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The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

Spend some time working on collaborative animation projects - get to know what it's like being part of a crew. Get familiar with what an animation pipeline is like, what tools you'll need, what roles need to be filled. Be a good teammate and make connections with other artists you can reach out to when it's time to start hiring your own crew.

If you're going to launch with a crowdfund, or if you're going to drop your premiere or pilot episode on YouTube , do some audience building first. Share your development work, talk to people about what you're doing, livestream. Project development and audience building take time. It's not something you do in a month. Or even within a year, typically. If you're serious about making a series, or an animated film, settle in for a long term commitment. Remember you don't have to rush it, and it'll be better if you don't rush it.

Don't forget the administrative side of things - production management, tracking tasks and deadlines, accounting, payroll, software licenses, file storage. Budget. Keep your scope reined in. Work out fair pay rates for cast and crew. Plan for extraneous, unpredictable expenses. If you don't know what you're doing in these areas, either keep your project small enough that you don't have to do a lot of it, or hire people who have experience with this stuff.

If you haven't produced any completed animation of your own with a full team before, start out small. See what it's like making just a minute or so of completed animation with a crew of you alone, or you plus a couple of others. Use this to learn some lessons, find your voice and style, and smooth out your pipeline. Or just focus on producing an animatic with a strong script first. You can figure out how to bring it to completion later. Work your way up to big things - don't try to start there without experience. Even if you raise a sizable budget with crowdfunding, it can disappear very, very quickly if you aren't careful and realistic about your production plan.