What are my chances of success if I attempt to make my own cartoon just by my self?

Question

Is it possible for someone to make a cartoon made of 15 episodes, 5 minutes each, using Macromedia (or Adobe) Flash?

I am planning to make cartoon on my won but I am not sure if I should invest my time in this project. I have a good experience in flash designs and web animation (but not cartoon animation) also I can draw cartoons from time to time.

Scripts, music, voices drawing and animation are all done by the same person.

Is this crazy? or should I give it a try?

thanks

Answer 1

Well, i would say give it a go. Buy you may not want to put all your hopes on it, becuase it seems very demanding, and well tricky.

If you have the dedication, go ahead and do it, i'd watch it knowing it was a 1 person production, i'd be curious to see how it turned out.

Anyways, making a cartoon solely on your own is somehting i've been contemplating, and thinking it all through -- The thing that deterred me was that, the average amount of frames per second that are used for animations are about 5, so even if you want to cut it down to like 2, or even 1, it's still Alot of work.

Drawing each bit over and over and over again just slightly making something different will take alot of time.

Not to mention, if its a 1 person production, and you're doing all the voices, you may want to get yourself a voice changer...
Because theres nothing worse than listening to the same voice over and over again, plus just talking more lower or higher pitched makes it sound more fake, so a voice changer sounds like your best bet.

If you could cope with all that, i say go ahead! Good on you!

Answer 2

Flash's tweening system remedies the frame-by-frame animation tedium, so it's definitely plausible to do it all on your own. Build a site for it, advertise on other sites (a lot of webcomics and webanimation sites let you buy a 1-3 month slot for advertising for about 15-30 bucks) and have a regular schedule for releasing epsides. REGULAR is important! An audience wants to know when they can see each installment; if your schedule is eratic, they'll only visit every-so-often.

Answer 3

I do that stuff on Flash all the time, definantly try it, with good tutorials and art, you could definantly make something worth while.