http://www.fundable.com/the-dawghouse-animated-tv-show

Title: "The Dawghouse"

Series Logline: Family animated series about a sports fanatic constantly banished to his backyard dawghouse by his wife, who is sick of his addiction to sports and neglect of family duties.

We’ve all been there!  You do too much sports and not enough housework, or for some other imaginable or unimaginable reason, you suddenly find yourself IN THE DAWGHOUSE!

Why A Sports Animation?

Sports entertainment is a proven multi-billion dollar a year industry, worldwide; comprised of sports legends and heroes, sports networks and channels, a host of sports magazines, and stadiums filled with a sea of ecstatic fans across the globe. Additionally, over 40% of all television and webcast programming is dedicated to sports. While “live-action” sports continues to rack up viewers and sponsors, an "ANIMATED" series version of sports has yet to be explored.

Who We Are

We are Leroy, Jobst, & Curley Entertainment and we are a team of comedic writers, specializing in formulating pilot scripts and movie screenplays. We create unique and fresh programming; new and edgy shows we think you'll spill a drink over in your living room or popcorn in the theatre. We are currently crowdfunding for the Pilot Episode of our new proposed prime time TV animation, "The Dawghouse."

What We NEED TO RAISE—$35,000.00

Animation is expensive! The average cost of a network producing a 1/2 hour beginner show ranges anywhere from $400,000-$800,000 per episode. LJC needs only $35,000 to begin the process of partnering with one of L.A.'s reputable animation studios to produce the first phases of our pilot animation.

What We're OFFERING—For pledges ranging from $80-$250.00 we're offering custom hand-drawn CARTOON CELS of our Main Characters, some accompanied by scenes from our very first show. For more serious backers, we're awarding some of you rare original CARTOON STORYBOARDS from our developed first episode. One lucky pledger will have his or her LIKENESS and VO portrayed in an episode of "Dawghouse"as a supporting or background character. Wow!

Remember the cartoons you watched as a kid, or even those you view now as an adult? How much do you think some of those original drawings or color cels go for today? Investing in a drawing or cel by pledging with us today, especially one from the 1st episode of an "Original Run Series" of a possible major hit show, is the equivalent of scoring your own Babe Ruth rookie card.

(below) Sample Inked Art, 20" x 14" of the "Dawghouse" BAKERSFIELD LEATHERHEADS FOOTBALL TEAM, custom hand-drawn for Fundable "Contributors" (right) of $2500.00 or more.

HOW DO WE KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE A HIT?

Our Cartoon's Eminent SUCCESS...                                      

Television Sports Entertainment is the fastest growing programming on TV today. Audiences cannot get enough sports. A whopping $21.4 billion dollars in revenue is spent annually by affiliate TV stations across the country on sports programming. The success of a sports animation like "The Dawghouse" is exceedingly high, as it would penetrate an already existing and proven sports-dominated marketplace. Additionally, animated programs such as”The Simpsons” and ”Family Guy” return each year as they continually garner high ratings and audience shares for their networks.

 ... is based on a proven marketplace and runaway success of "Live Action" sports. According to the GHN Report (Global History Network), worldwide viewing of this year’s Super Bowl between the Giants and Patriots reached a whopping 166.8 million people, beating TV “M*A*S*H’s” longstanding 29-year record for the single most viewed final episode of 103 million households set back in 1983. This near insatiable desire for sports programming also led to ratings giants like Monday Night Football... and it keeps growing!

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     "To date, in telecast sports, networks have a bona fide viewing audience of over 3-billion households, yet again, over the many years of broadcasting no one has ever attempted to provide a Sports Animation—a cartoon largely about sports."

.... and NOW, we are hard at work writing and ready to develop, with your backing and help, the first stages of a first rate, made for TV animation pilot episode for a Cartoon Series that makes you break a gut. The project is a family animated sitcom carrying a sports theme; and will be a 2-D cartoon on par with "The Simpsons” and ''Family Guy."

SYNPOSIS: WHAT'S THE CARTOON ABOUT?

OUR STORY LINE

GUS TRAVIS is a sports fanatic extraordinaire. He is addicted to sports—televised and otherwise—and his sports widowed wife, RUBY, is tired of coming in second place.

Our lead is the personification of almost every major sports fan in the country. He talks, watches, lives and breathes professional and collegiate sports, 24/7. This has become an unendurable situation for his wife, who has come to loathe sports for kidnapping her husband 11 months, 24/7 days and hours out of the year.

Nor does the lead's obsession endear him to his three kids—CHEEZ, a precocious 11 yr old daughter; TREVOR, his comic book driven son prone to multiple personality fits; and CHIP, a 3 yr old who doesn’t know better and incessantly peers up at Gus like he’s a sports god.

