Another huge industry is now trying out kickstarter as a way to fund its projects. Famous anime studio Production I.G has started a
kickstarter project for a anime named "Kick-Heart". Production I.G has alot of anime titles under its belt, most famous are: Patlabor: Mobile Police, Furi Kuri(FLCL), Jin-Roh(Wolf Brigade), Blood: The Last Vampire, Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou, Kaleido Star, Blood+, Dead Leaves, xxxHOLiC, Appleseed XIII, etc.. The list goes on and can be viewed
hereThe "Why" written down in the Kickstarted(and pasted below) project really got me thinking, that maybe this is the future for the industry. So that's why I thought it might be a good ideea to spread the word.
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Why Kickstarter?
During the mid 80’s and 90’s Japanese animation directors, such as Mamoru Oshii, pioneered a new era of animation. Their films inspired animation fans around the world, including many well known Hollywood film directors.
Recently in Japan, its been very difficult for the next generation of innovators to create more artistically driven projects-- mainly because of the economic situation in Japan. Most of the focus has been put on creating projects that carry less risk-- such as remakes of older animation projects or well-known established properties.
So we had an idea: What if we use Kickstarter as a platform to connect the fans across the globe who want to see cutting-edge animation, with highly skilled anime directors? By using crowdfunding to help support and promote these talented directors, we can enable them to push the boundaries of anime to inspire others to innovate alongside them.
This is a bit of an experiment for us, and we are trying to see if is possible to make these types of artistically driven films with the help of crowd-funding. If this goes well, we would definitely like to pursue more projects like this in the future.
I'm preatty excited to see if this is actually the future to bonding the "foreign" anime fans to the production studios in Japan and getting more quality productions.
Link to kickstarter if anyone missed it:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/produc...asas-kick-heart