HELLO [REDACTED] WERE BACK AND WANTED TO DUST THIS THING OFF!!!
WERE BRINGING THE MONTHLY POST FROM OUR TWITTER AND INDIEGOGO TO YOU!
HELLO CITIZENS OF [REDACTED]. Long time no see! To all those who have stuck with us through the hiatus, thank you for sticking with us. To all those who may have forgotten we exist, HI!!!!! We always come back.
After a year, we are glad to post the first new edition of THE MONTHLY POST with your updates on everything we’ve been doing to make Please Stay Tuned a reality.
As mentioned before, we recently came off a hiatus that resulted from our director, Corey, needing to create their thesis film, “Pretty Kitty,” to graduate university. We are happy to announce that the project has been completed and Corey has successfully graduated! Yay! This also means they have returned to Please Stay Tuned, and the project has resumed.
We aren’t ready to jump into production just yet; currently, we are working on some behind-the-scenes tidying up, organizing files, and planning just a few more things before we officially exit the pre-production stage and enter the animation stage.
One thing we wanted to talk about mostly in the monthly post is the character designs. The cast of Please Stay Tuned was designed between 2017-2018, and we felt that most of them needed a facelift to match the current vision of our show’s vibe more and to bring more of a sense of style and identity to the production. We would like to show you what we have been working on in terms of design and how these characters have changed!
One of the characters we think needed the most “fixing” was Maxie. One of the greatest mysteries is, “what even is he?” Honestly, we still don’t know. He’s honestly just “Maxie,” and we didn’t think he looked “Maxie” enough, so we fed him to the character design team, and behold:
Maxie now looks more Maxie than ever.
One of the hardest characters to revise was CRT. While most of the character designs have changed, CRT’s has stayed pretty consistent since 2017. We felt his design could use some fixing since we noticed that a lot more TV heads have joined the scene since we started, and we wanted to make sure ours could stick out more in the genre of “TV head in some fancy clothes.” So we did that.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the new CRT (now with 20% more guyfailure).
We gave Hostess a tail. That’s it.
Another big thing we have been working on behind the scenes is that when we started, we never actually had proper model sheets of the characters. We don’t know what Corey was thinking. As we hope to expand our team to include other animators, we have begun creating actual proper model sheets for the cast! We just finished Sonny; take a look!!!
We will be starting CRT soon, and once he is completed, we will likely be able to start the animation production while the other, more minor characters in the pilot are created. We will keep you updated on that.
We’re so happy to be back and able to deliver the Monthly Post again as we continue development on this amazing indie production of ours. Without the constraints of schoolwork stopping us, we are free to now go Full Steam Ahead on the production!
Since our hiatus, we also seem to have gained a decent handful of new followers, some who may have heard, and perhaps been dismayed, about missing out on the Indiegogo campaign. For those who missed out, keep an eye out next Indie Animation Day and in our next newsletter.
That will be all for now! As always, we are primarily funded out of pocket, through our initial Indiegogo budget and through Corey’s Patreon. If you would like to help us continue to make Please Stay Tuned, please consider contributing to the Patreon page. We will be posting a few more secret updates/animation roughs and a few things we save for the Monthly Post up early there soon as we enter the production stage! Also, Corey sometimes streams on their Discord server, which you can access...
Thank you to everyone who stuck with us through these past 8 years. I’m so glad that now we can charge ahead in the production of this short. We hope to have even more cool stuff to share with you.
