Is it reasonable to expect a return on investment of time and effort as a small time creator if I were to have a completed product on Kickstarter? I’m not expecting a crazy amount but I’m just curious as an up and coming artist and writer.
There’s no guarantee obviously, but having the product as close to finished as possible is advisable. You may want to watch my other video “3 tips,” but my suggestion is break your project into small more manageable chunks first (issue over collection if this is your first time.) also I would recommend focusing more on breaking even than getting a return on investment, even some of these campaigns that made over 6 figures likely just factored in the cost of printing as the hurdle they wanted to get the funding for, but that does not include the cost of artwork, advertising, labor, etc. if it gets your book printed and gets your investment back to continue doing your creative work I’d say it’s money and time well spent
Can someone use kickstarter to fund a project in an already established franchise, but not be affiliated with that franchise? Example- if a writer wants to create a pitch packet which would include the synopsis, manuscript and sample art work. But what if the writer isn’t an artist himself and needs the funds to hire an artist to create 6 pages of finished work.
I would be surprised if no one has at least attempted to fund something like a “Spider-Man fan film” on Kickstarter. To be blunt: NO ONE accepts unsolicited pitches like this (whether comic publishers, film studios, etc) for them it is a legal liability and kind of a taboo, they’ve heard it all before anyway. If you’re going to embark on something I would advise doing your own original work so you have full creative ownership of it and aren’t in a legal grey area of what you can or cannot do with it. For example: Watchmen by Alan Moore could have easily been a property he owned all the rights to, he suggested it to DC using characters like Vision and Blue Beetle, he just “re-skinned” them to be Rorschach and Nite Owl. Similarly tv shows like Critical Role are creating their proprietary Dagger Heart module so they are not under any legal obligation to Dungeons and Dragons which they base all of their characters on.
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Is it reasonable to expect a return on investment of time and effort as a small time creator if I were to have a completed product on Kickstarter?
I’m not expecting a crazy amount but I’m just curious as an up and coming artist and writer.
There’s no guarantee obviously, but having the product as close to finished as possible is advisable. You may want to watch my other video “3 tips,” but my suggestion is break your project into small more manageable chunks first (issue over collection if this is your first time.) also I would recommend focusing more on breaking even than getting a return on investment, even some of these campaigns that made over 6 figures likely just factored in the cost of printing as the hurdle they wanted to get the funding for, but that does not include the cost of artwork, advertising, labor, etc. if it gets your book printed and gets your investment back to continue doing your creative work I’d say it’s money and time well spent
Can someone use kickstarter to fund a project in an already established franchise, but not be affiliated with that franchise? Example- if a writer wants to create a pitch packet which would include the synopsis, manuscript and sample art work. But what if the writer isn’t an artist himself and needs the funds to hire an artist to create 6 pages of finished work.
I would be surprised if no one has at least attempted to fund something like a “Spider-Man fan film” on Kickstarter. To be blunt: NO ONE accepts unsolicited pitches like this (whether comic publishers, film studios, etc) for them it is a legal liability and kind of a taboo, they’ve heard it all before anyway.
If you’re going to embark on something I would advise doing your own original work so you have full creative ownership of it and aren’t in a legal grey area of what you can or cannot do with it.
For example: Watchmen by Alan Moore could have easily been a property he owned all the rights to, he suggested it to DC using characters like Vision and Blue Beetle, he just “re-skinned” them to be Rorschach and Nite Owl.
Similarly tv shows like Critical Role are creating their proprietary Dagger Heart module so they are not under any legal obligation to Dungeons and Dragons which they base all of their characters on.