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Furfunding Week in Review 11-3-14
This week’s illustration is from Tara Fly’s 2015 Literary Cats calendar, now on Kickstarter.
Okay, okay, okay. What would happen if Indiegogo decided to take on the sort of ongoing crowdfunding that Patreon does? But–wait for it–only for successful projects? It’s happened.
There was a time when I really liked Kickstarter and really hated Indiegogo. Kickstarter seemed professional–they weeded out the dumb joke projects like “Fund me finding my ass with both hands” (I don’t know that this was a project, but it’s not an exaggeration). They organized things in chronological order, not using some weird algorithmic sort.
Indiegogo, though, has surprised me–they’ve got some tricks. I’m going to have to write an extended paean of their features, but this new one could be a game-changer: projects that are successful may be able to sign onto Indiegogo’s ongoing funding platform.
The exciting thing about this for me is that it’s ongoing funding for projects that are proven success stories, which makes a heck of a lot of sense. Of course, this will encourage people with no business sense to create $5 campaigns. Maybe there’s a workaround.
How’d I find this? A recent project I covered last August–Mordrude’s Monsters, a handbook of realistic costume design–was invited to be a member of their pilot program.
I’m definitely going to do a long-form essay about this program–some thoughts about what it might mean, how it works, etc etc. Mordrude says she’ll give me some commentary on how the new program is working for her. For now, though, I look forward to seeing how this develops!
Reviews this week: Tradeable medallions with “Paw Coins” and crazy battling bears and bunnies with Anthro Borgs.
PS: Did you know that sometimes when you skip a week, 4,000 projects get posted? Seriously, there’s a lot of new stuff over the last two, sorry I procrastinated!
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For a “complete” list of furry/fur-friendly crowdfunding projects, check out the Project Page and Patreon Page! New Projects ArtSun and Moon Dragons (Ends: 11/6/2014)
Realistic and detailed art prints, very Dungeons & Dragons feel.
Literary Cat Art Calendar 2015: Cats in Period Clothing (Ends: 11/21/2014)
Illustrated cate calendar with cats in luxurious period costumes
DOGs Postcards (Ends: 11/23/2014)
Cute cartoony postcards and canine rights activism.
PKMNetcast: It’s Super Effective! (Ends: 11/19/2014)
Podcast fundraiser for the It’s Super Effective! Pokemon Podcast, nicely organized and presented, more than halfway to goal!
Maggie and the Feather of Flight (Ends: 12/21/2014)
An illustrated, magical mouse child’s book, in the Serendipity late 70s art style
Popsicle Bailee and the Mysterious Stranger (Ends: 12/28/2014)
A children’s book about the mysterious world your dog imagines and why she barks incessantly.
Silver Ghosts: Day of the Dead pendants (Ends: 11/12/2014)
Silver animal totem pendants with a skeleton on the reverse
Little Heroes charms (Ends: 11/23/2014)
Cute little cuddly fantasy adventure animal charms.
Paw Coins Collectable Coins (Ends: 11/24/2014)
Embossed and enamelled coin/medallions with a range of furry artwork
These are supposed to be collectible, but I’m not seeing it. Hoping the project gets retooled as just a jewelry line, it’d probably be more successful.
3D My Kicks (Ends: 11/25/2014)
A collection of 3D printed, mostly animal-theme flipflops
I hope Senpai Notices Me tee shirt designs (Ends: 12/1/2014)
Minimal-effort but that’s kind of the point. Your senpai will almost certainly notice you in this tee!
A bit meme-y, but good for a chuckle
Ravenous (Ends: 12/5/2014)
Graphic novel of hairy man vs. equally hairy werewolf. Kind of Wolverine, not at all Twilight.
La storia dell’Orso (Ends: 12/6/2014)
An Italian project and therefore a little over my head, but seems to be an artsy and surreal story of a rabbit and a bear, very sketchy and noir
Hearth’s Warming Eve (Ends: 11/12/2014)
If you happen to be in the San Diego area, you might be interested in this evening of Pony/Holiday themed music and festivities.
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse Episode 2 (Ends: 11/22/2014)
Maybe if you’d seen the original Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse, this will make sense. Probably not. Insane brain-collage with mystic wolf man and dolphin guys. This just makes no damned sense. Enjoy.
Horse Boy! The making of. (Ends: 11/30/2014)
11111, if you’re unfamiliar, is a challenging play/film about a young man obsessed with horses to a dangerous, even religious, degree, dark, disturbing, with sexual overtones. Obviously, it was crying to be made into a comedy mockumentary musical.
Do watch the video for this. It’s absurd.
