July progress report 2
about 1 month ago
– Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 10:26:13 AM
Hello everyone!
The past two weeks have been fairly productive, plus I've seen a few common questions definitely worth addressing in an update for everyone to give you some peace of mind, so it is time for another update!
Volume 1
EN: Print ready.
ES: Print ready.
FR: Text 17% done.
Volume 2
EN: Print ready.
ES: Print ready.
FR: Text 96% done, pending layout.
Volume 3
EN: Missing chapter headers and index, text 100% done layout 83%.
ES: Text and layout 17% done.
FR: Text 25% done, layout 13% done.
Overall (books)
EN: 97% done.
ES: 72% done.
FR: 27% done, layout 13% done.
Next up, wrapping up Volume 3 EN and ES editions and streamlining the FR translation process.
Miniatures
The steel molds were completed and tested before even writing Volume 1, and the company assured me it will only take about two weeks to produce all of the figures once we lock the final order. Plus, their factory is relatively close to the printing company as well, so everything will be distributed from the same area of the world. Not too many worries there!
Pledge manager
Quite a few of you have shown concern about updating your addresses, adjusting your pledges, and choosing the language of your books. You will be able to do that once I send you the invitations for the pledge manager, which I should be able to finish setting up soon. Right now I feel like it's more important to finish the actual editing of the books though, I plan on doing this during the final pre-print checks with the printing company. No worries there either!
Not much else to show at this point, so see you in the next update! As always, thank you for your continued patience and support. It means more than you know.
Helio
July progress report
about 1 month ago
– Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 04:57:38 AM
Hello everyone!
Time to update you all on the progress of the project. Over the past few weeks I've been working hard on the translations, here's how that's coming together:
Volume 1
EN: Print ready.
ES: Print ready.
FR: Text 17% done.
Volume 2
EN: Print ready.
ES: Text 100% done, pending layout and final review.
FR: Text 96% done, pending layout.
Volume 3
EN: Missing chapter headers and index, text and layout 83% done.
ES: Text and layout 17% done.
FR: Text 25% done, layout 13% done.
Overall
EN: 94% done.
ES: 55% done.
FR: 27% done, layout 13% done.
Unfortunately no new images for this, and there won't be any new images for the next updates as I don't really have any new layout I can show, it's basically the same as before just in a different language. I'd be happy to show some pages if you find that interesting, but you'll most likely have already seen them in previous updates in a different language anyways. Let me know what you prefer in the comments!
June progress report
3 months ago
– Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 08:59:42 AM
Hello everyone!
It's time for another update! Sorry it took a little bit longer than the past few ones, I felt I needed to finish a couple important bits before this one. Here's what I've been up to the past few weeks:
Volume 1
Revised all images for printing, everything should be good to go on that department. Only missing translation.
Volume 2
Same as Volume 1.
Volume 3
All tutorials finally done, please find a couple screenshots below! I'm also about 50% through revising images. It's still missing the coloured circles in some tutorials (which my graphic designer is taking care of at the moment), the index, and adjustments on the chapter headers, which I will put together as soon as I receive the file back form Adrián.
Overall progress in numbers*
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Text editing: 100%
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Photo editing: 100%
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Layout: 100%
*Tutorials only.
I finally reached the dreaded 100% for the tutorials, which means this way of tracking progress is no longer useful. Since the last touches for Volume 3 shouldn't take long (the only reason they are not done yet is I had some issues with a set of photos that I've since resolved), starting from the next update I'll prepare a quick table to show how the translation is progressing. At this point, the vast majority of the content is completed in English, with a small portion of Volumes 1 and 3 completed in Spanish and missing the English translation, and about one third of the whole project is completed in French, with Seyni working on the French translation and myself working on the English and Spanish versions.
Onwards to some previews!
These last couple of tutorials are some of my favourites from Volume 3, and I hope you will enjoy them too as soon as the books finally make their way to you.
In the meantime, thank you for your continued patience and support, and I'll see you in the next update, likely with an estimation of how long it will take to translate everything and adjust it to the existing layout.
Cheers,
Helio
May progress report (again!)
3 months ago
– Thu, May 14, 2026 at 01:30:09 PM
Hello everyone!
Many of you have liked the previous update and expressed time and again how you'd rather have more frequent, shorter updates than longer, more spaced out ones so let's keep that going. Here's the current state:
Volume 1
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 2
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 3
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Done: 22/24 tutorials
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WIP: text editing for two short theory chapters.
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Missing: layout, photos, and text editing for 2 tutorials; final review + integration (index, foreword); translation and final printing adjustments.
Overall progress in numbers*
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Text editing: 97%
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Photo editing: 97%
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Layout: 97%
*Tutorials only: after we reach 100% here I'll still need to finalise indexes, chapter headers, translation and final print prep, but I don't have a good way of estimating that numerically.
This means we are getting closer and closer to the finish line.
My current estimation is that I will be able to finish the last two tutorials over the next two weeks, and it should take around one more week after that to wrap up the missing theory chapters from Volume 3.
After that, it's just translation and printing adjustments, and then I will be able to send the books to the printing company. Unfortunately I don't have a great way to estimate how long it will take me to translate everything. Initially I considered outsourcing the translation, but I've settled for doing it myself because the translation process will be a great opportunity to review everything once again in great detail, which should help me pick up any typos and small mistakes that I may have made along the way in spite of my best efforts not to do so.
Either way, I will try to provide an estimate once I've translated a few tutorials and have a closer idea of how long it should take.
As always, thank you for your kind understanding and support, and see you in the next update!
Helio
May 2025 progress report
4 months ago
– Fri, May 01, 2026 at 07:42:56 AM
Hello everyone!
I hope you are having a great Labour Day today! On my part, I'm really glad to report I'm slowly but surely approaching the completion of the books.
Over the last few days I've only completed a couple more tutorials, so this update won't be as long as others, but many of you have mentioned you'd rather have shorter and more frequent updates so I'll try and do that. Here's a quick summary of the status of the project:
Volume 1
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 2
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 3
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Done: 20/24 tutorials
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WIP: text editing for two short theory chapters.
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Missing: layout, photos and text editing for 4 tutorials; final review + integration (index, foreword); translation and final printing adjustments.
Overall progress in numbers*
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Text editing: 93%
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Photo editing: 93%
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Layout: 93%
*Tutorials only: after we reach 100% here I'll need to finalise indexes, chapter headers, translation and final print prep, but I don't have a good way of estimating that numerically.
I've finally caught up with text and photo editing on one side and layout on the other, so I'll be doing that concurrently from now on, which is why I don't have more work in progress material like I did before. I used to always be "in between" tutorials, with text edited for some, images for others, and so on, which did cause slight confusion at times regarding the actual progress of the project, but not anymore.
I hope I can finish the remaining four tutorials soon so I can send the entire Volume 3 file to Adrián, the graphic designer, to complete the colour circles and a few other professional adjustments, and then we'll be that much closer to the finish line.
See you in the next update, and as always, thank you for your patience and support!
Helio
