Wishful Thinking....

[_SeHT]

Which is, I think, what should be done.

Forget trying to market it to a network. Just make it as well as we can, and go on from there.

As for storylines... why do they have to be long and involved? Why not take something like Millie's spelling bee, for example? That would make a 5- or 10-minute episode, if we took some material from other strips as filler. There's also the glorious sequence of Millie meeting Llewellyn for the first time.

I'd also be quite happy to offer my services for voice talent, as long as you don't mind an English accent in among the bunch.

I think a lot of problems would be overcome if we stopped trying to make a network-quality animation and just made the best we could. After all, it is a learning process: the more episodes are done, the better we would become.

But, eh. Those are just my thoughts, and I am sure nobody is interested. I shall go and make some pie instead.

[Steve the Pocket]

Another problem is that DCS says he has trouble writing long stories. I can scarcely imagine how he'd fill two 10-minute episodes.

Well, most shows have teams of writers to bang out storylines, so that wouldn't be a problem. Although I believe he may have said somewhere that he'd never be willing to hire out the writing to other people. That would definitely be a problem either way.

[Tum0spoo]

I'd also be quite happy to offer my services for voice talent, as long as you don't mind an English accent in among the bunch.

That's part of what killed the idea. So many people wanted to be a part of it, but only a few folks were good at the voicing and others wanted to help dispite having nothing to add.

Also, I was chosen as the voice of Llewellyn for my awesomely fake English accent. :3

[Comrade K]

It might, possibly, work as an adult cartoon of the Fox Sunday or Adult Swim variety. But even those are getting really stupid lately. (Adult Swim moreso than Fox.) I think the best bet, actually, would be to (A) dumb it down a scoch (naturally), and then (2) try to get it established on another network where there's no precedent, possibly paired up with another "adult cartoon" of roughly the same caliber.

I disagree. While Ozy and Millie isn't "childish" enough to necessarily work as a Saturday morning cartoon, I don't think it's "adult" enough to work within those two programing blocks either. Therein lies the main problem with making OM an animated property. Since it speaks to such a specific kind of audience, it really can't work in those broader ranges without certainly sacrificing what truely makes it special. Making it a webtoon of sorts could be done since the format allows it to retain the character's form and style without trying to cater to a wide margin of viewers.

That's one of the problems that had occured to me. It isn't exactly and "adult" show, yet neither is it a children's show. It resides in a niche, and I don't see it really appealing to a wide variety of audiences. As an internet venture, it may work, but there'd only be a few episodes, since it would take far too much work to churn out any more than a few minutes every couple of weeks. It'll never make a real cartoon because it's too intelligent, and doesn't rely on filling people's minds with advertisements. If it were to become a cartoon, the only channel I could see running it would be TVO, (but I don't know too many channels, especially the yank ones). A cartoon like this would be too much of an anomaly. Ah well, if people really want to make something of this, I suggest first trying to animate individual strips, lasting maybe a minute or so, just to see what happens. Don't invest till' you know what your capable of.

[IceDragon]

Another problem is that DCS says he has trouble writing long stories. I can scarcely imagine how he'd fill two 10-minute episodes.

Well, most shows have teams of writers to bang out storylines, so that wouldn't be a problem. Although I believe he may have said somewhere that he'd never be willing to hire out the writing to other people. That would definitely be a problem either way.

So, we'd need like DCS clones or something to make an animated O&M thing.

[The Donmeister]

So, we'd need like DCS clones or something to make an animated O&M thing.

We could always outsource the whole thing to China and make it without Simpson's permission.

Not that I support that sort of thing.