“Nat 20 Baby!”

Hello! I’m trying to make a pilot of my own to submit to a studio to make a show. Problem is.. I can’t draw, let alone animate, and I’m broke. But I want to make an animated show from the bottom of my heart. What would you recommend is the best way to pitch a show and find volunteers to make a pilot?

Most pitches just start as loglines, scripts, or concepts if that helps. Just play to your strengths. Long answer ahead

This is one of the number one things I always tell students when they're making a portfolio and also why I didn't fully animate my pilot. I've had so many folks who are trying to get into storyboarding show me animatics from their portfolio that they edited themselves. Unless it's an action scene with very specific timing, or if the artist is also a skilled editor, I'd rather just click through a PDF. If the editing is bad, I'm gonna be distracted by the editing and not view the board properly. It takes away from the actual skill you're trying to showcase. Showing more often creates more room for error and makes your weaknesses much clearer.

I'm not a great animator and I knew that if I tried, it wouldn't come out the way I wanted and all the inevitable errors would have been distracting (it also would have taken FOREVER and would be expensive if I tried hiring other folks to help me with it). But I know that I'm good at storyboarding so I stuck with that.

All this to say, you don't need to create an animated pilot to pitch. There are so many different ways to pitch and get your idea out there. In most cases the pilot is made in development if the studio likes your idea anyways. If you truly have no money, just use the skills you have at your disposal. Unless you're 1000% sure that a fully animated will help your chances and that you can find other people with the skillset to execute it, I wouldn't do it.

But if you DO really want to do it, ask artist friends or people you trust to help out. Most of the people I worked with for my pilot were friends who, even though I offered to pay, helped pro bono. If you don't have artist friends, you can post open casting calls on socials, but make sure to be super up front about it being unpaid work, COMMUNICATE, and also write contracts. If you're working with strangers, having a set agreement that states that you will be using their work to pitch will help you avoid potential legal issues in the future.

That's my 2 cents! A fully animated pilot is a 2+ year commitment AT LEAST (if you're lucky). I'd just do what you're good at and fill in the gaps when you actually get a development deal

Ok hear me out

Every interaction between Caleb, and Evelyn. Evelyn is trying to flirt with Caleb but he doesn’t notice, so eventually Evelyn just stops flirting just to tired to continue, so her and Caleb just talk, and eventually Caleb asks Evelyn to stop flirting Evelyn tells him she stopped and hasn’t been flirting this whole time. Turns out boiling isles and human realm flirting are to very different things.

Oc dump

Last night I was trying to go to bed before my third eye opened and realized cavenpuss has four dads, doof made him, Dakota is the reason he was made, and Perry and cavendish’s dna was used to make him, so the qeustion stands what would their ship name be

tbh sometimes i see three colors that aren't even pink green and blue and i still go like oh my god. sashannarcy.

I still have no idea what to call this au if you have any ideas please tell me

I’ve been cooking up a fantasy lapidot au (by fantasy I just mean magic and monsters but there is some basic tech)

Peridot is an aspiring inventor but isn’t very good at it she’s better at making her inventions explode than work. Thankfully for her a Prince Steven (rose quartz became a “queen” after the revolution) took her in and let’s peridot live in a shack in his backyard.

Eventually the crystal knights (I’m considering making them creatures but haven’t decided yet) decide peridot needs to do something around the house instead of just tinkering in a shed so they send her out to get water from a nearby lake, but when peridot gets to the lake she sees a harpy chained up

Peridot tries to avoid her at first (peri is still a bit of a jerk) but after a while peri starts responding to the harpy’s cries and they start talking the harpy reveals her name is lapis but peridot leaves after getting the water (again jerk)

The next week peridot comes back and sees lapis again and they talk more lapis reveals her backstory about jasper chaining her up. Peridot starts going to the lake daily to chat and free lapis as a romance friendship forms.

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Dragon designs of toh palisman largely inspired by the incredible fic by @fianightshade + bonus Stringbean because i couldnt not draw them. GO READ THIS FIC ITS SO GOOD

Definitely want to do more art for the fic, the scenes are so vivid and clear in my mind, but I feel like a few of these designs I want to fine tune a bit more (also I don't think they actually follow the descriptions of the actual fic, oh well)

Emmiline is the only design I'm not totally sold on but I'll figure it out.

Forever thankful to creative people. I love being inspired and this was such a fun design challenge for myself. I just love the variety of designs <3

Appreciation post for all the beginner artists who work hard despite the AI ​​looming over us. You are fabulous. You are precious. Keep up the hard work, you are needed.

Peridot learned something new