Inside Disney’s Animation Secrets: How Brandon Violette Crafts Stories That Come to Life
Brandon Violette
So yeah, great. So, on season three of Tots, that show where I became a staff writer, the head writer eventually left that I told you opened that door for me a little bit. He left and he circled back with me season three, because he went to a different show. We’ve got a different head writer, but we stayed in touch. And this company, Moonbug, who owns the Cocomelon property, reached out to him and said, we are looking for writers to do a take on this property. But what we want to do is turn the Cocomelon property that everybody knows and loves, there’s nursery rhymes for toddlers. We want to age it up a little bit. We want to appeal to slightly older kids. And so, they were looking for takes from different writers. And so that head writer reached out to me and said, hey, do you want to do this together? Do you want to come up with something? So, we came up with a very simple pitch using these characters and kind of pushing it appropriately to slightly older. So something like we wanted it to feel like Rugrats. That’s where our head was at. And so, we pitched it to them, just like, you know, virtually. And here’s our idea. It’s like a 15-minute pitch, answer their questions. They said, OK, thank you very much. And then that’s like the first round. And then you wonder, did they like it? Did they not like it? And then they asked us back to pitch kind of the higher ups, which is always a good sign. We did that. And then after that, maybe another few weeks, we were notified that we got the development job. So now it was time to develop what we pitched into that series, which involves a show Bible and a pilot.
