Creators run their shows. Fans make them happen.
Each stage has its own reachable goal and names exactly what it will produce.
Every show starts with its ShowSpark Package: the series overview, hero designs, pilot script and an animatic. Then a teaser, then a pilot. You back the stage that's open now.
Every stage shows what your pledge buys. No mystery budgets.
Animation costs real money and we share exactly how much, benchmarked against what a finished minute actually costs. How animation is made →
When a stage funds, the creator is paid to make the thing it named. If it doesn't fund, nobody is charged.
A show can't open its next stage until this one's deliverable is posted to backers, so you see finished work before anyone asks you for more. How we make money →
Every show climbs the same three stages.
A full episode costs $100K or more, and few new shows can raise that in one go. So a show starts with the ShowSpark Package: the script, designs and animatic that prove the idea. Each stage it delivers is the proof that earns the next, the same way studios greenlight shows. Once enough shows reach pilot, we'll open stages for series episodes and longer formats.
Every dollar goes into frames on screen, and what you get back is access, credit, early viewing, and a front-row seat to how it gets made.
Buys about 80 seconds of animation, often under a goal that promised a pilot.
Buys a finished teaser, about two minutes of animation. The next stage opens only after backers have it.
Fees are about the same on both: 5% to the platform plus about 3% card processing. The example assumes rewards and shipping cost 25% of what's raised, and animation at $12,500 per finished minute.
Most crowdfunding runs on t-shirts and shipping labels. ShowSparks doesn't do physical rewards, on purpose, so pledges fund the show itself. Each show's rewards live on its page.