Bricks of the Mouse Guard (Ends: 11/24/2014)
Are lego-style mouse miniatures a thing? Apparently! This one’s already past goal–fantasy lego mouse figures for your very specific gaming needs
Anthro Borgs: Slaves of Steel (Ends: 11/27/2014)
Big smashy pointy anthro bears, skunks, bunnies, and goats in miniature combat mayhem!
Dragon Hunters (Ends: 12/17/2014)
Folklore-based tourism with with print materials and GPS technology to help hunters find the dragon lore of Britain.
Chimera Genesis (Ends: 11/20/2014)
Side-scrolling procedural platformer where you mix-and-match species to sprint past challenges
Here’s the demo, but it’s kind of murky and unappealing–I hope the game evolves a bit
Evocality (Ends: 11/20/2014)
Browser-based breeding and training game with a huge variety of colorful canine and canine-like animal companions.
Target Acquired (Ends: 11/27/2014)
Cat police girls in skin-tight armor romp through a mad scientist mouse’s evil labyrinth of doom. Side-scrolling fun, somewhat Mega Man inspired.
The Incredible Untold Story of Sailor Moon (Ends: 11/21/2014): The definitive book about Sailor Moon’s journey to America, by a consultant for DIC Entertainment.
Animals in Delicious Food (Ends: 11/29/2014): This is the stupidest project ever, but… fox in a plate of curry.
GOTY: Gaming Awards, Radio, Database (Ends: 12/15/2014): A multimedia project aimed at being the Oscar awards for video games. Very slow start and far from goal, but an interesting idea.
What’s Corbeau Backing This Week?Oh, man! I’m so peeved that The Equestria Tarot got tossed by Kickstarter and Hasbro. Stupid intellectual property disputes…Hasbro really needs to clearly state the lines before which it will not come down like a ton of bricks on derivative content creators. I did throw a dollar at Anthro Borgs, but that was more of a “thumbs up” than full-on support…
Commissions Open
Oh man this is my first post here! My friend suggested that I'd move commissions to Reddit too! 'v '
Here's some examples of the latest of my stuff ; Examples
I do both humans and animals, feral and anthro! ' v ' Also here's my FurAffinity & my DeviantArt
Alright so here's the prices ; Drawings | Photo 1 - $15 ( Bust shot ) | Photo 2 - $15 ( Full Body ) | Photo 3 - $5 ( Chibi Full Body ) | Photo 4 & 5 - $5 ( Chibi Bust ) | Photo 6 - $3 ( Floating Head )
These prices are a lot lower than on my FA and my dA ; w ;
submitted by fricklefrackles[link] [6 comments]
Fangcon brings peace, love and music with a Woodstock theme, on November 6-10, 2014
In 3038 there are only bears: Anthro Borgs
Spinning blades and bionic bears in a danger room dungeon crawl…
[EDIT: Funding and project cancelled :( ]
One of the best things about Nazis–and, yes, it is kind of a short list–is that, year in and year out, they’re a great go-to villain. Like hula hoops and oligarchy, they just keep coming back into style. Even in 3038.
Meet Dr. Bunkenstein. Not misunderstood, just mad. After reading too much Mein Kamf in heil school, he’s gotten the backing of a powerful, shadowy company to support his misguided research–in particular, the development of Soulforce, a unique substance able to create a bridge between the machine and living flesh.
Right away, you can see this isn’t going to go anywhere good.
Armed with the ability to create a race of hybrid human/animal/Waring 10-speed blenders, Bunkenstein and his corporate backers at X9 are able to launch their Master Plan (furries, 62% of you will be happy to know it involves mechanized, pantsless tiger guys, and I for one welcome our amoral post-apocalytic Nazi overlords). But four of his original creations–a rabbit built for amazing speed, a tank of a russian bear, a heavily-armed goat, and a skunk with a pair of fearsome biological weapons that are guns not whatever you might have been thinking–pull away from their creator and make a break for freedom.
Here’s where it gets fun: Anthro Borgs, now on Kickstarter, is the action-adventure story of their escape. In this 1-4 player tactical combat game, the characters must battle an environment filled with spinning blades, spikes, pits, and what look like mimics–and each other–to escape Bunkenstein’s clutches.
Game play: Characters have a fairly simple character sheet with a couple of special abilities, damage output, ranged vs. melee combat, damage resistance, and a “ferocity” track (the more damage a character takes, the nastier s/he is in combat…) There’s a little bit of the mechanics in JunkRobot’s video collection. I’m a little unsure of whether the game is more “player vs player” or “player vs environment,” it’s a tactical game so probably more the former. The spikes, gears, and other traps look like a lot of fun to play with!
