I used to work in an animation studio, and one day the boss came down and said he had a zoom meeting booked with some LA producer who wanted to hear a pitch from us, and he needed ideas. So the whole room of animators all started pitching up ideas and it went super well, and after about an hour we had this idea that had us rolling on the floor that we all loved and the boss seemed really happy. So he went upstairs and got on zoom, but didn’t close the door so we could all hear him talking from our desks. He didn’t mention our idea at all, just pulled something out of his ass that sounded awful, which if it had been accepted we’d have to work on for the next year or so. Luckily they weren’t interested, but yeah we didn’t really pitch ideas with much gusto (is at all) after that.
Haha I was being vague 'cause I still hope one of us will do it one day, but whatever! So we had this recurring main character who was like a big doofus type, and our idea was to have an alien invasion thing where the aliens come to try and steal Earth’s resources, but the twist was that they really needed carbon dioxide for whatever alien reason, so their plan was just to remove all the CO2 from our atmosphere and then be on their way. Our idiot hero would set out to stop them, while everyone else in the world was like “no!”
There was some other character-specific stuff that wouldn’t really make sense out of context, but that was the broad idea. Maybe he thinks that everyone trying to stop him is an X-files type conspiracy, that kind of stuff.
I used to work in an animation studio, and one day the boss came down and said he had a zoom meeting booked with some LA producer who wanted to hear a pitch from us, and he needed ideas. So the whole room of animators all started pitching up ideas and it went super well, and after about an hour we had this idea that had us rolling on the floor that we all loved and the boss seemed really happy. So he went upstairs and got on zoom, but didn’t close the door so we could all hear him talking from our desks. He didn’t mention our idea at all, just pulled something out of his ass that sounded awful, which if it had been accepted we’d have to work on for the next year or so. Luckily they weren’t interested, but yeah we didn’t really pitch ideas with much gusto (is at all) after that.
Alright, bucko, let’s hear that pitch!
Haha I was being vague 'cause I still hope one of us will do it one day, but whatever! So we had this recurring main character who was like a big doofus type, and our idea was to have an alien invasion thing where the aliens come to try and steal Earth’s resources, but the twist was that they really needed carbon dioxide for whatever alien reason, so their plan was just to remove all the CO2 from our atmosphere and then be on their way. Our idiot hero would set out to stop them, while everyone else in the world was like “no!”
There was some other character-specific stuff that wouldn’t really make sense out of context, but that was the broad idea. Maybe he thinks that everyone trying to stop him is an X-files type conspiracy, that kind of stuff.
Removing all the CO2 would be catastrophic
Good God, the conspiracy has even reached Lemmy!