类型: GB
作者:
THRILLHOIAF
发布时间:
2018-02-12 11:33:14
更新时间: 2019-01-31 10:00:25
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=94038.0
Updates Hub
07/06/18 - Second Round of Color Samples!
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Hey guys, exciting stuff! I got a second round of color
samples for the set and I’m REALLY stoked on them.
with
the original colors I was pretty stoked and happy! However I
wanted to see some them pop a bit more, a little bit lighter
and not so flat/muted. We definitely got that 100% with the
latest batch
Inside lighting conditions:
Natural lighting conditions:
E-mail sent to Melissa to confirm selections
Materials
ordered for manufacturing
05/25/18 - Colors samples arrived
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Hey guys I just received color chip samples in from
SP!
I’ll let you all peep the album, I tried to cover
as many different lighting scenarios throughout the day to
best capture how each color changes in different settings.
Will add more when I get home so everyone can see what the
colors look like in a mildly bright computer/gaming room.
https://imgur.com/a/6jeh3Ia
Overall I think these are a good start! In bright
light all the colors are near bang on with the pantone guide
and are quite accurate to the render! That being said, I
noticed throughout the day as lighting changed, that the
color samples also varied quite heavily from being
near-bang-on to “that doesnt seem right?”
Fortunately
with a production slot of Q4 this year, we’ve got plenty of
time to nail down the colors, and while this was a good
start, I think I’m going to do my due diligence and see if I
can refine these to be more accurate
To be more
specific, I’m going to request chip samples in a couple
near-identical pantones to see how they compare, and ask to
see if they can provide the current pantones but with their
bases (magenta/cyan) a bit brighter, just so we have
something to compare to!
But yah like I said, I still
think the colors look great, really captures the palette of
the film and really look great together!
Cheers!
EDIT:
^Picture in my comp dungeon - SA Camping for color
scale (Camping also uses WCK alphas)
4/15/18 - Updates, final numbers, production schedule,
novelties
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Hey everyone sorry for the lack of update since our GB
ended, been busy fine tuning the details with SP, but I
wanted to give everyone an update on where we’re at!
Final Kit Numbers
Base Kits: 108
Novelties: 82
Numpads: 53
Non-Standard
Adapters: 56
We sold quite well with our basekits and
fortunately JUST cracked the 50 MOQ for the numpads and
NSAdapter kits! Thank god too, because if we didn’t crack
the 50MOQ for the 2, then we’d have probably had to refund
the entire groupbuy, so hooray for making it everybody!
Production Schedule
Payment was submitted officially to Signature
Plastics on 04/10/18 so we’ve secured our spot on the
production schedule
With Pulse R2 and a crapton of
other SA set orders coming in just prior to ours, our spot
on the production schedule got bumped down to Q4 of this
year 2018
Artwork/Novelty Tweaks
and finally, just minor tweaks to some of the
novelties had to be made due to SP’s tooling restrictions
mainly,
parts of the sisters and boat novelties being too thing
I’ve
submitted revised artwork for SP to work with, so I’ll hear
back soon enough whether the revised works or not!
-so in the original, the mouth on the sisters was too
thin and thus became a block outline, I also smoothed out
the eyes a bit so she’s less derpy lookin
-then the
boats rudder handle was too close to the boat so it had to
be raised, but raising it goofed with the scale of the boat
itself, so I had to raise the cabin up, and make it look a
little rounder to balance it out! kind of what I wanted it
to look like in the first place, the original was a bit too
thin which wasnt really keeping with the movie
-artwork
was also split on the boat novelty, so for the 1u boat
novelty, the rudder handle will not have a hand-hole on it
for the 1u novelty
again these are tentative changes,
for all I know these revisions might not be good enough and
more will have to come, but I thought I’d keep everyone up
to date with any revisions that need to be made since we got
a ways until we enter production stages
Thanks for bearing with me guys! Apologies for the
lack of updates the past couple weeks, hopefully this one
answers enough questions
TLDR
- Payment submitted to SP 04/10/18
- Production tentatively scheduled for Q4 2018
- Artwork needed updating on Sisters and Boat novelties
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Kit numbers were good!
here’s an incredibly rushed/lazy render of the set on the upcoming Espectro for your patience!
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Joke reference
03/26/18 - Groupbuy purchase phase concluded!
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I’m stoked guys we made it through the groupbuy phase! Looks
like we’ve met MOQ for our most important kits. I hope to
provide total kits sold counts and other details about how
the buy went asap, just bare with me while i sort numbers
and other details out with Dave from Mechkeys.ca.
