Creator Services
Our specialized team offers comprehensive services across editing, pre-press, design, 3D modeling, production, and more to elevate your product from concept to completion. We perform detailed editing, prepare files for print, and offer top-notch design and illustration for all text and graphic needs, whether it’s for books, games, or other nerd culture industries. Our 3D modeling experts create miniatures and prototypes optimized for production, and our production management team ensures high-quality manufacturing and packaging with close collaboration with factories. We also support IP development, adapt IPs for new formats, and provide marketing services, including creating marketing materials, managing live events, and setting up interactive booths. Our expertise extends to crowdfunding management, where we maximize campaign potential and handle everything from campaign setup to reward fulfillment, ensuring cost-effective, high-quality results across all aspects of your product journey.
Editing
Our highly experienced and specialized team will do a complete line edit of your book, rulebook and all text associated with your product; double checking for errors, typos, and opportunities for improvement. From novels to comic books to table top games, you can rest easy knowing our experience will ensure the best possible version of your product will be going to print.
Pre-Press
Our team will handle and prepare the files you provide for print, meeting the specific needs of the manufacturer, ensuring text and graphics aren’t lost in the gutter or at risk or being trimmed, preparing foil stamp files, die-cut files, embossing files, hardcover wrap files, punchboard files, packaging files, etc for the best design and results during printing.
Design and Illustration
We are fortunate enough to work with some of the best designers and illustrators in the industry, specializing in book and product layout and design for nerd culture industries.
3D Modeling and Prototyping
Need a 3D model sculpted for your miniature, figure, or statue? Our 3D modelers and sculptors will not only create an amazing model for you, but will design it with the end product in mind, thoughtfully designing in a manner that translates properly to injection molding processes. Need prototypes or samples 3D printed? We’ll make these in-house, printed by the very same team that sculpted the model to ensure your prototype looks top notch.
Production Management
Our team has strong experience in production management for books, board games, apparel, figurines, plushies, and so much more. They will work closely with your chosen manufacturer to ensure the final product is of the highest quality and packaged in a proper manner for the best results during shipping and distribution.
Printing and Manufacturing
Don’t have a factory for your product? Through our factory partners and negotiated rates, our team will handle the printing and manufacturing of your product, always fighting for the best quality, timeline, and price. This better allows you to focus on promoting your brand, building your IP, and selling your product.
IP Development
Our Creator Services Team has had the pleasure of working alongside some of the biggest names in entertainment to develop their IPs to put them on the path to cult status. In addition to building new IPs from the ground up, our staff writers have experience in adapting existing IPs to other forms of entertainment, such as adapting graphic novels to feature films; adapting television and film IPs to graphic novels, novels, and tabletop games; adapting music and lyrics to narrative storytelling formats for bands, and much more.
Marketing
Looking for marketing assistance? Our Marketing team will work with you to develop effective marketing plans and can even design marketing assets and handle printing and manufacturing of marketing materials.
Live Events
We have experience working hundreds of conventions, trade shows, and pop culture events. Our team can design and manufacture your booth and signage for the event, while also providing hands-on support for delivering your product and assets to your booth, while even providing brand ambassadors to work the event. Our specialty lies in creating booths that are both aesthetically impressive and experiential for the consumer, creating fun ways for interaction that leave lasting impressions, building long-term engaged fan bases.
Crowdfunding Management
Making sure a crowdfunding campaign reaches its true potential is dire for product launches, and something Whalebacker thoroughly understands. It’s also a crucial time for branding, establishing an IP and line of products permanently in the minds of consumers. Our team can build out your campaign and design all of its graphics, create your campaign video, line up production of your rewards, manage your customer service and communication before, during, and after the campaign’s window, and do all of this in a manner built for us to fulfill your campaign quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
