Today we’d like to introduce you to Eric Bravo.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Eric. So, let’s start at the beginning, and we can move on from there.
During my last year at UC Davis, I interned at three entertainment studios: Warner Bros. Records, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and DreamWorks Animation. During my Nickelodeon internship, I was able to pitch a cartoon to development. It turned out, my script made it pretty far along reaching an executive level which included the founder of Nickelodeon Animation Studios.
Unfortunately, they decided they were not going to move forward with it that year. So, I went back to school and finished my Managerial Economics degree. A couple of months after I graduated, I received an email from Nickelodeon asking if I would like to pitch again. I pitched another script titled, “The Outsiders,” and they loved it eventually green-lighting the project.
While I was creating this cartoon with Nickelodeon, I was simultaneously working on Google’s Self-Driving Car Project, now known as Waymo. I ended up leaving to travel and photograph the world and eventually settled in LA. Here, I got a job at Lionsgate because I wanted to educate myself in finance in the movie industry.
Just last year, my brother and I created our own studio, Bravo Bros. Studio because I wanted to merge my love of animation and the arts together with my passion for business.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
I’d have to say it’s been a bumpy ride, even currently. There’s been long days, working multiple jobs at once, being in a place in my life where I’d thought I’d be happy, but my heart was telling otherwise.
But I like to keep my head up and listen to my role models, who always seem to have one mantra in common, which is, enjoy the journey to success. I honestly still have no idea how to fully enjoy the journey, but I try to appreciate the struggles. I don’t think I can fully understand this mantra until I’ve reached my end goal, but I still have a ways to go.
Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about Bravo Bros. Studio – what should we know?
I am building an entertainment studio because I want to merge my love of animation, writing, photography, and film, together with my passion for business.
Things are going great running off the steam of the Nickelodeon cartoon. Bravo Bros. Studio just published and distributed a book, How to Get an Animation Internship and we also just released a single, “Find Me feat. ymtk & Yung Tory” from our animation-music project, RAVO. Think of the Gorillaz, but there is only one virtual lead character, RAVO, set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo world.
Animation legend Butch Hartman, the creator of “The Fairly OddParents” and “Danny Phantom” also recently reviewed my cartoon online and gave his stamp of approval. We have been developing a new cartoon and have recently pitched it to Comedy Central.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.eric-bravo.com
- Phone: (415) 212-8250
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericmbravo/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamericbravo
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/tigersintuxedos
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