Inside Disney’s Animation Secrets: How Brandon Violette Crafts Stories That Come to Life
Brandon Violette
I didn’t pursue agents or managers yet. So, that wouldn’t be for another, maybe two years. And so, one stretch Armstrong was coming to an end. It didn’t seem like we’re going to get picked up for another season. One of the executive producers on the show was going to Disney, Disney junior and said – I’m going to the show called Tots. It’s a preschool show. I want to recommend you for script coordinator. Which is kind of what I was doing on stretch Armstrong. And I thought, yeah, preschool is like baby stuff. I don’t know if I want to do baby stuff. And I read the pilot script to Tots and I thought, this feels like Pixar. Like if this is preschool, then I’m in, you know, so I wasn’t until I was exposed to it, I didn’t really know what that was. And so, I got hired on the show and I started freelancing at night on the show, I would write episodes at night and be like the writer’s assistant script coordinator during the day. And then halfway through season one, there was a staff writer spot opened up. And I had written a couple for the show already. So, I thought, I’m just going to put my name in and see what happens. And eventually it went to me. And so, I became a full-time staff writer, halfway through season one and then finished season two and season three on the show as a staff writer. And season three was when I signed with a manager.
