Cartoon ideas thread!

Post your ideas for cartoons here!

Hard mode: episodic shows only (where episodes are generally unrelated to each other, as opposed to serialized shows that follow a continuous storyline)

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Well, most of my ideas are for episodic ones. Here's the main one I'm actually working on. I've posted it before, if that's okay

A cartoon set in the Deep south during the Great Depression, starring a little hillbilly girl going on folksy adventures. She’s also a witch, with her wand being a piece of straw in her mouth and her familiar being a pig. The show would have quite a bit of slapstick, as the girl tends to accidentally injure herself while casting spells. Rather than a traditional witch’s cauldron, she has a clunky old distillery (sort of like the kind moonshine’s made with), that she tries to brew potions with, but it often ends up blowing up in her face. For some reason, I was thinking her name would be Daisy.

She lives alone, except for her pig, in a cluttered old run-down hut full of stuff she found. The hut’s on the outskirts of a dingy old bayou town inhabited by bumpkins.

The main villains would be a trio of rowdy (but smarter than they look) redneck musicians in a bluegrass band. They’re warlocks with enchanted instruments, casting spells based on the songs played on them.

The show would have a sort of Southern Gothic tone to it, though still light-hearted.

>Here's the main one I'm actually working on.
Whoa, this thread wasn't intended for people who are actually serious. Be careful as it could get stolen.

A deer moves in with her boyfriend - who is a rabbit. The deer must learn how to get along with her boyfriend's family because they are smaller than her and are more polite and quiet compared to her own family.

Hard mode is optional, right?

Tv ma high fantasy


A new VR mmo with no quests is released. Extremely life like thanks to dire t neural interface. The hero is a a corporate accountant by day and elf ranger on the weekends. Follow him as he gathers a band of adventurers. They travel the world of Encandor.

it's a show about all the edgy shit i wrote in highschool.
characters are based off students, teachers and other people i knew in my highschool days, story arcs are based off life experiences in and out of highschool.
complex love triangles and anime cliches/references.
teen angst.

>Was gonna share the thing I’m working on
>Now I’m scared

Why would you do this to me you fag

So there's two best friends who live together, and that's the whole show.

I doubt anybody's going to put that much time, effort, and possibly also money into stealing a half-decent idea somebody posted on Sup Forums

It's a cartoon about plagerists getting their dicks chopped off.

It could still end up as a single episode, or even part of an episode.

honestly, you can post a shit ton of ideas, and maybe they'll be stolen, but almost no one here on Sup Forums will follow through with them.
last time there was a idea thread, i came up for the idea of wrestledads, which few anons thought was OMG THIS IS A GREAT IDEA THIS NEEDS TO BE MADE but it never got anywhere except a few art pieces and other concepts

>Hard mode
News stand boy
A kid get's an after school job working at a Newstand for his uncle. Each episode something goes wrong

He gets mugged
A lady leaves a kid with him and tells her she'll be right back, kid causes havoc
Hiding from his crush, because he doesn't want to be seen working
Gangs
Chasing down a thief who stole his bike
Ect

Fish cops
Atlantis has been discovered, it is now a couple years down the road and mere-people, fish hybrid monsters, and Atlanteans are now integrated to the city.

The show stars two female buddy cops. An adrenaline junkie mermaid who has to drag a bathtub around, and "Giggles" a shark hybrid monster who hates violent situations.

"Ideas" are cheap anyway. A full cartoon concept, not even counting individual episodes, is a combination of thousands of ideas.

yeah, i guess.
maybe it be better if we just make shitty comics of our ideas and see if anyone gives enough of a fuck to say, "i'd like more of this please"

Careful user, history has a way of repeating.

Honestly, if anyone wants to steal my cartoon ideas they're welcome to, since it's probably the only way they'll be put in a consumable format. And if anyone ever gets successful with my ideas then I can sue them and settle for some sweet cash.

Now that sounds like an interesting story. Care to explain?

I'm fine with people stealing my ideas if I can blackmail them into giving me partial creative control and a cut of the profits

explain?

I was just thinking of rage comics and how popular that got. Speaking of comic ideas has the user who made a few Fraser comics made anymore?

