Pintopia is entering the last 48 hours! That means campaign exclusives (stickers, separate meat magnets) are about to go away. We're also down to our last chance to unlock the final extended stretch goals to add all the pin variants and the domestic dog!

Here's where we're at:

Extras will be available in my shop after the campaign is fulfilled, but I will be basing my stock numbers on the popularity of each pin among backers, so some of them might not have a ton of leftover pins. Backing remains the best way to guarantee you get the pin you want- especially for the higher tier variants!

With Pintopia winding down and Lunar New Year approaching for my manufacturers I'm about to be focusing on getting ready for Carrion Baggage: Second Bite since it launches in less than a month! Return backers will be getting a mini pin, and reserve backers will be getting a free plush keychain. If you have any interest in interesting bags with tons of space you might like what I have! You'll probably recognize some familiar meat designs among them.

I'm absolutely exhausted, we got home at around 5am this morning after a work week at a con, and I have a ton of work to catch up on. I look forward to finally bringing these pins to life for y'all and am sorry to not have oodles to say but even if we don't make those final stretch goals I am still beyond grateful for all the support you've shown and how far we've gotten- we're well beyond anything I would have imagined!

I didn't expect to finish these so soon but insomnia can turn in to some pretty crazy periods of art production, so here's the final art for these bonus pins! Currently the tree boa, gryphon, and orca can all be considered unlocked and will be available choices. The dog will be unlocked if we manage to hit our very few remaining stretch goals! I haven't gotten exact sizes determined on these yet, but they will be put up on the main campaign page once I've got em!

Which is your favorite? I am partial to the emerald tree boa. It was hard to do but I love how goofy it is without even really being much of an exaggeration.

Reserve backers will get a free plush keychain of their choice with their pledge rewards, so if you know you want to back you might want to consider that! I'm really excited to finally get these designs in to production soon. If you didn't know, many of the mini meat magnets directly match bags from the Carrion Baggage line!

The people have spoken!

Right now as it stands I think I can squeeze in 3 additional designs for sure. If a 4th one is added depends on how much they end up costing since the orca has double the magnets and the gryphon is going to be pretty large like the other winged pins. I'll know for sure when I've finalized the art and discussed it with my manufacturer. As it stands right now you can fully expect the Gryphon, Orca, and Emerald Tree Boa to be available pins choices!

I am up to my neck in getting ready for AnthroExpo right now so I have not gotten to finish the art. So here's some sketch previews! I don't want to share the whole thing since a lot could still change between these and final linework/color, but they give you a good idea of where these critters are going. Orcas are so hard to draw wait til you see what a lil vienna sausage mermaid it turned out to be

As far as stretch goal progress goes, we've unlocked all the way up through Orange Shark! Sort of!! We keep hitting that goal and then losing some funding, but we're staying pretty consistently in the vicinity of it, and Golden Bear has remained firmly unlocked for some time. That leaves us with only 4 stretch goals to go. That is TRULY AMAZING. But we're not there yet! We're just CLOSE. Really y'all thank you so much for supporting my work like this. It means a lot to know folks out there resonate enough with my art to help me get it out there in different forms.

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and may your week go quickly, I have to get some zzzs in before I go back out in the cold to keep loading the truck for when we leave. G'night/g'morning!

Hey all! So I've been looking at the black werewolf. Currently it just changes the fur colors and nothing else. But maybe it would be better if we did a high contrast metal for it, and changed the colors a little to match? There's the black nickel one unchanged, and also a gold or silver finish with a red tongue. I've done a mock-up of the choices and have opened a poll that will run for just a week!

For the other alt colors, we are unlocked all the way up through the RED DRAGON!! That means the blonde fox is unlocked as well. That is amazing everyone, thank you so much! That leaves 6 alt color goals remaining, and also puts us at over 60% of the big bonus goal.

In March I will be launching Carrion Baggage: Second Bite, so I am having to work hard on that while simultaneously continuing to work on Gnawesome Predators. It would mean a lot to me if you'd check out that next project too. There will be a free mini pin for return backers, and I'll be picking something in line with the theme for Gnawesome Predators!

Here's the most recent prototype for the new designs! I love this one a lot. It looks so lumpy because it is way too large though! So it is getting shrunk down some. There's lil sardines in the tin too.

Have a good rest of your week!

After looking at the budget I realized something important. I had been continuing to count mold fees in to the alternate pin color costs! Only the piebald hyena will need anything like that. What's more, I was counting the mold fees for their matching meats as well! Mold fees are one of the costliest parts of adding new designs. That means I have a little wiggle room to add some extra designs, if anyone would like them at least. It will be a lot of work but I'd love to see these represented and just could not justify the budget initially. Went and tricked myself, whoops.

If all 17 pin alt goals are reached I could do up to 5 new designs! So I started sketching. Some weren't wise to slip in unplanned. Animals I considered like that were a spotted big cat (like jaguar, cheetah, leopard,) african wild dog, chameleon, komodo dragon, and of course a cockatrice. They were all either too costly on the screen printing side, lacking in an appropriate meat pairing, or had a meat pairing that would not look good with pretty much any design other than themselves. After pruning those and some still fun but perhaps too niche/joke-y ideas (RIP hognose + frog leg, axolotl + food chunk that only attaches at the wrong spot, betta + cherry shrimp, and blind snake + ant larvae) I came up with the following:

Not glorious or even easy to parse, I know! I'm a messy sketcher who refines and refines and refines by redrawing several times, and the first go is usually just me chucking lines on the paper and seeing how they splat. Sorry about that.

There is a poll attached to this update, and I encourage you to vote for your favorite. They will be unlocked in the order voted upon, and that would also determine which pins don't make the cut if necessary. Anyway! Early Bird has ended, but we're really close to the Golden Raptor!

I'll see you when there's next something big to announce!