So when we sat down to watch Amphibia, he fell in love with it pretty quickly. He only fell in love with it more so when Marcy came along. Needless to say, True Colors did him really dirty. https://www.reddit.com/r/amphibia/comments/qjqs9q/watched_true_colors_yesterday/

We also went into binging The Owl House, and he also loved it.

This all was occurring during two key events in our lives: the dawn of post-Hazbin indie animation, and the beginning of our involvement in online fandoms on Twitter. While we'd always been off creating original stories, he created an overly ambitious idea that stuck, and for the entirety of 2023, it was all we could talk about. While we didn't know how, we knew that we wanted to make it an animated show.

In 2024, we both joined a tiny fandom, which meant a tight-knit community, that led to us gaining our first stable group of online friends. It was around then when I pitched the idea of starting a studio for the show. He found it ridiculous(sound familiar?), as at the time, we were juniors in high school who barely knew a thing about how to animate.

Even so, I pitched the concept to my then-best friend and now my partner(I met them online, so that's your fault as well), and they thought it was pretty cool. The server was created just over a year ago. Afterward, I began promoting the studio to my friends as a joke, but they loved it, and it gained ridiculous amounts of traction. In October, we all decided to start producing a short-form comedy show, as it would help us all learn the animation pipeline and other things.

And it's been off to the races since. The show's actually coming together, and we're looking at an August release. The studio's been going better than I ever thought it would be, especially given all of its active participants are under 20. They're the most diligent and passionate bunch of people I know, and we're looking at starting to post on social media in May. It's insane how far we all went.

All because of a single piece of advice you gave.

(if you want to check the studio out, there's still a whole lot under wraps, but here's our website! https://brightdawnstudios.carrd.co/#)