Thank You, Screen Print Sample and Discord
over 5 years ago – Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 02:02:37 AM

Hi everyone! I hope this update finds you well!

It is with great excitement that I announce that the Nya Nya Neko, Series I, Enamel Pin Kickstarter has been fully funded achieving 672% of it's original goal. Once again I find myself incredible overwhelmed by your support.

Not only did we manage to unlock all our characters but even have enough funds to screen print all the pin designs if we choose to do so. Below you can see an image of a screen printed Princess Serenity which I received earlier this morning.

Production for the moulds will start as soon as the payments are confirmed by Kickstarter, which will take around to 2 weeks. Once the payments go through, I will be sending you surveys to confirm your addresses, select your pins and purchase any addons you might be interested in.

In the meantime, I would like to invite everyone who has participated in the Kickstarter to join my Discord Server. Keep in touch with news and updates about this campaign and other projects, as well as be a part of our small but growing community of pin collectors and art admirers.

You can also visit my Pin Store and my Patreon page where I manage a Monthly Pin Club. For $15 (international standard shipping included) each month I design a new exclusive pin club pin and send out a sweet packaged that also includes stickers and a mini art print to every member. You can check out this month's pin, stickers and pin in the photo below. Deadline for this set is 31st October.

Thank you all once again for all your support, encouragement, likes, comments, shares and purchases. It has all meant a huge amount to me. Thank you.

All Characters Unlocked and Sample Pin
over 5 years ago – Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 12:42:06 AM

Hello everyone! I hope this update finds you well!

We have 45 hours left on the clock and are nearing the end of the first leg of our journey. Once the campaign comes to an end, Kickstarter will process your payments, which may take up to 2 weeks and then I will be sending survey emails through BackerKit. 

During the survey you will choose which pins you would like to pick (if applicable to your pledge) and purchase any addons to go with your order. Addons will include more pins, stickers and some special exclusive items I have cooked up just for you~!

All Characters Unlocked

For those who have not checked on the campaign for a few days or don't follow my social media, I am happy to inform you that all 18 characters are now unlocked and available!

If you would like to add more pins to your pledge, please go to the campaign page, click on "Manage your pledge" at the top of the page and select your new pledge tier from there. 

Alternative you can also wait for the campaign to end and add more pins to your order during the survey, where you will be able to purchase more through addons.

Sample Pin

Below I have attached a picture of the Princess Serenity Sample Pin I received from my manufacturer earlier this morning. This is an image of the pin before the screen print is applied. Once I have photos of both version I will be able to decide if I will go ahead with the screen printing on all the pins or leaving it as is.

I will be sharing a photo of the screen printed version with you all as well as soon as I receive it.

As a reminder, this Princess Serenity will be available as a freebie to all those who purchase 5 pins or more.

What do you think of the sample pin so far? Leave your comments below!

Hello, Stretch Goals, Screen Printing and Stickers!!
over 5 years ago – Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:50:36 PM

Introduction

Hello everyone, I hope this update finds you well!

I would like to start this first update with a small introducing to those who do not know me. My name is Gilles and I have been a pop-culture illustrator for the past 11 years. My main focus has been t-shirt designs but I recently found a new calling designing enamel pins.

Now moving onto the third month of my Monthly Pin Club and with a smashing success on my first Kickstarter campaign this past July, I am very excited to be embarking on this new journey with you all, sharing this series of Nya Nya Neko which will hopefully be the first of many!

Stretch Goals

So far we have unlocked 8 Sailor Senshi from our series, including Sailor Moon and Princess Serenity, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Chibi Moon, Neptune and Uranus. With only 2 Sailor Senshi left to unlock and another 7 kick-ass-kittens after that, I can say that we are progressing quite nicely! 

Any shares of this campaign to your pin collecting friends will be helpful in getting closer to unlocking all 18 designs. 

Screen Printing

This week I finalized some detailed with my manufacturer and we are going to try to screen print white highlights and blushing cheeks onto a sample pin. If we decide to add this screen print onto each design it will inevitably increase the cost of manufacturing, but we both believe it will elevate this line of pins even further.

Here you can see the art proof of the screen printed version of Princess Serenity. A sample is currently being produced and I should have some photos (and perhaps a small video) of her in the coming week, which I will share with you all here.

Stickers

I have also been very busy in shading our Kitty Girls and prepare them for sticker cutting. Below you will have an exclusive sneak peek at the full sticker set!

Note: The stickers will NOT have a colored background border. Instead, the cutting will go around the edge of the character. Photos of the cut stickers will follow later on next week.

Note 2: The white highlights and blush on the stickers are an indication of how we would like to screen print each respective pin.

Feature

Last but not least I would like to give a small shout-out to another Sailor Moon related Kickstarter Campaign. This campaign, run by my friend Vivian Tsai, (@SugarCubedStudios on Instagram) portrays as set of Sailor Moon portrait silhouettes with clear stained glass. 

What is astonishing about this campaign is that if you pledge for even 1 pin, you will get 2 bonus pins (Pegasus and Sailor Cosmos) as freebies! How amazing is that? 

I personally couldn't pass up the chance to get a Neptune and Uranus, my favourite senshi, and I hope you will take a moment to look at what she is offering as well! Keeping in mind this campaign will end in around 30 hours from the posting of this update.