Man vs. Art Episode 69! Developing animation for TV vs. Creating your own animated short.

Summary: The flawed development system. Developing and pitching ideas for animated TV shows to networks and studios is a tough way to go. I have been going at it for seven years. I've managed to sell one property, my short Hero Heights at Nickelodeon. I've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours developing other shows and pitching them to all the networks only to be rejected time and time again, usually for silly reasons. Plus all of this development work is done for no pay