[Bf-committers] Gooseberry campaign - last week

[Jacob Merrill]

Perhaps a short prequel that is insanely cute? Appeal to parents, not just
artists?
On Apr 11, 2014 3:31 AM, "Jan Albartus" <albartus at home.nl> wrote:

> Personally I found the funding time period set to short, especially with
> the goal in mind.
>
> On 2014-04-11 12:02, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The Gooseberry artists have a message :)
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cROMULAPLyg
> >
> > Current Grand Total for the funding is 550k USD. Getting so much money
> is already amazing - a world record for animation crowdfunding - but it's
> still quite far away from our real target. We really would need to add 3
> times more subscribers to make this project feasible!
> >
> > We still have 8 days left though, and I'm full of energy to get the
> press and attention from half the internet so everyone knows what we do!
> >
> > What you could help with is:
> >
> > - Keep tweeting, facebooking, liking, forumposting, and sharing the
> project everywhere.
> > - Check with companies or studios who might want to become Bronze or
> Silver credit sponsor.
> > - Tell everyone you can just leave a pledge (promise) now, no payment is
> needed until we reach the goal.
> > - Inspire some other people to join the Blender Cloud or to pledge :)
> >
> > Whatever happens though - I'd like to confirm that we're fully committed
> to everyone who already supported us. We're not going to let you down! The
> Blender Cloud is there to stay. The EU media subsidy (200k) for an "open
> production environment" will be invested anyway. And even with "only" 2150
> subscribers, it is giving us sufficient revenues to do great things
> already. I have a good "plan B" ready, but I hope you accept to only
> discuss that with you when it's needed. Focus is on winning this!
> >
> > Thanks on behalf of the Gooseberry teams,
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> > Join here:
> > https://cloud.blender.org/gooseberry/
> >
> >
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