Is the relationship between creators and fans today a healthy one? Has the new closeness made things ever more personal? Kickstarter and other crowdfunded content are coming under…
This month I chat with Jeff Cooper and Grahaeme Cowie of Smoking Doors Productions about their animated webseries Impotents and the Kickstarter campaign their currently running to get…
No really, hear me out. I’ve waxed lyrical about Kickstarter projects before. I think it’s a great tool for the independent animator/producer who’s project is perhaps a bit too risky for a serious investor. Some great projects have found backing through it while others have stuttered to a halt despite 6-figures in backing; not naming any names. Yet Kickstarter could actually result in less animation being made. That sounds mad, right?
Kickstarter is a service that continues to enjoy a lot of popularity among filmmakers and entertainers. One of the main reasons that people turn to Kickstarter is to help fun the actual content. That carries a certain amount of risk though, so it’s always good to see someone using Kickstarter to fund something other than the animation, like what WAKFU is aiming to achieve.
A look at three different animated Kickstarter campaigns and why each is being undertaken despite differing economic backgrounds and promises.
Not one but two animation-related Kickstarter projects have sprung up. Both have differing aims, but both are important to the future of the technique.
A Kickstarter project is proposing to teach people how to model every Pixar character by recreating them. Is that even legal?
When the Trigger studio announced the Little Witch Academia 2 Kickstarter project, it was funded in three hours! Here’s why the very simple steps they took leading up to this moment worked so well in their favour.
One question that is often swept under the carpet on Kickstarter projects is who owns the content after its been created. Here’s a look at why this unresolved issue could lead to the abuse of backers’ trust.
Kickstarter is a great service and one that I’ve covered before in some detail, but recently I got around to thinking, just who is Kickstarter ideally suited for…
With all the talk of Kickstarter these days and how it’s enabling creators in ways never thought of before, I thought comparing animated Kickstarter projects would make for…
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