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Fundraising for a short animated WG movie? (IMPORTANT)
11 years ago
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This might come right out of the blue, but I'm just curious to know... If I were using, let's say, patreon.com to accept donations, who would be willing to pay me and become a patron (monthly donator with the sum of your own choice) for at least a year?
I've had this passion for creating furry animations for quite some time now, and I have plans for a 15 to 20 minutes long, animated short film about weight gaining. No dialog, just the animation, music and sound effects (which I can create all myself). The story is about this young, relatively slim guy, who gets a job from a local gym as an assistant. While enjoying his job, cleaning places and taking care of the equipment in the gym, some of the beefier customers can't help but to notice how much of a sweet tooth the new employee is. Because of this, customers start to bully him by dumping all their energy drinks to him and sneakily feeding him with treats, perhaps more than what he can chew. While this kind of bullying keeps going on week after week, and as our hero of the story starts to plump up a bit, making him feel somewhat depressed and worried, one of the customers (second main character) is slowly starting to show affection to him and his new figure. From there on, they start to getting to know better with each other, hang out more together, having dates and creating plans for their future. The plans are mostly concerning the ways how the hero of ours could fatten up even more and even faster, as he's starting to feel more confident about the whole gaining situation, thanks to his new friend. After a year of working in the gym, both of the main characters stop going in there, as our hero has become too fat to carry on with his job any longer, and his partner in love has also started to show signs of roundness on his waist. And that's the story in a nutshell. ^^
So that's the basic idea for the story. This is something I would love to work on with my time, but without backing up my financial income, there's no way in hell that my free time alone will be enough to make this happen. This is something I would work on as my full time job if I'm being payed. One year of time in total, five days a week, eight to ten hours per day depending on how inspired I am. That would be my schedule plan for all this. I don't necessarily need money for new equipment or anything like that. It's all just to pay my rent, bills, loans and groceries while working on this. If I would get about 1,500 USD per month, that is more than enough for me to make a living out of. And considering what's the average wage for animator, that's basically nothing.
Really, the only problem that I have with this whole project is the fact that I don't have any kind of "proof of concept" to show you. At least, not for now. I know how animation works and I have the tools for creating one but I haven't done animation production this big ever before. So, as one of my friends told me when we discussed about this, the project is a bit of a leap of faith to back up in it's current state. I can't guarantee you anything about the quality of final product just yet, but I'm aiming to draw everything in the fully colored and shaded style that I'm used to do and that you all are familiar with. But if proof of concept is absolutely needed, I'll whip up something as quickly as possible. Game Grumps animated, perhaps?
Luckily I'm not in a hurry with this fundraising. For now, I'm just testing the waters in here to see whether this project is worth the effort or not. At its earliest, I would probably start accepting donations on December 2014, but that is something I shouldn't think of just yet. I want to hear from you guys first what're you thinking of all this.
Here's how I've thought about the funding itself. With different amounts of monthly donations, you'll get different prizes:
If you become a donator for twelve months and pay me 1-4 dollars on each month, you'll get your (nick)name in the ending credits of the film.
Donate 5 dollars per month, I'll draw a still picture of your fursona and plant it somewhere within the movie. It can be a poster, billboard, magazine cover or something else like that.
Donate 10 dollars per month, I'll give your fursona a one scene cameo role in the movie as a background character.
Donate 25 dollars per month, I'll give your fursona a one scene cameo role in the movie as a character that's interacting with at least one of the two main characters.
Donate 50 dollars per month, and I'll draw your fursona as one of the gym bullies or the manager of the gym, the next best thing right after the leading roles.
Donate 100 dollars per month and I'll draw your fursona as one of the two main characters of the film.
And as a bonus goal; if we reach the total donation amount of 3,000$/month, I'll add a sex scene in the movie including our main characters doing it. Whether it's gay or straight sex, and our main donators are okay with it, I'll do it! Just to challenge myself a bit.
The prices may be high, but this is an animation after all. I have to draw _a_ _shit_ _ton_ of art (sketches, inks etc.) to make this work. I feel the amounts that I'm asking for are quite acceptable.
Now keep in mind... Even though I have plans like this for a short film, I'm not asking any money from you just yet. Hell, I don't even have an account on Patreon, it still needs to be made. All I'm curious to know at this point whether there's enough of people interested of backing up this project or not. Leave a comment below, spread the word, tell to your friends and tell them to check this journal and leave also a comment of what your opinion for all this is.
"Syteen tai saveen", as we say in Finland. :D
P.S. - I apologize if there's crucial information missing in this journal. I was writing this wall of text for two hours or so. If there's anything you wanna ask considering the project plan, feel free to.
