Project Update: Update: Status/Progress (as things currently stand!)
Project Update: Update: Continued Production Notes (Plus Long Screenshot Exhaustion)
There is firm progress and we're into screenprinting, but it's nowhere near where I wanted to be (which was months ago, with completed samples).
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Hello, is there any update on this? It's been 3 months since the last once and this project is significantly behind the posted schedule. Hoping for an idea when this might fulfill. Thanks!
Project Update: Update: Molds & Sample Progress, Surveys This Week
- The cuts in the pin molds not being as exact as I wanted;
- Some alterations in the art that made it problematic to sit side by side (which obviously is fairly critical with this design);
- The colors being pretty off in the initial, but ultimately when the mold was having issues it didn't matter (since the mold was the bigger issue);
- And some general concerns with flaw rates (with the old manufacturer) as they were becoming more popular and thus more inconsistent (it happens).
That all said, I've been happy with how their screenprints look in the past, so I'm fairly confident that it shouldn't be an issue here.
The minute I've approved the final sample for production on either variant, I will let everyone know and show those off! I appreciate you trusting the process for now, since highly complex pins are a bit bonkers without their screenprints. And thank you again for your patience.
M.
Project Update: Update: A Long-Awaited Touch Base!
If you’ve been following along with our other campaign Purrtagonists, it was just an unfortunate mess with one of the major manufacturers of Venetia’s pins where some of the pins they returned had a 90%+ error rate. It created a lot of initial hangups with its multitude of designs; it has been effectively locked for months getting back funds and struggling to make headway, and we were set back a substantial amount (about $14,000 plus the remake costs). Normally this wouldn’t impact anything but itself, but it was far past the normal line and impacted a large amount of things since I was covering the costs of remakes (and the overage that the campaign incurred). We’ve started to see small resolutions there (plus having an end of year sale where some of those costs were recouped) so things are looking better.
My goal is to have the surveys for addresses out in the beginning of the coming month; I’ll honor initial requests for add-ons (to complete the set or get additional sets), but anything through the separated preorder store will be adjusted for the additional sampling costs that were lost. (TL;DR - That won’t impact you, but people outside of the campaign.)