Homestuck Animated Pilot Trailer

Moved this to the new Animated Series board

Is it a bit presumptuous to call it the animated 'series' board? Do we have indication that it's already an internal success with Spindleroo or something? Gonna be real awkward if the pilot doesn't get picked up.

Oh thank goodness this has it's own section now. @mobiancruxtruder Vibri on discord can't share much, but supposedly things are looking pretty good is what I'm gathering; so, that means merch sales are probably through the roof and pilot trailer views are performing good too. Now the pilot just needs to get that same reception and get picked up by a streaming service.

Well, I have no evidence to dispute Vibri's words, but they are both an official team member and a personal friend of Andrew, who has stated the importance of getting a good reception to the pilot in greenlighting more. So making sure everything looks neat and tidy and like morale is high is part of her job, along with being in her best interest.

That being said, I'm not suuuuuuuper worried about the pilot's chances. It's being produced by a studio whose name is all over the internet, with Toby Fox voicing the protagonist, the website getting updated, the new discord server with all its exclusive content and events, fans already prepped to overlook worker abuse, and the continued better-reception of Beyond Canon. It's probably not gonna be like Hiveswap act 2, which released right in the middle of Homestuck^2 disillusionment and not long before the Sarah Z drama. Regardless of what I think should've happened, it seems the ultimate public perception of the UHC mess is a "Samus Returns" situation, where the company C&D's a fanwork that could theoretically compete with them right before announcing their new thing. Which we know isn't true, but it's an explanation people will understand even if the truth is way stupider. Point is, it's imminently survivable for the brand and if the HS pilot ends up failing, I don't think it'll be because of Gio's blogposts.

I'm much less-worried about the pilot becoming a full series anyway, and more about how the production on that series would go. Mendrano's studios don't sound like fun places to work, but they do consistently finish their work and release it, and it'd be pretty damning if Homestuck was the exception by going the way of TOG/WPNY/Viz/SAHcon(?) and exploding midway through the process.

RE: Deep Dive Devin

It's still up in the air, but I named the board "Animated Series" optimistically just cause I thought it sounded better and figured a good amount of the conversation was going to be what people end up wanting out of a full series rather than just the pilot.

Fair enough.