I've had this passion for creating furry animations for quite some time now, and I have plans for a 15 to 20 minutes long, animated short film about weight gaining. No dialog, just the animation, music and sound effects (which I can create all myself). The story is about this young, relatively slim guy, who gets a job from a local gym as an assistant. While enjoying his job, cleaning places and taking care of the equipment in the gym, some of the beefier customers can't help but to notice how much of a sweet tooth the new employee is. Because of this, customers start to bully him by dumping all their energy drinks to him and sneakily feeding him with treats, perhaps more than what he can chew. While this kind of bullying keeps going on week after week, and as our hero of the story starts to plump up a bit, making him feel somewhat depressed and worried, one of the customers (second main character) is slowly starting to show affection to him and his new figure. From there on, they start to getting to know better with each other, hang out more together, having dates and creating plans for their future. The plans are mostly concerning the ways how the hero of ours could fatten up even more and even faster, as he's starting to feel more confident about the whole gaining situation, thanks to his new friend. After a year of working in the gym, both of the main characters stop going in there, as our hero has become too fat to carry on with his job any longer, and his partner in love has also started to show signs of roundness on his waist. And that's the story in a nutshell. ^^
So that's the basic idea for the story. This is something I would love to work on with my time, but without backing up my financial income, there's no way in hell that my free time alone will be enough to make this happen. This is something I would work on as my full time job if I'm being payed. One year of time in total, five days a week, eight to ten hours per day depending on how inspired I am. That would be my schedule plan for all this. I don't necessarily need money for new equipment or anything like that. It's all just to pay my rent, bills, loans and groceries while working on this. If I would get about 1,500 USD per month, that is more than enough for me to make a living out of. And considering what's the average wage for animator, that's basically nothing.
Really, the only problem that I have with this whole project is the fact that I don't have any kind of "proof of concept" to show you. At least, not for now. I know how animation works and I have the tools for creating one but I haven't done animation production this big ever before. So, as one of my friends told me when we discussed about this, the project is a bit of a leap of faith to back up in it's current state. I can't guarantee you anything about the quality of final product just yet, but I'm aiming to draw everything in the fully colored and shaded style that I'm used to do and that you all are familiar with. But if proof of concept is absolutely needed, I'll whip up something as quickly as possible. Game Grumps animated, perhaps?
Luckily I'm not in a hurry with this fundraising. For now, I'm just testing the waters in here to see whether this project is worth the effort or not. At its earliest, I would probably start accepting donations on December 2014, but that is something I shouldn't think of just yet. I want to hear from you guys first what're you thinking of all this.
Here's how I've thought about the funding itself. With different amounts of monthly donations, you'll get different prizes:
If you become a donator for twelve months and pay me 1-4 dollars on each month, you'll get your (nick)name in the ending credits of the film.
Donate 5 dollars per month, I'll draw a still picture of your fursona and plant it somewhere within the movie. It can be a poster, billboard, magazine cover or something else like that.
Donate 10 dollars per month, I'll give your fursona a one scene cameo role in the movie as a background character.
Donate 25 dollars per month, I'll give your fursona a one scene cameo role in the movie as a character that's interacting with at least one of the two main characters.
Donate 50 dollars per month, and I'll draw your fursona as one of the gym bullies or the manager of the gym, the next best thing right after the leading roles.
Donate 100 dollars per month and I'll draw your fursona as one of the two main characters of the film.
And as a bonus goal; if we reach the total donation amount of 3,000$/month, I'll add a sex scene in the movie including our main characters doing it. Whether it's gay or straight sex, and our main donators are okay with it, I'll do it! Just to challenge myself a bit.
The prices may be high, but this is an animation after all. I have to draw _a_ _shit_ _ton_ of art (sketches, inks etc.) to make this work. I feel the amounts that I'm asking for are quite acceptable.
Now keep in mind... Even though I have plans like this for a short film, I'm not asking any money from you just yet. Hell, I don't even have an account on Patreon, it still needs to be made. All I'm curious to know at this point whether there's enough of people interested of backing up this project or not. Leave a comment below, spread the word, tell to your friends and tell them to check this journal and leave also a comment of what your opinion for all this is.
"Syteen tai saveen", as we say in Finland. :D
P.S. - I apologize if there's crucial information missing in this journal. I was writing this wall of text for two hours or so. If there's anything you wanna ask considering the project plan, feel free to.
I'd love to support financially, but I can't, so I'll just support verbally.
I have my own animation ambitions, but it's ALWAYS good to see more interest. And I would love to help others out in their own endeavors. I'd be willing to contribute!