Baby Bestiary 2025 Calendar

Hey all!
Just wanted to let you know, the backerkit survey is out! And production has started. (if you need a link to the survey try here https://baby-bestiary-2025-calendar.backerkit.com/)

We're doing something a little different this year, we're going to have the manufacturer of the calendars ship directly to the backers, this should cut down our processing time quite a bit, almost 2-3 weeks, since now our warehouse doesn't have to receive, get packaging, print labels, and ship each calendar..so this will be a great time save (assuming things go well). The tradeoff is two-fold: 

stickers can be found in the survey and are in packs of 1,3,5,10 (tried to make it easy for what you need).

As for timing...in order for me to get addresses to the manufacturer (to not prevent any delays), it would be nice to have your surveys filled out by Thursday Oct 31st. Granted most typically fill in the survey in the first three days, but this will allow me to get a first wave of shipments going with the manufacturer. Ideally after that point, I can get the remaining submitted on Nov 4th. From there, it really depends on how fast the manufacturer ships. My guess is, after the full shipments go out they'll ship the remaining to our warehouse and our warehouse will then process any remaining shipments from that point on (and they will have a faster turnaround because there will be ~20 orders that might fall behind), as opposed to slating out and shipping 800.


Thats all for now, and thank you so much for the feedback on the calendar!
Andreas

Hey all, 
Sorry for the delay, Just wrapped up the design, and will be sending to the printer shortly (also will be opening up bacerkit in a moment so i can collect address and such.

gonna try something new this year and ship out directly from the printer, which would reduce the time from traveling to our warehouse and them prepping and packing...so hopefully saves some time. 
but the only snag is they do not do stickers...so we'd have to do those separately (which should be ok, since we can put those in simple letter envelopes. 

If there's anything you want to see added (or needs fixing let me know),
ill be sending out a proper final pdf once we get into backerkit (which ill be submitting tomorrow for approval)
Andreas

Hey all,
just a quick update,
Im a smidge behind on the backerkit, things have been busy.

But, we do have some stickers!!
And if you want the coloring book you can snag it earlyhere (ill upload it properly to backerkit when i get there).
Finishing up the calendar tonight, and getting that out to you asap before printing. (ran into an issue where my helper moved around the boxes of the layout instead of the text).

Our countdown is already winding down and we've got some adorable updates

First up the picnic at IceCube



As well as some early shots inside of the Roastery!!

thank you all for the support and more to show off soon!!

Once the campaign is over, ill be setting up the pledge manager, which by then, we'll have more about the sticker sheets and if you want to get additional ones. 

Thanks for all the support, 
Andreas

Hey All!
sorry for the few days delay, I've been chatting with the artist, and it definitely looks like we can do the sticker sheets. Im figuring out the format they'll play, though just due to timing we'll likely be getting those designs after the calendar art is finished so that we can get the calendar to production as soon as possible.

he's another finished scene for Ice Cube 



And here is the WIP color of August (i think) (outside of Ice Cube)

(ice cube) WIP Sketch (Jthink July)
(looking at potentially changing the location to a dockside, so we can have a hippocampus and sea lion be a part of the picture)

Thank you all for the support and more art to come as it gets cleaned up and finished!
(also loved some of the ideas for the stickers, I've writing them down for another post to centralize them).
Andreas - Owlbear Caretaker