Stretch Goal Adds Choir To Wing Commander Reorchestration

If you haven't figured it out already, we've having a blast following the exciting progress of the orchestral album campaign this week! We would have expected things to level off a bit after the first few days, but it continues a steady upward beat. So with that in mind, George Oldziey has announced the first stretch goal. He's priced out what it would take to add a comprehensive choral arrangement to the album, and it looks like that will be possible with an additional $6000. That would come to a new Kickstarter target of $22,000 [not $24,000 as originally posted]. We've still got about four weeks, so I think we can do it! For another sample of what you have to look forward to, here's an awesome mix of Mr. Oldziey's previous live orchestration of Wing Commander music combined with ODVS' advanced video enhancements:

Greetings all you amazing fans. We are already approaching the $14K mark in less than a week! I'm still keeping my fingers and toes crossed but things are looking so good I wanted to talk about the first of some possible stretch goals once we hit $16k.

That $16k figure, along with an EXTREMELY generous matching offer from superfan Matt Hiltner, will cover all the expenses of the orchestra recording process as well as producing the reward items. However, I didn't include expenses for recording a real choir because I wanted to keep our target amount at a figure that seemed readily attainable after a 30 day campaign. BUT, since we are getting so close so soon I wanted to mention that with an additional $6k we can record a large choir as well.

There are several cues that will be recorded that originally featured choir quite prominently, most notably the WC3 winning endgame with the Destruction of Kilrah. I have great choir sample libraries, but as we all know there is nothing like the real thing! SO, let's see how soon we can burst past the original $16k target and think seriously about recording a beautiful, REAL choir to mix with the orchestra.

Thank you all again from the bottom of my heart. I'm am SO psyched!

George