Celebrating our First Magical Year
Hey Jewel Fans! Can you believe that it’s been a year to the day since we threw open our virtual doors and started this adventure together? It’s amazing to think of all the things we’ve uncovered and experienced just in a year: we began with Enchanted Camelot last September and just finished releasing the Season One production materials last August. Over the course of those twelve months we have featured great behind-the-scenes content, fun fan works, and been able to interact and even meet with some of the other fans of Jewel Riders! It has truly been a blessed first year for Chris, Ronnie, and the Archive as a whole.
Today also marks the twenty-first birthday of Jewel Riders. Twenty-one years ago today “Jewel Quest: Part One” premiered on US television, starting some of us on a journey that still hasn’t reached its end.
We thought it would be fun to look back on where we started a year ago, and see how far we’ve come since.
How many of you remember this screen?
We used this holding page as a countdown to the launch of the Archive as we were still frantically putting it together behind the curtain. Back when the JRA looked like this…
Thankfully, Ronnie’s graphics and Chris’s programming abilities improved, and we were able to whip up something that looked a bit better!
The traditional gift for a first anniversary is Paper, and boy do we have paper in abundance to give out today. We just released 169 pages of beautiful storyboards for “Jewel Quest Part One”, which Ronnie has even composited into a video animatic with the audio from the episode!
Also, since today is the day that “Jewel Quest” premiered in the US, we are celebrating by releasing the episode in three different versions: Gwenevere, Starla, and French Starla! We will be releasing these three versions for each of the episodes exclusively on the site and our affiliated social media outlets, so stay tuned each week!
Friends Together, Friends Forever!
~Chris & Ronnie