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Joe Murray (Rocko's Modern Life) is doing a new thing. Support him.

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GhaleonQ

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So, Joe Murray did Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo. I can vouch for his personal geniality and professional commitment. Network executives aren't currently creative, though, it's a bad financial time to create an animated show with competent animation, kids networks are shifting to live-action, and so on. They have rejected a lot of his pitches.

He put out a book that's great for the animators here (and has sold well for that sort of thing). http://astore.amazon.com/joemurraystud-20/detail/0823033074

For you general public, he used Kickstarter to get a pilot going. (Disclaimer: I contributed. I don't KNOW know him, though.) John Kricfalusi and others have tried this, but the technology and necessary fame might be there for this project to work. http://joemurraystudio.com/blog/?p=2679

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"One week from today on March 11, we will premiere KaboingTV.

We will premiere a new episode of 'Frog In A Suit' each Friday from March 11 to March 25 and then see where it goes from there. It will be a work in progress,, sort of like when Disneyland first opened and there were things breaking down and high heels getting stuck in newly laid asphalt,, but oh well.

I’m hoping that KaboingTV creates a platform for cartoon creators to take their cartoons directly to the people. It will take a lot of work, and additional funding from viewers. We will not be starting out with any funding from the outside, or from advertising or subscriptions. Since these cartoons were produced with the funding from 'the people' ( Kickstarter backers) I feel it should be 'out there' for the people. But to make further episodes, I need a viewer to step up and drop some money in the hat. Take a moment and pledge for new cartoons, or to keep the site going. Tell your friends about it,, put links on your facebook page,.

It will up to us to make this happen.
http://www.facebook.com/KaboingTV "

http://kaboingtv.com

I believe he's doing a lot of the animation and students are doing the rest for practice and lower fees (correct me if I'm wrong). So, these aren't Korean 5-year olds churning out garbage.

I just checked back in after a while of not paying attention, but I think the model is essentially a public-commissioned series. He makes the show, people wait. People watch the show, he looks for advertisement and grant revenue. People donate, he waits. He gets enough money to start a new miniseries, and people wait.

It's also supposed to be a "channel." Shorts and other series will pop up on it. From pure charity, he had enough for 3 full episodes that'll show up on the 11th, 18th, and 25th.

Oh, and if you need further reason to sympathize for a fantastic television animation animator and Nice Person, read this: http://joemurraystudio.com/blog/?p=2482 His life's kind of sucked.
 

Salazar

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"Premier cartoon and animation web channel", rather than "premiere".

But this sounds like good people doing a good thing.
 

celebi23

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GhaleonQ, it's nice to see that the creators of the awesome shows' from the 90's are getting back into the spotlight a bit. I'll definitely keep an eye on this. Thanks for the heads up!
 
I am hard-wired to support anything this man makes.

Speaking of favourite animators, anyone know what Stephen Hillenburg is up to these days?
 

Vard

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I got back into his stuff after rewatching Rocko in Netflix Instant Watch. It really is a great cartoon.

I saw some clips of the new Frog cartoon and I'm hoping the final product will be a bit better though... Either way I'll be checking out Kaboing, and hoping this works out well for him.

On a side note, Kickstarter is a terrific concept.
 
This is great. Rocko is my all-time favorite cartoon and Lazlo was great as well. Since Nickelodeon is being so stingy with its stuff maybe Lazlo will at least get a DVD release.

I had no idea about the incidents with his wives. Crazy.
 
GhaleonQ said:
Has anyone used Kickstarter successfully before?

Sure. Plenty of people have. Lucy Knisely just used it to cover a trip here to Orlando, so she and her roommate could check out all the Harry Potter stuff.

As for Joe Murray. He seems like a really cool guy, given what I know about him. Rocko's one of my favorite cartoon shows and, well, we can pretend Camp Lazlo never happened.
 

GhaleonQ

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KidGalactus said:
As for Joe Murray. He seems like a really cool guy, given what I know about him. Rocko's one of my favorite cartoon shows and, well, we can pretend Camp Lazlo never happened.

Hey! It was fine!
 
I'll give this a shot, if only because of the goodwill Joe Murray gets from Rocko.

I still regularly throw an episode of Rocko in. Nickelodeon should have kept it around longer, 52 episodes is not enough.
 
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