Basically, what kind of show would you make if given access to a good amount of money and talent?
Personally, I'd go the indie route. Helluva Boss and Digital Circus have me convinced that's where the money's at.
If you had a "fuck you" amount of money, what kind of cartoon series would you make?
RWBY, but good and no bumblebee
>bumblebee
what?
Blake x Yang
I believe gaming is where the money actually is right now, but it would be a dream to make an animated space opera series.
In terms of the board we're on.
Mine would be an "end of the world" scenario, but shown from the perspective of a group totally unaffected by it
I can't decide when I want to set this but I'm thinking 90s. I like to listen to music while I write and the aesthetics kind of leech in.
>this series centers on five "architect" individuals; they are part of a larger collective that created the world around it
>the architects are: archetype (humanoid), companion (animal-human hybrid), assistant (humanoid alienlike figure), lifeline (faceless plant with a humanoid body), and overseer (human head-sized eye with a humanoid body)
>I attached an image that approximates what they'd look like. Yes, I used AI to make these sketches. I unfortunately don't have the time to draw.
>they're sent to Earth, the planet they fathered, after a cataclysmic event to collect data, surviving artifacts, and living specimen
>LOTS of background imagery about the end of the world, but no flashbacks. The viewer should draw their own conclusions
>ends sort of ambiguously; there will be a lot of questions like "Did the architects spearhead the end of the world?" or "What happens to the surviving humans or animals they find? Where do they go?"
>much of the ending should just be left up to the viewer's interpretation
also for shits and giggles since I have unlimited money
>hire a bunch of comedy VAs like Richard Horvitz and Michael Kovath and force them to act in a completely grimdark serious drama role because it'd be hilarious
I guess I came up with this because I like writing dystopian/apocalyptic fantasy scenarios but the appeal for me is seeing if a bunch of emotionless aliens can gain a sense of humanity.
>but the appeal for me is seeing if a bunch of emotionless aliens can gain a sense of humanity.
Assuming they've done this before, the idea falls flat (why would one doomed planet be different from the rest?). Only works if it's a first time thing.
It's pretty much a common procedure thing for any planet that dies, but it's the first time group in particular goes back to a planet in a semi-modern time.
I should've mentioned this before but they didn't just father Earth but our entire solar system. They were there after a "fall of Mars" scenario but that isn't comparable to Earth's fall. The "martian" people were in a sort of primitive age. They developed tools to survive but they didn't develop a discernible written language or substantial arts. They were a very caveman-like people.
The architects were present after Earth's Ice Age to collect artifacts and living creatures. They appear whenever something goes massively haywire, of their own doing or not.
They aren't the only group of architects. It's a collective of hundreds or thousands across the entire universe. Their main intent is to experiment and make a thriving planet with life. Thus every planet is an experiment. The collective collects data to share, so they can make planets with lusher, more prosperous life.
To answer your gripe, it isn't the first time they've done this, but it's the first time they've been to a planet as developed as Earth. They're familiar with life, but not life as we would know it. The life of love and art and will. I'm not sure if you've ever heard of the Great Filter theory, but the overall premise is similar to that. We're the most well-developed experiment that fails.
I'm sorry if this comes across as rambling. This is decidedly not my most realized concept, but it's my most realized idea for an animated series. I love post-apocalyptic stories but I find a lot of the concepts half-baked and the characters undeveloped. I'm trying to bake this into something plausible.
Basically an entirely stop-motion series about bandits on the run.
Would get cool road-trip episodes and also the set at the end of it would be all MINE MWAHAHAHAHa heh.
Could be cool, are they more goofy or gritty?
That sounds offbeat but it could be really witty. I like it
If it has a really pleasant art style I'd watch it, could be chill. My mind jumps to Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist
Ocean is freaky. I'd watch but I'd probably be spooked
Surreal how? Like Fleischer "cartoony" surreal or Salvador Dali "realistic" surreal?
