GO MOTION

You've got 'til June 16th to kick in funds for Phil Tippett's experimental short MAD GOD, a stop-motion nightmare project that's laid dormant for a few decades. As well as it being super exciting to see what a master like Tippett can accomplish when he's not saddled with some boring, formalised Hollywood structure, it's also a kick to learn that Tippett is treating Mad God's production as a training exercise for his army of volunteers. He wants to pass on his expertise.

This is the sort of project that best exemplifies the appeal of Kickstarter - audiences are able to vote financially for what they want to see, giving artists who aren't getting their due elsewhere the opportunity to keep creating. That said, how depressing is it that the guy behind Dragonslayer's Vermithrax Pejorative isn't able to hustle together $40,000 through traditional means?