Three kids find out that their grandfather's stories about boyhood adventures in another world with a talking dragon are true when an evil sorcerer from grandpa's past returns and kidnaps the youngest girl. The kids, the grandfather and the dragon begin a quest in the other world to find the girl and discover how the sorcerer returned. They also learn that not all of grandpa's stories had happy endings.

Reposting about Living Hell!

Extremely dark comedy about a teenage girl who accidentally summons a demon, and are bound together until they can complete a contract they don't know the contents of.

First episode has them trying to kill their elderly neighbor and collect his soul. Would bounce between more realistic, grounded comedy in the "real world" and surrealistic comedy in Hell.

pastebin.com/1C1Ey5UL

A little girl lives in the belly of a sea monster as it swims around the ocean. The girl wears clothing made out of fabrics she found in the stomach and stitched together, and her hair has grown long and filthy without any way of cleaning it. Living all alone in a sea monster's stomach hasn't done wonders for her mental state, and she often hallucinates, particularly that the imaginary friends she made out of other flotsam and jetsam she found are really talking to her. She also enjoys playing around with other things the sea monster sometimes swallows.

Overall it would be sort of a darkly comedic tone

Ben 10 but with mechas

So, how many of these actually sound like episodic shows so far?

Well. mine was episodic and I posted about it in the last ideas thread
In the archive

Quick rundown since no one is actually going to go read it.

>A traveling vampire and musical lamb form an Adventure Team to become true heroes
It's a vast oversimplification but I figure short and sweet is going to best for explaining the idea going forward
The idea is that two kids (orphans but it's not entirely out of the ordinary in this world) explore a world with magic and creatures from folklore and mythology living side by side with humans (and all the conflict that comes with that). As an Adventure Team they'd take missions from anyone (particularly through the Adventurer's guild) and go anywhere to get it done, missions like finding a treasure from a cave, escorting someone through a dungeon, catching a robber, stopping a necromancer who's been bugging the cryptkeeper, sorting out a territorial feud between kappas and trolls. I figured this made it a bit like old cartoons where one episode the characters would be farmers and living in an igloo or space station the next.

I've been working on it a lot since then developing the characters personality more thoroughly, I started writing it but it's my tendency to write prose/short story format and I don't have much experience with scriptwriting. I also started kind of a proto-show bible, detailing a lot of the world, systems, and nuance of the characters and how they think to make sure I'm writing them consistently and don't make contradictions in any of the elements of the setting.

I'm not a good artist but I kind of want to try doing some really simple storyboards just to get a feel for how writing it would be. That's probably something I'm going to try to work into my planning when I have time.

so what I am working on now is a fantasy show which follows five man band of magic users. they go on adventures and loot dungeons ect. the main character is a bubbly girl who leads the five man band. it is important to know that the main characters are not the protagonists of the story. as the story progresses it becomes apparent that the band is not what they seem, and the world around them has become more like Lordran from dark souls 1. at episode five they approach a town enclosed by a wall. there they meet the antagonist. the antagonist is the protector of the town and a noble knight. the noble knight is mortal and does not use magic. Fight scenes between the protag's party and the noble knight typically involve use of other methods on the knights side. pic related is a concept of the noble knight.

Sounds generic

It's shitty show, but you watch it because the mom is thicc

Did my own drawing of it.

A preteen English boy befriends the ghost of a medieval peasant girl, who's around the same age as him

The Adventures of Johnny, the Supernatural Repo Man.
>Main character is Johnny, a down on his luck college drop out loser.
>Good kid with pretty decent morals, a good work ethic, but defiantly has his vices, mainly that he's pretty self centered (Closest I can think of personality wise is Danny Phantom).
>Through events that I don't feel like sharing yet, he discovers that there's this whole other world beyond our own.
>It either takes place in our world or in alternate dimensions (haven't decided). All the flights of fancy and the fantastical are just the regular every day normal for this world. Everything from Aliens, to ghost, Mothman, angles, robots, super heroes, and anything in between is just a normal part of life, and is actually pretty mundane.
>Johnny gets hired as Super natural repo man.
>Turns out the bizarre and fantastical are just like us, they pay bills and some are behind, so they need the repo man to come and take whatever it is they're late on.
>Episodes follow Johnny on adventures to any where and every where to reposes the big item of the week, be they super suits, magic brooms, objects of mass destruction, or anything else. If you haven't payed, he'll come get it.
>Maybe have character development with Johnny becoming a better person.
>Would like to also build a supporting cast of other repo workers, and some of the people Johnny meets on his job.
>So repossessions are either handled with fun adventure and the like, or others are done through Johnny getting to know the person and sort become friends.

