Scott sent a message to Jeffrey Katzenberg Co-Founder and CEO, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. Email Address that said:
Years ago, Jeffrey invited me to Dreamworks to brainstorm some non-Dilbert movie ideas that would work well with CGI animation. By then the world already had CGI movies about toys, cars, bugs, robots, fish, aliens, animals, birds, monsters, and most of the other non-human entities.
That was the problem. The animation industry was running out of fresh fields to plow. They needed more creature types.
I didnât have any ideas that day. Itâs harder than it looks. All the easy ones are already done.
My creative failing at that meeting with Katzenberg has bugged me for years. Iâm usually the person in the room with the commercially viable idea. Thatâs sort of what I do. But I failed that day. I had absolutely nothing.
But⦠Iâm not a quitter. I have chewed on that problem for years without having so much as a whiff of an idea. Then one day last week, for no particular reason, and while thinking of something unrelated, a solution came to me. It had all the elements. It was born whole. I tested it on a few friends and their jaws dropped.
Itâs not just a good idea. Itâs sort of amazing, if I do say so myself. And easy to animate. When you see the movie (and someday you will) you will laugh at how obvious it was.
Send me an email Or use Twitter to contact me. Iâll use Skype to pitch the idea to the first big studio that gets to me. It will only take ten minutes.
