Posted by Tom Heien on Nov 30, 2022

Fast Data

• Identify of Startup: Ophelia
• Yr Based: 2020
• Web site: WeLoveOphelia.on-line
• Kind of firm: Writer
• HQ Location: Distant

Startup Founders:

Jacob Kilgore
Proprietor/author/artwork director

 

Startup one-liner:

Ophelia, the demigod lady with a magic paintbrush

Drawback the startup solves:

We provide premium artwork in our storybooks for all ages. Our group of over 30 worldwide artists are given adequate time to supply their finest work and receives a commission pretty. Whereas many comedian and anime corporations decrease their customary of high quality to allow fast manufacturing and predictable gross sales, we goal to lift that bar. It’s our perception that in doing so we will affect folks to supply work that makes life higher for these it influences, irrespective of their calling.

Progress and present standing:

We solely have 3 or 4 artworks to complete out of round 40. We launched our first storybook on Kickstarter on November twenty ninth, and may have the challenge full in December.

What’s a loopy story in regards to the startup?:

Generally setbacks result in our greatest qualities. In late 2020 when working with a sole artist from Hong Kong, he inevitably acquired busy and distracted after finishing some preliminary sketches. This acquired me pondering of a brand new sort of ebook that will be secure from artists leaping ship partway by way of. I made a decision to utilize the wonderful creative expertise discovered on-line and fee not only one artist, however probably a brand new artist for each picture within the ebook. Moderately than a shift in type between artists being a jarring change, the variability and novel viewpoints current within the varied life histories and cultural influences web page to web page is our greatest high quality.

What’s an organization the startup seems as much as, and why?:

Studio Ghibli has produced works of the best customary, and defies clichés and paradigms regardless of nice threat. We’ve realized from them that it isn’t worthwhile to create except we’re doing our greatest.

The corporate in 4 years will probably be…

Mega well-known, leaving many impressed and influenced by our art-rich fiction.

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