Tuesday, May 17, 2011

One idea, One person, One action.

Cartoons have come a very long way. But, here is some food for thought, at one point in time they did not exist! Someone had a brilliant idea. It all starts with one thought, one idea, one person, one action. Anyone can make a cartoon, the success of it is another story. The Regular Show was once nothing, until it was a thought, then an idea. Cartoon Network aired the show and it took off because it is fantastic of course! This website was just an idea, until I made it! This is directed to anyone who ever has an idea, do not be so quick to dismiss yourself or give up. Give it a try and follow through, if not for success then for enjoyment. Be creative! Exercise your mind and freedoms of ability. If you want to make a cartoon strip make one! You could make the next regular show! Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, PBS, Comedy Central, FX, Disney and many more air cartoons of one form or another! Push yourself or you'll never have the chance to have your ideas turn into a show on one of these channels! Television is the place for creativity. For example think of how many people this site brings together inadvertently because you all love the regular show. Cartoons are amazing and so are the people who enjoy them! The evolution of cartoons came from a drawing on a piece of paper, maybe even a carving on a wall if you really want to bring it back "so easy a caveman can do it" can be used here too. Then the flip book came around with multiple drawings flipped through to illustrate motion. That idea was taken a step further when still frame images were taken of those drawings and ordered in a slideshow fashion. The age of computers has completely revolutionized the production of cartoons. I am sure there are writers for cartoon network and nickelodeon and nick jr and disney who sit and draw the cartoons out by hand, but the computer has opened so many new possibilities. An example being software that allows you to take an image and make it animated. Making the animation move on a screen through a program is very much more sensible than redrawing over and over. It also allows for things that normally couldn't be done to be accomplished. Just Google search animation software and see what you find. The brilliant minds of today took their ideas and did something with them. The programming capabilities of people today are phenomenal. The regular show could not be here if it were not for peoples' ideas. Television could not be here if it were not for peoples' ideas. The Internet could not be here if it were not for peoples' ideas. Everything people have today was once non-existent, until someone had an idea. Everyone needs to believe in themselves. Everyone needs to not be afraid to fail because the one who is so afraid of failing that they hold their gifts from the world is the greatest failure of all. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes or not succeeding, it is the experience that you take out of it and the personal enjoyment that is truly worth something. So I hope someone reading this can see what I am saying and push themselves to do something and suck at it but know they enjoyed it. I hope someone reading this can see what I am saying and push themselves to do something and be great at it. I hope I can inspire the next Bill Gates, or the next major software developer, but most importantly, I hope I can inspire the next kid who realizes there is nothing to fear but fear itself. :) 

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