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Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 16, 2012.

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      Creator J K Hoffman on April 30

      Yeah, again, not to be a jerk about it, but the projected deliverable date was two months ago and updates have more or less dried up, too. I love everything I've seen, but can we get an update on how things are going at least?
      You've got our money already, so, how about telling us how you're using it? I don't think that's too much to ask.

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      Creator Anthony Ray on April 17

      Any update on when DVDs will ship and downloadable content available?

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      Creator Glenn Copeland on April 8

      Do or do not, there is no try.
      Not to be a jerk about it, but we supported you here, I think we deserve to be updated here and not have to look elsewhere.
      That said, I totally get that delivery times are estimated, frequently way off the mark, and that's OK as we are getting in on the ground floor as they say, and not buying a finished product off-the-shelf.

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      Creator Bassam Kurdali on February 6

      Hey Rodney - I hope you are getting the updates. We are working with a tiny budget, so production is a bit behind. We're very excited by the fantastic lighting and look-dev work happening under the art direction of Pablo Vazquez (venomgfx), and a bunch of great new artists are stepping into the lighting and environment pipeline. Render tests are looking super cool, and we are almost ready with a teaser we'll soon release; it will be the first real peek at the finished product of the movie. We try to cross-post big news on KS, but you can also follow the production at http://URCHN.ORG, and @tubeproject / @bkurdali on twitter. We'll keep everybody posted on developments!

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      Creator Rodney Dawes on February 6

      Any updates? It's Feb 2013, the month for most of the deliverables, and there haven't been any updates in a while. Is the movie done? Was the web premiere made? Has Tube been in any festivals?

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      Creator Daniel Wray on November 14, 2012

      Hi, how do I contact a member of the team in regards to a delivery issue? Thanks.

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      Creator Bassam Kurdali on November 1, 2012

      Hey folks! Expect a big update soon.
      Most of the kickstarter funds have gone towards animation: right now we have roughly 80% of our character animation finished, with some of the remaining shots in progress. With what remains of the budget we have to decide how to split this on the remainder of animation and lighting/rendering.
      This past two weeks I've been working on lookdev and some management to get our project ready to render. Some exciting stuff has been happening there, our rendering plan looks radically different from what I thought it would be.
      In Early November (Visa willing) I'll be making a short trip to Brazil for BlenderPro (a conference) where I'll give a presentation on Tube as well as a rigging workshop.
      I'll probably post most of the update on the blog, but maybe include a few 'special' previews for the backers here :D

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      Creator Stuart Morris on November 1, 2012

      How's things coming along?

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      Creator Gabriel Meunier on October 20, 2012

      Hey guys!

      Can we expect any news soon?

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      Creator Tero Pajunen on September 1, 2012

      Would it be possible to share a sneak peak among the Backers?

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      Creator Rob Gonzalez on August 17, 2012

      Been a while since an update; how are things going???

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      Creator Anthony Ray on July 3, 2012

      Any idea when the helping to create portion begins?

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      Creator Chris Robson on July 3, 2012

      in the case of a Kickstarter project, no news is not good news.
      How about an update

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      Creator Paulo Andrade on June 29, 2012

      Where is the poster art promissed for jun ?

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      Creator Bassam Kurdali on May 16, 2012

      Thanks to all of you wonderful 1031 people we broke 40,000!!! Now all we have to do is finish the movie! cake!! ;)

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      Creator Chris Bishop on May 16, 2012

      $#%@ what Fateh says, ^370 4^#$73+ is the french Bassam.

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      Creator Colin Reynolds on May 16, 2012

      @81 minutes - is it my imagination or is there a last-minute surge? Ah, buggrit, I'll double my pledge. Good luck, guys :)

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      Creator Gabriel Meunier on May 16, 2012

      Lets double the kickstarter goal guys!

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      Creator Dave Bonan on May 16, 2012

      Bassam! I almost forgot to fund you until this morning. I'm glad I was able to give with 2 hours to go. When my movie campaign is ready to get funded, I'll send an email your way as well. So happy for you guys.

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      Creator Colin Reynolds on May 16, 2012

      Thanks for the graphs, very interesting, though they do suggest that the $50K target is out of reach, with only four hours to go (it sez there) -->

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      Creator Philippe Casteleyn on May 16, 2012

      Behind the triad separator.

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      Creator Philippe Casteleyn on May 16, 2012

      Three digits !

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      Creator Matija Nalis on May 14, 2012

      @Colin Reynolds: this is only one-per-day resolution, but one can track the progress at:
      http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1331941187/the-tube-open-movie

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      Creator ic3d on May 14, 2012

      See you in seven months... keep us up to date!
      Keep on rockin in the free world! :-)
      Dario

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      Creator Bassam Kurdali on May 14, 2012

      philippe, yes there is some data, not geographical I think, but in terms of referrals . I'll talk to fateh (the producer) about making a nice blog post about the campaign, sharing some of those graphs and data (of course, withholding any specific informations about the backers)

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      Creator Philippe Casteleyn on May 13, 2012

      Bassam, I am also interested in money graphs. I was going to ask you this after the campaign. Is that all the detail possible ? Are there no geographical data and other divisions ?

