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Brandon Violette

Film director

Jul 17, 2026

speaker_0HOST
40:41
Can we talk about this story engine that you keep talking about? What, what is the story engine for Cocomelon Land?
40:45
Yeah.
40:46
So the show itself is about kids' milestones.
40:51
So first time going to the doctor, first time going to the dentist, uh, losing your toy, or all these things that, that kids go through.
40:57
And so it's like, and, and we had this cast of like six kids, uh, and, and but one of them was like the main one.
41:03
His name is JJ.
41:04
And so it was like, okay, how do we feature him as like, and, and be true to him being like, he's like the Mickey Mouse of that company.

9 MINS LATER

speaker_0HOST
50:13
Can you tell us the process for writing the first draft of an animated screenplay?
3:53
Like, how do you navigate that?
3:56
Well, it's funny.
3:58
So right before that, so my first job was at Hasbro Studios.
4:03
You know, Hasbro, they do Transformers.
4:05
They own G.I. Joe.
4:07
They do everything.
4:08
Toy company.

23 MINS LATER

26:39
So tell me a little bit about like that pivot and like what kind of made you decide to start one in the first place?

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