A mixed-media rock opera Book of Revelation would be absolutely INSANE. Instantly started thinking of something like Son of the White Mare but even trippier. I'd totally watch it
Korgoth of Barbaria
she-ra
but hes a man now
and everyone is a man
and they just punch each other and have straight sex with aliens
Pour the money into more pretentious adult animation so hopefully we can get away from the generic sitcom shows
I'd do what this anon suggested. I'd want to make something that would filter manchildren and normalfags
Based anons
Move to europe, we've been having quality adult toons for decades
Normal words but horse people?
Trust me, I'm well aware. In fact I'd probably just use some of the money to re-distribute some of these films and give them wider releases.
what are you a masochist?
Plastic Man
That is all.
I don't know but it would be done 100% on cel
I would pick indie games, that I liked and had promise for a good animation and make that shit.
I'd redo Steven Universe but with even bigger women
Honestly, I'd just buy physical copies of old cartoons I loved.
Probably this.
Now that I think about it, I would:
Fix:
Steven Universe
Korra
Ben 10
Make:
Push CN to make more mini-series, limited series like OTGW
Get them to actually finish Infinity Train
Reboot Ben 10 again
Hyper focus on Young Adult cartoons
Like the other guys are saying I'd mostly try to make some dream adaptations or continuations
SBT conclusion (I'll beat Genndy into submission with wads of cash every time the script starts to go off the rails)
Unsounded. Might have to spend money on cybernetics to keep Cope alive until the comic is finished as well
It's stupid but I'd like to take Star Wars and reboot it since the start but doing things to my taste, in animated form.
I'd use elements from everything (even some Disney stuff) but only episodes IV and V would remain mostly the same.
Zelda The Ocarina of Time animated adaption.
I already have a seasons worth of stories for my series, so I'd just produce it purely out of passion and assume I'd get nothing back.
I’d adapt the 8th doctors audio stories into cartoons, I’d also make my own stupid show about a fly not going into further details about it.
I’d turn my mental illness into a dramatic light vs dark cartoon that peaks with the hero and the “villain” realizing they are one and the same and unify against a greater threat. The final episode ends with “To be continued..?” and then I wait 10 years to make a follow up series that fails to capture what made the original so good because I (hopefully) no longer struggle with that mental illness
I would just let Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick do whatever they want for the rest of their lives. Also animated adaptations of indie games like Celeste, cave story, and not indie and also Cinemaphile, but more Sam & Max, PLEASE
Worm but I'd make Taylor and Lisa get together.
I'd make something sci-fi with one human character if that, all the extraterrestrial species will be very far removed from then, so no kryptonians or similar bs
I think the same thing. I wanna give amateur animators access to both talent and money that could rival Disney in terms of reach. I want them to not worry about having to appeal to the lowest common denominator to find any kind of financial success. A genuine Youtube/Newgrounds/etc to the big leagues pipeline of sorts.
I wouldn't, because I don't have a creative bone in my body. But a lot of good series that were cancelled early would suddenly get new seasons and/or proper finales.
Early 20th century style fantasy war action/drama
First I’d fund Stars Align season 2. Then I would use the rest to fund Teen/Young Adult action cartoons, brute-forcing change in the industry. Carry creative projects through, profits be damned.
I'd want to do a show like Spicy City, an adult orientated anthology show from a futuristic setting with supernatural elements. But more explicit with sex. And maybe a more "realistic" cg art style, but that's just my preference.
I would love to make a 3-season show showing the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Arsen Lupin called "Masterminds". Hire people that can write good mysteries and hide clues that observant audience members can pick out instead of pulling shit out of thin air. Adapt Stories, and create new ones that fit within the world, all leading up to a final confrontation movie between the master detective and the world's greatest thief.
>Holmes and Lupin are both masters of disguise
>Neither break cover the whole caper
>Lupin ends up solving the theft with Watson while Holmes pulls it off with his gang
>Ganimard arrests Holmes while Lupin ensures Watson gets home safely, and gets away with the loot.
>Gets to the point where Lupin stats solving more cases as Holmes and Holmes runs the israeliteels with Lupin's gang that the audience starts to question if they really switched
>James somehow is connected and starts sabotaging both parties incase Holmes is either.
...That sounds awesome.
I came here to shit post but you sir I want you to make this.
>Holmes captures Lupin while Lupin manages to escape Holmes. Both failing and succeeding at the same time.
