into ep animation this coming week!
Thanks ...
2024-06-01 15:26:23 +0000 UTC View Post
She's HERE!
We've partnered again with the folks over at Makeship to produce a Queen Tyneen plush for pride month!
A portion of sales will go towards various LGBTQ+ charities as well as going to fund episode 5 of Monkey wrench!
So what are you waiting for? Go support your QUEEN!
https://www.makeship.com/products/pirate-queen-tyneen
2024-05-30 16:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostAnother week passes another update!
Animation update next week is gonna be a bit light as I've gotta work on a certain trailer for a certain Tyneen plush coming out in June~
Thanks again for your support!
2024-05-25 14:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt STARTS!
Shots have been divided out amongst the crew and they'll be starting this coming week.
In the mean time please enjoy what I managed to get done this week. This should serve as a good example on the limited style I'm using for the 22 minutes I have assigned myself. Minimal frame use on body movement but still full expression and lipsync. I think it works quite well for our current budget~
Until next weeks update~
Thanks again for your continued support.
2024-05-18 14:37:40 +0000 UTC View PostMakeship has invited us to their halloween plush event where we design a plush for halloween.
If we were to accept we'd make a Jaw Bone plush that'd glow in the dark.
HOWEVER: We already have 3 plushies coming out this year;
Tyneen in June
Shrike reissue in July
Kara in October for the episode release.
We don't want to oversaturate you guys with Plushies so we're gonna put it up to a poll.
This'll go for 3 days and we'll proceed according to the poll ...
2024-05-15 16:18:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Boards are 100% complete, animation has started!
Expect weekly animation updates coming your way starting next Saturday~
2024-05-11 19:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The boards are done!
Currently clocking in at around 31 minutes long. Gonna take next week to go through this multiple times to make sure things flow well and has a good pace, then once that's sorted we'll be moving onto animation.
I will say now though that due to losing a fair amount of support we can only afford 10 minutes of full animation this episode, the rest will be hybrid animatic style like the outtakes but with a ...
2024-05-04 16:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post
It's our new update time of Saturday!
Only 3 and a half minutes left to board on Ep 4~
Should be done in the next two weeks!
Until then, thanks for your continued support~
2024-04-27 15:35:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As we're getting very close to the end of the episode, expect previews to be getting more limited until we start animation!
Thanks for your continued support~
2024-04-20 19:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy it's update time!
There is no dialogue in this one, have fun trying to work out what they're talking about.
I'm sure it's nothing serious...
Until next weeks update!
Thanks again for your continued support
2024-04-13 19:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to it after our week break!
Enjoy this meaty preview of our angry bone boi getting a little 'too friendly' with Shrike~
We're also past the half way point, if we're able to keep up the pace we should be able to have the boards done by the end of April, then it's just down to trying to raise the $80k we'll need to get the whole ep fully animated~
As always this is a WIP and things are subject to change.
Thank you as always for your continued support!
2024-04-05 15:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a 'very special' video coming on Monday, keep your eyes open for that, but in the mean time I have some thoughts to spill out to you guys.
So if you don't know, a few weeks ago Patreon introduced an insights feature were you can track pretty much everything, including fees and where they go, so I thought I'd check them out and...
...it's pretty scary HOW much patreon is actually taki...
2024-03-29 20:15:53 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Friday, another update!
We're getting close to 18 mins boarded so far, and to stave off the encroaching burn out I'm gonna be taking this coming week off to recoup and then jump back on the following week, so there won't be an update on the 29th.
As always this is a WIP and things are subject to change, etc.
Thanks again for your continued support!
2024-03-22 19:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostAnother friday, another storyboard update!
We currently have 11 minutes and 32 seconds boarded with more to come!
As always, this is a WIP and things are subject to change.
See you next friday~
Thank you for your continued support!
2024-03-15 19:37:06 +0000 UTC View PostI return from forced vacation and we're slowly getting back into the storyboard groove!
Enjoy a snippet of this weeks progress!
As always everything is a WIP, raw audio things subject to change etc.
(Also enjoy the music substitute~)
More to come next friday!
Thanks again for your continued support!
2024-03-08 16:49:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a family thing going on all next week, so to make up for the fact I'll be gone for a good 7 days I thought I'd share with you guys a 5 minute storyboard preview of Ep 4!
As always, this is a WIP, that means;
- Audio balance isn't done
- Sound effects are rough and basic
- Music is placeholder
- Things are subject to change
Also while I'm here, those waiting on icons should hopefully have them before I head off on Sunday, unless you haven't put your requ...
2024-02-23 16:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostHappy valentines day, folks!
We have all the voices recorded for EP 4, and because I love you guys so much, we're moving the update from Friday to TODAY!
Enjoy this little showcase of almost all our Voice actors for Ep 4~
Thanks again for your continued support!
Animatic work begins soon™
2024-02-14 20:07:53 +0000 UTC View PostVoice recording is in full swing, please enjoy this little raw snippet~
Which characters do these voices belong to?
You'll have to work that out on your own ;)
More to come soon!
Thank you as always for your continued support!
2024-02-09 21:01:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been exactly one month since Ep 3 of Monkey was released to the public, and as the ever want to be as transparent as possible with indie production it’s time we sat down and had a very important discussion on the future of the series.
So, as we said above, one month has passed from the public release of episode 3, and everything hinges on how well it does.
Below are the metrics for it on Youtube;
As we wait for funding to come in, enjoy this little vid showcasing some outtakes from Ep 3~
WARNING - Some shots are VERY LOUD thanks to Pelo, headphone users beware.
Also this is totally not canon at all.
2024-01-30 00:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostAs we wait for funding for voice acting for ep 4 to come in, to pass the time we're working on a 4 minute and 30 second video of... some thing special~
Enjoy this little sneak peak, and warning; it gets LOUD (plus there is some language)
2024-01-19 19:15:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Two weeks into the new year already? Lordy!
We're two weeks now after the release of Ep 3 on Youtube and the outcry of support for us has been rather flattering.
At time of writing we managed to get to 384k views in two weeks before engagement collapsed.
I would be worried, but due to the insane growth that the series Patreon has seen since ep 3's release it's pretty much counterbalanced Ep3's mediocre YT performance (see attached image above). I can't thank you guy...
2024-01-13 16:34:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy, what an almost week!
Ep 3 has been well received by both the Newgrounds crew as well as Youtube. We should be hitting 300k views sometime today in fact, which is pretty good for us.
Right now I'm currently on the hunt for some freelance work to start to bolster our funding as the production costs for Ep 3 left us pretty much high and dry (not to mention taxes are coming).
With the Scritch & Scratch plush campaigns doing good (just less than 70 left to sell before...
2024-01-05 16:11:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Ref sheets for most of the things that appeared in ep 3~
2023-12-29 18:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post