Animators wanted: Deathfist Ninja GKaiser

[jfreedan]

I am the writer/creator of a minor webcomic, Deathfist Ninja GKaiser, located at http://www.deathfistninjagkaiser.com

http://www.deathfistninjagkaiser.com/gkaisercolorfinal.gif

The comic is about the misadventures of a teenage boy who is accidentally given powers he really should never have had.

The setting is a large city, Mega Metropollis-Ville, which exists in a parallel dimension where everything you see on TV is real, but horribly warped.

GKaiser primarily parodies Japanese television (anime, henshin hereo genre, giant robots, etc) and American pop culture (Bill Gates, Sigfried and Roy, Teletubbies, Ronald McDonald, etc). Unlike some parodies (The Simpsons, South Park, Robot Chicken, etc) it has a continueing storyline, and there is character development. (In the next issue of the comic, the hero is going to have to be forced go to "hero school" because of how awful a job he is doing at protecting the city)

The artist and I are looking for -partners- in transforming the work we have been doing into an animation short as a demo to show entertainment industry professionals (like agents), in the hopes that if our work is funny enough, we might be able to get syndication on a network like AdultSwim or Comedy Central.

I cannot offer any pay for this project myself, because I really dont have any money. Seriously. I've made absolutely zilch money from this webcomic; I'm doing it because I love writing things I think other people might find funny, and when I originally came up with the idea for GKaiser, it was as an animated series. I'm just trying to make my original vision for the story come to life in the medium I had originally envisioned it as.

If we are able to get a greenlight from a network, then everyone would get paid; I really cant see how anyone could get paid otherwise, as I have no money to give.

I'm going to be straightforward here: I really dont know much about the animation industry, the same way I knew very little about the webcomic industry when I started GKaiser a year ago. So if I seem like I'm saying something stupid, its only because I'm ignorant of how things "really work" with the animation industry.

A couple days ago I made a slide show presentation of the comic titled 'Ten Reasons to read Deathfist Ninja GKaiser'. Anyone slightly interested should look at it to get an idea of what the story is like. While GKaiser is a primarily comical story, it is also meant to have some action-- after all, it IS a superhero story.

Ten Reasons to Read Deathfist Ninja GKaiser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9W7NlqNZKM)

I am extremely serious about this project. You have no idea how badly I want this to suceed.

If interested, you can let me know by sending me a pm, an email, or just posting here. I dont mind people asking me questions either, or giving advice on what they believe I should do, or how awful my slide show is, etc :)

Yes we're amateurs, but everyone is at one time, right?

[sleeksolutions]

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[jfreedan]

Is this you?

http://www.sleeksolutions.net/

[L_Finston]

I'm going to be straightforward here: I really dont know much about the animation industry, the same way I knew very little about the webcomic industry when I started GKaiser a year ago. So if I seem like I'm saying something stupid, its only because I'm ignorant of how things "really work" with the animation industry.I believe you, which is why I'm answering your posting. You are asking people to work for you for free, which is likely to get you a hostile response. I'm sure this wasn't intentional. Putting together a pitch requires money and pitching it to a studio or a broadcaster (network or otherwise) is only one of many steps. It is very unlikely that a series based on your comic would ever go into production. This isn't a value judgement. It could be the greatest comic ever and that wouldn't make it any likelier. Even if it did go into production, you would almost certainly not have creative control, since you have no money. They play hardball in the animation business --- it is not cute, funny, or "appealing" (one of my least favorite words). Just take a look through some of the many threads on this subject.

I am extremely serious about this project. You have no idea how badly I want this to suceed.On the contrary. I think there are lots of people here who'd like to realize their projects. I know I'd like to realize mine. I don't expect any help from the animation industry anymore, though.

I dont mind people asking me questions either, or giving advice on what they believe I should do, [...]Okay. If you want to animate your comic, then I think you should do it yourself. Anyone who could do it for you is probably more interested in his or her own projects. Animation is animation and comics are comics. If you're going to try to do something on your own, it will have to be a lot shorter. In my opinion, one to five minutes is realistic to start with. You can forget about half an hour a week. I'm sure you're used to people not understanding how much work goes into comics; it's the same with animation.

Laurence Finston

[Animated Ape]

The artist and I are looking for -partners- in transforming the work we have been doing into an animation short as a demo to show entertainment industry professionals (like agents), in the hopes that if our work is funny enough, we might be able to get syndication on a network like AdultSwim or Comedy Central.

If you want to animate this, that's cool, but entirely way too much work if you want to pitch it to a network. They mostly want to see a synopsis of the show, with a few, very short, think one or two sentences, episode summaries. Also a couple of rough character design sketches. If it's too finalized, like animated, the studio will feel like you will be unwilling to change if they have changes in mind. There are very few shows that get picked up by networks that remain unchanged from pitch form.

So like I said, if you want to animate it, cool, but don't think that because you animated it that networks will be more likely to pick it up as a show.

Aloha,
the Ape