How do you fund a indie cartoon without selling merch or crowdfunding or ads or working and then doing the project slowly in your spare time? Those things seem to piss audiences off
>>153894721Animation "fans" are retards who think cartoons are just made out of thin airWho cares what they think
>>153894721Make a plataform where it is impossible to block/skip ads
>>153894721Prostitute yourself to your fans.
You don't.
>>153894721That's the neat thing, you don't
>>153894721Figure it out yourself. The money has to come from somewhere. If it was that easy then there'd be more people succeeding.
>>153894721You get your government to pay for it.
>>153894721I would say Skibiddi Toilet, but i heard the guy saying how he is basically broke now because he lost both the IP and Youtube revenue to a managing company and o would literally kill myself right at the spot if i created something like Skibiddi Toilet and still managed to die poor
>>153894721I wish we lived in the timeline where OVAs became so successful the West stole the concept, and it was normal for people to just buy small run animation series
>>153894721Great question OP. >without selling merch or crowdfunding or ads or working and then doing the project slowly in your spare time? Make a business plan based on another model for funding. However:>Those things seem to piss audiences offIrrelevant. Stop artificially limiting your options.
>>153894753How do you get nonchalant product placement deals?
>>153894721>Those things seem to piss audiences offAny basis for that assumption?
>>153894721How do you think old cartoons like Transformers or He-Man were funded?
>>153894813>Irrelevant. Stop artificially limiting your options.This. A vocal minority complaining is worth less than nothing if you're producing something of quality. Lesson 1 is do not try to please everyone. Do what you gotta do.
>>153894721>>153894963The digital circus ending was so ass that it made everyone want Glitch to go bankrupt, nobody had a problem with all the merch beforehand
You're describing Planetronika, which audiences have expressed isn't good enough for them.If you want your Indie to have comparable production value and length to mainstream cartoons, you NEED money for an actual production team.
Just be rich
>>153895101>The digital circus ending was so ass that it made everyone rebound straight to Gameoverse with no hard feelings.ftfy
>>153894738Bad idea.>>153894753Extremely bad idea.>>153894721If people like your characters and designs then they will want to own physical representations of them. People don't like it when the attempts to take their money are too transparent or when promoting merchandise is starting to mess with the story.
>>153894721Ever read the story of Robin Hood?
>>153894721>How do you fund a indie cartoon without>selling merch or crowdfunding or ads or doing the project slowly in your spare timeYou don't.People don't care as long as the story is good.I think tadc did one thing that every other show needs to learn from, actually 2 things.1. The crazy slow and long release schedule. No other show is doing it, and chances are no other show will?That's why tadc is the MOST popular.2. merch and ads, every episode, plus the ad shorts are almost like episode clips.If every other show did merch like that (which is most of glitch merch sale ads.) The sales go up by INSANE amounts.Anyone trying to do animation, or toons, or storyboards, or wants more then making posts on anon board NEED to learn from this (tadc and glitch).
>>153894759Good idea.
>>153894721Your best bet is for your father to be the co-founder of Nike.
>>153895112But if you were rich you don’t want to spend the money, it might make you less rich
>>153895101>everyoneAh, so no basis
>>153895197>Your best bet is for your father to be the co-founder of Nike.Is this in reference to a real showrunner?
>>153895505He's talking about Laika Studios. They get funding by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his son, Travis Knight. It's a pretty sweet arrangement.
>>153895754Funding art projects by using the money earned from selling stuff with a practical purpose (in this case footwear) seems like a sensible thing to do. Maybe these indie studios could start getting into manufacturing goods or selling food products.
>>153894721Either you make your scope really small or you prepare yourself for the reality that the project will only be finished several years from now, or your cartoon doesn't get made. Artists need to eat, they need to be compensated. They cannot just live off of smiles and rainbows. Most audiences understand this, that's why they're willing to pay money to support the art.Dumb children on twitter who don't understand how the world works is not a true representation of "the audience". They're just pissy and entitled.
