Critical Role Critical Role's Kickstarter Breaks $1,000,000 In About An Hour!

For those hoping for a new D&D cartoon, Critical Role has just launched a Kickstarter for an animated show based on their livestream campaign. It broke a million dollars in about an hour, and has 45 days left to go...

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"Critical Role's The Legend of Vox Machina reunites your favorite D&D heroes for a professional-quality animated special!"

Also on offer are theme song MP3s, production art prints, sticker sets, dice, playing card sets, plushies, pin sets, canvas bags, and more.

 

[Parmandur]

$6.6 million and counting, with over 49,000 backers. They raised over $326,000 with just shy of 2500 individual small pledges yesterday. Slowing down, but the train is still moving. Backer kit has a project of ~12.8 million, with a spread of $6.6 million (if nobody more pledges) up to $20.7 million.

 

[Jacob Lewis]

There might be a danger of them raising too much money, nothing to spend it on, or even not knowing how to spend that much money.

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[jmucchiello]

There's an article on Variety where they apparently actually interviewed Travis and Sam: LINK

We were talking about how big the CR fandom was. Here's some stats on the stream:

Crticial Role knew they had a big and engaged fanbase but the team didn’t expect the flood of pledges that has poured in. On Twitch, between 30,000-40,000 people typically watch live with another 150,000 views on-demand, according to Willingham. The episodes on YouTube typically hit around 250,000 views in the first 24 hours. All told, each episode garners around 1 million views.

And for those who wonder if CR is getting rich off this:

Riegel said the Critical Role members aren’t trying to enrich themselves from project. The actors and animators who work on the series will receive SAG and Animation Guild pay scale. “We’re not raiding the coffers,” Riegel said.

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As I was reading this I had the thought: How big will the CR panel at SDCC be this year? They usually turn people away from the rooms they are given, could they get main stage this year?

 

[Parmandur]

$6.7 million and counting, near $100,000 in small pledges for today so far.

 

[Morrus]

There's an article on Variety where they apparently actually interviewed Travis and Sam: LINK

Oh, they know how big they are. They're very good at media relations - it's their job. This is the same conversation we had when they filled out theatres at Gen Con.

 

[Reynard]

Oh, they know how big they are. They're very good at media relations - it's their job. This is the same conversation we had when they filled out theatres at Gen Con.

Being taken aback by the live and generosity of your fanbase is just good marketing.

 

[jgsugden]

The proceeds of the KS fund animation with them getting scale, which they could easily get for other projeacts.

What happens to the proceeds of selling the animation? Will they reinvest it in a second season?

 

[Azzy]

The proceeds of the KS fund animation with them getting scale, which they could easily get for other projeacts.

What happens to the proceeds of selling the animation? Will they reinvest it in a second season?

Cant say, but that would be cool.

 

[jmucchiello]

The proceeds of the KS fund animation with them getting scale, which they could easily get for other projeacts.

What happens to the proceeds of selling the animation? Will they reinvest it in a second season?

They'll probably reinvest part of such assumed future proceeds into the rest of the CR business. Whether any of that makes into their salaries, who knows? But it is certainly their right to do so. Fruits of selling the animation series are beyond the scope of the kickstarter.

And if they do sell the distributions rights, they would probably want to get the distributor to pay for some or all of the future animation costs.

 

[Morrus]

Here's where it currently stands in the chart:

1. Pebble Time $20,338,986
2. Coolest Cooler $13,285,226
3. Pebble 2 $12,779,843
4. Kingdom Death $12,393,139
5. Pebble Watch $10,266,845
6. Travel Jacket $9,192,055
7. Exploding Kittens $8,782,571
8. Ouya $8,596,474
9. 7th Continent $7,072,757
10. Critical Role $6,812,881

Pebble has three in the top five. Dang!