John Mueller: Crowdfunding towards Creative Independence [Panel Discussion]
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Join Award-winning author, illustrator, concept designer and art director John Mueller as he breaks down the process of successfully crowdfunding independent projects.
After raising over $200k USD between the digitally-remaster of his 1995 cult-classic OINK – Heaven’s Butcher, and his own indie studio Skyshine Games’ first title BEDLAM via Kickstarter, John is a veteran in crowdfunding creator-owned independent projects. Join him as he delves into the process of taking an idea from concept to campaign and practicalities such as: kickstarter audience, shipping costs, priming the pump before you launch a crowdfunding event, when to launch, and much more. John will also compare and contrast between the two crowdfunding campaigns, break down how funds were used, as well as successes and mistakes learnt along the way.
UPDATE: The session will be hosted as a panel discussion, featuring 4 amazing local creatives all with successful crowdfunding campaigns for creator-owned projects under their beltsL
1. Li Chen, webcomic artist, creator of Extra Ordinary Comics which has been self-published thanks to two successful kickstarter campaigns: Vol.1 & 2, Vol.3. Her comic is also funded via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/exocomics
2. Gustav Seymore from Auckland based indie game studio – Lost Goblin – their first indie game – Goblins of Elderstone has just been successfully Kickstarted.
3. Joe Chang – creator of indie game Phantasmal funded through Kickstarter..
4. Adrian Kinnaird from Earth’s End Publishing, who successfully reprinted/ remastered Kiwi comic author Ant Sang’s cult classic graphic novel Dharma Punks by Ant Sang.
The session will end with 15 mins of Open Q&A.
About John Mueller:
John is an award-winning author, illustrator, and Art Director whose career has spanned 25 years. John began his career in comics working with such intellectual properties as Swamp Thing, The Crow, Judge Dredd, Loaded to name a few. He has also worked for such video game studios as THQ, NCSoft, Epic Games, Ubisoft, and is currently the Art Director for the Diablo franchise for Blizzard Entertainment.
John is the creator of OINK, a critically acclaimed graphic novel originally published in 1995 which he began in college as a student of Jim Auckland from Takapuna Art Supplies. John digitally remastered the book and funded a new self-published edition via Kickstarter in 2015. He was a co-founder of Skyshine Games, an indie studio that created BEDLAM, a post-apocalyptic rogue-like, turn based strategy game. This project was also funded by another successful Kickstarter campaign.
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