My thoughts on KaboingTV...
The latest post about KaboingTV on Cartoon Brew felt much more condescending than usual. Rather than rant about Amid's opinion in the comments section, I thought it would be more productive to post my own take on the whole thing here.
For your reference, the original article: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/joe-murrays-kaboing-goes-kaput.html
I put everything I had into my cartoon, Nine to Fire, and I am extremely satisfied with the end result. The short accomplishes everything I wanted it to, and in some ways is even better than I thought it could be when I first started. What the short didn't do, however, was manage to find an audience online. Now, do I call myself a failure because of this? Of course not!
A similar thing, I believe, happened to Joe. The experiment was never to see if he could create a successful web cartoon, but to see if the kind of cartoon Joe wanted to make could be successful on the web. Just because the results were negative doesn't mean the experiment was fundamentally flawed in the first place. I'm not saying KaboingTV was perfect. It wasn't. But Frog in a Suit is not the Annoying Orange, and it shouldn't be judged in the same way.