      Please don't do no more kickstarter projects, because I have been following that counter as a mad man :)

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      Creator Bassam Kurdali on May 13, 2012

      @Colin Reynolds: thanks for your help! here ya go: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/31713

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      Creator Bassam Kurdali on May 13, 2012

      Hi Stanislav GE, I made an answer in the FAQ; TL;DR: we'll use CC BY-SA

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      Creator Stanislav GE on May 13, 2012

      Which of Creative Commons licences exactly is going to be used?

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      Creator Colin Reynolds on May 13, 2012

      I'm not that familiar with how Kickstarter works. In the interests of trying to promote a last-minute rush, I found myself looking for a graph of how contributions have gone - an image of a sharply-upward trend of backers/ pledges might be a good way to elevate the buzz.. But without the relevant numbers, it's not possible to even mock up such a graph. (Maybe the trend is actually *downwards*, now? Simply can't tell.)

      in Kickstarter terms, it would seem to me that the $50K target mentioned, err, someplace, is actually hampered by the fact that the project is (currently) "over"-funded by more than 50%...

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      Creator Philippe Casteleyn on May 10, 2012

      One backer every half an hour, and we will reach to 1000.

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      Creator Andrea on May 9, 2012

      Buona Fortuna

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      Creator Linley Rall on May 2, 2012

      This idea, this thought process is truly beautiful.
      It shows a real sense of community; something lacking in our world today.

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      Creator Jason Ward on May 1, 2012

      As a current animation student and working full-time to pay bills, I absolutely fell in love with what I saw. I'm really looking forward to how amazing this is going to be! I'd love to take the 2hr trip from Medford to Northampton to say hi and thanks! Good luck!

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      Creator João Paulo on April 29, 2012

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      Creator Marius Slavescu on April 29, 2012

      Excelent idea!
      I can run some task for free on my computers, so would be great if you can setup an instruction page on how this kind of distributed task processing can be approached (specifcally for your production).
      Basically to create a network of processing nodes (initially available only to bakers).

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      Creator Bassam Kurdali on April 28, 2012

      We will have a promotional A5 available soon! Thanks for the thought Philippe.

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      Creator Philippe Casteleyn on April 27, 2012

      Is there no advertisment on a A5 page to pin on a bulletin board ?

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      Creator Jiggle bBilly on April 27, 2012

      Big fan of Blender and your work.

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      Creator Bassam Kurdali on April 26, 2012

      You folks are amazing :) thanks for all the kind words

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      Creator solstag on April 24, 2012

      Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuube is gonna be awesome!!! =D

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      Creator David Hickson on April 24, 2012

      If you are on the fence about backing this project, please support it. If you're thinking, "they reached their goal of $22 k they don't need more help", they DO still need your support. Most Kick Starter project goals are set very conservatively. An open movie, like Tube, can help so many other artists realize their dreams by providing the assets used in the production. So by helping The Tube, you are helping hundreds of others!

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      Creator Philippe Casteleyn on April 24, 2012

      I am glad my money serves such a fine endeavour.

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      Creator jachristie79 on April 23, 2012

      I hope this makes it to 44k!

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      Creator Julius Tuomisto on April 22, 2012

      Woohoo! Congrats guys!

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      Creator Ahmad Fahad Al-Shagra on April 22, 2012

      Congratulations guys, as a Mesopotamian, I can't wait to see this movie go into production.

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      Creator S J Bennett on April 22, 2012

      Congratulations on making your initial goal! Hope it goes off. :)

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      Creator Chris Perry on April 21, 2012

      Yeah, team - congrats!

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      Creator Jonathan Williamson on April 21, 2012

      It's incredible exciting to see this succeed! All of your work on this film already is astonishing and I can't way to see the final project.

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      Creator Michael Mellinger on April 21, 2012

      1:27pm EST. Boom! Now it's showtime! Good luck guys!

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    As an Open Movie under CC license, Tube, its tools and its data are the root reward because they will be free to all. Your donation to this expensive work invests in the commonwealth and supports the access of everyone.

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    All of the above + The specific animation frame that YOU help us create. A movie is a stream of individual images: we will email you the piece of the film that you made possible. You can print it, burn it, paint on it, sleep with it, make an origami, send us your graffiti…

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
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    All of the above + From your photo we will create a character and immortalize your own fabulous self (or whom you choose) in a memorable cameo role. *Natural persons only*

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