| Googie Bloober Underground Cartoonist... Level: 46 ![]() Posts: 414/447 EXP: 693751 For next: 18023 Since: 07-22-07 From: Brooklyn, New York Since last post: 35 days Last activity: 35 days |
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| When I introduced Googie Toons back in 2007 on MySpace, people were taking notice. Artists were networking, I was getting a fan base on the social media site, shit even celebrities were starting to take notice! I was going viral on the site, and Googie Toons was getting really popular. My cartoons were getting so popular that a Hollywood producer got in contact with me wanting to produce 'em! And I'll tell you what, I was all for it. We were talking about how he has connections with other Hollywood big shots, and I was being talked about in their circle, he was giving me updates on what was being said. Then the Hollywood producer made arrangements for me to fly to Los Angeles to negotiate, I thought for sure I had it in the bag, I was really hyped about getting my cartoons out there. After all I had a fucked up life growing up in Corona Queens, NY. Then I got contacted by the Hollywood producer, saying that he wasn't going to be able to take me under his wing because the writers went on strike, he also told me that trying to help me was going to be a risk he wasn't going to make. I was so heart broken that I feel into a deeper depression, I couldn't eat for days and couldn't sleep for weeks. So I migrated to Facebook when News Corp bought My Space, and I've been trying to go viral on there, it sucks when I have to beg people on Facebook to support my page by liking it. When I was homeless I asked social media to help me go viral, to get me and my mom and brother out of homelessness, no one did shit. For the past few years I tried to keep the spark going even while being homeless, I never been able to take off on Facebook. I've been on Twitter since 2009 and I can't get passed 760 followers, I trying pitching my cartoons on Twitter but those Hollywood big shots shut me down. Instagram ain't no better, I can't get not even to 300 followers. I even went to MeWe and Vero, no such luck in those places. I can only go as far as a Google search, and that's it. You guys been on the internet longer than me, I got my first computer in 1999. How the hell can I go viral? What is it that I'm doing wrong? You have people that become overnight sensations and I've been at this since 2007 and no one bats an eye. A good friend told me that inking and coloring digitally will help, but I can't grasp the concept. I thought maybe I can stream on Twitch though my PC and Xbox One, to try to go viral, we'll see if that even goes anywhere... And the art community keeps shutting me down in various art groups on social media when I show my art for whatever reason. ![]() |
Man that sucks, I remember you from back in the day and I always just assumed you had made it. Where's your facebook? I think I'm subscribed to you on YouTube already, but it doesn't hurt to link it.
I guess the only thing you can do is just keep putting work out there. I've seen from a lot of animators that it's always one chance encounter that launched their career. All I can really say is keep trying man. And hey, at least you have the courage to do it. I always felt like I wanted a career in animation but I gave up decades ago with nothing to show for it. At least you've made cartoons that made people happy.
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I guess the only thing you can do is just keep putting work out there. I've seen from a lot of animators that it's always one chance encounter that launched their career. All I can really say is keep trying man. And hey, at least you have the courage to do it. I always felt like I wanted a career in animation but I gave up decades ago with nothing to show for it. At least you've made cartoons that made people happy.
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