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Kaboing Tv
Recently, the amazing artist/animator Joe Murray finally got his KaboingTv website kick started, it raised a total of $20,874 and it was only raising $16,800. I’m looking forward to this new website airing seeing as it will probably be my number one newest web hang-out.
Who is Joe Murray?
Most widely known as the Emmy Award winning Creator and Producer of Nickelodeon’s animated series “Rocko’s Modern Life” and Cartoon Network’s “Camp Lazlo”.Joe Murray got his start as an illustrator and award winning Independent Animated Filmmaker, where his films made the leap to Television in the wave of new animation in the early 1990’s. He is also a children’s Book author and illustrator, and has a new instructional book on animation coming out in the summer of 2010 through Random House/Watson Guptil called “Creating Cartoons with Character.”
He is currently working on his new web series “Frog in a Suit” and teaching Online Cartoon Mentor Classes though his website at www.joemurraystudio.com.
A little about the site:
KaboingTV.com will be a home for quality, cutting edge cartoons and animation on the web, and a “free range” and ethical environment for the artists who make them.
What the first series of the website is:
The first series out of the gate is my Rocko’esque insane neurotic animated comedy “Frog in a Suit”. I have already completed the first episode with my own money, and am working to finish two more 3 minute episodes. The money raised on this site will go to the completion, mostly putting outside animators to work with the final animation and color styling.
What is the money for:
I will not be using any of the money for any of my own labor or expenses, which include writing, storyboarding, animatic, voice directing and post production work. If and once funding is complete, it will be a matter of months where I can launch the site and begin to pull enough traffic to bring in advertising and sponsors. As you know, through kickstarter.com, if funding is not fulfilled in the allotted time ( in my case 45 days) the project won’t get funded. I will take that as a nudge that maybe the time is not right for this.
So look at your pledge also as a vote to have more episodes of Frog in a Suit, and to have a website that you can go to and depend on, to give you hilarious, quality driven, irreverent cartoons.
If you want to know more about how they KaboingTv site is going or the process he goes through for creating the Frog in a Suit animation or anything else regarding his art and his life, check out his blog at
http://joemurraystudio.com/blog/
Will you check out the website once it comes out?