Paper Dinosaurs Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
WITNESS THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE OF DINOSAURS… PAPER DINOSAURS!
A clever IP catches the attention of an internet entrepreneur on Kickstarter.com, who then launches a new company to build the IP into a children’s powerhouse brand!

DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
Monday, August 29, 2011 2:00pm

Paper Dinosaurs, a new children’s line of games, cartoons and merchandise, was announced today by the newly formed Paper Dinosaur Construction Co., with offices located in Burbank and Newport Beach, CA. Paper Dinosaurs is an all-new video game and cartoon property in development for over a year. Aimed squarely at the “Nick Jr.” crowd, Paper Dinosaurs is designed to appeal to the youngsters with bright, colorful and friendly characters, and is meant to entertain while reinforcing positive values and the importance of family and friends in the storylines.

“When I saw Paper Dinosaurs for the first time on Kickstarter.com, I knew it was special,” says Internet Entrepreneur Justin Hartfield. “The characters were immediately likable, and I knew that the kids would love them. It was a perfect fit for the kind of project I wanted to get behind next.”

“I knew Kickstarter.com would be the place I would find the right financial and production partner,” says Mark Butler, Emmy-award winning animator, and creator of Paper Dinosaurs. “It really came down to the wire! We had early some backers that had pledged a few hundred dollars, but it looked like we would come up short of our initial goal. Then, Justin stepped in, and in one fell swoop, put us over the finish line!”

Kickstarter.com attracted Hartfield’s attention to the project, but he was stunned by all the prior development work that had been completed by Butler prior to posting the project.

“I have been developing Paper Dinosaurs for a long time,” says Butler. “I actually came up with the concept years ago, but last year, we decided to get serious about producing it. Once all the characters were designed, and the scripts were complete, we recorded the first scratch track, and that’s when I knew we had a hit on our hands. It’s been so much fun from that point on!”

Paper Dinosaurs is a video game and cartoon series with an Arts and Crafts component. It’s a website portal to their paper world, where kids can watch the cartoons, play the games, and build and share their own Paper Dinosaurs! It’s the Paper DinoSTORE… with coloring books, cut-and-fold books, popup books, teeshirts, stickers and more. It’s the newest kid’s entertainment sensation. Everybody loves Paper Dinosaurs!

Created by Emmy-winning Animator Mark Butler, and Produced by Internet Entrepreneur Justin Hartfield, the Paper Dinosaur Construction Co. is now in full production on the first video game, as well as the cartoon series, with the first of 26x11 episodes to debut later this year. Also, the company announced the launch of their new game and cartoon enabled social networking website, coming soon.

The Paper Dinosaur Construction Co. is a new start-up, with Justin Hartfield as Chief Executive Officer, and Mark Butler as Chief Creative Officer. The other partners in the venture include Berny Herrera as VP Business Development, and James Magon as Senior Editor and Script Supervisor. James is a veteran cartoon scribe, with a number of successful series and movies under his belt, including Disney’s Chip n’ Dales Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Goof Troop, Secret of Nimh and Winnie the Pooh. The art and animation team brought together for this project include Adam “Mojo” Liebowitz, (Emmy-award winning animator on Star Trek: Voyager and Battlestar Galactica), Environment Lead Mychael Lederer, (Emmy-award winning animator for WB and Disney), and Interactive Art Director Mike Kelliher.

“Kids growing up in a Digital World need constant access to new content and apps,” says Justin Hartfield, CEO. “Paper Dinosaurs provides fun, family entertainment for children 2-5, and we will be in all digital delivery streams.”

“The mobile app market is $17.5 billion, with an estimated 10% of that market going towards children’s apps,” says Berny Herrera, VP Biz Dev. “Paper Dinosaurs are uniquely positioned to maximize our appeal in this space.”

“The art and animation style of Paper Dinosaurs is super fun and nostalgic, in a way unlike other cartoons and games,” says Mark Butler, CCO. “Every kid gets it immediately. You can play with your Paper Dinosaur in game, watch the cartoons, or build and collect them in the real world. Any which way you do it, playing with Paper Dinosaurs is fun :-) .”

For more information, please contact:
Paper Dinosaur Construction Co.
at 818.731.9327 or write info@paperdinosaurs.com
www.paperdinosaurs.com

Paper Dinosaurs just got Funded

Hi everybody! Am so excited to announce that as of 1:56 today, we have secured the funding for the video game! Our little project that could is picking up steam, that's for sure. We are hard at work the first game and cartoon now... we will post much more here, so keep your eyes peeled for Paper Dinosaurs! -- Mark

Paper Dinosaurs on Kickstarter.com

Hi all... I just posted the new Paper Dinosaurs Videogame Project on Kickstarter.com. So excited to finally get it posted. Kind of nervous, though... because nobody has donated yet! I don't know if that's normal or strange... I am definitely in new territory here. Well, I hope you will stop by and drop a dollar in the can! Hahaha :-)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paperdinosaurs/paper-dinosaurs-crazy-dino-player-video-game