This episode of the Animation Industry Podcast features Elyse Castro, creator of The Summoning on Cartoon Hangover, on how she pitched her show idea to Frederator. You’ll also learn: *How ridiculously simple Elyse’s pitch was *Everything you need to put together your own pitch (and all the stuff you don’t actually need to do) *The different types of tension that will make the story better Two years ago I saw a post on Reddit titled, “My friend showed me her comic strip for feedback before she entered it in a competition. It won, and today "The Summoning" came out on Cartoon Hangover.” The post had racked up nearly a thousand comments and the video itself was well over a million views. So I watched it and like everyone else, immediately fell in love with the short’s clever cat witch, her cat sidekick, and their poo-eating bunny nemesis. This was well before I began my own journey into animation and to me at that time it seemed impossible that someone had written a comic and somehow gotten it made into a complete show - and a ridiculously good one at that! So, here I am today, talking with Elyse Castro from Australia, the one who wrote The Summoning, and her journey on what it was like turning it into a show and what’s next for her. Follow Elyse on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elysecastro/?hl=en Watch The Summoning on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElzEYgQW8f0 See Elyse’s original pitch on the Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/document/364072012/The-Summoning-Pitch-Board Learn more about this podcast at terryibele.com/animation-industry-podcast/

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