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Alice Otherlands Files

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The Alice: Otherlands Kickstarter ran between Jul 16 2013 – Aug 5 2013 and raised over 222kUSD. Project funds went towards The Pitch as described on the Kickstarter page:

The Pitch

With the acquisition of the film rights to the “Alice” property, we will begin work on animated short films inspired by the “Alice: Otherlands” concept. Our long term goal will be the development and production of a feature length film version of Alice’s story.

If this campaign is successful you will receive, at a minimum, an animated adventure into Otherlands. Beyond that, the success of this campaign will bring us one step closer to seeing Alice on the big screen.

A 12-month option on the film rights was acquired for 100kUSD. Remaining funds went towards the creation and shipping of physical rewards to over 3000 backers around the world, animation production expenses, overhead, development costs, and legal fees. For a detailed breakdown of income and expenses you can check out this graphic.

On October 31st, 2015 links were provided to all the finished digital content from the project. And by March 14, 2016 all of the physical rewards were sent out to backers.

Otherlands hit all goals and delivered all promised content and physical rewards.

In the years since the Otherlands download links were originally posted, they’ve grown old and died. That’s partly because hosting large content for fast download isn’t free. I’d hoped that after some years the content might end up spread across the Internet such that I’d no longer have to personally pay for hosting it. But judging by the daily requests I receive for download links it seems a single point for storing these files is still needed.

Providing Files Costs Money
If you backed the Kickstarter please read this Backer Only Update for details on downloading the Otherlands files.

If you did not back the Kickstarter please consider purchasing something from Mysterious, ordering “Out of the Woods” or donating via PayPal to support my creative efforts and hosting of this content.

You can grab the Otherlands download link and password HERE (subscription to this site required).

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November Alice: Otherlands Promotion

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Did you miss your chance to grab physical rewards during the Alice: Otherlands Kickstarter campaign? Fear not! Due to overwhelming demand from fans around the world, we’ve put together a triplet of promotions you can use to acquire the Otherlands “Art of” book, DVD, or BluRay.

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To receive an “Art of” book, DVD, or BluRay, with free shipping to anywhere in the world, just complete one of the following deeds…

Reach Royaly Level 6 in Spicy Horse’s mobile game “Chains of Darkness”

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OR

Reach Royaly Level 6 in Spicy Horse’s mobile game “Heroes of Night”

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(iOS and Global versions of Heroes of Night launching on November 11th)

OR

Purchase a Red Hood Bag from Mysterious

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You can complete these promotions as many times as you like and choose a reward each time.

To claim your promotion reward:
When you reach Royalty Level 6 (also called VIP level)* in either game, contact Spicy Horse Support and provide your reward selection, full name, address, and phone number.
When you purchase a Red Hood Bag, include your reward selection in the purchase notes, or contact Mysterious with your reward selection and it will be mailed to you automatically.

Promotion ends at Midnight, 30th November, 2015 – Shanghai time. Royalty Level achievements or claims submitted or purchases made after the promotion end time will not be accepted.

This promotion is retroactive – if you’ve already achieved Royalty Level 6 (or above) in either game please contact support with your reward selection, full name, address, and phone number. If you’ve purchased a Red Hood bag, contact Mysterious with your reward selection and it will be mailed to you automatically.

*Click the top banner on the main screen to access your profile and see your VIP Level.

We reserve the right to reject reward claims that subvert the intention or spirit of this promotion.

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Alice: Otherlands Asset Drop

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Contained in this post are links to digital assets for Alice: Otherlands.

This content was made possible by generous support of those who backed the Alice: Otherlands Kickstarter campaign. My sincerest thanks to all those who backed, supported, and worked on the campaign.

Otherlands represents a narrative exploration of Alice’s journey after the events of “Madness Returns.” Being fan-funded and deriving from the property’s film license, Otherlands carries an unusual, rogue-like status next to the “official” content contained within the games published by EA.

It’s uncertain whether we’ll see Alice continue to explore Otherlands (in film or games), or if her adventures will continue along a different path. Despite the magical nature of these explorations, their existence requires real world funding and planning – a fate controlled by mysterious corporate and legal doings.

