Elemental Wings - Dragon Plushies

only 2 days left to back the campaign! the current funding is at $45000 without the amount from the custom tiers and the one sponsored tier! this funding amount is not including the future international orders on etsy and preorders! so currently i am going to call catfish and painted lady unlocked at this time! im confident the other two littles can be unlocked before the end! if they do not get unlocked, there will still be a chance to have them unlock during the survey's stretch goal feature! if they still dont unlock, they will return to the design pool for series 2! there is no set date for series 2, but i will make an update here when a date is decided!

all the standard sized plush samples have been bulk ordered! (14 designs total.) the remaining littles that need to be ordered still need their turn around reference pages done, so i will be ordering them later! my manufacturer also gave me a discount on the bulk sample order, so that will also be added funding towards the remaining stretch goals!

the discord server is open and bustling! :3 here is the link if you would also like to join my plushie club!
https://discord.gg/CC7juddtWa
there i will be updating more frequently about my plush progress and as active as i can be talking with everyone!

i am making my way through the custom designs! those tiers sold out so fast! there is still one more little custom available (one more of each tier were opened up last night)! i hope to get done with the customs before the campaign ends! here's a look at the current finished customs!
(here is my trello for the current progress tracking) https://trello.com/b/5EqvO1JP/bread-buns-queue
if you pledged for a custom and have not emailed me yet, please reach out! my email is [email protected] ! if you haven't emailed me with your custom details (reference or description of character) please send me the info so i can get started asap on the turn around!





heres also an update on the state of the keychain designs!

also, the preorder store for the gummy wyrms is live! and the paleo pastries enamel pins will also be open for preorders within a few days as well!
https://gummy-wyrms.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Since I didn’t want the funding for these tiers to interrupt the stretch goals, since the money will show up no matter the tier, I had waited until near the end of the campaign to post them! I will also just be calculating how much funding is from those custom and sponsorship tiers and make updates with the correct funding later on!
These pledge levels are up now in limited quantities!

For these custom designs, please limit them to designs that can be designed to this plush style or OCs from the book series, as there will be detail limitations to what can and can’t adapt to the shape and simplification in plush form!
There will be 3 slots available of each tier (little, regular, jumbo)

Official prices of these tiers will be as follows:

Custom-
     Little $250
     Regular $300
     Jumbo $350

Sponsorship-
     Little $1250
     Regular $2300
     Jumbo $3000

These prices include: sample fees (as well as a higher sample cost for designs not going into full production), design and plushification work time, communication time with my manufacturer.
For the sponsorship tiers, these prices fund 50 pieces of that design, if enough people order that specific design, it will be upgraded to 100 pieces of that design.

If you pledge for these tiers, please send me references of your character or design (or a detailed description if references aren’t available) to my email at [email protected] or any other contact method you prefer listed on my linktree: https://linktr.ee/breadbun
If you do not reach out yourself, I will be emailing you!
If you use a different name or email to contact me than what is on your backerkit account, please clarify who you are so I can connect your design to your shipping address when the time comes!

ALSO! THE DISCORD IS READY! Mostly, there’s still a few things I’m setting up in the background, as well as some volunteer mods that aren’t able to be very active! But it IS open for people to join now!
Invite link is a perma one!
https://discord.gg/MhrzUMeuVX
Please read the rules on your way in! Feel free to talk, share and ask any questions freely! I will try to stay as available as possible! Please keep in mind if you are trying to get info or answers from me, I have work and class I go to so there will be long periods I can’t respond!

