How a Young Boy Became a Cartoonist
Female: Bike riding, playing video games, and shooting baskets are all normal day-to-day activities for Kyler Spears. But when he sits back and lets his mind wander, anything is possible. Kids may fantasize about creating a character for their favorite cartoon but for Kyler, this has been a dream come true.
Kyler Spears: I created a character named Yoke for the cable channel of Cartoon Network for a show called Magoozi. Magoozi is kind of a hosting period from like a certain period of time when they shows cartoons and in between commercials, they have little cartoons doing funny gags.
Female: So how did he go from riding his bike to creating a cartoon character? It's as simple as this. He saw the advertisement for the Cartoon Network’s Magoozi, filled out the entry form complete for the drawing of his full-color character, mailed it off and as the saying goes well, the rest is history.
Kyler Spears: My character looks like an egg with a character inside and has a glass on one top and it has a little thing that goes around it that shows words or whatever he’s doing. He has powers which he can move stuff around and he has three fins on the bottom so he float and move around without having to touch the ground. He’s the character that’s like the jokester, he plays around with all the other characters.
Female: Kyler has been interested in cartoon characters since he was born but it goes much deeper than just watching them on TV.
Kyler Spears: What mostly interests me about cartoon characters is just imagining things that totally don’t exist but just fun. When I grow up, I want to be a 3D artist working at on Pixar or one those places where they develop 3D interactions.
Female: So, for all the artistic people out there, who would like to see your creations on TV someday, hear some advice from the young man himself.
Kyler Spears: Just imagine anything you want, just not to be perfect, just create whatever and then send ideas to TV stations and maybe they’ll like your idea and want to talk to you about it.
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