For now, we have two short films and supporting art to sate our appetite for psychological adventure. Directors Troy Morgan and Ed Goin take us on journeys as unique as the characters whose minds Alice invades. Their visions add to the growing collection of art and storytelling that’s grown out of the Alice series.

Linked below are digital assets produced by the Otherlands project. These can be used to recreate the physical rewards from the Kickstarter – Art book, DVD, and BluRay – as they are the same files we used for physical production. Due to legal constraints we are unable to sell physical rewards outside of the Kickstarter campaign (now ended).

If you just want to watch the videos (not download the video files), you can do so via my YouTube Channel.

These assets may be reproduced and distributed freely, but not offered for sale in any format.

“Leviathan”
Full-res, Uncompressed Leviathan
Youtube/Vimeo Streaming

“A Night at the Opera”
Full-res, Uncompressed
Youtube/Vimeo Streaming

Disc Files
DVD ISO
Bluray ISO

Art Files
Complete Art Package
The Art of Alice Otherlands – Digital Art Book.zip
AOL Artwork Assets
DVD:BluRay AOL Cover:Disc Artwork

Music Files
MP3 Soundtrack

Content Listing for Complete Art Package

• High Resolution PDF of Alice: Otherlands Art Book (50 pages, full colour)

• High Resolution copies of all Spicy Horse Alice: Otherlands Artwork, suitable for printing- 22 full colour illustrations, namely;

– A Royal Blue Knight – Shu Yan
– A Wilde Mind – Zeng Shuo
– Above the Clouds – Shu Yan
– Alice 20000 Leagues Under – Joey Zeng
– Butchers Mind – Tyler Lockett
– Butchers Mind II – Luis Melo
– Lust, Money & Time – Zeng Shuo
– Otherlands Gallery of Minds – Lin Ran
– Painter’s Mind – Fancy
– Stone Queen – Zeng Shuo
– The Mind of Arthur Conan Doyle – Zeng Shuo
– The Mind of Bram Stoker – Shu Yan
– The Mind of Charles Darwin – Pt1 – Zeng Shuo
– The Mind of Charles Darwin – Pt2 – Zeng Shuo
– The Mind of Henri Matisse – Nako
– The Mind of Robert Lewis Stevenson – Zeng Shuo
– The Mind of Sarah Bernhardt – Zeng Shuo
– The Mind of Thomas Edison – Nako
– The Mind of Vincent Van Gogh – Chen Xue Jiao
– The Mind of William Morris – Nako
– The Others – Alice Otherlands
– Wonderland Transformed – Tyler Lockett

• Alice: Otherlands Logos / Spicy Horse Logos

• “Leviathan” Conceptual artwork – (Alice Dress Renders, Environment Concepts, Model Test Renders, Rendered Images/Stills, Story boards)

• “A Night at the Opera” Conceptual artwork – (Dragon Test Footage, Production Photos, Sketches, Storyboards)

• Alice: Otherlands MP3’s Soundtrack/Score – 2x MP3’s, composed by Walter Sickert

• Alice: Otherlands Wall Poster Artwork – High Resolution Download – 600mm x 1630mm approx

• Alice: Otherlands Graphics/Borders + Alex’s Artwork – 7x full colour illustrations + collection of design elements used in A:OL media

• Alice: Otherlands Blu-Ray & DVD cover/disc artwork – Suitable for printing or digital application

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Alice: Otherlands – Updates & Status Post

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The “Alice: Otherlands” Kickstarter campaign is CLOSED.

If you are a Backer and need to change your mailing address for Backer Rewards, please do so via Backerkit.

If you were not a Backer, but are interested in the physical Backer Rewards, please read the following:

Due to legal restrictions we are NOT able to offer physical items (Backer Rewards) for sale outside of the Kickstarter campaign. That means if you missed out on the opportunity to back the campaign you cannot buy the physical backer rewards.

If the the situation with the legal restrictions changes, I will post an update via Kickstarter and here in this post.

Please note that the digital content (animations and art book) WILL BE released to the public, for free. It’s the physical items we cannot sell outside of the Kickstarter campaign.

