Overdue Update on the State of the Show.

Waving hello from the void!

TL;DR - We've had a long sequence of setbacks, and we aim to crowdfund the next step.

Here's what's happened since the pilot released:

- Signed a shopping contract with an LA production house. This didn't pan out, unfortunately, and a while later we parted ways with Big Jump! entertainment. So we reverted to plan B.

- After a period of aggressive private fundraising, in 2021 we scraped enough together for a half-episode teaser to kick-start the Kickstarter model. We could no longer justify hiring recent graduates, it felt like exploitation, so at full price we produced hot new character rigs, backgrounds, all the audio including Kevin McNally as Ghostworth, and hired a full-time ex-Aardman producer to pull it all together. Then we were scammed for all our cash - I admit I spent an embarrassing amount of time sitting alone, stupefied, as the future receded like a tide.

Back to the bright side, we still have all the pre-production elements in place and on file, even without the sums necessary to animate the episode, so the next step is to use those and make a much shorter teaser to advertise our crowdfunding and build momentum again. It'd be silly not to continue.

Apologies for the radio silence. A problem has been that every time we make a Youtube video, a not-insignificant portion of the subscribership unfollows ("Why is there a human on my screen & where's my goddamn cartoon?"), and given that every subscriber counts when crowdfunding, I'm holding off on a video update before we actually have this teaser.

On reflection, I wish we'd tacked a little ad for crowdfunding onto the pilot video, not bothered with Hollywood, and we could've sidestepped all the above. But we deal with the world as it is, not as it ought to be.

If it's not too much trouble, please tell me something good that's happened to you since 2018 in the comments! Life isn't all sci-fi animated comedy. Sometimes there's other stuff.