2014 might be behind us , but the hunt for awesome crowdfunding project never stops ! The first Crowdfund This of 2015 is pickle packed with cool melodic theme , with everything from cool comics about mythical beings living among us to a gorgeous look at tool intent – and much , much more .
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N0-A
This gorgeous sci - fi short film by SCAD student centres on a robot on a quest to protect a little girl from deep aggressor :
N0 - A ( Noah ) is an alive picture being produced by scholar at the Savannah College of Art and Design . When settle what kind of film to make , we want something that was challenging , sci - fi , dark and grounded in reality . N0 - A is our attempt to press the bound of what student film are capable of and we ’ve had a capital clock time doing it .
We currently have around 30 students working tirelessly to create one of the strongest CG pupil film to date . Many of these students already have experience working at professional studios such as Pixar , The Mill , Blur Studios , Nathan Love , Framestore and Insomniac Games .
Although there ’s a limit on the amount of mass eligible for the reward , a $ 15 pledge gets you a thanks from the Director as well as a HD download of the complete film and some signed stickers .
The Reign of Paper Gamers
This excellent approximation aims at receive young tyke into playpen - and - theme RPGs with a simple , card based ruleset plan to comfort young gamers into the genre before you shove a gargantuan Pathfinder / D&D rulebook at them in glee :
As a father of three kids ( ages 10 , 11 , 14 ) I ’ve wanted to bring in them to the exciting and inventive world of office playing . I ’ve searched for good , old - fashioned board games that contain the elements of make - believe , narrative advancement , and teamwork . I could n’t find any . So my minor and I made our own .
It was a hit ! We sat down every weekend to make for . I watch out as they began interact , cooperating , and growing . They learned to think outside the box and care about other histrion . They even learned some mathematics and story along the agency .
Now I need to share this idea with game publishers and kin around the world . I need your assistant . I need a niggling semen money to make a nice demo , specifically to buy a leger reaper binder , pay the illustrator and introduce in gaming expos . In the remnant the plot will be in book form ( approx . 40 Page ) , with perforate out art object , and hardboard character . There will be no demand for die or pencils . The entire RPG is incorporate on the perforate cards inside the book .
$ 15 gets you a PDF download of the ruleset and cards / character sheets , while $ 25 gets you a physical copy and the digital adaptation .
Sindarin Library
An open reference linguistic toolkit that assist you learn Tolkien ’s elfish tongue through an interactive interface , as well as bunch of other fancied ( and real ) linguistic process ? Yes please .
This tool packs together a translator , a dictionary , an IPA , the language ’s grammar rules , and much more , into the very page you ’re study . As you follow along with your digit ( or mouse ) the musical phrase is now crack down in real - prison term , allowing you to see what the surrounding linguistic context is doing to influence each Good Book .
We have decide to make this package open - source , and uncommitted to all angel of the projection . You do n’t need to be an expert ; with this creature anyone can memorise a complex speech communication such as Sindarin . And with a flip of the setting , complicated morphosyntax abbreviation are simplified , making it easy to understand the author ’s intention .
Although none of the pledges offer the toolkit itself ( as every angel gets entree to it thanks to the receptive - source nature of it ) , tier offer Tengwar themed excogitation through print ( $ 50 ) paster ( $ 5 and $ 10 pledge ) or shirts ( $ 20 pledge ) .
Astrolabs
This walloping set of Astronomical tools is designed to help student learning Astronomy either online or as long length students , the great unwashed commonly without approach to labs to do practical mental test as part of their encyclopaedism process :
What do traditional introductory astronomy college students have in the classroom that online astronomy students do n’t have at home ? That ’s promiscuous ! Traditional astronomy educatee have the vantage of telescopes and other advanced lab equipment while online astronomy student have , well … nothing .
Until now .
Our AstroLab Series I astronomy kit focalize on solar organization uranology and hold everything that the college - floor introductory astronomy scholar needs to complete 13 dissimilar astronomy experiments and exercising that I have developed over 30 + years of teaching college uranology . I created the AstroLab Series I kit with my online AST101 bookman in judgement , but the kits can be used in the traditional classroom limit as well . They are also sodding for menage school learner or anyone interested in learning the rudiments of observational astronomy .
These are some pretty serious academic packages – as such the toast level that clear you one is $ 1,000 Update : It ’s since been changed so you’re able to get an AstroLab kit at the $ 275 tier – but if you want to brook the task , lower tiers offer calanders and print of Astrophotographs from Jimmy Westlake ’s collection – examples of whichwe’vefeaturedon io9 before !
Skin Deep Volume 3
Kory Bing ’s on-going online comicSkin Deephas been running for almost a decade now , telling the story of mythologic puppet who find themselves bear to live in secret in our forward-looking world :
salutation from Dogpatch is the 3rd volume of Skin Deep , and is a lineal sequel to Orientations . It pull together a series of short stories about the characters have in Orientations , including :
Fiddler ’s Cave : A teenage satyr tells a touch story to a nixie .
Nixie ’s Spit : Merial , the nixie , buy a Bible that tells her she might have more wizard major power than she realizes , and she use a griffin named Jim as an unknowing test discipline .
The One - Eyed Bear : A Halloween story asterisk everybody in Halloween costumes being chased by a horse - skulled Nightmare through a corn maize in Verona , Missouri . There ’s also a one - eyed bear .
return : A direct continuation to Orientations , Michelle visits her female parent in an attempt to infer why she has turned into a sphinx and judge to get some answers about her founder .
Ridiculous Creatures : A short winter story about Michelle asking Jim some stupid questions .
Greetings , From Dogpatch : The longest story in the book , clocking in at 51 pages . salutation , From Dogpatch is about an Avalon hidden in an abandoned theme park in Dogpatch , Arkansas , and follows the angel Gabe as they prove to give chase down the reference of the devil chasing Michelle .
The first tier to get you the strong-arm written matter of the third volume is at $ 30 , while lower tiers offer it as a PDF ( and bunch with Volumes 1 and 2 ) – $ 65 gives you all three volume as softcover books as well as their PDF versions .
The Art of Creature and Character Design
This awesome book gathers the perspective of professional artists and designer across various manufacture on designing and creating creatures and character for games , movies , video and more :
The artistic creation of Creature and Character Design , is a project I have been wanting to do for quite some time now . It ’s a very informative , comprehensive , lavishly illustrate volume on the art and aesthetics of creature and character invention for moving picture , TV games and toys . It will research the style , approach shot , technique , and inspiration of some of the best creature and character designers in the world .
It will feature a quite a little of my own oeuvre , but I was fortunate enough to talk some of my talented friends and workfellow that I ’ve work on many celluloid with , or have been rosy enough to befriend over the past 25 years of traveling through the diligence , into contributing some of their work as well . bozo behind some of the most iconic and recognizable creatures in film , video , video games , and toys over the retiring few ten . These phenomenal , honor winning artists have helped make this mass the first book of it ’s kind . I desire jump volume two in the upcoming year …
The al-Qur’an has already stumble its goals , but you may still contribute – a $ 35 pledge get you a softcover copy , $ 20 get you a digital version .
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