Animation : Managing revenues for animation projects by David Zannoni

Ooo, this is going to be AWESOME! I'd love to know more about milestones once in production. Getting a greenlight on a series usually just gives you enough money to get started on the first chunk of episodes, but with all the ways animation budgets can suddenly inflate, how do you ensure you are making your deliverables to make those milestones to continue production? I thought this would be a particularly good thing to unpack since one distribution deal may not finance your entire project, so do you wait for your second and third deal before beginning work? Or do you start production knowing you still have to find finishing funds (which seems hella-risky to me)?

Thanks so much for this, David! Can't wait to learn more!

Awesome article, @David. Thank you for sharing such insights.

When I first head about the "blockchain" and how it will transform the way we do business, I was very skeptical when "smart contracts" arrived at the production of media (this is a cyphered transaction in a given network to certify the authenticity of the assets, whether is crypto value, video, documents, etc...); but reading your article, I can finally see the big picture: why blockchain will transform the way we secure valued transactions (money in exchange of a service, assets in exchange of reputation / corporation ownership, etc..)

Just like you've mentioned with the pandemic and how it enforced studios to continue working digitally to adapt and grow, I think it's a matter of time before "smart contracts" through the blockchain get accepted as the norm for visual production in general.

Just read you article David Zannoni - great stuff!

Kay, Pierre, Bob, Sandeep, thank you all for the great feedback! Pierre, Blockchain is the potential next step for Collection Account Management, or international revenue management for audiovisual projects in general. It is is at very early development stage, though.