Funding Application

Animated series for EP

My primary idea was to make an animation to go along with my music in some manor whether that be the whole animation being based around the music or the music being based around the animation. Either way I want to come up with the story for the animation as well as all of the music composed for it.

I will apply for PRS arts funding Open Fund for Music Creators as at this current point in my career I don't have a dedicated fanbase but I have a lot of music that I've made over the past couple years to back myself up with. I will need money for an animator primarily as I already have a lot of the equipment in which I'll be using to create the music.  I want to make an animation, as my main passion may be music but I've always been interested in animation, voice acting and tv shows. I'd like to get to a point where I could make my own animated show as streaming has taken over everything basically with animated shows being on netflix. Some of these shows include Rick and Morty, Big Mouth, BoJack Horseman and F is for family. I find all of these shows entertaining and feel like making one would teach me a lot and be a good way of promoting my music.

The funding will mainly go to getting a good animator to make it look professional and like a proper animation and then the rest will go on promotion for it and general sound stuff. I will focus on making the music for it myself and will collaborate with a couple of singers to make proper songs for it rather than just instrumentals. 

I would like to think that the animation would be entertaining. I don't really feel like it should have some deep moral meaning behind it, I just want it to be a light hearted cartoon that has some jokes in it. I feel like if I made it too deep or too real it would be a deterrent for some people as you don't really go into an animated show looking for sob stories. A lot of the animated shows I have mentioned generally have some form of normality to them with a contradicting element to it that is extremely different from the "normal" world. For example in BoJack Horseman the story follows a washed up actor who lives in Hollywood which sounds like a reasonable overall plot but then you realise the main character is a horse living amongst other celebrity animals as well as humans.