My First TV Credit!

So I got my first cartoon shorts on TV this year!  The channel is Disney XD.  It's a live action show called Parker Plays.  It's part of a brand new gaming block that's essentially Disney's answer to Adult Swim (I saw digital blood in the first ep!) and they got a real Youtuber to make a sketch show with similarly little direction.  I have actually watched a few full episodes and personally enjoyed it, but if you're only interested in my contribution, it's important to know that MY scenes are at least three 1-minute fantasy sequences sprinkled far apart over the first 14 episodes.

 So far I know my first short is a green screen commercial in Episode 1 almost exactly at the 7 minute mark, a cop show parody in Episode 9 around the 18 minute mark, and I believe my third short will be in episode 14.   My clip in Ep 1 had to be edited a bit to fit the green screen footage, so I'm a little disappointed with that, but my cartoon in Ep 9 was exactly the way I directed it and I could not be happier with how it turned out!  Hopefully I can find a way to access clips of the final cuts of my cartoons, since I usually only have rough audio to work with.  Sound design really makes a difference.

I was told a fourth short might make it in, but it was for the pilot so we'll see... remember this animation I did: https://www.patreon.com/posts/smashbits-7-7631330  It turns out Smashbits was submitting it to be part of the pilot for Parker Plays, without telling me!  And now it's the main thing saving their company while they fight a difficult legal battle with a client who didn't pay them, so I'm pretty proud!  If that pilot never airs, at least we'll always have my clip!  

I'm like 3rd or 4th party along the chain of production companies so I must stress, I am not an official Disney employee and receive virtually no direction, haha.  I am given 1 week to animate something weird with little-to-no description of the context.  Twice they gave me a project practically past-due.  I didn't even know what show I was a part of until I found out the company I was freelancing for and did some Googling!  It premiered on my Nana's 87th birthday, yet I had virtually no idea it was even about to air because I animated my first short for them no more than 3 months ago.

The unfortunate thing is that me and Smashbits were not credited, but the higher-ups say that was a mistake and that it should be corrected by the time my cartoon appears in episode 14.  Hopefully it's a credit for me and not just Smashbits, but the only thing that's really important is putting it on my resume... and now I actually have a bite from applying to a studio!  It's very difficult to hear back from any TV studios when you don't live in California, so I'm very proud.

So I hope you guys are excited to see the behind the scenes material on these Disney shorts!  I'll be sure to give you the full production story on each one as those come out.