Toontastic Fun Fact #3

Hey there! Want to know some fun facts about Jean-Luc & Friends? Check this out!

The original name, "Jean-Luc & Friends" didn't begin until 2007 when "Jean-Luc & Joey" was created. At the time the series was only about "Sticktoons" and "It's a Toon's Life" (A comic strip series I made based on Toontown Online back in the day).

• The reason that the series is only titled "Jean-Luc & Friends" is because all of the series are run by me, not because of Jean-Luc the fox having my name. Even if I didn't incorporate "Jean-Luc & Joey" as a series, the title "Jean-Luc & Friends" would have still remained.

• Back then, the series was originally going to be called "Jean-Luc, Joey, & Friends" with the dynamic duo being the showrunners and the mascots for the series while the characters of "Sticktoons" and "It's a Toon's Life" would have been side characters. Although the name was dropped, the feeling still exists, mainly due to the fact that I work on stories with a more adventurous nature.

• Many inspirations were used in order to help develop characters, character design, character interaction, fantastic worlds, and practice storytelling within each series segment. I can't list them all, but a certain PIXAR film from 1999 kicked everything off.
  

I actually had plans to turn Jean-Luc & Friends into an animated series. I had the idea/began animating on a little program known as Flipnote Hatena.

• The animated series debuted on September 12, 2012 on the Nintendo DSi program, Flipnote Hatena

  • There were 143 episodes produced.

  • Gained 108,141 Views in total

  • Earned 203,071 with 28 green stars and 1 red star

  • The series lasted for 4 seasons and began the 5th season in late May, 3 days before the inevitable closure of Flipnote Hatena on May 31, 2013 thus leaving the series to be "lost in limbo" (or better worded as "Canceled")

    • I haven't animated much since the closure, but with how much I've created now, I would like to try again some day.

The series I've created so far is all just a bunch of ideas and an overactive imagination.

• Most of the series I've created were actually ideas I had for Sticktoon comics. But because they became so outlandish, I took those concepts and spun them off into new series with their own characters and themes.

  • Remember, not every idea you have for one series will fit that series. Sometimes, its best to spin them off into something new. You never know what you might create.

• All six of the series are ongoing, and have a reasonable time gap over their creations (meaning by the years of their creation, not by their canon timelines)

  • Regardless of the mixture, the toons' main staple are their colorful and vibrant nature and lifestyle, never straying away from what makes them feel perfect inside.

Be Toontastic~!