All Premiere's Eve

10/31/2025

It's Halloween 2025, and you know what that means! That's right, it's almost time for the CRADLE ANIMATIC PREMIERE!

Tomorrow we get to premiere the Cradle Animatic, the two-hour black-and-white sketched version of a Cradle movie! It covers Unsouled and Soulsmith, with an original score and a STACKED voice cast...all thanks to the backers on our Kickstarter almost two years ago!

I watched through the movie at the final audio mixing just a couple of days ago, and it's crazy to see this product after so long working to make it happen. Truly humbling. Not to mention a bizarre, out-of-body experience for me to see characters and moments I made up years ago coming to life thanks to the work of so many talented Hollywood professionals.

And the part I've been looking forward to the most is the Premiere tomorrow, where the highest-level backers (who could make it out to LA) are going to join us for the first-ever showing!

I'm starting to itch because I haven't made a joke in three paragraphs, but I'm genuinely just grateful and flabbergasted to be here. Let's hope this leads to a fully animated project soon!

As for the vast majority of you who can't make it to the event out in LA, don't worry! The animatic will be sent to you in its entirety as soon as we can get it re-edited for digital distribution, as opposed to the theatrical form it's in now. That should be by the end of November. Or so I'm told.

Video editing is like magic to me, so I'm just trusting the word of the wizards who understand such arcane systems.

Thanks for your support, everybody! You've been awesome, and I can't wait to see what else is on the way!

-Will

9 Comments

Parker

10/31/2025 12:29:03 pm

Any plans on providing a way for non backers to watch or pay to watch it.
There are a lot of us who failed to back it in time but would really like to watch it. Even pay to watch it if there is a way to do that.

Kate

11/8/2025 05:45:10 am

I would like to know too, how I can I pay to watch!

Brianthas

10/31/2025 01:58:29 pm

Can’t wait to meet you tomorrow!

A_Cursed_Reader

10/31/2025 07:34:54 pm

I was cursed by the writing of a mad penmage. He wrote a book, cursed the character to release curses - kept cursing out - and was cursed to report nonsensical progress reports for all eternity, or until his next book release. His last words were to curse me, so now I can no longer read anything he wrote until he returns triumphant from the dead, with a new manuscript stolen from the crypt of an #entirelysane lich-king-emperor’s wife. The torturous march of time is to be my punishment for my expectations of the bloopers, and my disappointment at the lack of a Lemon-themed funeral for the Grave Hound.
In other news, congrats on the movie😁.

TheBillyGoat

11/1/2025 03:39:58 am

I'm so sad i couldnt back the project in time... 😭 I really need this, hope It gets released to the public soon, the teasers in YouTube are maddening, the look so good. Keep on going gang!

Arche

11/1/2025 06:01:02 am

I need to see this so so badly! I've read the entire series front to back about 5 times now!
Is there any way to view it, if I become a backer on whatever platform it's on?

Thank you!

Walin

11/3/2025 01:05:12 pm

Having taken a hiatus from Discord, I have resorted to manually typing in the website and visiting the blog directly rather than clicking an announcement link...ancient techniques thought lost to the winds of time.

Super excited for when the animatic goes out to backers! I'll have to finally get around to putting up the concept art I got, my walls have been quite Cradle-bare (well, everything-bare) for months.

Godking of the Outer Lithosphere

11/19/2025 12:24:02 pm

Wait, this came out? I really should check my emails. I definitely backed enough to see it.

Matt P

11/20/2025 02:15:28 pm

The video came out pretty nice. Good job.

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