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Updates (Neo Trio Song, Artbook, and more!)
🕑 Added 2023-08-12 18:56:52 +0000 UTCHey! I realize it's been a little while since I've posted something substantial on here, even though I've been working on a lot. Here's what's going on:
We're continuing our fully-voiced playthrough of Skies of Arcadia today at 2pm PST on "Jello Plays Games" with the One Piece Book Club following soon after at 5:30pm PST.
The Neo Trio song is now fully written and half recorded. Phoenica and Molly's parts are finished, we just need Stink and Stonk's. Hopefully we can get it mixed and sent off to Luveygold ASAP! They've been doing a great job on the video.
We're also looking into getting some little animated TikToks made with another artist, though those have been delayed because he's been very sick.
The book is in its final stages of being printed! Wow! Considering how slowly this process moves, that might mean another 2 months before it's out, but it is coming out! I gave approval to the final PDF version this week. The book will retail at around $25. This is more expensive than the initial estimate, but also it's like 300 pages and has 20+ full-color insert pages so that's actually crazy cheap, considering.
The Epithet Artbook—which has taken WAY more effort than I think anybody anticipated—should be finished in the next two weeks. Had to spend four whole days gathering art for this and hunting down a graphic designer to help me out. It's... almost 300 pages long. Woof. The artbook will only be released digitally. We have no intentions to ever print this thing and it's made to be zoomed in on so you can see the doodles better.
Piph is being hired to edit down a version of the Zillow Video I did with Yam and Jay.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet had time to look at the Jetters Video yet this month. I had to spend 4+ days reviewing other people's work on all the above things (mostly the art book where each pass takes a full day and hundreds of notes). I'd like to say I'm about to dive into Jetters work, but that's not necessarily true. I was waiting to finish a bunch of writing work I was hired to do on one video game... and now I just got hired to do the voice direction on another. Yesterday I spent 12 hours casting. Here's hoping my cast picks don't get approved for a little while so I can focus on the Jetters Video a bit?
Dogs in Love 3 is off the table until Jetters is finished, and once that's out of the way I'm going to swing back into Epithet writing so I can get the process on the novelizations of season 1 done as fast as possible. Luckily I'm a pretty quick writer and the story in these is already written out, so I honestly don't think they'll take too long to produce!
We're also working on a Giovanni figurine and a Molly figurine from Makeship! No idea when those'll be out.
Additionally, some Patrons may remember an old project idea called Sweetwater that I was working on nearly... *checks notes* Oof, three years ago now. Half the players have become borderline impossible to schedule and I'm getting more busy rather than less. Sweetwater was a unique project where I wanted to film ALL of the TTRPG game, then extensively edit it down into a made-for-TV storyline, cutting entire episodes if they never ended up mattering to the grand plot or character arcs. Because I'm the only one who would know what is and isn't important, I'm the only person who could've edited this... and because I simply will never have time to edit something like that, this week I made the executive decision to officially drop Sweetwater.
However! I did spend over 1000 fucking hours setting this thing up. So I'm going to do a full breakdown of the entire series concept, exploring every character and every map I drew for it. This will be a surprise for both you guys and for the players. I haven't decided how I'm going to set this up in regards to Patreon tiers just yet because frankly the amount of work I've done on this thing exceeds even the $15/mo tier... but also I really want to show it off. It might sneak it's way down to the $5/mo tier. Or maybe I'll put a small preview including the chunk of the series I already edited on the $5 tier and the full, multi-hour breakdown on the $15 tier? Who knows. Either way, we'll be doin' something!
Comments
Beckett’s Bricks and Broadway
thanks
verdragon 5
Did they split the video in half? I didn't actually watch it because I plan on watching the streams
Folly!
I love this comment
Rebecca Bieth
Any updates on the TTRPG book?
Fan Trades
Also, out of curiosity, what TTRPG system were you intending to use for Sweetwater?
Beckett’s Bricks and Broadway
It’s going to be part two of their Playthru of Pokémon XD: Gale of darkness
Beckett’s Bricks and Broadway
Thank you so much for the updates, I do have a question though? What’s the progress on the official episode of raced TTRPG book? If it is still in. Development? Either way we all love your content and will continue supporting you.😎
The Doctor
I fully understand the reasons for cancelling Sweetwater, but could an alternative be to just stream the sessions, instead of recording and editing them down? That would surely save you a bunch of time, and let you keep working on it?
The Ferret
Holy hell Jello, I'm amazed you have time to write these posts with so much going on! Adding my voice to the 'sorry to hear about Sweetwater' crowd, but also glad you're making sure to prioritize what you *can* manage.
JelloApocalypse
I considered including this but went against it because it would've required WAY too much space and we already had to cut art
Luke Negus
Jello, you spoil us too often
verdragon 5
Wait, how do you do Dogs in Love 3? Would that be Battle Revolution?
Folkloric
I was excited to see Sweetwater, but it's understandable why you dropped it. Too much on your plate, I get it.
Happy
Its a shame about sweetwater, it seemed like a really cool kind of show. Looking forward to seeing everything else though!
Fan Trades
While I am unsurprised but nevertheless disappointed by the cancellation of Sweetwater (I even wrote an at-length analysis in the comments of the preview when it originally came out), I am definitely looking forward to looking through the official breakdown of the series. Maybe a good way to format it would be through a more in-depth version of the post you did for Writer's Block? Regardless, I can't wait to get my digital hands on a copy of the digital artbook!
Meg Ryan
By the way will the artbook also include the stats of each character? Like their epithet power levels?
Meg Ryan
I cannot wait for the artbook :3 It's gonna be so good to browse through. :3
Meg Ryan
Listen up people-when the physical book comes out. BUY em for your friends, family, new fans, school libraries that have a young adult section and of course-LIBRARIES ACROSS THE USA AND GLOBAL! :3 We gotta make sure that book and future books fill the libraries across the planet! :3
JelloApocalypse
How dare you look at the smorgasbord of stuff I've been busy with and ask me to add more
Drednot
Looking forward to the artbook! Love that kinda stuff
Procraft inatorz
CS1
Ah fuck man, I've been looking forward to sweetwater for so long, sad to see it officially dropped (even if it 100% makes sense to do so). Looking forward to seeing the breakdown anyway, really interested to see what you had cooked up for it!
