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A few months ago, Colorado-based filmmaker Corrie Francis Parks raised nearly $12,000 through Kickstarter to create her first professional animated short. Afterward she wrote a detailed blog post explaining how she did it. There’s lots of valuable advice in her post, including the importance of setting a realistic fundraising goal and managing the campaign after it’s launched:

Like many artists, I’m not much of a self-promoter, so I had to find ways to keep sharing the project over and over without losing my authenticity. I also wanted to share something meaningful with my potential backers. This meant creating new content by writing project updates, offering special rewards at landmark moments, making some new rewards when the funding flat-lined. One of the sand paintings I created for a special reward. I had 450 people on my email list, and after every email, I saw a jump in the pledges. I asked people to share the project with 2 of their friends in a personal email or phone call. 35% of my backers are people i don’t know, but I’m pretty sure many are a result of those emails and phone calls.

Fundraising is in many ways a full-time job. One of my next-door neighbors recently raised over $40,000 for her film project, but she had to commit a couple months to full-time campaigning. Deciding whether you want to commit the time and effort to raising money is an important decision to make before embarking on any fundraising campaign.

(link to Corrie’s blog via ASIFA-SF newsletter)

5 Comments »   posted in Ideas/Commentary, Shorts, Corie Francis Parks, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter

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“Withering Rose” by Che Lopez

December 29, 2011 10:00 pm

San Diego animator Che Lopez created this film using, if I’m reading his blog correctly, CG characters against live action miniature sets. Looks impressive.

7 Comments »   posted in Shorts, Che Lopez

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“Zséman”

December 25, 2011 9:54 pm

Love the quirky movement, realistic eyes and mouths, and crunchy hand-made look of this student short. Here are some details about Zséman from one of its four filmmakers, Nadja Andrasev:

This was our fifth semester stop motion paper cut animation film just completed at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. We were given a basic rough storyline with an open ending and had to make the films in teams of four people, with one person as visual designer (in our case, Milán Kopasz). There were some basic guidelines, for example having to use lip sync. We decided to write gibberish as dialogue, therefore there are no subtitles. Three films were made in our class based on the same basic story (the other two were digitally animated).

CREDITS
Made by: Hanna Carlson, Milán Kopasz, Maja Szakadát, Nadja Andrasev
Design: Milán Kopasz
Lighting: Katalin Mészáros
Voice: Bálint Gelley

2 Comments »   posted in Shorts, Student, Hanna Carlson, Hungary, Maja Szakadát, Milán Kopasz, MOME, Nadja Andrasev

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Holiday Greetings from Animators #3

December 24, 2011 6:00 pm

One more Holiday post highlighting our readers across the globe…

First, from Diego Zucchi from Italy’s Alienatio:

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Next, from animator Raphael Sousa and director Marcus Vinicius of PlanoZ in Rio de Janeiro

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And finally, from Spanish animator Khris Cembe:

3 Comments »   posted in Shorts, Merry Christmas

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“Vésuves” by Kevin Manach

December 24, 2011 10:40 am



Robert Crumb meets the Estonian school of animation in this delightfully creepy short by Gobelins student Kevin Manach (previously on Cartoon Brew). He made Vésuves during an exchange program at CalArts.

6 Comments »   posted in Shorts, Gobelins, Kevin Manach

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Holiday Greetings from Animators #2

December 23, 2011 6:00 am

Several more outstanding Christmas films from animators far and wide. Some of these are greeting cards, one is a commercial spot, another a segment from a TV show…

First up, from London-based Beakus, this sweet little piece by Matthias Hoegg for client CBeebies, guaranteed to make you feel all warm and tingly…

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Vancouver animator Trent Corey, who worked on Sony’s Smurfs movie, sent us this:

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For client Kodak/idg, this holiday themed spot directed by Jens Blank and Anna Benner:

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Kirsten Lepore (Bottle) did this spot for the Yo Gabba Gabba Christmas Special! (Nick Jr.). Music by Adam Deibert, performed by James Husband:

1 Comment »   posted in Shorts, Merry Christmas

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“Seed” by Ben Richardson and Daniel Bird

December 23, 2011 12:27 am

Seed is a stop motion short directed by Ben Richardson and Daniel Bird about “an egg and an apple who build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio” with a “narrative of animal evolution, competition and reproduction.” Your mileage may vary—I personally found the storytelling obtuse and drawn-out—but it’s an undeniably attractive piece of stop motion with lovely photography and production design.

2 Comments »   posted in Shorts, Stop Motion, Ben Richardson, Daniel Bird

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