have any ideas for your own cartoons?

I call it "My World". It's based on a short cartoon hardly anyone knows about. I guess we'll Keep Circulating the Tapes...

Voice cast: Grey De Lisle, Maurice La Marche, Kevin Michael Richardson, Fred Tatasciore, Cree Summer, Kath Soucie, James Arnold Taylor

Plot: A UFO abducts a married bear couple, leaving their two children to take care of themselves. A few days later, alien step-parents join the bear children. P.J. (the little brother) names them "Snoozenheimers". Mrs. S talks; Mr. S doesn't. P.J. starts a band with his skunk friend C-Mac. I'm aiming for 3 seasons.

Theme Song: "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)", by the Backstreet Boys. I selected the theme at a Target in '99.

Channel: PBS in the U.S.

I plan on uploading concept artwork to Deviant Art sometime in the future.

Why not? I've seen crazier things in animation. And that's a Dream Voice Actor cast!

Personally, I would like to see an International Superhero Team cartoon. I don't think I've ever seen one done right. The Super Friends tried but ended up with a bunch of Captain Ethnics, Captain Planet suffered from a LOT of problems, eg. too preachy, too absurd etc.

Ideally, it'd be like Justice League Unlimited, except the heroes would be of a different nationality each. The stories would take place on a different country each time and serve to teach about history and culture but in a subtle way while still having kickass action. (I have a thread on Multinational Teams in the Comics Forum that explores my ideas on the subject.)

edited 13th Sep '11 7:26:47 PM by Sijo

I have two ideas for a cartoon series one is called Kitsune Ken and the other is called Judge Debra

Kitsune Ken is about an African American girl who discovers that her new friend Ken is actually a kitsune in disguise and has to marry him because she caught him in kitsune form.

This show would be a fantasy kitchen sink and take place in San Jose,California.The mentioned Kitsune who have the power of fire and be an adorkable,Japanese otaku student.It would be an action-fantasy based magical boyfriend show.

Judge Debra can be described as Narnia meets Steampunk/Dungeon Punk meets Magical Girl Warrior.This show would be about a girl who would find a book and is magically wisked to a mystical land and chosen by the Phoenix creator of the world to be its judge(protector).Debra grows from naive every day girl to a wise but young warrior.

Boxman from Smosh and his best friend Ballman go on a bunch of adventures in their town. A lot of it involves fighting inexplicably quirky villains such as a hot dog, a komodo dragon, a Canadian man, and The Box Ghost. It would be awesome.

edited 13th Sep '11 7:47:57 PM by Sabertooth1000000000

I have many ideas! You dare question me?! I will bring forth an idea so great it will make your LIVER RUPTURE WITH JOY!

Pete and Paul: The Brother Detectives would be a comedy/action series, sort of like Adventure Time or Invader Zim (As in the 11-minute format, with occasional 30-minute episodes). 22-year-old Pete and 12-year-old Paul are private detectives in Kipsburg. They take on a variety of cases, relying on Pete's street-smarts and hard-broiled intuition and Paul's book-smarts and common sense to solve them.

Other characters would include their much-suffering middle brother, James (18), who works as their assistant and secretary; the boys' father; James's girlfriend, Eliza, who struggles to put up with Pete's tomfoolery; Adonis Supremo, a friendly rival PI/ ex-luchador;the MAYOR OF KIPSBURG, EVERYONE; two delinquents called the Crackerjack Boys; a police detective who dislikes Pete and Paul for always stealing cases from the police; and the severed head of Ed Wood.

The episodes would all be stand-alone, but there would be a slowly building-up story arc involving a crime boss called Mr. Gasmask. Also, maybe there are hoverboards. I don't know!

My own ideas?

OH DON'T GET ME STARTED! XD

No. Get started noa.

edited 13th Sep '11 9:32:34 PM by Sabertooth1000000000

I have many...

• The Hopewell Club is one I've mentioned several times, and is about three potheads surviving High School. Also, Posmodernism, metahumor, and afectionate parodies including Cinema Paradiso, Don Bluth's Anastasia, A Clockwork Orange, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Casablanca, Scott Pilgrim Versus The World, An American Tail and a lot more of movies...I'm trying to pitch it as Community meets Ferris Buellers Day Off. I want to move away from the stock parodies and trying to make more (relatively) ignored films (I'm planning to do The Princess Bride, Lost in Translation and The Secret Of NIMH...Yeah, this last one would be a challenge

• Unnamed Russian Shamanism Project. I've been working on my debut in the Fantasy Genre for a while. The basic concept: it's about a old shaman in the medieval Russia struggling to surving against some weird new faith from the west which he calls "Jesuism". It's not a really serious cartoon, but it really is something less PostModernist of what I usually do.

• The Euro Trashers: OK, there's no really a plot here, it's just based in a couple of gags I've drawn about a young hip European couple living in America.