The kids are involved in local town soccer sports if for no other reason than the hope their dad will pay some attention to them. When he does, things go awry, ie—Gus takes his kid’s soccer games way too seriously, as he engages in arguments and fights with other parents, coaches and referees (you know of someone like this, right?). Cheez can only stare. But is it endearment or sheer embarrassment that causes her to hide behind the goalie?

Meet GUS and RUBY TRAVIS, OUR SHOWSTOPPERS             —Art by Pidge Jobst

A bit about the MAIN CHARACTERS...

GUS TRAVIS, OUR LEAD—Gus is proud of his .05 acre of land. He would be fine just living in a trailer, and does. “Who wouldn’t be, it’s paid for,” and he is constantly reminding everyone in town who still pays a mortgage. Anyone who’s ever lived in a trailer knows what a “mercy flush” is, but it’s a moot point with Gus and his irritable bowel syndrome in close quarters with no ceiling fan. He’s “in-like” with his tools in a big way, owns big wrenches and bigger hammers—the rustier the better. Yet, there’s nothing that compares to what Gus calls “The Gift of the Gods”—Duct Tape. When fixing things around the house, he uses Duct Tape for everything!

RUBY TRAVIS,  HIS SPORTS-WIDOWED WIFE—There’s one thing about a gal who has lots of secrets and that is she’ll bury yours to safekeep her own. Ruby has no intention of ever walking into Gus’s garage to spy on what lurks there, and she fully expects her husband to return the favor. A detail few folks in Bakersfield do know about Ruby is she has breast implants and a bomb shelter in her backyard. It’s obvious what she’s hiding on her chest, but what’s down in the underground vault? An episode finally reveals the secret cellar houses a crypt full of trendy shoes—Calvin Klein, Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Steve Madden, Christian Louboutin, and more. It’s a monumental subterranean walk-in closet, chock-full of every designer shoe imaginable, Size 7 1/2.                         

GROWING HUSBAND-WIFE CONFLICT 

Aside from being sports-obsessed, Gus can’t afford a single kitchen appliance convenience for Ruby—she has NO microwave, NO refrigerator, NO kitchen dishwasher, NO clothes washer or dryer. Yet, Gus is not without the “Today’s Sports Section” newspaper and his enormous 100 inch widescreen TV to watch the game on.

Gus can’t help it he’s a sports nut, but he could help around the house a little more. His sports fanaticism is constantly putting him on the house absentee list, propelling him into the dawghouse… literally! There's a scanty dawghouse in the backyard and the sports enthusiast spends a lot of nights sleeping there, having been banished by his neglected spouse.

THE PLACE—BAKERSFIELD, USA

PUBLIC ENEMY NO #1. Ruby's Feisty Kat—ANGEL wears a permanent halo over her head, but the finagling feline is more princess than angelic. Her two word vocabulary is "Mniiilk" and "Meh", yet she seems to reek havoc throughout the entire household, not letting the couple reconcile, spitefully adding to the Honey Do List, sabatoging any chance for a family dog (even though there's a dawghouse), and definitely not putting up with her nemisis—Gus' TV—during her katnaps.

PUBLIC ENEMY NO #2. The "Honey Do List"—If there’s one thing a sports fanatic despises, it’s anything that gets between him and his ability to watch the game. In the Travis household, its the “Honey Do List.” The HDL is filled with dreaded, game-interrupting weekend chores. 

THE BASIC FORMAT OF MANY EPISODES

A major televised sporting event is coming up, and Gus has not only been obsessing about it all week, he's invited his bro-pals to join him in watching the big game. In his mind, he imagines a Sunday afternoon of sports-viewing bliss.

Seems doable. Seems simple enough. But life is never that simple. There's always something unexpected that gets in the way-- 

• Perhaps, he is needed to referee one of the kids' soccer games…

• Or called upon to hang streamer decorations for Chip’s birthday party... 

• Or assigned to help with Trevor’s math homework…

• Or maybe he needs to repair the leaking roof, with a big storm on the way... 

• Or attend one of Cheez’s violin recitals…

• Or he’s promised Ruby a weekend getaway…

                                                     ... but all Gus wants to do is watch the game.

THE COMEDY WILL COME FROM. . .

. . . the sports fanaticism of our lead, and the insane lengths to which he will go to watch his game at the expense of everyone and everything around him. His priorities are all screwed up and he will need to get them seriously adjusted before the end of the episode, or soon, he’ll wind up spending another night out in the dawghouse.

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One of our greatest accomplishments to date is bringing aboard our animation the prestigious "Mad Magazine" artist, MORT DRUKER. Mort's iconic caricature artistry has been adorning the covers of “Mad Magazine” for decades, and now our team gains benefit from his artistry experience as he begins work with us on "The Dawghouse Animation". 

IF YOU ARE A CONTRIBUTOR OF $4000.00 OR MORE, you will receive a high-end reproduction of this KEY ANIMATION (below), signed by our "Mad Magazine" artist, Mort Drucker.

