Brotopia Studios

COMPANY STORY

When we started Brotopia Studios we were developing a pitch bible for an animated children’s television show, a pilot for an animated web series, and also working on a documentary film. At the time, (Co- Founder) Michael was a full-time personal trainer and a student at the Arts Students League, and Joel and Xavier (Co-Founders) were full-time first year students at the Cooper Union School of Art.
A year after filing for an LLC, we decided to embark on our business. We were so involved in the development of our Pitch-Bible and so overwhelmed with school, work, and our private lives, that we lost track of time. We had forgotten we were business owners, and our license just sat there for almost a year. After developing a close relationship with a multi-media production company (LAND1) and working with a business coach we put our big boy pants on and said it’s time to take ourselves seriously.
We felt like phonies because it was our first time being business owners and we had a company with no office, no computer, and no prospects for income. Coupled with our lack of organization we were also naïve to our intellectual properties, giving away our ideas for free on the internet and to strangers in the entertainment industry. We learned how to take control over our projects and began copy righting our creative properties.
Independence is a big reason why we decided to be business owners and creating legitimacy around our personal projects, as well as a desire to be a recognized in the production industry. We all creative control over our personal projects. We were always working together creatively, so it just made sense that we would start a business and stay together. We operate out of our studio in Westchester, NY and continue to make animated shorts.