Fuck that's kind of cool.
My autism about a witch traveling the world to undo a curse that keeps her from casting magic, but she is still able to cast it from third party sources. Comic one day
Comics don't sell, dude. You'd have better luck with a webtoon.
Something cool and also weird. Maybe throw in a life lesson or some shit. Maybe I'd get somebody to help bring my comic idea to life in a way that I can't.
No lie, I'd have the lawcomic turned into a Schoolhouse Rock series for adults. It's the kind of thing a studio would never fund, but ought to exist.
Would watch
Space Stallions
The one I would want to watch would involve cute girls.
The one I would want to make just out of spite is a series where capeshitters, probably Batman, capture criminals like they do and then someone in the justice system secretly puts a bullet in their heads afterwards. It frustrates the hell out of me how these creators genuinely think it's morally defensible to allow mass murderers, and beyond that mass murderers who WILL reoffend, to live.
Amphibia sequel.
Or maybe just a female led Kamen rider homage.
a movie or show about a bunch of nomad kids traveling europe and seeing the beauty of the world
an alternate history setting attempting to navigate what it would've really been like had superhumans started appearing a a few years before WW2. (and trying not to do a superheroes but edgy approach)
1. Funding that one dude's concept about an Egyptian cat man that's been trying to defeat his rival throughout his 9 lives or whatever the fuck it was
2. Lupin III in Gotham
You're going to fund it now!
Oceanic Depth
A fake animated documentary about the many ecosystems within the ocean of an alien planet without any landmasses.
The show starts at the top, but goes deeper and deeper with every episode,
A highly successful LGBTQ friendly, POC positive series built to make Cinemaphile seethe to untold levels.
The Our Flag Means Death of Cinemaphile but blatantly force feeding everything every major board hates into it.
>trying to contrarian so hard you piss off everyone
Literally impossible
Worked for live action Disney. The only hate I've seen for them is online, wheras Disney's doing just fine and anons parrot made up gripes about what goes on internally at Disney.
Are you insane? They're legit losing money and in a lot of trouble due to all their bad decisions.
If i had fuck you money then i would make an elaborate rube goldberg suicide stream
A Faithful I Hate Fairyland adaptation up to Revival issue #5, then the rest is the same but with adult Gert.
Sci-Fi Anthology that simplifies etymology, ontology, taxonomy, academic disciplinary systems, quantum theory and dimensional tiering
More faithful adaptations of Marvel and DC comics. No woke shit, no pandering to dumb kids or normies.
Indie Detective thriller 2D film in a surreal world
Honestly I'd go to anime studios due to censorship issues
Really? I'd go to the US (I'm a thirdie) specifically because of the first amendment.
Japan censors shit too.
I'd make three season Adaptation of Usagi Yojimbo. Straight from the bloody comics.
I'd like to redo the second season
>the indie route
>that's where the money's at
Anon...
Helluva Boss and Digital Circus doing so well means I can make bank without sacrificing any creative control. Since I have "fuck you" money, I can astroturf my show so it's a guaranteed hit no matter what.
>make bank
I don't think that means what you think it means.
These shows are able to be made which is impressive, but they are not pulling in a surplus of money. When it comes to financial return, network shows still have indie beat by miles.
They only 'make' money from Merchandising
It's not really 'making' money if it's a necessity to keep the production afloat. It's not like the old network days where selling action figures and lunchboxes was pure profit. Despite any money coming in through crowdfunding, it's often still not enough so productions need to sell crap to keep a slush fund.
TV shows aren't profitable on their own. They’d make a profit through ads, syndication, home video, merch and licensing out to other platforms like Netflix. Ratings/views do not translate to dollars earned, just popularity.
yes, but they are profitable in that they make a surplus of money (ie beyond costs of production). There are several revenue streams available so costs can be recuperated and the rest is profit.
The indie model of crowdfunding and then releasing to youtube doesn't generate a surplus of cash - it often doesn't even fully cover the cost of production. Merchandising is done to help keep the production going when cash is dwindling.
unfortunately, with the way the current youtube algorithm works, view counts do not translate directly to $$$. Digital Circus and Helluva Boss get a lot of views, but they rely on external funding. Youtube ain't paying the bills.
