Casey Pixmintro's Traveling Sideshow

[rtil]

i've never run a kickstarter before so no not really. however i have seen some extremely shitty kickstarters raise all their money by having a friend make a plea to a site like reddit for their buddy's "indie" project - albeit these are usually games and reddit shits their pants whenever they see the words "indie" and "game" in the same sentence.. i'm not sure if it would be the same anywhere on reddit for an animated cartoon. however it would be worth a shot as most redditors are easily impressed (by this i mean they like shitty games and animation and your animation is actually good so they'd be blown away) and is also the target audience of your pilot.

[Casey Pixmintro]

That's a good idea, hadn't thought of that. Thanks

[rtil]

 i just donated to your kickstarter. good luck

[Casey Pixmintro]

Thanks rtil! Oh also, as I was perusing the interweb, I found this from Animation Anomaly
http://animationanomaly.com/2012/05/15/a-kickstarter-campaign-too-far/

[sev]

to be honest, that's a lot of why I didn't donate. most of the kickstarter funds wouldn't actually go directly into the actual project, the only exception arguably being the computer which you could probably save up for on your own, and either way, that's still not the bulk of where the money is going. and that's a turn off to people when you're asking them for $7.5k. instead of asking people to donate to the cartoon getting finished, you're asking them to mostly donate to the marketing and success of the cartoon to better your chances of pitching it to tv networks, and when you think about it, why would they want to? you only gave them 46 seconds of animation with not really any humor. while the animation is good, there's really not much else in this that i can see making very many people want to help get this on television, or more directly, help get you (and whoever you're bringing) to animation festivals.

[rtil]

Thanks rtil! Oh also, as I was perusing the interweb, I found this from Animation Anomaly
http://animationanomaly.com/2012/05/15/a-kickstarter-campaign-too-far/

well what do you have to say about his criticisms? not that really matters as it appears he's just some no name blogger.

[MarcK]

im not the best person to give advice on this sort of thing, but based off what im seeing it just looks like you need to concretely tell where exactly every dollar is going. look up the exact price for your preferred computer, write who's a part of the project and how much money's being sent their way, and all of the travelling/post production costs. I dunno, can you even edit a kickstarter once its out? I imagine the pledgers wouldnt be thrilled about that.

[Casey Pixmintro]

I actually agree with a bunch of them. I wrote him an email the other day and we've been having some nice dialogue since then. In hindsight I wish I would have just done the Kickstarter to raise money for the cast, but live and learn. When I found the article, I was more interested in what he had to say about my pitch than the actual Kickstarter which I really did based on suggestion from one of my professors.

And no I can't edit the Kickstarter once it's out

[rtil]

well i still support you. i don't really care what you do with the money so long as it's involved with the animation or supporting yourself in order to be able to do the work

[Casey Pixmintro]

Thanks, also you get a cameo in the pilot yay! Where do you want it in the episode?

I might post the animatic on here too cuz why not

[rtil]

i thought you already did post it here

i'll have to look through the ep again

[sev]

I actually agree with a bunch of them. I wrote him an email the other day and we've been having some nice dialogue since then. In hindsight I wish I would have just done the Kickstarter to raise money for the cast, but live and learn. When I found the article, I was more interested in what he had to say about my pitch than the actual Kickstarter which I really did based on suggestion from one of my professors.

And no I can't edit the Kickstarter once it's out

Not really sure how much money people would have pledged just to compensate the cast, but if the Kickstarter falls through, you could always try Indiegogo. You get to keep all of the money you earn with indiegogo, (unlike kickstarter, unless kickstarter's changed from its all or nothing setup) although it's not as popular i don't think

[Casey Pixmintro]

Yeah I saw that Indiegogo lets you keep all the money no matter what but it's way less popular than Kickstarter

And oh whoops I did put the animatic up heh oh jeez

[CoolDrMoney]

sure I'll throw in

[Casey Pixmintro]

Hey guys, the first part of a freelance project I've been workin on is online now. It's an educational game development video for a Texture Packing program my client made.
SpriteSheets - The Movie Part 1

[Kött]

That was pretty educational actually... and quite professionally executed.
Nice job

[SHADOWFOX2]

That was really good.
I liked it.
Good job

[rtil]

did you use pixel tools?

[Casey Pixmintro]

Thanks guys, yup I got to use Pixel Tools for it. It was pretty fun using it, but I kept fucking up things and accidentally offsetting the pixels.

[rtil]

haha yea that can be a bitch at times. but it's really fun once you get the hang of it