CROWD FUNDING: Let’s Support Bill Plympton’s “Slide”

CROWD FUNDING: Let’s Support Bill Plympton’s “Slide”

December 16th, 2020

Jerry Beck

The king of the independent animators – Bill Plympton – has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for his next ani aged feature-in-progress: Slide. It looks great to me – but I’ll let Bill tell you himself in the video below and his letter to me below that:

Plympton’s New Feature SLIDE is running a kickstarter. from r/animation

Dear Jerry,

I have less than 60 hours remaining in a Kickstarter campaign that will determine the fate of SLIDE, my new animated feature film.

Three years ago, I wrote out a storyboard about a slide guitar-playing cowboy named Slide who appears in a corrupt logging town (circa 1940’s) to battle a pair of evil twins and save the village of Sourdough Creek.

SLIDE has villains, an old-time country music cowboy band, the Lucky Buck Saloon and Bordello, and a glorious Oregon backdrop (And it features a hero who, like me, plays the slide guitar.)

By raising our $77,800 minimum goal here on Kickstarter my team and I will be able to devote most of the next six months to SLIDE, with a completion date in 2022.

But I want to get SLIDE to you sooner.

We have a very ambitious $200,000 “stretch” goal that would allow us to complete SLIDE by this time next year – and wouldn’t it be great to have a new animated film ready for our safe return to theaters!

We’ve raised more than $40,000 at www.KickstartSlide.com. That’s a fortune for an independent animator. But Kickstarter is all-or-nothing, so if we fall even one cent short of our goal by 10 p.m. ET this Thursday we get nothing and you’re not charged.

That would be devastating for the production of SLIDE and for me and my team at Plymptoons Studio. This funding allows me to complete SLIDE and keep my studio open and may staff working through the pandemic.

I’m asking for your generous support at www.KickstartSlide.com so I can bring my newest animated feature to you.

Sincerely,

Bill

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Jerry Beck

Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.