Baby Bestiary 2026 Calendar

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.

Hey Caretakers,
We're chugging along with our calendars, and working to get things moving in layout and finishing the art, (as well as any extras we'll be making).

I saw a bunch of great recommendations on what to do, one idea thats sorta sticking with me is a sort of Nintendo Power/Game Manual guide (not sure if it will make it to print, but digital for sure will be a bit of fun). Magnets although they were fun to do, got really heavy for us (esp as multiple years of calendar magnets were stacking up). We might revisit those but for right now, we're working on getting sketches for pins/stickers.

I did want to give you guys a peek behind the curtain on some of the pieces, and here we go.
For our first piece we did, our Legend of Hoot-Screech! Our core inspiration is, of course, the retro Legends of Zelda games (this one is Minish cap), but all of Game Boy Advanced games were great.

This was the image that was coming to mind of what i was envisioning, in that our character would be front and center,doing something.

So to start off, we began with some sketches

then we needed to figure out aspect ratio for the calendar page size

then Koit did his magic and his first color pass, which was pretty solid


We did a little bit of a drill down in the top right weapon equipment, focusing on the owlbears paws as your weapon..I felt like the open paw was far more readable from a distance.

Then for the secondary item, we went with some berries. Didnt fully think about what they did, but they are fitting.
Then we also had to come up with a currency..since gems didnt make sense, we decided on golden acorns (because that seems like a worthy woodland creature currency)

Then it was time to decide on our color palette
we also moved the icons, cause the UI was taking a lot of space and moved things to better fit a calendar view

The extremes made it easier to fall back, but between top left and middle right, I did like the additional grass detail that was coming through (part of it was that color swaps were making some disappear which led to some confusion when picking swatches).

But, all together we landed on this beauty as our final!!



Anyways, there is more to come, and more to show off!!
Thank you all for your support, and let us know whats the next skecth to completion you'd like to see?

Caretaker Andreas

Hey Caretakers!
Just want to pop in for the evening to say, we're funded!!  (also I apologize for the campaign launch flood of emails). I want to say thank you for jumping in and joining us for yet another year of calendars, this year has been soo much fun to produce, and I'm excited to see these get printed and into our hands.

My question to you would be, what sort of stretch goal addons can you envision for this art-style/theme?   
   My first thought is stickers/pins while keeping in line with the video game theme, but eager to hear your ideas!

Also preview/early early sketch of the next piece, if you recognize it :)

Looking forward to sharing more!
Andreas