Current estimated release date for physical items (Backer Rewards) is sometime around October 2015 (yes, we are late!). Digital assets will be released, for free, around that same time. As soon as we know how/when we’ll be releasing the digital assets, an update will be posted here, on Kickstarter, Facebook, etc. Please, do not write asking about timing for release of the digital assets. All info on this subject will be posted to the KS page.

A final note regarding physical rewards: We cannot sell them, but there are no restrictions on giving them away for free. I will try to find ways to link these items to other things you might purchase from Spicy Horse or Mysterious. Keep on eye on my Facebook, Twitter, and this blog for details on future offers.

For more info on the project and its progress, please read the campaign updates on Kickstarter.

Here are the post-campaign updates that have been made for 2014, 2015 (and some of 2013):

October 20th, 2015 – Arrival of Physical Rewards
September 16th, 2015 – Mid-Production Update
August 22nd, 2015 – Pulling the Trigger
August 4th, 2015 – Off to Manufacture-land
July 7th, 2015 – July and The Final Stretch
June 9th, 2015 – Animations Complete!
April 15th, 2015 – The Art of The Art Book
March 24th, 2015 – The “No Update” Update
Feb 11th, 2015 – Happy Chinese New Year – Year of the Sheep
Jan 8th, 2015 – Happy New Year 2015!
Dec 24th, 2014 – Happy Holidays
Nov 10th, 2014 – Quick Update
Aug 5th, 2014 – One Year!
July 11th, 2014 – Noble Pursuits
Apr 17th, 2014 – Eyeballs, Tentacles, and Monsters
Apr 17th, 2014 – My Apologies
Feb 21st, 2014 – Missing Posters Follow Up!
Feb 18th, 2014 – Progress and Possibilities
Feb 10th, 2014 – Time to Find the Missing Posters!
Jan 23rd, 2014 – Dude, Where’s My Poster?!
Jan 9th, 2014 – 20,000 Leagues into Otherlands
Dec 16th, 2013 – Get Those Walls Ready!
Nov 15th, 2013 – A Night at the Opera

There are additional posts, going back further in 2013. To read them, please follow THIS LINK.

If you have additional questions not covered by this post, please send them to me via Kickstarter.

To everyone who backed the campaign and has expressed interest in Otherlands, Thank You!

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Leviathan – The first Otherlands Script

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We’re heading into the mind of Jules Verne! Alice: Otherlands director Ed Goin has submitted a script (which I think is brilliant) for the animated short in which Alice will explore the mind of Jules Verne. As a part of the process in developing and creating these animations, we want to keep you, the audience and Kickstarter backers, involved. So here for your reading pleasure is Ed’s script:

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Take a read, soak in the meaning, then read again. When you’re ready, feel free to send me comments and feedback. I’ll make sure Ed hears what you’ve got to say. For my part, I’m really happy with what he’s doing. The concept of “Leviathan” is one that is very near to the evil Alice seeks to destroy in Otherlands. Verne’s role in shaping mankind’s destiny as a part of that battle is a powerful one.

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Success! Alice is off to Otherlands!

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After 20 days and much nail-biting, the Alice: Otherlands campaign has reached a successful conclusion. Coming in at over 222kUSD, the funding will allow us to create a series of animated short films, pursue larger animated series possibilities, begin development work on a feature film and access larger funding options for a possible feature film production in the future. All thanks to the kind support of our backers on Kickstarter. You rock!

For those of you who missed out on the action of the race – there’s still a post-campaign funding option via PayPal. Just follow THIS LINK and you’ll be taken to the PayPal campaign page.

Backers, your survey links will go out soon. Not sure exactly how soon, since that’s Ophelea’s domain, but I know she’s on it.

Regarding Susie and Roger’s involvement in recording VO… I think we’ll be able to make something work. We didn’t hit our stretch goal, but we got pretty close. And, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been talking to potential sources of additional funding. If that works out, it should help us not only secure involvement from Susie and Roger, but also work towards making more animations in total.

Going forward, I’ll be sure to send out updates when there’s interesting news. This coming week I’ll be talking with Troy, Ed (animators), Chris (composer) and potential funding/platform partners. Heading to Beijing next week to continue feature film funding discussions and more.

Very exciting! We’re off and running!