More progress on art news: the 50 backer freebie sticker is done! Now onto the 100,150,200 and probably 250 backer freebies :p they won’t all be stickers, there will be keychain(s) and other merch items, to be decided as I keep on drawing!
I am also including more progress images of the keychain designs! Clean lines for all of the regular designs, and some have flat colors already! I’m working on them in a sort of production line XD

Only 7 more days on this campaign! We’ve been doing so well! All 16 of the regular sized plushies are unlocked! We still have plenty of time for late pledges, so I’m confident most or all of the mini plushies will be able to be unlocked! Also preorder pledges will possibly happen! Also counting international orders later on Etsy, I am currently counting strawberry and peach as unlocked now! But don’t worry too much about the other Littles getting unlocked, I will be talking more to my manufacturer about budgeting to see if I can fit in more stretch goals by the end!
I will also be adding any other stretch goals that couldn’t be funded to the survey as “add to unlock” so there will be a possibility of all designs being made!

I just recovered from being sick (just to go straight into spring allergies LOL) so I’ve been onto working harder for the keychain designs, I got all the sketches done, and here all the designs are! The 3 inch ones are under “dragon keychain” add on, and the 1.5 inch ones are under “mini dragon keychains” add on now!

All will be able to be available by the end! I will update with more completed designs later nearer to the end of the campaign!

Also, the gummy wyrms preorder store is open! If you missed that campaign and would like one of the wyrms, you can make your order now!

https://gummy-wyrms.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

The pink shark Wyrm still is up for unlocking if enough orders are made of them!

Also, for the production order for this campaign, over half of the funds are tied in pay over time so I will be making the bulk orders in chunks as I get the money sent to me to make the production orders! Just means some orders may be able to be sent out before others as the production boxes arrive to me in batches! My manufacturer is pretty fast so don’t worry about the timeline being shifted too much! This will actually work better for my own fulfillment as it will only be me and a friend packing all the orders!

It's been a crazy few days 😑I'm still quite sick and now there's a power outage in my apartment complex that may not be fixed for the next 24 hours.

But anyway, I've been working on some more designs for the add ons! Specifically, I finished a design for a regular standee- which will also be a keychain option and sticker! (More standees will be made based on each plush design that is unlocked!! So dw I have a LOT more art to catchup on!!

I also mocked up a few other standee options!! I saw my acrylic manufacturer had a spinning carousel standee which looked so cute! So I made my own design!!
I also realize the dragons I chose to be in the carousel were my fav color ways but they're all rainwing hybrids LOL

I also have plans for boingy standees! This one's the same situation of "I have a lot of art to catchup on" so there will be one of every design unlocked, but here is the current mockup based on the few designs I am still working on!
All these options are updated in the add ons!

I also updated the stretch goals section with the order of the littles. The whole situation with a 4 way tie was really funny so now 2 will be unlocking at the same time, and the ones unlocking together are now canonically in love XD
I also added stardust to the end as a standard so she can both be with borealis (her partner) potentially and because she was a follow up choice I never put on the littles poll! She may have to be the end of the funding stretch goals unless funding surpasses her by enough at the end!

I'm still figuring out the "custom oc" option with my manufacturer, to see if they are ok making one-of-one plushies without needing a bulk order! Sponorship tiers should be good to go though! Those tiers will be added later when I find out about a one off plush option!

Also a "one little one standard" pledge has been added per request :)

Update on the discord server: it is being set up, I think all the channels are good, so it should be available before the end of this campaign!

Since we are close to the end of the standard plush goals, I have pre added the littles as an add on and pledge level!

The poll for the last three designs resulted in missed color ways from the last tournament!
Designs of them as littles will be finalized as soon as I can, but they will be updated as placeholders on the stretch goals section!

All the designs up for this next poll are the runner ups from the tournament, the top three voted on in this poll will be the three designs for the littles!

I also have all my bases I made for these plushies up on google docs here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yL5LAtZ3ngDDKBAwzk_25TfivkaRZ9xh
If you all wanted to use them to make your own ocs as a plush from this series!

I will be talking to my manufacturer about the possibility for one-off designs, if anyone wanted to have their oc or other original design made! Only if some of you are interested in that idea though! 
Another idea I had was a “sponsored design” to pay to Auto Unlock whatever design you’d want to also be available to everyone who pledges?