How Does Your Animation Fit Into Current Trends? -done-

my animation fits into the current animation trends in a few ways,
the current popular shows for people of my target audience include shows like ben10 and teen titans, these shows are popular for a number of reasons that young boys really enjoy, for example the fact that ben10 focused on aliens really interested me as a kid and did all my friends, too, this is a trend that my animation follows as well as ben10. teen titans is a show where we see characters that we can relate to fighting monsters and looking super cool doing it, too, this is another trait that my animation will share, for example jayden the main character in my animation is very easy to relate to, due to his normal nature and therefore will hook in people easier.

my animation will also fit in to trends because of it's possibility to appeal to more of the family, because no matter how old you get you can still enjoy old cartoons as an adult, while kids are growing up fathers won't get to spend much time with their son as they'll be out a lot more and so on, so even being there to sit and watch a cartoon with them can really be a special time for the father and he might enjoy the show, too.

i would like to show my animation on 'cartoon network' on a early morning and early afternoon slot, this will appeal to my target audience as they wake up they will want something to watch, and if alpha space is on they'll want to watch it, just before going to school, the slot just after school would be a very good peak time, also for pretty much the same reason.

my animation and the characters can be easily linked to other animations and themes throughout the world today and in the past.
my main character jayden is a very normal boy with no real traits apart from caring for his friends and being a nice person. this is very similar to 'Tommy' in the popular animation 'RobotBoy'

-Tommy

the idea of aliens invading the earth has been in story after story for decades in books and movies alike, one great example of this is the film 'mars attacks' where earth is attacked by crazed aliens, from mars.

-A space ship from the film 'Mars Attacks!' - 1996

The idea of two partners working together in an adventure to protect from aliens is also a format that has been used many times over, here we see a good example of it slightly changed, in a slightly old cartoon called 'ozzy and drix' we follow the adventures of two crime fighters who defend the body of a human from 'aliens' attacking in the form of germs from the outside. similar to an alien invasion.

yup, that sure looks like an alien to me!

splargh himself is a character that looks like the main antagonist in a very old lucasarts game 'day of the tentacle'

here we see 'purple' can you tell why?

this game was a large part of my childhood even though i was born a little after it became popular this game still brings a happy thought to my mind and it's easy to see how splargh got some inspiration from our friend here, the point im getting at is this game was very popular and spawned a fan made web series and is even well know today, the design of the characters are very simple yet memorable and unique.