Here are the original eight plans, told in a bit more detail than how I discussed them with insiders in our Facebook and Discord group.
1) Commissioning artwork of the main Keys & Kingdoms peoples. That's been going on and can be seen in the previous blog post: two of each species with some simple profiles on each. I'm currently moving on to the next stage of that, producing 4-6 more samples of each species and putting together videos on them, including talking about how I'd adapt their traits to D&D rules. One or two of those videos every month... by February I'll at least have most of them, so that's still going on mostly as originally planned.
2) Rehauling the character design system. Stacy is moving on to other things, and I think with that in mind, with the singular style of character design and how well we had adapted to it... that can't be replicated. I need a new artist and an entirely new, much simpler, character design system, with less focus on perfection. But I think I'm going to save that for a little bit later... say, after the K&K pilot. Seems like a natural thing to use the current designs for the pilot and update them later. I want to find a local artist who's easy to communicate with, and I'm already working on flyers I can hang up in places.
3) Consolidating and organizing all my story data so I can get the team together to plan things out. That's going pretty well, making strides every week... I was actually kind of nervous, but now I remember, yeah, not due until February. I think I can easily finish all of that consolidation by February. And we'll start writing then then, starting by planning out every season into the proper amount of episodes with proper storylines, and then from there writing every episode. In true fanfic style, we'll post chapters as soon as they're written. Guess that'll start in February!
4) The boys and I are out to make some voice-acting demos so we can pick up some freelance work! We just need another reliable local studio/engineer... for that and all future projects. Let's see... yup, that's coming right up on our revised schedule. We'll get to that very soon.
5) The first Keys & Kingdoms teaser. I think we can finish it by February, but I'm not out to release it yet by that point, because from the moment it releases we must begin running the fundraiser and working on the pilot! So, when it's done... that's when we'll prep the fundraiser. This one I've prioritized strongly, because we held a fundraiser for the teaser some time ago. It's about time we actually use that money.
6) Storyboards. Those to be completed by February: the Halfling Trailer, so we can start really working on it afterward. And both pilots, both Irregular Fantasy and Keys & Kingdoms. Having them all boarded so we can proceed from there. I'm making this priority number two in the revised version, number one being the teaser. Doing it now-ish will mean we have lots of foundation set by February -- hopefully we can get our production managers back to work out what happens next.
7) Mason is hard at work on writing I'm Telling Mom!, his next stage project. He's certain to have a workable draft well before February... he's determined to have it done as a staged reading, but I'm of the opinion that that's not a real project and he should do it as an audio play the same as Better Yet?, but, it's not up to me.
8) Playing some D&D... this proved quite impossible. I don't have time to prepare sessions, and I'm completely incapable of improvisation. But I still hope to gather some people together once a month or so to prepare "chapters" of this story, which has come to be called Keys & Kingdoms: Tales within Tales. Just something new set in this world; a nice and easy side project.
So... actually, yeah, there's no need to explain my revised version, it's... well, seemingly all of it except for #2 is still being done right now to be concluded around February! Very nice. I've divided all tasks into four segments: the stuff I do on my own during the week, stuff I do with the online team, stuff with the local team, and stuff on my own during the weekend. It's going okay.