• The Guardians: an Affectionate Parody to both the Silver and Dark Ages of Comic Books. Two versions of the same superhero are fighting against a supervillain that creates a wormhole to other dimensions, and they end up teaming against the common threath. One is campy, patriotic and naive to incredible levels, and the other is edgy, gritty and cynic...to incredible levels

Those are the more (or less) planned ideas...

edited 13th Sep '11 10:47:03 PM by Anthony_H

Do I have ideas? Yes. Am I going to tell you? No.

A Cinema Paradiso parody would be damn interesting. I've toyed with the idea myself a little bit.

A R-rated animated feature inspired by film noir. The title is Private Eye and focuses on a alcoholic, recovering heroin addict detective in 1950's Los Angeles who is hired by a two-bit thief to catch a drug lord in exchange for a suspended sentence. The detective soon enters a dark world of violence and corruption and along the way finds out a connection between the drug lord and his wife's death.

Potential cast:

• Alec Baldwin as the detective, an ex-LAPD cop who was fired due to a crippling heroin addiction and now works on his own.
• Mickey Rourke as the drug lord, controlling the Los Angeles underground.
• Woody Harrelson as the detective's ex-partner, trying to get the main character reinstated.
• Nick Nolte as the chief of the LAPD, who regrets having to fire the detective but was just doing his job. He often converses with the detective over cases.
• Christina Ricci in a dual role as the detective's dead wife and a hooker who is suspiciously similar to his wife.
• Jim Cummings as the informant. He only rats the drug lord because he's petrified about prison.

edited 14th Sep '11 3:17:43 PM by Buscemi

I had an idea for a show called, tentatively, "Bizarre Zombie Love Triangle." A brother and sister find a zombie on the side of the road who follows them home, and together, they try to find out who he is and why he's there.

It sounds kiddy, but I wanted to use the show to explore concepts like mortality, religion, memory/Alzheimer's, and "growing up." I had hopes of it being mature without being R-rated.

I have a few designs done from when I was trying to get it off the ground, but it's on the extreme backburner now that I have a life. I wanted it to be stop-motion, because it tends to have an unsettling feel that would have added to the general feel I wanted for the show.

My idea is like the most cliche thing ever, but oh well.

There is like this kid named Hazye who has super powers. When he turns eight it means that this organization (still don't have a name yet) can find out that he has the powers, so they kidnap him and his family in hopes to find out how it happens and how they can use it. They have captured many kids like Hayze and use torture and inhuman experiments on him and the other kids there. While at the camp he meets Alex and they become friends. After the organization kills his father, Hazye and his mother decide they have to escape. So they use a complicated plan to escape and manage to get Alex out too. Alex gets separated from them and they don't see her again for seven years. Then when Hayze starts tenth grade he finds who but Alex in his new school. Meanwhile the organization has found out that Hayze's mother has stolen a suitcase full of incriminating evidence against them, so they have started tracking them to get back the files and recapture Hayze, his mom, and Alex. After the organization's first attack, Hayze and Alex team up with an ex member of the organization named Hazard. The rest of the series or whatever follows their journey trying to get the organization brought down, dealing with the trauma in their life, and what to do about letting everyone know they exist.

I have the basic idea and I have a few designs on my DeviantARt, but I know it is crappy, so...

I would watch that

I'm working on the soundtrack ideas for "My World". There will be a real song, Once per Episode. So I might feature hits by Dragpipe, Stone Sour, The Chemical Brothers, Gorillaz, The Sleeping... I thought of tropes. I copyrighted the alien step-parent name years ago.

• Parental Bonus: The performers may be obscure to the audience.
• Cross-Dressing Voices? Oh yeah, women (and some men) will voice the boys.
• Band Toon: That's part of the plot.
• Expy: The prime minister is based on a certain professor. No copyright infringement intended.
• Five-Man Band: P.J. is The Hero, and narrator.
  • C-Mac is The Lancer. A huge American Football fan, this skunk only wears a jersey.
  • Lily (the banker's step-daughter) is the Token Human and The Chick.
  • Todd (a white dog) is The Good King and The Smart Guy.
  • Padraic (a "rodent") is The Big Guy.
  • The Snoozenheimers are TheQuietOnes. Mr. S is The Voiceless. The Mrs. is a Motor Mouth whenever she talks
• Alien Abduction: P.J. and his sister see their parents abducted in the pilot.
• Parental Substitute: And how! The S's (getting tired of typing their whole name).
• World of Funny Animals

Okay, so make a new Dungeons And Dragons cartoon. But make the characters actual D&D characters. And set it in the game world. And have artists from the game design it. I think it could be cool.

