Kickstarter: Art and Storyboard Books for Polish Animation 'Diplodocus'
March 13th 2025
Kickstarter has become a great way for smaller studios and artists to get their artbooks funded by supportive fans. I wanted to begin highlighting these projects, as collectors can find some great artbooks for their shelves and help others reach their goal of publishing their work.
One of these projects is for books based on Diplodocus, a Polish award-winning animation that was released in 2024. It is noted as the first full length 3D animated feature aimed at families from the country. It follows a dinosaur as he hops from one new world to another, along with a group of odd characters, but comes with a unique twist. The feature also uses live-action scenes and took over 10 years to develop.
The Kickstarter project is closing on March 21st and, at the time of writing this, has almost 75% of the funding needed to hit its goal of €21,000. There are two books you can order, The Art of Diplodocus and Storyboard Diplodocus. The books are estimated to be shipped from Poland this month and are being published by another award-winner, timof comics.
The Art of Diplodocus, which you can back for €45, includes an impressive 340 pages with insights, photos and over 700 pieces of art for the movie. The text comes in both Polish and English from Director Wojtek Wawszczyk, with the design executed by Tomasz Leśniak. The book is 28cm x 25cm in size.
The second book, Storyboard, is 640 pages and covers the final storyboards for the movie. The art was created by Wojtek Wawszczyk, Tomasz Leśniak, Michał Śledziu Śledziński, Kuba Tarkowski, Marek Oleksicki, Janusz Ordon, and Kamil Kurt Kochański. This can be backed for €35 and is 17.5cm x 25cm.
There is also the option to bundle both books together for €70, as well as other options for extras, such as signed copies and bedtime stories.
The campaign is ending soon, but you can support the project and find more information and previews on Kickstarter here - Diplodocus - Artbook and Storyboard.
This looked like a great project to highlight as the previews of the pages look great and perfect for fans of other animated movie artbooks. The volume of pages included is also unusually high for Kickstarter books, so they are giving you a good amount of value here and it looks very much like a labour of love.
I will begin featuring more Kickstarter projects and hope it give collectors some new gems to look forward to!
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