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Visionary: Silke Czarny
We have finally surpassed the 40,000 EUR mark – a big thank you goes out to Matthias Schützner for the strong final push! He’s the first to choose the Seer Council perk and thus will attend a test screening of the film long before others will see it. It’s also a chance to learn a lot about the filmmaking process and give feedback to help us shaping the final version.
That’s all still up in the air, though. Now it’s time to release new artworks and since we haven’t shown any creatures yet, we picked Silke Czarny‘s rendition of a Shantak and some of her sketches. Silke is a biologist and therefor brings a lot of knowledge into her illustrations. She moved to a town in the Swabian-Franconian Forest to work there, quite close to where “Die Farbe” takes place. We already warned her not to drink the tap water… Releasing “Die Farbe” for free was a huge success by the way: we had more than 16,000 viewers and received many enthusiastic reviews.
Shantak
Shantak
Shantak
A beautiful beast, isn’t it? Well, and that’s one of the many reasons why we have to ask for so much money. Shantak birds don’t get off the ground that easily.
Speaking of beauty – we have set up dream.the-dreamlands.com now as a shortcut address to our campaign page, it’s easier to share and remember if you talk about our project with someone.
And speaking of spreading the word: since 770 contributors was aimed to high we now lowered that social goal to 33% of the funding goal. This means the release of “Fiery Shadows”, the missing part between Teaser #1 and #2 is close at hand, only 4% missing!
BONUS GIFT
We have partnered with Red Wasp Design and beefed up our 50 EUR perk! You now not only get the soundtrack and the audio book of one of the Dream Cycle stories, but also access to “Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land” – an award-winning Lovecraftian strategy game set in the trenches of World War I for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Everyone who has contributed more than 50 EUR receives this, too!
Die Farbe
Watch our last award-winning Lovecraft adaptation “Die Farbe” for free till Sunday – share this link with everyone you know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RhwyPrUWx8
Geek Show Show
Director Huan Vu has been interviewed on the German web TV show “Die Geek Show Show” about H.P. Lovecraft and “The Dreamlands”:
Vital momentum
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! We have surpassed the 30.000 EUR mark and we may lower our target goal thanks to the support by German production company FFL (“Der Sandmann”)!
First Social Goal unlocked
You have unlocked the first ‘social goal’ by sharing our project on Facebook and Twitter more than 2,500 times. We promised a special wallpaper for all contributors, but since it is too complicated to maintain a contributors-only file access we decided to put it out for everyone:
The Dreamlands – Official Wallpaper
Download:
3840 x 1080 (Dual HD)
2560 x 2048 (5:4)
2048 x 1536 (4:3)
1920 x 1200 (16:10)
1920 x 1080 (16:9)
640 x 960 (Mobile)
I hope you like it! I wanted to show you something new and something that could make a lasting impression, something unexpected. So I played around with a painting that Japanese artist Shohei Yamasita made for us. At the end of the process I had twisted the colours so much that it had become something new and different. I then knew I had to pick a different line out of the screenplay: “I can bend the rules for you.”
Now all I can hope is that Shohei won’t kill me for listening to that voice in the dark…
Visionaries: Steve Santiago & Richard Luong
Easter holidays slowed us down quite a bit but we now have practically reached 20,000 EUR after 9 days and a special thank you goes out to Ulrich Reichert and Khanh Nguyen!
Now you get to see artworks by Steve Santiago and Richard Luong – both US American illustrators should be familiar to many Lovecraft fans: Steve has contributed many artworks to the Lovecraft eZine and Richard was the art director and lead artist behind Sandy Petersen’s crowdfunded board game Cthulhu Wars.
Stay tuned for more updates – Happy Easter!
Steve Santiago
Chaos
Dream Star
Richard Luong
Underworld
Trapped
Visionary: Sergej Schell
We have received more than 10,000 EUR in four days, that’s a pretty good start! Watch this video to stay updated:
And here you can see some conceptual artworks by Sergej Schell:
The Hut
Celephais
On the Run
Reign of Fire
You can find more conceptual artworks for “The Dreamlands” and of course other freelance and personal work on his website at www.studio-schell.com.
Dream-Quest started!
Please support us and spread the word to everyone you know! Only then we can make it, we have to reach as many people as possible in the next few weeks.
Spaceboy
Tomorrow night (around 10pm Central European Summer Time) we will finally launch our campaign! More or less in sync with the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon where the full (albeit not fully finished) 6-minutes preview of “The Dreamlands” will have its premiere. This preview consists of the three already released teaser trailers and new connecting scenes you haven’t seen yet. On our campaign page you will learn about how to unlock and get to see that longer preview.
And what’s about that astronaut kid? Well, SPACEBOY is a company for crowdfunding support founded by Timo Vuorensola, the director of IRON SKY. And he and his fresh new company agreed to help us running this campaign! I’m really grateful for the upcoming guidance and support by Timo who has extensive crowdfunding experience as an independent filmmaker, very good connections to the entertainment industry and last but not least is a big Lovecraft fan as well.
And it’s not that we can’t need additional help for the campaign. Due to being forced to postpone the campaign by more than a full month, our personal schedules got mixed up – both co-producers will be gone soon: Ephraim Wörner already accepted a job opportunity starting April 19th that will bind him for full three weeks and Jan Roth will depart this Saturday for a long planned Kung Fu training vacation in a Chinese Shaolin temple for more than a month (no kidding, you shouldn’t mess with him).
It would be extremely hard to run this campaign almost alone, having to pay my bills as well – so I’m really thankful and looking forward to this collaboration with SPACEBOY!
Let’s start a secret cult!
Anyone out there who would like to offer his or her help? We have made flyers for our crowdfunding campaign and it would take much workload from us if you could spread them in your local area for us. We’re thinking of film festivals, cinema theaters, book and gaming stores, role-playing events, observatories, obscure brain research debates… whereever someone could be interested in this project!
If you can spend some time in the next few weeks to talk to theater and store owners and alike to convince them to support “The Dreamlands” by putting those flyers on display, just raise your hand, contact us and we will send you a bunch. All Preaching Cultists will receive a gift from us during production for honoring the Outer Gods by this way!
(Artwork by Steve Santiago, one of our Visionaries)