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Hey All!!
Sorry for the delay, I am happy to report that calendars have begun shipping out!

There was a little bit of a delay as the warehouse who had to order additional packaging. But I am seeing orders going out, and thats a good thing!  All of you should have received your order emails from the Baby Bestiary store, and if there is anything missing, seems off, or you missed it, feel free to reach out and let me know and ill look into it ([email protected]).

I'm excited for these to get in your hands, and I hope everyone has been having a great Thanksgiving week! For us, this was our first Thanksgiving without any extended family, and we, *struggled* had a lot of fun, trying to keep the cooking going and our toddler and infant entertained at the same time. (but at the end of the day everything was good...tiring but good).
All the best and more to come! 
Caretaker Andreas

Hey all. 
I want to apologize for the delay, but PDF (v2) is out!!

You can get to your downloads here
https://baby-bestiary-2026-calendar.backerkit.com/backer/digital_rewards

Any all other downloads will appear once addresses are locked down. 


I'm doing my last spot checks on everything to make sure its good before approving the final for production, and then we'll be golden!

If you spot anything, let me know, and Ill get it fixed!
Thanks all for your support,
Andreas!

Hey all!
Super excited to announce that at 6pm pacific, the campaign will be wrapping up, and we'll get started getting the survey for addresses put together, and finalize the layout of the calendar while the final two pieces get finished.

And we get to show off,

We start out with  our reference art, and some sketchup styles

Another concept art idea

Concept ideas for druid-y homes
hoenstly all of these were pretty cool, i felt like 3 was the most, 'house-y' that would give home vibes while not straying too far away from a recognizable stardew aesthetic

Druid concept art
i picked the last one cause feather mantles are awesome.

Blockouts to figure out scale/zoom
even though the right is more true to resolution, the left is more readable (esp as a calendar image)

First color pass

More Plants

Added animals and character,, and some more details
also added some runestones

And finally UI

We might try and add a few more pieces of creatures, to add to it, as the myconid/flumph and unicorn arent enough. But super loving how everything came together!!

and also as i say this, I should probably set the date/time to correlate to a lunar event, becuase that would be a fun coincidence

Anyways, i hope you enojy these WIP pieces, and thank you all for the support
Andreas 

Hey All!
We're hard at work, getting the calendar layout going, and finishing up the last few pieces.
We've got 5  days left, and if there are any calendar images that are a favorite of yours please share it with your friends to get the word out (or buy an additional one as a gift, that works too!)

For this post, I want to take a moment to show off our process of our Overcooked piece!

To start out, sketches!
Using some maps of overcooked as inspiration (and adjusting to a wide page layout.
Initially I was thinking something like the horde mode where wed have wyrmlings on the sides, instead we opted for a more 'boss mode' where you're feeding the dragon, and the little wymlings may interefere (burning or eating things on the stove). 

Koit had the idea of kobolds,  sort of serving the dragon, which makes a ton of sense.

Then it came down to placement of the map  and firming down details

A flat color pass of the background, and a couple of overlayed graphics to see where things may go

Translated

detail pass

UI, chefs, wyrmlings and more of the glowing effects

Here we noticed that the stage was a little funny shaped and that we should take advantage of the whole area (no need to have two visual walls

Also we talked quite a bit at what kind of food should the dragon be cooking. Should it be all meat? or something else?
IDK why but i came across burnt rice recipies, and perfect timing, because that seems fitting for a dragon to enjoy burnt foods.
So we ended up with Chicken Skewers and Tahdig (also known as scorched rice), which is typically cooked with saffron and served with yogurt.

So icons for the food, and updated plate positioning

We made some additional layout adjustments, to the cutting board, ink and pots to not only make it more 'playable' but also visually clear (like you can barely see the sink in the image above)

Then there was the recipie card we had to revise it a few times, because the ingredient shows the recipie. In addition to the timer, being reflective of the urgency. 

And from there we finished!!

This was a super fun piece. We only have 5 days left, and thanks for joining us on this amazing journey!
Caretaker Andreas

New piece is in!!!
Cerberus has puppies!!
We still need to add the bits of UI, but since it just came in, i wanted to show it off!!  Because this is one sweet!!

We're still working out the concept for the booklet, ive begun some work on the layout of the calendar (getting all the dates aligned and sorts. We've working our way to 10k and we've got more designs coming!!

Thank you all for your support, now onto process sketches :)
Caretaker Andreas

-----------------Process-------------


So Process wise, we started off with our sketches, and using our inspiration source

From there we get the Momma, and the puppies sketched out. 

Then, its time to focus on our protagonists.
The main goal was to have a bit of God of War inspiration.

First some exploration of outfits. 

Then sprite representations of the characters.
we ended up going with the Nemean lion look

and finally rending those out on the board with some of the decorations.