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Alien Anthro Chihuahua Destroys New York
Green space rays morph animals into anthro killing machines in the alien invasion furries have been waiting for…
Kickstarter ending 6/20/14
Somewhere in New York, there is a rampaging chihuahua man-beast on the loose. Go and destroy, my shivering, pop-eyed Mexican cousin. Send me a postcard.
“Beast Mode” is a comic in the “alien invasion disaster” mode. This time, instead of reanimating the dead, the plan is, thusly: green space rays turn animals into half-human killing machines. I haven’t worked out the fine details yet, but the ray also seems to give them massive spiked shoulder pads. Lieutenant! Fire the Warhammer 40K beam! New York needs padding!
Anyway, Beast Mode is the first of a six-issue series focusing on this alien invasion. Art is by Alfred Carrillo, AKA “TwistedxSkillz,” and amazingly this seems to be his first time out in comic format–I’d love to be able to find out more about him, but his DeviantArt page is kind of spare. Pity! The artwork in “Beast Wars” is really something, and the Kickstarter has several preview pages from the first issue. This is actually the second tilt at the windmill for Beast Mode, so you can get even more gore-splattered anthro badness on the previous “Beast Mode” crowd fund effort.
From a strictly crowdfunding angle, this is interesting. I’ve never seen the second stab at a crowdfunding campaign succeed before. The original “Beast Mode” was an ambitious affair, with a range of pledge points–including a “your pet in BEAST MODE” sketch or walk-on role. And they did pretty well! Conservatively, $4000 was pledged (I’d question that pledge at the $1000 level because of the “Enick Farhan” scams that were running at the time). Anyway, for a first time effort, that’s a really good result, even if it didn’t meet goals!
This time on the merry-go-round, Carrillo is asking for a MUCH more modest $500, purely for print costs on the comic itself. I’m honestly a little surprised that the pledge points weren’t more ambitious, sketch commissions seem like a legit way of increasing pledge income.
[ed. note: you know, I could be wrong. The original pledger dollars on the first kickstarter effort map out really strangely, the numbers don't add up well. After the first go-around, Carrillo may have decided that "short, sweet and simple" is the way to go.]
Anyway! Gore-splattered action fests may not be everybody’s cuppa, but if you’re okay with a certain level of horror and grotesque in your anthro–not uncommon in werewolf art, and werewolves get a lot of fan service here–this looks like a pretty good romp. It also plays into the Kickstarter vision of “new artist seeking funds” that’s really at the heart of crowdfunding for me. If you like it and want to chip in, give a few extra dollars, because the $500 goal probably doesn’t scratch the surface of what’s going into, and already gone into, the project.
Note: Images used above are included to promote the work of crowdfunding artists, and are owned by the original creator.
What Not to Do
How not to win valuable foxdollars.
Pretty regularly I see projects that…just don’t work for me. My general guidelines for Furstarter posts and listings are, “is it interesting and/or furry?” and “does it have a chance of making goal?”
These, well, they’re furry. Interesting? I don’t know, I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Do they have a chance of making goal?
Probably not.
I’m just ranting here.
Anyway…First the semi-titled “Animal Shelter Project”
Animal Shelter ProjectIndiegogo ending 7/29/14
From cons, twitter, and people making fun of crowdfunding without really having a grasp on what it actually is, the most common misconception is that it’s all “fund-my-life” type projects–help me get a game system, help me pay my rent, or help me buy a fursuit. Please, guys, don’t prove them right.
There’s a lot that’s wrong with this page. A stretched-out two month campaign time that suggests someone relying on Indiegogo to spread the word for them, “Flexible Funding” turned on (rarely if ever a good idea), no business plan, and a photo that looks a little bit ganked from the internets, without telling any of the story the poster wants to share. You could at least show something from the artist you want to commission!
At heart, this is a “buy me an x-box” campaign. Wrap good intentions around it if you like, but charity dollars shouldn’t go toward buying you a fursuit. Even if you do intend to use it at charitable events, there’s no shortage of fursuiters in Montreal. Heck, it’s got its own convention. With a really cute logo. It seems pretty transparent that generosity-dollars should flow toward actual service work if the capital material’s already out there.
*sigh* Now instead of saying “no, it’s not about ‘buy me a fursuit!’” I’m going to have to say “Yeah, well, there was that one…”
Anyway.
Furries: Life But with FurIndiegogo ending 6/15/14
If I didn’t have some familiarity with the group fronting this, I’d assume it was a “Something Awful” put-on. But I’ve seen the “Griz Coat” team before, they’ve done some bear coats which were quite successful over on Kickstarter, I think I gave them a reluctant call-out before, I’m not a fan of their “lulz” tone and the coats kind of creep me out. Still, their campaigns are often called out as success stories.
Anyway. The “Furries” IGG is a mockumentary about, well, furries. I know a lot of furries, on the whole they’re a bunch of amiable dorks that enjoy video games, each other, and fuzzy animal personas. But if you take an exploitative approach (Say, MTV’s “Sex2K” or two-thirds of the media coverage targeting furs), you can of course pull out enough steamy and surreal material to fill an hour-long documentary–or in this case, a TV pilot.
I like media coverage. I do. It’s helping mainstream the community, and every year it seems trending to portray us as the oddball subculture that we are, not the sex-crazed loonies that–well, frankly, most of humanity is. “Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks in a mirror, he sees a monkey.”
I do not like media coverage that opens with the promise of a fox humping a chicken, then cuts into a frightening guy wearing tiger pants and chains, and is loaded with effing awful puns. The entire thing is theoretically going to be launched to the Fox Network, so it just gets better.