Again
big thanks to all those who supported this set from the very
beginning and every person who joined the gb. I hope we can
get this bad boy in everybody’s hands as soon as possible
March 26th Update Continued
Attention all those who purchased the Blanks and 40s
kit…
I sadly regret to inform you that we
unfortunately undersold on the 40s kit, and after careful
evaluation of our numbers, couldn’t find a justifiable way
to get the 40s set made
An e-mail will be sent out from Mechkeys later tonight
asking those who bought the 40s set if they wish to refund
JUST their 40s set, or their entire order
I’m really sorry guys, I really tried my hardest to
sell the 40s kit to prospective buyers (I think 50% of my
reddit posts highlighted BTS on a 40%) and I truly believed
that the great coverage would be enticing enough to get the
MOQ met, but unfortunately it was just not in the stars for
us on this run!
Believe me when I say we evaluated our
options of buying up the remainder of the sets at the bare
minimum MOQ, however we found that it would mean the
groupbuy taking on a huge loss, and would leave us with a
handful of 40s kits that would have to be sold at nearly
double the original sell price in order to break even
And to the few who bought blanks kits, thank you so
much for believing in the sets color scheme enough to get
blanks! I honestly wasnt sure there would be a single set
sold, but to you who believed in the set that much, much
love you’re my heroes!
All this being said, I’m
ecstatic we made it with the rest of the kits, and as the
recent owner of a beautiful silver Pearl, and the equally
unique CONTRA, I was really crossing my fingers that the 40s
kit made it, but my mama always told me to never give up on
something you believe in, so maybe not today but in the
future, us 40s freaks can figure something out
Again sorry for the inconvenience everyone, and I
hope you understand that we did everything we could to try
make it happen
Cheers
Cody
03/20/18 - Update
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Forgot to update this one, but due to losing a couple days
off the kit-revamp we decided to extend the GB finish date
to the 24th!
03/14/18 - Update
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Hey everyone sorry I’ve been stingy with the updates! Have
been waiting on kit sales from our proxies before I provided
an idea on how we doing! But can’t wait forever since theres
only 6 DAYS LEFT!!! wooooooah time flies!
Current
numbers of our NA groupbuy can be found
here
These numbers dont include our vendor purchases or
personal purchases! Hopefully we’ll get up to date numbers
from our EU proxy and we’ll be able to give a more
comprehensive look into how we’re doing!
Right now I’m
hopeful that we’ll meet MOQ on a few of the kits! I’m
prepped to do whatever I can to make sure the other sets get
made as well, for now I’ll just do what I can to promote the
set and try to get as many last minute buyers as possible in
on this beauty!
Thanks everyone for your patience!
2/20/1 - Kit Revamp Update
TL;DR - Refunds issued on original kits across all
proxies, so don’t be alarmed if you see a refund on your
account - it’s so you can purchase the set at even cheaper
price than before!
Sale Concluded March.24th
NA:Mechkeys.ca
EU:Mykeyboard.eu
CHINA only:zFrontier
Kits
sold @ MECHKEYS.CA in CANADIAN DOLLARS
Base Kit - $129.95 CAD
40% - $94.95 CAD
Did not Meet
MOQ
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Non Standard Adapter - $59.95 CAD
Novelties - $54.95 CAD
Numpad - $49.95 CAD
Blanks - $79.95 CAD
Did not
Meet MOQ
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KIT ALBUM
USD Prices
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I know theres a lot of confusion because we are selling from a Canadian website in Canadian dollars, here are the prices in USD for all you folks wondering how much our Canadian dollar is worth (spoiler, not much)
Base kit - $102.78 USD
40% kit - $75.10 USD
Non Standard Adapter Kit - $47.10 USD
Novelties Kit - $43.46 USD
Numpad kit - $39.50 USD
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Blanks Kit - $63.23 USD
Details
SA By the Sea is a set inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. I absolutely love this movie and wanted to design a set that captures the light hearted happy go lucky spirit of the movies titular character Ponyo. Designed by THRILLHOIAF/The1THRILLHOUSE/Cody
SA Sculpted with semi-matte/matte finishing
Rows: 1-1-2-3-4-4
4 sets
ABS Doubleshot
MX Compatible
Manufactured by Signature Plastics
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GB Duration: 30 days - possibility of extension depending how we do
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Estimated production start date: July 2018 - will update estimate throughout GB duration
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Renders*
Special thanks go to Dave from Mechkeys.ca, Koobaczech and Oblotzky for all the help finalizing sets, the gorgeous renders, and all his helpful advice on how to maximize SA By the Sea’s appeal!
Thanks again for everybodies patience and understanding! I’m still learning, but I am dedicated to bringing this community a brand new sculpted SA set they can be proud to wear on their keebs