                                                                                                 —by Mort Drucker

ANIMATION PHASES I thru IV of our DEVELOPMENT process—_____________________________________________________________

Traction Phase I. (Completed) Treatment development of animated Dawghouse. Includes (i) Premise, (ii) Synopsis & Story line, (iii) Central Family & Main Characters, (iv) Character BIOS, (v) First 13-episode loglines and story arc.  _____________________________________________________________

Traction Phase II. (Completed) Pilot Script & Screenplay: (i) Analyze script for compelling story elements, twists, conflict and resolution. (ii) Analyze teaser for emotional beats (laugh every 5-7 seconds).      _____________________________________________________________

Traction Phase III. (Completed) Submit animated script to Los Angeles animation studios to acquire quotes for start up and initial installment needed to begin first episode of our show. 

Associated Startup Costs: $35,000.00 installment  _____________________________________________________________

OUR CURRENT PHASE—Phase IV—involves raising initial capital ($35,000.00) for the production through reputable crowdfunding like Fundable in order to move our show into production. This includes the expense of (i) storyboarding, (ii) modeling and vectoring, (iii) producing animation backgrounds, (iv) keylining and coloring, (iv) inbetweening, (v) clean up, (vi) editing, (vii) music scores, (viii) VO talent, etc., and more, everything that associated with producing a full-fledged animation pilot.

***Distribution, however, first requires the production of a series which begins with the pilot episode and a script. To make sure we had the best funnies, we brought in some of L.A.'s greatest standup comedians—

Roger Rodd, P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy, BET's Comic view, I-Spot Comedy / Chris Neff, Laugh Factory, Comedy Store / Josh Calvin, Comedy Store / Mark Anthony Williams, Haha Cafe / Standup Comedienne Adria Rossi / Comedy Improv Briian Fisher / Humorist writer Tif Wegmann, and comedy songwriter Tracie Silver.

With the finished Script, we were now ready for Phase IV. of our animation fast track—Storyboarding, and moving the show and high-concept cartoon into Production.

To do that we needed to enlist the help of a couple major animation directors. Supervising Animation Directors, Eddy Houchins (“Chowder”, "The Mummy", “Batman Animated Series”, "Hercules")  and Majella Milne (“King of the Hill, "Futurama”, "All Dogs Go To Heaven") have now joined our team. They stand poised and ready to begin production once we secure our installment and reach our Fundable goal and your help.

NOW WE NEED YOUR HELP... please support our tenacious effort to provide this animation for family viewing by contributioning and "Clicking" any "Backer" button to the right so we may reach our goal and provide you an animation in your living room that you helped put on air.

―Represented by Entertainment Attorney, Paul Menes, WGA Registered
© 2013 Pidge Jobst, Leroy, Jobst & Curley Entertainment

Leroy, Jobst & Curley ENTERTAINMENT

COMPANY OVERVIEW & BACKGROUND:

Leroy, Jobst & Curley began its operations in 1993 as a Midwest producer of locally originated television programming. Pidge Jobst did much of the creative for the local FOX WTTE-28 Kids Club affiliate, which later became the template for the National FOX Kids Club spread in markets all across the U.S. LJC also provides specialized graphic and illustrative services for both national and local corporate entities, along with high-profile advertising campaigns that utilize television, radio, web and internet, newspaper and magazine print mediums for market distribution. 

INFANCY SUCCESSES:

       LJC enjoyed immediate success. Early on, the company was awarded commissioned contracts for the development of two weekly television series programs for Production Partners, Inc., namely "Ohio Golf" and "Columbus Cooks". In addition, the company produced and developed a third in-house, 52 episode, children’s live-action educational program known as "Crystal Palace." 
     These programs embodied all phases of development, including: (1) Concept Development and Packaging, (2) Distribution, (3) Site Management, (4) Pre-Production, (5) Editing and Post-production, (6) Major Sponsor Sales and TV Avails Commercial Solicitation, along with (7) Product Placement and General Merchandising.
     The weekly children’s television series aired for three years and was produced before a live-studio audience. It was the first locally-originated children’s television program to be produced in over 22 years of Columbus' history. The conpany also produced "Crysta Palace's Tribute To Luci's Toyshop, "THE MOVIE." in November 1994. Joined by Wendy’s International, LJC distributed the movie into area AMC Theatres.

     LJC utilized this movie as a community outreach event to fuel the introduction of Columbus' next locally-produced children’s show. Wendy's then parented the weekly series by becoming the Official National & Presenting Sponsor of the children's television program. Prior to Wendy’s involvement, there was unkindled interest in local children’s programming among Columbus station affiliates. The program contributed greatly to Wendy’s interest in children’s charities and Founder, Dave Thomas’ personal desire to enhance the lives of children. Being adopted himself, a percentage of the business earnings went to both children and adoption efforts. 

Now since moving its operations to LA in 2010, the studio is embarked on providing viewers new and original, edgy animation, drama series, reality and docu-drama series, game and competition series, and more.