There’s some cute fursuit images a the bottom of the page, but the overall tone is snark and exploitation. I really hoped we were over this. Judging by the underwhelming response, maybe we are.
Guys, please, don’t mock your target audience.
“Dance Walking” and Street Fursuiting: a match waiting to happen
FC-168 TaurCast - A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it's not like I'm writing this episode description while currently half asleep o
A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it’s not like I’m writing this episode description while currently half asleep on a computer at work pulling subjective terms to describe how it went out of my ass or anything… No seriously though the guest was pretty good, we got to have a nice short interview with our friend Mishka from the first article and uh yeah, emails were good too. It was good. Really. BELIEVE IT.
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- Twitch & Tez – “Skittes are Gaysist”
- Kane – “Shifts”
- Kyler – “Gender Identity Crisis”
- Mercure Lexion – “Choosing a Fursona”
- Trystyn – “Dear FurCast”
- Anonymous – “Fursuit”
- Lupus Vette – “Tests and names”
- Jesse Pinkail – “very first con”
- Sin Nombre – “Assy friends, awkward kisses, and Species confusion”
FC-168 TaurCast - A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it's not like I'm writing this episode description while currently half asleep o
A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it’s not like I’m writing this episode description while currently half asleep on a computer at work pulling subjective terms to describe how it went out of my ass or anything… No seriously though the guest was pretty good, we got to have a nice short interview with our friend Mishka from the first article and uh yeah, emails were good too. It was good. Really. BELIEVE IT.
Watch Video News:- Fur Affinity cracks down on ‘watchbot’ accounts by GreenReaper
- Flayrah’s story ratings now reflected in Google search results by GreenReaper
- FL state rep: School tests designed to turn students gay
- Furry DJ NeonBunny’s “Eat, Sleep, Fursuit, Repeat” by NeonBunny
- 9-1-1 CALL: Man denied Triple Whopper, upset over relationship goes on shooting rampage in Port St. Lucie
- Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Invaded Washington, DC
- Health and Environmental Concerns Abound: Minnesota Bans Common Antibacterial Chemical
- Twitch & Tez – “Skittes are Gaysist”
- Kane – “Shifts”
- Kyler – “Gender Identity Crisis”
- Mercure Lexion – “Choosing a Fursona”
- Trystyn – “Dear FurCast”
- Anonymous – “Fursuit”
- Lupus Vette – “Tests and names”
- Jesse Pinkail – “very first con”
- Sin Nombre – “Assy friends, awkward kisses, and Species confusion”
[Live] TaurCast - A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it's not like I'm writing this episode description while currently half asleep o
A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it’s not like I’m writing this episode description while currently half asleep on a computer at work pulling subjective terms to describe how it went out of my ass or anything… No seriously though the guest was pretty good, we got to have a nice short interview with our friend Mishka from the first article and uh yeah, emails were good too. It was good. Really. BELIEVE IT.
Watch Video News:- Fur Affinity cracks down on ‘watchbot’ accounts by GreenReaper
- Flayrah’s story ratings now reflected in Google search results by GreenReaper
- FL state rep: School tests designed to turn students gay
- Furry DJ NeonBunny’s “Eat, Sleep, Fursuit, Repeat” by NeonBunny
- 9-1-1 CALL: Man denied Triple Whopper, upset over relationship goes on shooting rampage in Port St. Lucie
- Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Invaded Washington, DC
- Health and Environmental Concerns Abound: Minnesota Bans Common Antibacterial Chemical
- Twitch & Tez – “Skittes are Gaysist”
- Kane – “Shifts”
- Kyler – “Gender Identity Crisis”
- Mercure Lexion – “Choosing a Fursona”
- Trystyn – “Dear FurCast”
- Anonymous – “Fursuit”
- Lupus Vette – “Tests and names”
- Jesse Pinkail – “very first con”
- Sin Nombre – “Assy friends, awkward kisses, and Species confusion”
FC-168 TaurCast - A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it's not like I'm writing this episode description while currently half asleep o
A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it’s not like I’m writing this episode description while currently half asleep on a computer at work pulling subjective terms to describe how it went out of my ass or anything… No seriously though the guest was pretty good, we got to have a nice short interview with our friend Mishka from the first article and uh yeah, emails were good too. It was good. Really. BELIEVE IT.
Watch Video News:- Fur Affinity cracks down on ‘watchbot’ accounts by GreenReaper
- Flayrah’s story ratings now reflected in Google search results by GreenReaper
- FL state rep: School tests designed to turn students gay
- Furry DJ NeonBunny’s “Eat, Sleep, Fursuit, Repeat” by NeonBunny
- 9-1-1 CALL: Man denied Triple Whopper, upset over relationship goes on shooting rampage in Port St. Lucie
- Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Invaded Washington, DC
- Health and Environmental Concerns Abound: Minnesota Bans Common Antibacterial Chemical
- Twitch & Tez – “Skittes are Gaysist”
- Kane – “Shifts”
- Kyler – “Gender Identity Crisis”
- Mercure Lexion – “Choosing a Fursona”
- Trystyn – “Dear FurCast”
- Anonymous – “Fursuit”
- Lupus Vette – “Tests and names”
- Jesse Pinkail – “very first con”
- Sin Nombre – “Assy friends, awkward kisses, and Species confusion”
My reaction to some things in this fandom...
He Might Lose His Straight Friend after Confessing He Is Gay
A dual commission of Trivol and me, by Rileyy
Furries, self-esteem, and identity: assumptions to check
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