WOW! We are really cooking as we head into this LAST WEEKEND of our raise here on Wefunder.com! We end around 11PM Central time on SUNDAY, Halloween, so please share with your friends and family! More updates all weekend, so please read these emails. MANY of you have been thrilled to hear you will receive (down the road a bit as we work out the best deliverable pipeline) a Pencilish Founding Investor NFT special for you! It's not related to your investment (so if you don't want it, that's fine) but INCLUDED with ALL THAT invest- at four different tiers/rarity, depending upon your level of investment into Pencilish Studios! This will be a LONG update, to try and educate many of you as to what an NFT is, how it might work, is it valuable, etc. This is JUST THE BEGINNING OF INFORMATION about this, so just know, actual delivery of this Pencilish Studios NFT will happen a bit later, with more information at that time. IMPORTANT: Please be on our mailing list for future information about this and other studio updates (sign up at Pencilish.com ). 

Here we go:

We are launching Pencilish NFTs! 

In our first edition, We are minting a collectable Founding Investor NFT for every investor. 

We’re sure this brings many questions to the table…like…

WHAT is an NFT?  The short answer is that it is a digital certificate secured on the blockchain. For a 2 minute explanation, watch this quick video over on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ww4aNlPQU

Is the NFT valuable? While we can’t speculate on the future value of a NFT, we can point to some really amazing examples where NFT’s were given away for free or sold for very little money at minting and have later become very valuable to collectors. Like this masked alien punk that fetched $11.75 million at Sotheby’s first curated NFT sale earlier this month.View Full project here: https://opensea.io/collection/cryptopunks

This Bored Ape NFT sold for 3.25 Million dollars

View full Bored Ape Yacht Club collecting here: https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub

This Ringers #879 NFT sold for almost 6 million.

View Ringers by Dmitri Cherniak project here: https://opensea.io/collection/ringers-by-dmitri-cherniak

Now that you’ve seen and heard all of the big numbers, let’s get realistic AND show you what these Founding Investor NFT’s look like and what we’ll do with them in the future.So, now you’re probably wondering…What’s with the bronze, silver, gold and platinum? We’re glad you asked. 

Each metal represents a different tier of investment. This is how they will break down. 

• Bronze Tier we are giving to those who have invested up to $249
• Silver Tier we are giving to those who have invested between $250 - 999
• Gold Tier we are giving to those who have invested between $1,000 - $4,999
• Platinum Tier we are giving to those who have invested above $5,000

These are commemorative NFTs representing your support and are being given as a token of appreciation, they don’t however represent your actual investment in any way. 

Soo….

 What’s special about these Founding Investor NFTs? 

• By holding these NFTs, they will give you first-in-line access to mint future NFTs before the general public. These future NFTs could include
• 1 of 1 art in many different forms
• PFP style NFTs
• Images from events commemorating key launch days in Pencilish history. 
• You’ll get early previews of shows we’re making. 2022
• You’ll get early access to event ticketing. 2023

Aren’t NFTs bad for the environment? At Pencilish Animation Studios, we are committing to launching our NFTs on a “Proof of Stake” chain where the carbon footprint of a single NFT would be similar to a tweet on Twitter. 

 -If you’d like to read more, our friends at Rally.io have a really good explanation of the process: LINK

So, what are the next steps? We are currently building a roadmap for how we will be delivering these NFTs but we need to get an understanding of how familiar our investors are with this technology and how we can help everyone get this extra perk for being a Pencilish founding investor. Below is a link to help us build that roadmap. 

Thank you for your investment and your support! More tomorrow and Sunday!

Viva la Animation Revolution!

-Tom Bancroft, CEO