A show parodying modern superheroes comic and movies. Mocking many of their dumb tropes and poor decisions over the years.
so like the tick or venture bros?
Why just modern comics?
How much money do y'all have?
I'm in the lower 4 digits, and not in dollars
are you trying to scam or steal or information from us?
nah i just i wanted to bump this thread with pointless question.
dont ask that kind of question
Make my own cartoon series
Make a 26 episode cartoon of my OCs with Kyoto animation and have a-list hollywood celebs voice my characters
If I had a truly "fuck you" amount of money, I'd just use it to revive all the old shows I liked that got cancelled before their time.
I'd give bruce timm the fattest stack of cash to do another batman cartoon series, but I'd stipulate that digital animation cannot be used.
>not mandating an M rating
Fool. With all the lewd doodles batman batman has drawn over the years, you can bet your ass he'd turn it into porn. And it would be glorious.
I would personally demand Jodorowsky to come back and have his version of Dune be an animated movie, I would make a movie of Mr. Bungle’s first album. I have the whole movie in my head, the closest way I can describe it is like an x-rated version of Off The Air, and even that doesn’t describe it fully. I’d make an animated show using trippy stylized graphics cause no one’s ever done that before, why has no one ever animated something in the style of like 2000s bumpers?. If I had all that money, you would’ve already read about what I’ve done
An Inferno anime, uncensored with tits and genitals galore, and I'd get some Frenchies to help make it. Throw in some anime-original punishments for good measure.
Indie cartoon based on my fetish
What kind of fetish do you, bro-sama?
Corruption, monster girls, robot girls, weight gain
Raunchy X-23 street walker hentai, a mix of sin city and the hentai Kite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co25HLylfxA&pp=ygULSGVudGFpIGtpdGU%3D
I dont know but I'd involve alot of cute robots
"I can't believe Randy Quaid, gets to eat like this everyday.''
A ten episode per season CGI2D Animated Battletech series taking place during the Clan Invasion from the perspective of the Rasalhague Republic.
Mixed media rock opera Book of Revelation.
On the side, a comedy series about a dad going out for cigarettes and getting mistaken for a MIB operative and taken on the longest detour of his life.
Sakuga tier hentai series that explores kinks and fetishes
Gold Digger anime.
Pornography.
atleast 5 seasons of a Disney fairies tv show. i still miss them
Don't forget to uncancel the last movie with steampunk Tink.
I’d make primal season two but as if the season 1 finale never happened. It genuinely hurt to see other humans and civilization and everything the shills yelled at us for calling out come to pass. I loved the first 9 episodes and will forever hate genndy for cucking to female executives demanding he ruin it. .
I'm a coomer but I have no idea what pornography I would do in this situation
I would make another Heavy Metal and it would all be done on cels just like in the 80's.
Why do people care so much about cels? (besides just appreciating the technology)
Why not though?
I just see it as something not worth it when you have alternatives that are much less labor and material intensive, and also certain advantages. If you like the way cel animation looks, I don't think it is impossible to replicate that with digital tools.
But this is a thread about having a load of money so whatever.
I'd just make a cartoon for my shitty OC's.
cool
more spice and wolf seasons
>Basically, what kind of show would you make if given access to a good amount of money and talent?
Isekai harem trash. I want knocked up bisexual monster girl princesses all married to the same otherworlder being lovey-dovey together and talking way too much about food and politics.
And yes, one will be a 500 year old dragon e-boibaba.
progress?
I think I want to make a western idol-style show. Try to properly market the idea of japanese-style idols to American audiences, while also generally trying to get actually good music in it. Cute girls and good music are the best parts of all media for me, honestly I would make sure to get in a few cute boys there, too/
Maybe something like a Kappa Mikey-esque situation, where a bunch of girls from America (with distinctly american cartoon designs) are dragged into an idol project by an anime-style producer, and then have them go through regular idol training and eventually try to expand back out in America. The show would try to blur the lines between anime and cartoons, but still try to make sure they're noticable as uniquely seperate concepts.
/SUG/
Ben10
DCSHG
MLP
Rate R18
Imagine the money we could've spend.