Pitching a toon?$$$

[MEMPER]

Just wondering, how much does a cartoon idea sell for? I have the bible, general storyline, and most of the characters designed.
I know this is a shot in the dark--trying to get a cartoon on the air--lots of great competition. But every somebody started as a nobody, right?

[aesir]

Try animating a 5 minute short with the characters. That'll build interest if you do it well. You could even hire a few pros to help you if you're really driven.

As for how much you'd make? God knows. Im sure it depends on a shitload of factors, and frankly, the chances that anyone here ever successfully pitched a show to a company, and would be willing to tell you how much they got is next to nil.

[Seedling]

You may already know this, but for the benefit of others who read this, I encourage you to spend time asking yourself if you are pitching an idea because you truly have a strong and well-expressed idea and you’ve done an amazing job of putting together the preliminary parts; or because you want to be the rock star with the brilliant ideas and the easy job while legions support artists do the hard and unglamorous work for you. While it’s possible that the first applies to you, most people who get the idea to pitch a game/movie/whatever do it for a less noble reason. In addition to this, ideas are cheap, and every artist or writer or anyone else involved in the creative process has them, including the staff at every company that makes movies, games, etc. Before a company goes looking for an idea outside of the company to produce, they are going to look at ideas from within the company, and they are going to reject a lot of ideas before settling on anything, and whatever they do accept will likely be changed, and changed again, and changed again before development even seriously begins. Being attached strongly to one specific idea can easily leave you broken-hearted. If you don’t find success pitching this idea, then get yourself hired as the staff at a company and keep your idea around for the next time they start looking among their staff for ideas.

[Micaiah Nelson]

Get your copyrights to your ideas.

[Seedling]

You can't copyright an idea, Micaiah.