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peopleWatching season 2 - Ten more episodes!

An award-winning web series from Winston Rowntree.

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peopleWatching season 2 - Ten more episodes!

peopleWatching season 2 - Ten more episodes!

peopleWatching season 2 - Ten more episodes!

peopleWatching season 2 - Ten more episodes!

peopleWatching season 2 - Ten more episodes!

An award-winning web series from Winston Rowntree.

An award-winning web series from Winston Rowntree.

An award-winning web series from Winston Rowntree.

An award-winning web series from Winston Rowntree.

Winston Rowntree
Winston Rowntree
Winston Rowntree
Winston Rowntree
1 Campaign |
Toronto, Canada
$23,942 USD 372 backers
47% of $50,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
The award-winning series peopleWatching is coming back for a second season! Now's your chance to get involved, receive some excellent perks, and help us make season 2 bigger and better than ever! The new season will bring you more of what made the first season unique, plus we'll be going the extra mile to make the art & animation look even better than they did before. Thanks for considering helping us out, and you'll definitely enjoy Season Two! -Winston Rowntree & everyone at peopleWatching

Watch peopleWatching season 1 here

I grew up on Mad Magazine and Calvin & Hobbes and Star Trek and the Simpsons and I learned that entertainment can reveal the human condition while also satirizing it and placing it in unfamiliar scenarios, because the truth shines through no matter the context it's put in. I grew up on music too, and I learned that the best way to get an emotional response is to write about things that evoke the strongest emotions in yourself. And when I grew up I saw shows like Girls and Master of None and I learned that TV is absolutely the best place to convey what life is REALLY like and the realities of being young in a world that has changed faster than at any point in history and yet is home to the realities that have been common to people throughout history. And then I got the opportunity to make a show of my own and I put all of that together and the best name for it was peopleWatching.

And I wrote a bunch of young characters who are all secretly half me and half fiction and who embody the kind of fundamental contradictions that we all have but are so often simplified in the shows we watch— characters like the musician who has fright everywhere except the stage, and the pervy feminist cool nerd, and the right-wing progressive girl, and the stripper with the 180 IQ who doesn't do it for the money, she just likes being naked in front of people even though she hates being objectified, and even if those characters aren't literally realistic they say something about the world in their descriptions.

And I tried to say something about what it's like to be a person by presenting those characters in self-contained stories that each explore a single idea using dialogue-heavy scenes that still find ways to be visually dynamic...

And I wrote an episode about how depression is like an entity that keeps tricking you into self-hatred because that's how it feels to me, and I wrote an episode about a guy struggling to write to his favorite teacher because that's what I was doing at the time, and I wrote an episode about a woman hoping there's some kind of scientifically derived afterlife in the future because she can't deal with all the tragedy and death in the world, and I wrote it because that was the way I felt all throughout 2016 and I needed to process those feelings and as an artist the best raw material to work with is whatever you feel strongest about. It's an infinitely deep well too—trying to explain what it's like to be a person is easily the world's longest conversation...

I also wrote an episode about a Non-Religious Confessional Booth where people confess their inner secrets and then discover that they're nowhere near as alone or different as they think they are, and I wrote it because to me that's what art IS—it's being yourself and then showing the world and then being stunned when a bunch of people put their hands up and say, “hey, me too!” All the better when you can do that using tight narratives with satisfying endings, and distinctive characters that give it all an emotional core, and the limitless potential of animation that allows for the kind of variety  that would otherwise be impossible.

I grew up learning that the package you put your message in is super important—almost as important as having a message to begin with, and having that message be something that draws parallels between people instead of dividing them.

That's the other thing I've learned— that one of the best things that art can do is to make people feel less alone, and to do that all you need is to tell the truth— even just your personal truth— regardless of the context. Even if it's a 10-minute cartoon with swearing and time travelers and jokes about having no money.

You can say a lot in 10 minutes, and have fun doing it— that's what I'd want people to learn from peopleWatching.