• Here's an idea: A 21st Century take on Richie Rich, but not an adaptation or Reboot of it. Partially inspired by the game Roller Coaster Tycoon, or just the Tycoon series in general. A show aimed at boys about a 12-year-old who inherits an entire recreational park from a relative, and learns typical life lessons when he becomes the showrunner of it, as well as some business/money tips not usually covered in childrens' animation. I think it's very important for kids to learn about how money works as soon as they are able, and I don't see that on TV a lot at all these days. He is good friends with his big brother, an 18-year-old copy of him in appearance, to give the show some edge and make it more universally targeted. The park itself is run by Rule of Cool or Rule of Funny (the hook for why this can work as an animated show instead of live-action), as it can alter reality and the laws of physics, all customizable by what the boy decides to do. Because they don't always get along, there are occasions where his brother tries to run the park himself, sometimes with unexpected results. I wanted to make the park an amusement park, but companies have begun to see those as being out of fashion, due to all the accidents that could happen, and the economy's affect on them.

edited 20th Sep '11 12:28:07 PM by kyun

OK, I'm still designing "My World".

• X Meets Y: Arthur meets Phineas And Ferb.
  • Or My Gym Partners A Monkey meets Gorillaz
• Real Song Theme Tune: "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" by the Backstreet Boys.
• Gratuitous Russian: C-Mac. (his mother is Soviet)
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language: He also knows Slovenian (his father is Yugoslavian).
• Smelly Skunk: C-Mac, only if you grab him by the tail.

A cartoon about Fairy Tale/Folk Tale/Public Domain/Mythology characters in a Steampunk world that's a "balance" between dark and light portrayals, as the characters try to keep it that way.

The main character would be Little Red Riding Hood, who has abilities that can either make things dark or light depending on her emotions, because of her cloak.

The Big Bad would probably be either Goldilocks, the Woodsman, or Amatsu-Mikaboshi.

edited 4th Oct '11 3:02:18 PM by Etheru

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edited 5th Oct '11 9:56:03 AM by Ookamikun

I was thinking about a group of human who gets superpowers after they are saved from fatal accident. Later it turns out that all of them are empowered by single man who identifies himself as N, who has an ulterior motive for saving and granting people superpower.

I already experimented with making my own series (The Fear Hole) on Newgrounds, but two years ago just completely lost all motivation to work in Flash. I still have loads of ideas for episodes and whole new series so I really need to get back on the Flash wagon, but it ate up so....much....time.

Here's some of the other series ideas I had and never explored:

Future Earth project: a single human gets transported to or reanimated nearly one billion years into the future. Earth is now a world of giant insects with completely organic, sentient technology and he is considered a horrific prehistoric monster to all but a single, female cockroach, who takes him in and (much to his dismay) falls in love with him, paralleling all those shows and movies where a human befriends an alien, caveman or other odd being. Other characters would have included the couch (a giant slug) the remote (an arachnid able to change the "channels" on a holographic cobweb) and a floating brain from even further in the future, exiled by his kind for being a jerk. Floating brain, however, is in love with the cockroach in a twisted triangle. I was planning an ongoing plot revealing that there is one remaining human woman; a horrible vampiric mutant who intends to take back the planet for mammals.

Imaginary friends: a little girl lives alone in a creepy motel with what she believes are her "imaginary" friends. These would be the most revolting, upsetting creature designs I can possibly come up with, but they would be legitimately innocent and well-meaning characters who just want to have fun and help people. Unfortunately, a series of other humans would end up at the motel - humans with dark secrets and terrible pasts - who can somehow perceive the monsters and are inevitably driven to madness or death by them. Think along the lines of all those Spongebob episodes where he tries to do something nice for Squidward and it backfires horrendously. Mash that up with Jacob's Ladder and you're partly there to my vision.

Hideous Mutant Girl School: one day a terrible, terrible disaster caused thousands of girls around the world to mutate as they hit their teens. Naturally, a special training academy was erected where mutant girls could hone their awesome superpowers...then another school was built to dump off the ones who just grew disgusting tentacles and extra eyeballs. I'm sure you know which one would be my focus. My main character ideas included a geeky, sluglike "slime girl" and her best friend made entirely of maggots. Together they would unravel the secret evil behind the other, prettier school.

I remember reading that from my Toonzone lurking days

Harry and Walter: Set in the world of After Man A Zoology Of The Future. It tells the story of Walter, a Wakka with a dangerously unhealthy obsession with ruling over others and his best friend Harry, a Helmeted Hornhead. as they get to strange and stupid adventures, often times meeting creatures from other Alternative Evolution projects.

edited 6th Oct '11 3:09:32 PM by truteal

I would watch an After Man inspired cartoon forever.

^^^ I imagine animating a girl made entirely of maggots would be a special kind of hell. So many moving parts... Cool idea, though.

edited 6th Oct '11 4:16:20 PM by Ronka87

Do they go to New York?