{"id":1052,"date":"2011-10-17T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-10-17T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:42:07","slug":"back-to-that-cartoon-ive-been-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Back to that cartoon I&#8217;ve been planning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0823033074\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wizardwalk-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=0823033074\">Creating Animated Cartoons with Character: A Guide to Developing and Producing Your Own Series for TV, the Web, and Short Film<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0823033074&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Joe Murray.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I stumbled upon this book, but I came across it on my web-surfing journeys last week, went to see if they had it at the local bookstore, and they did, so I bought it.  It&#8217;s not very long, just 200-something pages.  (That it was written by the creator of <em>Rocko&#8217;s Modern Life<\/em> certainly helped catch my attention; that was one of my favorite shows growing up.  It taught me the word <em>nauseous<\/em>.)  It&#8217;s not so much about the day-to-day ins and outs of actual cartoon production (it touches on everything, but doesn&#8217;t go into enormous amounts of detail); rather, it&#8217;s about designing a cartoon, putting together a pitch bible, pitching and selling it to a network, or producing it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read this blog for at least a year or so (in which case you deserve some sort of reward), you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;ve been working on a cartoon idea for a couple years, with the intent of eventually producing it myself in Flash or Toon Boom or something.  But if a network bought it and it was developed professionally, it would be, you know, better.  So throughout last week, I was going through my old notes and cartoon ideas, cutting a bunch of ideas out, changing things around, and started developing a pitch bible, guided by the book and any online resources I can scrounge up.  Even if this doesn&#8217;t result in any network deals (the chance of which is pretty miniscule anyway), this seems to be a great exercise that will definitely be helpful if\/when I crudely animate a short episode of it myself.  It&#8217;s also forcing me to finalize character designs.  I&#8217;ve got most of the text of the bible done (as a rough draft, at least), but there&#8217;s a good amount of artwork to do.  So that&#8217;s probably what I&#8217;ll be working on when I can spare the time; still gotta focus on my Animation Mentor studies.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for anyone else out there dreaming of developing a cartoon, Joe Murray&#8217;s book is great!  I definitely recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating Animated Cartoons with Character: A Guide to Developing and Producing Your Own Series for TV, the Web, and Short Film by Joe Murray. I&#8217;m not sure how I stumbled upon this book, but I came across it on my web-surfing journeys last week, went to see if they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[220,18],"tags":[313,437,436],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-gY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}