Pitch Party ’09: It’s Time to Vote!
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Monday, June 15, 2009
By: Ramin Zahed
It’s time to make your vote count again! Animation Magazine’s 8th Annual Pitch Party is officially on, and you can now click here: www.animationmagazine.net/pitch_party_09_vote.html to check out all of this year’s entries and vote for your favorites. All pitches are presented as 1/6th-page advertisements that offer new ideas for animated shows that that could get picked up for development. Results of the contest will be announced along with the picks of our distinguished panel of industry judges and AniMag staffers in the August issue of Animation Magazine (which has a big bonus distribution at Comic-Con in San Diego).
The Pitch Party offers independent artists an opportunity to advertise their animated properties for a greatly reduced rate in the pages of Animation Magazine, which is read all over the world. Each of our esteemed judges then review all entries and collectively select one winner for the opportunity to pitch their idea to the participating execs of their choice. This year’s awesome judges are:
• Marci Proietto, SVP of Animation Production and Development, Twentieth Century Fox Television
• Eric Coleman, Senior VP, Original Series, Walt Disney Television Animation
• Erik Koland, Head of Content Acquisition and Programming, Vuze
• Marc Buhaj, Senior VP of Progamming, Disney Channel and Jetix Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Curtis Lelash, Director, Comedy Animation, Cartoon Network
• Kim Manning, Director of Programming and Acquisitions for Adult Swim
• Tina Santomauro, Acquisitions Manager, Atom.com
• Eric Homan, VP of Development, Frederator
• Melissa Wolfe, Director of Development, Cookie Jar Entertainment
• Natalie Altmann, Head of Children’s Programming, M6, France
(Click Here to View the Judges and our Rules and Regulations)
The winners of this year’s event will get to pitch their project to the judge of their choice in person! In addition, second or third place winners, staff picks and online voters favorite will get coverage in our August edition. Additional prizes include a copy of the software suite Toon Boom Animate (a value of $999.99), a selection of animation books from The Animated Cartoon Factory, copies of Chronicle Books’ The Art of Up by Tim Hauser, and a copy of the 2D software title Digicel Flipbook Studio (for Mac or PC).
As an online voter, you can also help someone get noticed by the animation community and possibly get their big break. You only have one week to get your votes in, so get started. Voting ends Friday, June 26 at 5 p.m P.S.T. Please note that we monitor our ONLINE READERS' POLL carefully. No reader can vote more than ONCE! The results of the online poll will be announced on June 29.
Have fun picking your absolute favorite toon pitches of 2009!
Reader Comments
Tom Ramirez : Concept Artist :
Monday, June 15, 2009
Luck to all!
Here\'s hoping everyone gets the recognition they rightly deserve.
muskratboy :
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
hey... how many votes do we get?
i\'d guess 1... but the votes are checkboxes, which means multiple. and it doesn\'t seem to say anywhere.
Webmaster :
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
You can vote for as many shows as you like. But keep in mind that if there\'s one pitch that you like more than others, that\'s the one to vote for.
shakeem winn : artist and writer : winn ltd.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Good luck my people. I wish you all the best.
Joe Bernardi : Toon Shop ZY
Friday, June 19, 2009
I love the one with the dragon. Clerence. It looks really clean and cute.
Page Hermitzo : Director :
Friday, June 19, 2009
What\'s with all the evil characters and bad kids? Backlash against all the wholesome goodie goodie stuff on TV?
Mick E. Mouse : Not so much
Friday, June 19, 2009
Some of these are kind of ugly. Maybe you should practice drawing first before you decide to pitch an animated show? Just sayin! Trying to save you some heartache along the way, kids.
Tom Ramirez : Concept Artist :
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Page,
Good and evil are overrated ideas that present false dicotomies about the way people should and should not behave. Read Fredrich Nietzsche\'s \"Beyond Good and Evil\" to find out why. That is IF you can stomach it. Nietzsche tends to evoke average people to convulsions because so many of his ideas deconstruct notions we all take for granted.
Tom Ramirez : Concept Artist :
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Mick E.,
They are. But I would FEAR \"That Darn Deathbot\" if I were you. It looks most like Brian Smith\'s entry. He won two years running and it seems that judges tend to like his pitches.
Marco : Italiano Comics :
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Don\'t Pitch Your Shows to Cartoon Network. All they care about is awful reality shows and cheap \"ironic\" late-night crap. Thank God Nickelodeon has a hot slate of new toons coming up.
Ardelia :
Saturday, June 20, 2009
The Micky Ticky Boo characters are really cute! So many to choose from. Everyone was so creative!
JValley : animator : Sync Animation
Saturday, June 20, 2009
I love the Johnny and the Pretenders one. It looks like a lot of cool action!
brianNY : Animator :
Sunday, June 21, 2009
I agree, johnny and the pretenders remind me of the cartoons i saw as a kid.
Frank : Concept Creator :
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Best of luck to everyone, a great deal of Talent.
Everyone is a winner for having the courage to enter.
Great experience and way to look and learn .
Winning is great, but exposure is just as important.
Good Luck to all.
Here\'s a quick plug- I had a short cartoon made on last years pitch - (Keep that dream going - Hope you guys laugh.)
www.youtube.com/Fitalinc1
Lee :
Monday, June 22, 2009
I have fallen in love with Clarence the dragon
Anonymous :
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Clarence the Dragon books can be ordered on Amazon!
KettleWish :
Friday, June 26, 2009
Maybe so, but only the online voters and judges will be the judge of that. I say good luck to everyone - what great exposure.
curious :
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Are the results in for this pitch party? I thought it said that they\'d be announced Friday. :)
Well... :
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Speak for yourself. We can see a lot of people are being bitter, but there\'s no need to bash on the contestants works.
I say bravo to everyone who entered!! I guess we\'ll see the results tomorrow.
Joshua :
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Tom Ramirez,
If good and evil are overrated ideas that present false dicotomies about the way people should and should not behave, then I would suggest that Hitler was right. After all, his dictatorship was not evil, it was simply another way of life, no?
I thought so.
Anyway, the only cartoon that looked like it had potential was the Junkyard Monsters. Best artwork, cool robot monsters....what else do you need?
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