Of course the project is mostly going to be about the characters themselves. I’m a sucker for “big and brutal,” and the goat and bear have that in spades. The female characters–well, the skunk is pretty nice looking in some of the shots they have of her, but the rabbit has a distinctly “Tiny Toons” look–it’s that age-old problem that anthro females are prettier than the males. The rabbit, Jasmine Speed, has a bit of a “Barbie goes to war” thing happening. They all have a fun mix of fur, figure, and machinery, good augmented action hero characters, it looks like they’d be a lot of fun to stomp around the board with.
So far as the kickstarter itself goes, it’s a touch complex, which seems to be the rule for minis projects. The game has a lot of add-ons and stretch goals (which are also add-ons, it doesn’t look like the core game is meant to expand, but the project planners haven’t announced any stretch goals yet, I could be wrong.) I’d be a little worried that the core package – $80 “North America” pledge level – is going to feel like an incomplete game without the extra $220 of goodies in the “Australia” set.
I would also suggest that calling a pledge level “North America” or “Australia” is a bit confusing in an international funding platform. Neither here nor there.
There’s a certain feeling I get looking over the available material on the project that’s hard to shake, and it seems to run through tabletop action gaming in general, that the product is only ever going to see a male audience. Which may be true, the female wargamer is a v-e-r-y rare life form, but that’s not a strength or a marketing platform. The most perfect examples of this are the swimsuit issues put out by Palladium of “RIFTS” “fame.” Now, I don’t expect any action-adventure board game to do well on the Bechdel Test, but when you put the towering, angry, bad-ass Isbjorn the bear and Roderick the goat over Jasmine Speed, who seems to be fresh from either the salon or the lobotomist, it does feel like the label should say “for boys ages 14 and up.” I’m not sure this product is really girlfriendable.
Anyway, that’s not a huge “ding” against the product, it’s an action game, not social commentary. This is a product that’s really aimed directly at the furry demographic, and I hope to see it demo at my local game shop. Good luck, guys!
Note: Images used above are included to promote the work of crowdfunding artists, and are owned by the original creator.
Buddy System for the Buddy-less
I'm not a fantastic artist (quite the opposite), but I really love how cute this came out, and I wanted to share.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14871343/
Edit: I'm bad at labeling my reddit submissions..
submitted by Aion1125[link] [14 comments]
How could I improve the body in my drawing?
Roaring 20s? that was the CFz theme for 2011 :)(Video by http://vimeo.com/vilkatas)
A thank you, and a short question.
So, I've been here and have only started to become active recently, I posted my fursona yesterday, and I'd like to say, ever since I started looking around here, its been INCREDIBLE seeing the amount of support and acceptance that furries (at least in this sub) have for each other. Sure, we may bicker and fight from time to time, but in the end, we all accept and even like each other, no matter what race, sexual orientation, social class, or fursonas and suiters we are. Its a beatiful thing that society is trying to reach. That makes me overjoyed and proud to be a fur. You guys can give yourselves a paw or claw on the back.
As for my question: I'd like to start socializing with other furs. FA's registration is down, so does anyone know of any other good places or groups to introduce myself and my fursona? Or where to meet local furs? (I live in Connecticut.) Feel free to tell me about you too, me and my fursona are friendly.
submitted by Infamous0823[link] [12 comments]
minecraft minecraft minecraft!
Do any of you play minecraft? I've missed playing a ton, and would like to get back into it. I'm looking for a cool private server to play on!
submitted by kidinabearsuit[link] [19 comments]
Looking for Fursuit Music Video - Red Cat and White Cat
Hey folks,
I'm trying to find a video of two fursuiters [boyfriends iirc] dancing to a song. I saw it a year or two ago, and haven't been able to find it since. The one fursuiter is a red cat I think, and the other is a white something. They do synchronized dance to a cool electronic-ish song. Anyone know it?
submitted by Patpatthud[link] [3 comments]
New (sort of!) to the furry fandom, but having a difficult time finding friends within it.
Hey there!
I joined this subreddit a few months ago and I've been lurking mostly, but I decided to reach out and meet new people. :>
I've always liked anthros, played Furcadia religiously when I was a weird teenager, and loved role-playing. It wasn't until recently that I decided to mull up my own 'sona (named Sagira) and attend my first convention this year (RainFurrest '14!).
I'm active on both Skype & Tumblr, so if you'd like to add / follow me, feel free!
Skype: colaurful
Tumblr: calx.tumblr.com
submitted by l4ur[link] [12 comments]
Who are some of the best fursuit makers?
For as long as I've been in the fandom I've neglected that side, more or less. Who are the best makers out there, at least theme by theme? (Realistic, cartoony, etc)
Thanks :D
submitted by ObsoletePixel[link] [5 comments]
Die Young
Here is a great furry music video by the very talented Vivienne Medrano and if she isn’t in the fandom she damn well should be!
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