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I’m doing one cartoon pitch a day for the next two weeks.

Here’s the first one

Title: Ana and Anika Genre: Urban Fantasy, Coming of Age, Action Adventure Premise: Young Indian-American woman Anika “Ana” Singh gets mentored by her future-self to be a summoner and magical beast tamer in order to save the world from a disastrous future.

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Here’s the second one

Title: Transition Team Genre: Science Fiction, Political Humor, Comedy, Sitcom Premise: The US government knew about the existence of intelligent aliens for a long time. Now the president is assembling a team of specialists, publicists, and politicians to prepare the nation and the world for the truth.

charlesoberonn

Here’s the third one

Title: A Letter for Mr. Sky Genre: Post-Pocalyptic, Epic Journey, Action Adventure, Dark Comedy Premise: A determined self-proclaimed mailman goes on a long trek across the post-apocalyptic US to deliver a letter to one Mr. Benjamin Sky.

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Here’s the fourth one

Title: Open Door Genre: Anthology, Drama, Horror Fantasy Premise: A supernatural being known as the Keymaster created a magical key that is able to open any door in existence from any other door. Each episode sees the key wind up in the hands of another person and follows that person’s story as they use the key to achieve their goals and deepest desires.

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Here’s the fifth one

Title: Smooth Sailing Genre: Romance, Slice of Life, Travel Premise: Newlywed couple Alon and Jennifer decided to go on a long cruise around the world on their sailboat. The series follows their daily life at sea, their many stops along the way, and their blossoming marriage. It’s a relaxing low stakes journey about the little things in life: nature, culture, and other people’s company.

That’s halfway done to the goal of 10 pitches in two weeks.

As always, feedback is much appreciated!

charlesoberonn

Here’s the sixth one

Title: White Dove Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Star Trek-like Premise: After a massive solar storm leaves the Solar System uninhabitable, an ark carrying Humans, Martians, Venutians, and Titans sets out to the distant Ararat System to find a new home. A scouting team of representatives from all species is sent out ahead to explore the new system and try to make connections with the natives. But the team finds themselves in the center of a system-wide war and must navigate the politically and physically hostile environment.

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Here’s the seventh one

Title: Francis Ghostberg, MD Genre: Medical Dramedy, Dark Comedy, Weird Fiction, Adventure Premise: Dr. Francis Ghostberg is a medical doctor with unconventional methods and supernatural reality-altering powers. With the help of his trusty Nurse Leeches and the hapless medical intern Lilian, he treats uninsured and poor patients at the outer city clinic he works at and at home.

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Here’s the eighth one

Title: Now Leaving Witchstone Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Romance Premise: Young witches Caroline and Zelda have lived their entire lives in the sheltered magical community of Witchstone. When an ancient feud between their families prevents them from getting married, the two plan to leave the city and start a new life in the outside world. But to leave they’ll need help, so they seek out the old wizard Jack No-Beard, the only living person to ever leave Witchstone and return.

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Here’s the ninth one

Title: Invention Island Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Steampunk, Mythology Premise: After his dad goes missing, Galen, demigod son of the Greek titan Hephaestus, goes into his dad’s workshop and discovers his latest creation, a childlike automaton named Mellon. Now the two of them must learn to live with each other on the island of Crete where automatons and humans live alongside one another, and try to find out what happened to their father/creator.

PS: I know Hephaestus isn’t a titan. I mixed him up with Prometheus and I don’t feel like changing it now.

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Here’s the tenth and final one

Title: The Broken Knight

Genre: Medieval Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Character Study, Bearded Father Figure and Adopted Little Girl’s Road Trip Through A Broken World

Premise: 20 years ago, the great knight Arthur the Untouchable lost his first and only battle against Prince William the Cruel. He lost his title, his arm, his dignity, and his best friend and squire. Now Arthur lives a life of destitution under William’s tyrannical rule. Until one day he witnesses a small act of bravery from a young girl and befriends her. This friendship puts Arthur on the long and gradual path for redemption.

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I really procrastinated with this last one. Probably because I knew subconsciously that after I’ll be done with it I’ll have to plan what to do next.

My goal with this challenge was 10 pitches in two weeks. I ended up finishing them in 12 days, which means I made a new pitch every day in all but two days.

Not a lot of people read them (I hope more will in the future) but the reaction from those who have is very positive.

All in all I consider this challenge a success.

charlesoberonn

I need all the help that I can get!

cartoonfanorwhatever

I would watch the hell out of every single one of these

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corviacore

There’s only one bad thing about this: it’s highly unlikely I’ll get to see all of these as a show, because honestly if live to qat h them all.

But if even one of these gets picked up some day, or any of your creations, I’d be soooo happy and I’d probably watch it like 50 times

enki2

prokopetz

they should make you taller

I hit my head on doorframes enough as it is.

(You'd think being scarcely over six feet tall wouldn't make that a major concern, but it turns out that a surprising number of houses constructed prior to 1980 were made for hobbits.)

prokopetz

The worst are the surprisingly common houses where the doorframes in the basements are exactly six feet high. I don't even properly bonk my head there – if I forget to duck, the top of my scalp just sort scrrraaapes the trim and it's actually the worst sensation in the world.

epicscizor

1.8 metres!? Who the fuck builds their doors this short

prokopetz

A lot of shitty contractors back before basement doors were subject to the same mandatory minimum dimensions as doors on main floors, and also Frank Lloyd Wright for some reason.

prokopetz

One of my favourite things in urban fantasy literature is when an author clearly likes the idea of wizard boarding school drama, but wants to avoid getting any Harry Potter stink on them and tries to accomplish that by simply bluntly inverting all the stuff they regard as problematic, and in so doing independently reinvents the X-Men.

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For those asking how that works:

secret wizards control the government > [wizard equivalent] are an oppressed visible minority

white British monoculture > Star Trek style multicultural pluralism that treats "being Black" and "being an elf" as basically interchangeable

Beyond that, it depends on which specific X-team they end up unwittingly re-creating.

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Soulslike where as you complete various objectives it gradually becomes clear that your camp is accumulating conspicuously barefoot level up maidens.

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Each has her own distinct advancement paradigm which would offer some truly disgusting cross-class builds, except how well they synergise depends on their relationship levels with each other rather than with you. Advanced buildcraft thus obliges you to play level up maiden matchmaker.

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Each level up maiden also functions as the primary equipment vendor for her advancement paradigm's respective "class"; you begin to suspect that at least some of them are slanting the upgrades they offer in order to encourage you to put on specific clothing.

alyanas-little-hideout

you know it's actually weirder that Fromsoft hasn't released this exact game yet.

prokopetz

Hidetaka Miyazaki isn't the right kind of pervert.

prokopetz

Tagging every drawing where an artist depicts two of their own OCs fucking as #selfcest on the basis that some theorists argue that all of the characters we create are in at least some respect a picture of the self, so, you know, ontologically