Will Wight, the creator of the New York Times’ best-selling Cradle fantasy book series is becoming a member of forces with Jay Oliva, the founder & CEO of Lex+ Otis Animation Studio and famend director of the heralded DC movies Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, to create an animated adaptation of the Cradle series — and have began a Kickstarter for followers to assist deliver this project to fruition.
With 16 days left to go, the project is greater than midway to its $1 million aim.
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Cradle, the New York Times best-selling fantasy book series that began as a self-publishing operation a decade in the past, has returned to its grassroots beginnings in its adaptation for animation – alongside award-winning Lex+Otis Animation Studio – with a Kickstarter designed to present followers even larger connection to the tales, realms and characters of the favored fable.
Will Wight, creator of the books and founding father of Hidden Gnome Publishing, has mixed his celebrated writing skills with the acclaimed artistry of Jay Oliva and his Lex+Otis staff to provoke the Kickstarter for Cradle: Unsouled, an animated depiction of the series’ first book.
The Kickstarter is dwell at https://kck.st/48ADhBI, and has already achieved over half its preliminary aim of $1 million, courtesy of greater than 3,800 backers. The Cradle: Unsouled Kickstarter ends on February 9, and contains tiered perks for supporters that vary from early viewing entry to the animation and distinctive digital paintings and story content material, to bodily artwork prints, Cradle-inspired toys and equipment, to unique autographed supplies, a non-public screening and on-screen credit.
“We wanted to do this as a Kickstarter instead of seeking private funding because we wanted this to be completely a fan project,” says Wight. “Jay’s a fan, I’m a fan, and we want to bring all the Cradle fans with us on this journey. The more support we get from the fan base, the bigger and better we can tell the story, but we’re committed to telling the story no matter how much we raise.”
Achieving the preliminary Kickstarter aim would enable Lex+Otis, hand in hand with the Hidden Gnome Publishing staff, to supply a fully-realized “animatic,” which in business phrases is actually the movie prior to coloured animation and remaining sprucing. Oliva, famous for his unparalleled work on animated movies for Warner Bros. & DC like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, has already been deeply concerned in creating character designs and storyboards for the piece, a lot to the delight of Wight and his key Hidden Gnome associates, siblings Sam Wight and Rebecca Wight.
“As we were preparing to release the 12th and final book in the series, we began discussing where we could take Cradle next – how we could bring these stories to people in another medium. We realized that we had to pursue a more visual approach to storytelling, and animation seemed the logical direction,” Wight explains. “At the same time, Jay approached us – he loved the stories, and I was already a fan of his work. He made a trip to visit us in Florida, and there was an instant connection. Our first priority was to ensure that any adaptation of Cradle was authentic to its source material, and Jay’s enthusiasm, his passion for the books, and his years of experience made Lex+Otis the obvious choice.”
“When you read a Cradle book, the stories and detailed descriptions are so vivid and iconic that it virtually begs for an animated adaptation,” Oliva says “These are fully fleshed out characters in rich, lush environments. Even if I wasn’t the one animating it, I’d be lining up to see these stories brought to the screen.”
Audiobook narrator and #1 New York Times best-selling creator Travis Baldree has already agreed to hitch the journey, offering his voice to the still-in-production sizzle reel, and setting his sights on no less than one character to whom he’d prefer to voice.
For extra data, and to observe movies that includes the preliminary animation ideas, all of the tiered perks, and discussions with Will Wight, please go to the Kickstarter web page.
ABOUT CRADLE
Cradle is a best-selling 12-book series of fantasy novels with a lightning-fast tempo, continuous motion, and tons of magic. It follows the journey of a man named Lindon, who begins off powerless however units off on a journey to grasp the magical martial arts of his world and battle off an apocalypse. Cradle books can be found for Kindle on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0753FP6SP.
ABOUT HIDDEN GNOME PUBLISHING
Hidden Gnome Publishing is residence to the collected works of Will Wight, starting from his first novel, House of Blades, which launched the extremely profitable Traveler’s Gate Trilogy; the space-fantasy series The Last Horizon; his in style Elder Empire adventures; and the Amazon-, New York Times– and Audible-best-selling Cradle series. The University of Central Florida alum operates Hidden Gnome Publishing alongside his household and trusted employees, who’ve turned Hidden Gnome from a self-publishing enterprise to a small publishing firm in its personal proper.
ABOUT LEX+OTIS ANIMATION STUDIO
Lex+Otis (L+O) maximizes present and next-generation methods to develop and produce innovative animation for tv, movie, video video games, digital actuality, cell and extra. Led by Founder and CEO Jay Oliva, the burgeoning boutique studio boasts a powerful roster of established and rising manufacturing expertise centered on creating distinctive, immersive tales to encourage, educate and entertain throughout a number of platforms. L+O’s roster of shoppers/companions options Netflix, Warner Bros. Animation, TOEI Animation, Studio Wildcard, Corvus Belli, Fantasy Flight Games, SideShow Collectibles, Palladium Books and Privateer Press. The studio’s productions embrace the animated restricted series RAID: Call of the Arbiter, based mostly on the favored cell recreation RAID: Shadow Legends from online game writer Plarium; Netflix Anime unique Trese, a Filipino mythology-based supernatural series; the star-studded Ark: The Animated Series; the “Synder Cut” animated quick that seems in episode “365!” of Teen Titans Go!; a number of episode cinematics for Valorant for Riot Games; in addition to a number of yet-to-be-announced series. In addition, L+O is presently in improvement on greater than two dozen unique ideas. For extra data, please go to lexandotis.com.
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