Has there ever been any examples of someone getting their own animated show purely on web popularity?
Please get your facts straight before answering. There are shows like Adventure Time that people THINK got greenlit that way, but a quick Google search would reveal the creators of those shows had already worked in the industry for years before creating the web episode, let alone the show.
Tim and Eric
red vs blue was on tv if that counts.
Ugly Americans
does annoying orange count?
rick and morty... kinda.
happy tree friends
monster high
south park got big from word of mouth before "the web" was popular.
axe cop
Happy Tree Friends was never a TV show?
Huh? What does that have to do with the question?
It got a half-hour show on G4
Waterman is getting a film
It was on g4 in some capacity, might have been on attack of the show nut it was on tv
B. Happy
/tread
channel 101
>Took me just 20 seconds of Google searching to find out that almost* every example in this thread was made by someone who had worked in animation, TV or movies for years.
>The only exception is The Annoying Orange, where there's no *public* evidence of any pre-existing relationship with the industry. Even then, that was greenlit at a time of desperation.
Okay, fair enough, but it was never a full series and wasn't lead by the creator.
Was this bait or just really dumb? I can't tell.
Nepotism is the driver of pretty much every industry in a "free" market. Which is why capitalism is insane and should be replaced with socialism.
I could be wrong, but I don't *think* Julia Pott worked on TV shows before Summer Camp Island was greenlit, though I admit I only spend 30 seconds researching.
China, IL?
Isn't PsychicPebbles getting a show, or one of them Newgrounds people.
The Annoying Orange had that godawful show on CN
How is nobody mentioning Breadwinners?
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>. There are shows like Adventure Time that people THINK got greenlit that way, but a quick Google search would reveal the creators of those shows had already worked in the industry for years before creating the web episode, let alone the show.
O-oh.
Breadwinners and the currently unreleased Hellbenders.
Maybe Gameoverse, I have no idea.
Alex Hirsch got a job at Disney because Mike Moon saw his Off the Wall shorts for youtube.
Similarly The Brothers Chap are a doing a bunch of shit for Disney because of Homestar.
Egoraptor was a creative consultant on Fox ADHD for like a year.
I want it so bad
>Alex Hirsch got a job at Disney because Mike Moon saw his Off the Wall shorts for youtube.
>Searches Google for "Alex Hirsch"
>Clicks onto Wikipedia article
>In the first paragraph: "He has previously worked as a storyboard artist on the Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and the Disney Channel series Fish Hooks."
Annoying Orange count?