Growing Around Growing Around: A slow moving trainwreck. (General Thread)

[Kabobs]

@Steamboat_Bill I know he's watched Zatch Bell, The Gregory Horror Show and he had plans to do an Admirable Animation on something called Strawberry Eggs.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@Soradawn: That says much about his taste in anime.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

What does he think of old Wile E Coyote toons?

 

[Gazelle_Bro]

How does he imagine the pitch for Growing Around going down?

[3/26/15 10:42:29 PM] Yang: It's a good way to draw in viewers. So how do you like plan on pitching the show? What networks and stuff?
[3/26/15 10:43:16 PM] Johnathan Enter: We're focusing on getting the pilot animated and posting it on the internet before we do that. As for the particular network, we're hoping Cartoon Network
[3/26/15 10:43:36 PM] Yang: Like how do you plan on doing that though?
[3/26/15 10:44:13 PM] Johnathan Enter: Pitching it? Because putting it on the internet is easy.
[3/26/15 10:44:25 PM] Yang: True, but wouldn't CN have to be interested?
[3/26/15 10:44:59 PM] Johnathan Enter: The point of a pitch is to make them interested. You get appointments and stuff like that it. It's how pitching anything works

 

[MrsFrizzle]

"You get appointments"---oh, honey, no. No.

 

[Headbanger General]

What I would have done is make the kids ACTUALLY act like kids. Have kids voice the children, and model the personality of the character after the actor. That would make the character believable.

Kids make bad voice actors; most animated shows have adults voice children, so King Enter has that detail down.

 

[Ho Mo for Women]

I'm Yang, because I'm a weeb.

[3/26/15 10:18:23 PM] Yang: How much do you proof read your scripts before posting them? Also, who's the biggest influence on your writing?
[3/26/15 10:20:23 PM] Johnathan Enter: Honestly, it depends on the script that I'm writing. Sometimes it's Kids Next Door, sometimes it's Gumball, sometimes it's SpongeBob. And sometimes it's from my own fantasies, etc. You need to have more than one go-to influence if you really want to create something unique

If Enter really draws inspiration from his own fantasies, I think we'll be seeing an episode about Robert fucking Gumdrops in the near future.

 

[Hodor]

[3/26/15 10:42:29 PM] Yang: It's a good way to draw in viewers. So how do you like plan on pitching the show? What networks and stuff?
[3/26/15 10:43:16 PM] Johnathan Enter: We're focusing on getting the pilot animated and posting it on the internet before we do that. As for the particular network, we're hoping Cartoon Network
[3/26/15 10:43:36 PM] Yang: Like how do you plan on doing that though?
[3/26/15 10:44:13 PM] Johnathan Enter: Pitching it? Because putting it on the internet is easy.
[3/26/15 10:44:25 PM] Yang: True, but wouldn't CN have to be interested?
[3/26/15 10:44:59 PM] Johnathan Enter: The point of a pitch is to make them interested. You get appointments and stuff like that it. It's how pitching anything works

He's not wrong, but he's also far from being right.

Cartoon Network and Nick tend to scout for talent through animation festivals, or anthology shorts. Essentially, old shows likt What-a-Cartoon and Oh yeah! Cartoons were glorified talent searches. They tested out concepts, saw what did well with kids, and gave it a season order. This resulted in shows like Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Fairly Odd Parents, Powerpuff Girls, and so on.

The only examples of a popular internet short getting picked up for a series that I can think of are Regular Show and technically Adventure Time. There's very little chance of his project getting any real pick-up. If he's lucky- and I mean lucky- it'll get attention from a few acclaimed animators like Penn Ward or John K. or Bakshi or Tartkovsky, which would boost his chances.

It's actually really damn hard to get a cartoon made nowadays. Especially if he doesn't have it flash animated.

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

He's not wrong, but he's also far from being right.

Cartoon Network and Nick tend to scout for talent through animation festivals, or anthology shorts. Essentially, old shows likt What-a-Cartoon and Oh yeah! Cartoons were glorified talent searches. They tested out concepts, saw what did well with kids, and gave it a season order. This resulted in shows like Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Fairly Odd Parents, Powerpuff Girls, and so on.

The only examples of a popular internet short getting picked up for a series that I can think of are Regular Show and technically Adventure Time. There's very little chance of his project getting any real pick-up. If he's lucky- and I mean lucky- it'll get attention from a few acclaimed animators like Penn Ward or John K. or Bakshi or Tartkovsky, which would boost his chances.

It's actually really damn hard to get a cartoon made nowadays. Especially if he doesn't have it flash animated.

The day Genndy Tartakovsky attaches himself to Growing Around is the day I realize my entire life has been one exceptionally long nightmare and throw myself from the Empire State Building in a desperate bid to wake up.

 

[Headbanger General]

He's not wrong, but he's also far from being right.

Cartoon Network and Nick tend to scout for talent through animation festivals, or anthology shorts. Essentially, old shows likt What-a-Cartoon and Oh yeah! Cartoons were glorified talent searches. They tested out concepts, saw what did well with kids, and gave it a season order. This resulted in shows like Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Fairly Odd Parents, Powerpuff Girls, and so on.

The only examples of a popular internet short getting picked up for a series that I can think of are Regular Show and technically Adventure Time. There's very little chance of his project getting any real pick-up. If he's lucky- and I mean lucky- it'll get attention from a few acclaimed animators like Penn Ward or John K. or Bakshi or Tartkovsky, which would boost his chances.

It's actually really damn hard to get a cartoon made nowadays. Especially if he doesn't have it flash animated.

Well, The Annoying Orange got picked up, so anything's possible, I suppose.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Shinashin-Nation: "If Growing Around does well on television, you should make another cartoon called, "Mr. Enter and Friends"!"
DEAR FUCK PLEASE NO.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

22 minutes of manbabies watching cartoons and crying.

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

Good lord, the one bot worriedly asking if the next ep is a comedy because this episode was evidently so intense that it might "Keep him up tonight."

What am I missing here? I just don't get it.

 

[Segue]

Beyond Canadian animation, not really

Canada is part of the west

idiot

 

[Headbanger General]

Canada is part of the west

idiot

No, I think he meant that he only watches Canadian cartoons, which shows how little he knows about the cartoons that he loves.

 

[Bugaboo]

What will Enter and friends do when Growing Around is rejected?
Rage? Try again? Actually hire competent people?

 

[Jumpin Jenkins]

What will Enter and friends do when Growing Around is rejected?
Rage? Try again? Actually hire competent people?

He'll complain on the internet and then go home to fuck his cartoon horses.

 

[Bugaboo]

He'll complain on the internet and then go home to fuck his cartoon horses.

"Pinkie Pie you're the only person who understands me"

 

[StateOfMind]

What will Enter and friends do when Growing Around is rejected?
Rage? Try again? Actually hire competent people?

Looking at his past actions like treatment of criticism, blaming the education system, ect. I came up with this:
Rage - 57% chance
Try Again - 32% chance
Hire competent people - 11% chance

 

[Jumpin Jenkins]

Looking at his past actions like treatment of criticism, blaming the education system, ect. I came up with this:
Rage - 95% chance
Try Again - 5% chance
Hire competent people - 0% chance

Fix'd