It's about a faggot OP, doing faggot things

A good cartoon

I have a basic idea for how the series should start
>a few orphaned lamb kids being bullied by the villagers, including the lamb MC (whose name is Fetch)
>Someone takes a bunch of stuff from the kids, including Fetch's flute
>Vamp girl sees (Baul), offers to help to get it back
>Despite being scared Fetch comes along and they sneak into thief's home and take all the stuff back, get out despite some close calls and go their separate ways
>Sun rises
>Baul being harassed by some villagers for being a vampire, she defends herself as much as she can while trying to hide from the light which visibly burns her, displaying on of her vamp weaknesses and that she's an amateur spellsword but couldn't possibly handle the group of them
>Fetch shows his music magic using his flute to lead villagers over into the pier (not drowning them (maybe))
>Together they decide to get the rest of the kids somewhere safer (and protecting Baul from the sunlight)
>They find a home(orphanage a few hours away) for all the kids not long after sundown
>Fetch notices how Baul is barely lucid
>Not only the fight but just the seconds of sunlight earlier has her very weak
>Caretaker explains how vamp blood works (it's basically the combination of food and water for them and even if they do eat/drink normal food it can't substitute blood for long, having to vamp heal after melting quite a bit earlier drained her nearly completely)
>Baul explains she doesn't want to hurt people like that (though she knows she needs to). it's not fatal but it feels comparable to being suffocated and unable to move in any real capacity
>Fetch offers to let her, after the painful ordeal they both end up fainting, Fetch from the pain and Baul from exhaustion
>After Baul recovers enough to leave in the dead of night Fetch stops her, telling her he isn't going to let her go alone after what happened
And boom, they're a team now, I definitely need to work some things out but that's the plan, just need to write it.

This is quite a novel concept, truly this shall go down in the annals of history.

>a cartoon about a faggot
No, stop immediately. This can only go poorly.

What are some of the best ideas to come out of these threads?

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homer get ipad

Is that yours?

Here’s a copy paste pic of my idea from the last thread.

Again with this?

Anything new in regards to this?

nope

Sure

Working title is Corporate.

Basically follows the various employee's of a cyberpunk Mega corporation. Sometimes dark, sometimes hopeful, often violent.

I have a couple of arcs ready to be written. Have actually started on one, with a solid lead in and first scene but it's probably not going to be the first up if this project actually turns into something.

It's a romance because I'm a faggot. Deals mostly with two people who are living lives with no real idea of what happens tomorrow. If that makes sense.

Romance rarely works in cartoons as part of the central premise.

Well that's because they're pussies about it to be perfectly frank. Trying to draw it out for drama and suspense.

Anyways it's also just a single arc. Not self contained because the characters show up in other stories but not the central premise.

A young, adventurous explorer journeys deep into the jungle to find her childhood hero. Said hero was a famous archaeologist who plundered ancient ruins for treasure and artifacts, bringing long-forgotten knowledge of an ancient civilization back to the world and gaining world wide fame for it. But when she arrives at his expedition outpost, she finds it has been converted into a private mansion and her hero is now fat and washed up, contempt on spending the rest of his days indulging himself in his own private paradise than exploring.

Eventually she convinces him to come with her and uncover an otherwise undiscovered section of the vast catacombs she believes lies beneath the jungle. Sure enough, she is right and now the two must face off against booby trapped temples, ancient automaton guards, and the explorer's jealous rival who seeks to steal the treasures inside and take the glory for himself.

Alongside the protagonist and the washed-up explorer, there is also the protag's boyfriend, a fit, strapping young archaeologist who mirrors the explorer back in his prime, a seasoned female adventurer and the explorer's love interest, the aforementioned rival and a Steve Irwin/Bear Grylls-style paleobiologist who captures and studies the various prehistoric animals that still live in the jungle. Most episodes would revolve around the cast delving into one of the ruins and having to deal with the traps and automatons whilst also juggling character conflict and the rival's schemes. It be light-hearted and humorous with genuine moments of emotion scattered throughout, and the tone and aesthetic would resemble mid-to-late 19th and early 20th century exploration, with blimps, bi-planes and pilth-helmeted explorers.

