Toronto’s very own award-winning animation and production shop Smiley Guy Studios landed a development deal with My Damn Channel for winning a pitch contest at the conference. Their interactive cartoon comedy View U – “about four college friends who do anything and everything to get ten million clicks of fame” – impressed an esteemed panel of judges including Barnett, Ben Relles of YouTube Next, Spencer Griffin of CollegeHumor, and Eric Mortensen of blip.tv.
The five-minute pitch from Smiley Guy Studios Executive Producer Jonas Diamond beat out two other pitch competition finalists for the deal. Jeff the Chosen One, a situational comedy about “magic, destiny, and idiots” from Matt Alden and Paul Foxcroft, and Bill and Sons Towing, a dramatic comedy series from Ready, Set, Panic.
Diamond and his crew at Smiley Guy will work with My Damn Channel Director of Content Jesse Cowell and his team to produce a full-blown pilot. Said pilot will then presumably be pitched around to advertisers to (hopefully) be developed into a full-fledged original series.
If you want to get a taste of what’s in store, check out Smiley Guy Productions’ previous work here.
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