Artist Jamie Givens has opened a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of an animated film celebrating exploration and adventure: AROUND Animated Adventure Film by Jamie Givens — Kickstarter

The story I want to tell is a celebration of these and other explorers and adventurers, told in an animated epic poem. The animation style will be similar to a motion comic, but with much more atmosphere and drama, with a focus on beautiful, detailed art. We will render those moments of grit, blood, sweat and clenched teeth. Pushing through an Antarctic storm while pulling a 500-pound sledge. The lightning crack as a cornice collapses en-route to a mountain summit. The freezing spray of foam across the face in a Southern Ocean gale. This is a story of climbers, sailors, astronauts, big-wave surfers, skiers – anyone who has ventured into the unknown to see what is on the other side. Those who go, and see and do. Those who go up, over and AROUND.

I am a climber, sailor, skier and mountaineer, and have been inspired my whole life by epic stories of exploration. Through AROUND I wish to do my part in continuing to inspire the next generation of explorers and doers. I’m sure many people who are reading this have experienced that moment of bliss and joy when seeing something for the first time, earned by hard steps, burning lungs and sacrifices along the way. You are the people I am appealing to to help make this film happen.