So, do you like any of these ideas?

Unless they can prove to be more than just ideas I could care more.

You could care more?

The setting is late XIXth century.
An orphan mute boy moves to the house of his aunt, who has three daughters, a nurse and a maid.
No need to say, none of them speak sign language. Which is very frustrating for the boy.

tl;dr The Loud House meet Great Expectations

This is an ass-retarded idea based on a dream I had.
>A young man is working on a farm
>His father recently became sick, so he had to pick up most of the work
>This just so happened to line up with a devastating storm
>Crops are fucked, house is fucked, and all their horses are gone because the fences are fucked
>Only have one horse left, have to sell it to help repair the damages, and even then they're still pretty fucked
>But there's a problem, one of their horses came back
>A baby, no mother
>They catch it, but need a way to feed it, and the storm may have destroyed all their bottles
>Need to use every cent they have on repairs, can't spare a dime for new ones
>They can't just straight feed it from a carton, so the son digs around in the basement for any spare bottles
>Finds some tea-kettle looking thing
>Close enough.shrug
>Starts using it to feed the horse
>Strange glowing begins, smoke pouring from the horse's mouth
>Some kind of hellish scream
>A flash of bright light later, and the horse now seems to be fully grown, and telepathically communicating with him
>Turns out he just accidentally fed a genie to his horse
>The genie is understandably pissed
>The horse is now the genie's lamp
>They have no idea how to summon him from the horse because rubbing the horse doesn't work
>Also, horses don't throw up, and the genie's refuses to leave through the back door
>Also, the horse is now infused with genie magic, making it completely indestructible, so even if the kid had the heart to, he can't just cut it open
>Also the horse is slightly retarded because while its body grew up, its mind did not
>Protagonist decides to take the horse on a journey across the country figure out a way to free the genie, and use the wishes to save his farm and his apparently dying dad
>Every episode is about some new place he goes, and some new thing he tries to free the genie

A superhero show revolving around a five-man team, fighting crime and supervillains in a show tonally similar to something like Batman: The Brave and the Bold or The Amazing Extraordinary Friends.

The team comprises of Skunk-Man, an obvious batman stand-in with various skunk themed gadgets and a brightly coloured teenage sidekick, Rodent Kid. Squid-Man, visually resembling a sentai superhero complete with the bicycle helmet and skin-tight latex look, with fingers that can extend into tentacles. The Human Cactus, a humanoid with the skin and features of a cactus and appropriately themed abilities. Red Rider, a former race car driver who now fights justice in a decked out crime-fighting vehicle. And Siege-Knight, a chivalrous superhero equipped with cybernetic jackhammer limbs.

Each episode would have them go up against silver-age-style villains, egotistical super-celebrities and the labyrinthine network of red tape enforced by modern bureaucracy, as they try to get their deeds recognised publicly to get inducted into the Superhero hall of fame. The character's conflicting personalities would lead to bouncing banter between them and their respective rogues galleries allowing for comedic moments and cheesy one-liners you'd find in an old comic book.

Also, if anyone has any ideas for a name for this team, I'd appreciate you sharing it as I've yet to come out with one, thanks.

You're right, that is retarded

Imagine A good thing, but better

The thread from last week was good.

Not episodic but it's always worth trying again.

Title: WAY BACK HOME

A sci-fi/adventure cartoon about two kids abducted by aliens who must try to find the way back to Earth.
The problem is:
>They don't know where they are.
>They don't know where Earth is.
>They don't speak the language.
>They are just normal children, without any skill.
It would be a long overarching plot with lots of character development, both mental and physical.

Pastebin (English):
>pastebin.com/p3vp7Hcv
Pitch bible (French):
>docdroid.net/aWdaibc/prebible-internet.pdf
Pitch bible (English but older):
>docdroid.net/PsLwIGQ/wbh-2017.pdf
Bonus (360°, work in progress):
>kuula.co/post/7lMwz

Author rights are already registered since 2015. I am trying my best to make this cartoon a real thing. Maybe you will see it on TV some day.
Currently I'm trying to enter Les Gobelins. Wish me good luck.

