Investing in Virtual Real Estate

I bought the domain name for S-G (the hyphen was necessary, but actually makes the title better. You'll see when I'm ready).

What I like about setting up a domain name this early in the process is that not only does it secure some virtual real estate for me, it is also a contract of sorts with myself, reminding me to keep moving forward on the series (kind of like buying a plot of land upon which to build a home). The title to the other show (SStW) is so out there, I'm not worried about anyone else snapping it up, and it's clearly not my priority at the moment anyway (though it would be wise of me to grab a web address soon).

Speaking of moving forward, Nike loved my preliminary work on S-G, and helped me to refine and start hammering out an initial arc for Season One. It's funny stuff, and leaves me lots of room for random weirdness, and interesting twisty arcs for my leads. I do think I'll be able to use a lot of my preliminary design for "The League" in this new project - which makes sense, since that unfinished show was always imagined as a sort of "prequel" to this show. Certainly a lot of the backgrounds (with a few tweaks) and my basic male/female character bodies (and since the style will be borrowing from 70's Saturday Morning animation, there should be a certain "uniformity" to my genre heroes).

I do hope my voice actors on "The League" aren't too disappointed that it will be a long time before I ever complete it (IF I ever complete it - I hope to some day, just because the voice work on it was so good - the soundtrack alone gets laughs). But since the "prequel" is ultimately unneccesary, involves IP rights I will NEVER secure, and will take a lot of work to complete, best to move forward with something I own lock, stock & barrel. And of course, I'll be using a lot of the same people in the new pilot, and will use the others when I can.

Spent a little more time watching Frisky Dingo, Sealab 2021 and Venture Bros. this weekend. Inspiring, and DAMN funny.

World-Building

Not much to report today, just tons of world-building. I've been busy coming up with a roster of characters for my new take on SG - which totally makes the concept funnier. Now to narrow down the roster, finish the first draft of the script and start the design process.
I'm still not ready to give up details, but it is mainly animated, and should fit somewhere between Venture Bros., Frisky Dingo and the animated version of "The Tick".

But it's going to be slow going for a while -- back when I started tackling my imagined "prequel" to SG (abandoned for now) I was just getting the hang of ToonBoom 3, I'm diving into ToonBoom 5 (and trying to take the time to actually learn it correctly this time). I feel like I'm back in school (except this time I'm interested in the subject matter).