The idea!

So, I guess I should start with how this little project came about. For as long as I can remember I have been drawing characters for my own comics and cartoon ideas. I always dreamed that one day I would be able to animate on my own show. When I was 14 or so I saw Family Guy for the first time. The show didn't change my life or anything back then, but one thing about the show did strike a chord in me. I heard that the guy who created the show (Seth Macfarlane) was only 23 years old!! I remember hearing that and thinking, man how awesome would that be to make people laugh with my own cartoon in 10 years? That little spark had lit a fire in me. Well over the years I saw so many peers of mine with more talent than I had and it made me question if I should even continue with art at all. I took a couple years off from art until highschool, where the passion for it came back, but I had forgotten all about my goal of making a cartoon by age 23. Well, here I am all growed up now. I have been animating professionally for 3 years in the video game industry. Back in February (07) I was surfing IMDB.com and came across Macfarlane's page. I read there about how he was only 23 when he started Family Guy and it all came back. I looked at the calendar and realized I had only a few months til my 23rd birthday and I was no where near having my own show! I didn't even have the slightest connection to a company I could pitch an idea to. Then I thought about all the self-published web cartoons I had seen over the years. A lot of them were crudly drawn flash animations, but were funny enough to get people laughing and to gain a little following. I thought there was no reason why I couldn't start a web cartoon that I did in 3d. I had been doing it for years and had become pretty fast at it. I could even model all my own characters and sets. This realization set it off for me and I have been plugging away at it since. I am 23 now and I will be 24 in June 08. So, I need to get cracking to get my cartoon published on my website and so far I am well on the way.