The son of an eldritch horror joins his school's marching band along with his friends. Throughout the four years of band, he deals with turning into a literal monster, a cult getting ready for his rise to power, a group of people who are physically enchanted so they can kill him, two government agents spying on him and high school related stuff. Throughout the show, he learns more about himself and gets control of the powers that come with being a hell spawn

A little girl learns that her entire existence is really a constructed punishment for a horrible tyrant from a distant planet. Her mind and body are the prison cell. Her parents are the prison guards. Now re-awakened inside her head the tyrant engages in acts of supervillainy in hopes of taking over the world. Meanwhile the girl tries her best to stop herself from causing too much trouble. It would be an episodic comedy.

>That thicc deer.

I want 10 episodes by next week.

So. Humanity has been pushed to the brink of destruction by a poisonous gas emitting from zombies and other grotesque beasts.

We would follow a man simply known as Cain. A member of the police who has been exposed to the gas but survived albeit at great cost to his body necessitating extensive prosthetic and cybernetic modification.

Okay that's the premise. It's not a very original premise but that's not the point.

The worth of the series is in the choreography both the hand to hand and firearms and the main character.

Cain is a nickname. He's introduced as a mystery and you pick up bits and pieces about him as you follow him on the various standalone adventures.

He is a good guy basically. In a world that went mad he didn't and despite the world just kind of taking a massive dump on him he has remained a good man.

So that's the worth of the series. As people try to destroy humanity from within, as outside forces move in, as shit gets worse and worse he keeps trucking along fighting the good fight and holding the line.

Stealing this shit outright. It'll be on Youtube in 3 weeks

Ooh, I dig

man, wrestledads

now I'm sad!

What do you dig?

Would watch

Doesn't sound very episodic

That is the format.

No reveal changes the character significantly. It gives perspective so if watch them out of order things look cleverly planned but nothing makes continuity snarls because all the reoccurring aspects outside of him are introduced in the first five episodes.

yeah, well, if wasn't lazy enough i make shitty ms paint comics of it, But meh, where would that go?

Young teen shut in has her life shaken up by the arrival of a fantasy character, perhaps an elf or something.

Queue shenanigains in trying to adjust and leading the fish out of water everywhere, teaching that no, the world is not magical, stop panicking. No romance, but the main character does her best to hide the fact that said elf is part of a fantasy series that has a fandom as rabid as any other.

Could work as episodic or serialized

Pic related, when he inevitably finds out that he's fake fandoms bicycle

a mad scientist talking cat with a golden retriever assistant who's just a normal golden retriever. Mishaps and shit.

Yeah. Unless it actually feels like a project that has a plot and outline I could more.

You could more?

needs more work on it, Satan

Man gets kicked hard as fuck in the nuts. Every episode is just 11 minutes of buildup leading to yet another devastating blow to the groin.

I don't care about a lot of these ideas because they genuinely just seem to be that. Half baked ideas where they don't really seem to translate to actual plots and episodes.

Dude. You put a lot of work into this but to be perfectly frank I'm not all that interested in it.

I think it's your main character that soured me on it. Nothing has to be wholly unique but two sibling's one male one female has had a resurgence lately and been a stated trope for years before that.

Well, which ones feel fleshed out?

You're still missing the point. The phrase is you couldn't care less, not you could care more.

Seth Green, pls go.

So

The French one although the subject leaves some to be desired based on taste.

You realize these characters have not much depth or qualities because they start off as average children?

My goal is to make them become gradually better and more interesting as they go on their journey.

I do and that's not really an excuse.

Saying that you're going to start with two boring and kind of cliche characters and that they will grow into something worth being interested in isn't a pitch you should be making. If it's the one you want to make okay I'm not going to tell you to scrap it but I'm telling you what my issues are.

The thing about transformative series is that even with the characters that change massively over it there are still thing there at the begining to hook us. Something interesting about them.

Even ones that look to take such cliches and play with them also have their hooks to make it worth staying for at least in the beginning.

>You realize these characters have not much depth or qualities because they start off as average children?
>My goal is to make them become gradually better and more interesting as they go on their journey.
That's what pretty much any series starring children try to do. And to be perfectly frank going through your descriptions of the children what depth and qualities you might add doesn't sound worth watching the show for.