Thanks for reading,

Winston Rowntree,

Summer 2017

Toronto

                                      

                                  

                                       

                                    

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Making It Possible

$5 USD
You're on board, so a huge and sincere Thank You for helping make Season 2 even better!
Included Items
  • A Sincere Thank You!
39 claimed
Digital Package

Digital Package

$20 USD
Digital download of both seasons, scripts, and production animatics + access to backer updates.
Included Items
  • Digital Download
Estimated Shipping
May 2018
105 claimed
DVD

DVD

$35 USD
Everything in the Digital Package + both seasons on DVD.
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
31 claimed
Ships worldwide.
Blu-ray

Blu-ray

$40 USD
Everything in the Digital Package + both seasons on Blu-ray.
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
30 claimed
Ships worldwide.
Super DVD

Super DVD

$75 USD
Everything in the Digital Package + both seasons on DVD + your name in the credits + a postcard signed by Winston Rowntree + an exclusive T-shirt!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Signed postcard
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
22 claimed
Ships worldwide.
Super Blu-ray

Super Blu-ray

$80 USD
Everything in the Digital Package + both seasons on Blu-ray + your name in the credits + a postcard signed by Winston Rowntree + an exclusive T-shirt!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • Signed postcard
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
46 claimed
Ships worldwide.
Original Artwork! (DVD)

Original Artwork! (DVD)

$300 USD
Everything in the Super DVD package + three signed postcards + an original drawing of the character of your choice!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Three signed postcards
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
1 out of 20 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Original Artwork! (Blu-Ray)

Original Artwork! (Blu-Ray)

$300 USD
Everything in the Super DVD package + three signed postcards + an original drawing of the character of your choice!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Three signed postcards
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
4 out of 20 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
You're a Cartoon!

You're a Cartoon!

$1,000 USD
Everything in the previous tiers (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus ALL the postcards, PLUS we will include a character with your likeness in season 2! Yes, Winston Rowntree will draw you as a peopleWatching character!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Character with your likeness
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
3 out of 10 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #1

Big Framed Thing #1

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the scene of the future city from episode 104, "Death is Bullshit," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #3

Big Framed Thing #3

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the scene with Safra and Flossy from ep. 106, "Your Favorite Artist," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #4

Big Framed Thing #4

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the moving day scene with Ted and Martha from ep. 105, "FRIENDZONE," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #5

Big Framed Thing #5

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the scene with Martha & the Time Travelers from ep. 110, "Nostalgia," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #6

Big Framed Thing #6

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the scene with Flossy & her fans from ep. 105, "Your Favorite Artist," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #7

Big Framed Thing #7

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the scene with Flossy on stage from ep. 110, "Nostalgia," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #8

Big Framed Thing #8

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the clinic scene with Safra & the doctor from ep. 110, "Nostalgia," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #9

Big Framed Thing #9

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the scene in Safra's office from ep. 107, "Secret Losers Anonymous," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #10

Big Framed Thing #10

$1,000 USD
All the previous perks (both DVD and Blu-ray), plus the WHOLE SET of postcards, plus one of 10 "Big Framed Things" hand-made by Winston Rowntree. You'll receive a framed mockup of the first meeting of Ted & Martha from ep. 105, "FRIENDZONE," using the original b&w production artwork of the background scene. Most definitely one of a kind!
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • YOUR NAME in the credits
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Big Framed Thing
  • Postcard Set
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Associate Producer

$2,500 USD
The majority of the previous perks, plus Associate Producer credit. Meet Winston and the cast and crew, dine with us, and even appear as a speaking character in the show, voiced by you! You'll need to cover the cost of your own travel.
Included Items
  • Digital Download
  • Seasons 1+2 on DVD
  • Seasons 1+2 on Blu-ray
  • Indiegogo exclusive T-shirt
  • Original hand-drawn artwork
  • Character with your likeness
  • Associate Producer credit
  • Postcard Set
  • Voice a character
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
2 out of 3 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Big Framed Thing #2
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Big Framed Thing #2

$1,000 USD
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
1 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

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