You are probably right.

The issue is I don't care so much about characters (until now), wether in my work or that of others.
The main inspiration is Franco-belgian comics (you call them eurocomics), which often have very underveloped archetypes as MC and focus more on plot, staging, backgrounds, gags, etc...

My goal was to try making Jules and Julie look as much as possible like real children, not like clichés.
Thanks for pointing out this is a flaw, I will try to fix it from now.

PS: I'll be back in an hour or two if you want to ask more things.

I can certainly see where you are coming from with this series, but as this guy says it doesn't sound very engaging. I'm sure what you've devised in your head and then put to into your pastebin is really engaging to you and you can easily imagine it becoming something interesting, but from reading it, it doesn't really sell me on the potential of the show. I think you're trying to go with a story-driven show but with your premise and characters it would work more as an episodic show instead. You could try and pull an Over the Garden Wall with it being a miniseries with each episode being loosely tied together by an overarching plot, but from the work you've put into the aliens and the universe it seems you want this to be a multi-seasonal show rather than a single season passion-project. I think if you wanted to get the most out of this series you should:

>Not focus on anything on Earth, I can guarantee no one cares about it
>Try and build a comfy, adventurous tone to the show. Try and capture a child-like whimsicality in each of the alien worlds they visit,
>By extension tone down the seriousness of the show, not saying you shouldn't have episodes without conflict or where the characters aren't challenged, but I think this premise wouldn't work as a Space Opera, that's all
>Rather than have the two main children develop personalities over the series, have them possess a very defined static personality, the audience should be able to tell how each of the characters would react when faced with an obstacle
>Getting home should be the end goal, don't focus on it too greatly. Shows like Samurai Jack or The Little Prince had the characters go from unconnected world to unconnected world with the end goal occasionally referenced. Only focus on it as the show draws to a close, or have the characters passively mention it (i.e have them send letter or postcards to their grandparents which details the events of each episode)

This.
>have idea for video game ages ago
>basic concept was 2d character in 3d world, can rotate on the z-axis to hide from enemies
>essentially have basic skillset from Paper Mario but years before Paper Mario was a thing
>in college for game design
>create game design document describing idea
>professor jokes about stealing the idea, brush it off
>years later paper Mario happens

I'm not claiming correlation but younger me was like "this sounds exactly like my idea" when I . first heard about it.

Thank you for your advice. Unfortunately, most of what you suggest ties exactly to what I dislike about American cartoons (current):
>0 sense of risk
>20kg kids defeating ennemies with a single punch
>Too much focus on emotions
>Quirks and catchphrases
>References to other shows
>Travelling is as easy as going to a theme park
>No continuity or consequences to anything
>Comedy everywhere
>Human aliens
>Child characters don't grow up
>Episodic shows
>etc...

Most of your arguments are on point though. I have met enough producers and broadcasters to understand how difficult it would be to sell it, in relation to current trends. And these guys would probably agree with you.

I'm aiming for something like "The mysterious cities of gold" or "Future boy Conan", but if I adapt it to these standards maybe I can have something in the vein of "Mighty Max" or "Jonny quest".

As for Earth, I'd prefer to not skip it (if possible) because it allows to focus on the Jantel family and lore elements.

Hey that's great man. Your already leagues ahead of many of us in regards to actually getting a story off the ground. I'm not against your idea by no means, it's just as you say, it's a fairly ambitious project and getting it on the air and executing it well is going to be a challenge in animation's current state. But don't give up, you've got in in you, good luck!

Pony Express! An anthro horse girl tries to cut it as a mail and package delivery girl, but has to try and beat competitors. In this more chaotic/unstable society though, mail and package delivery for example is treated like a cannonball run style service so it can be pretty hectic and cutthroat. Each episode is a different delivery with different challenges relating to it.

This sounds really bad to me but you've put a lot of effort into it and I hope you get to make something good for yourself and whoever this is supposed to appeal to.

You know what? I've been posting this plot since 2015 on Sup Forums and usually I get nothing more than useless praise.
This is the first time I get so many negative feedback and that's interesting. Also, it may help me improve.

Tell me. Appart from the main characters, what is so bad about it?