Would it be possible for a cartoon series to be pruduced independently by an independent studio and then be distributed onto television through a tv network?

I would imagine so. I think it happens around the world quite often. I think the main criteria is some hefty up-front money, but if the studio has already been doing it, they could come up with it.

Where do indepepenent studios get their budgets from, would it be possible for the network to supply the budget for the cartoon series?

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Originally posted by D.M:
Where do indepepenent studios get their budgets from, would it be possible for the network to supply the budget for the cartoon series?

Typically, you'd do a pilot episode and shop that around to networks. If a network orders a season's worth of episodes based on the pilot, you've got your budget for the rest of the episodes.

if the network supplyed this budget to the independent studio to produce the episodes, would the independent studio be able to run things its own way (ie, animate the whole cartoon inside the studio rather than farming it off to Korea) as long as they stayed in budget and in schedule?

I imagine that has to do with the budget you're given.

What is the typical budget for an animated cartoon series ?.

The only frame of reference I have is that:

- a typical "Nickelodian" cartoon is budgeted from $500,000 to $600,000

- "Family Guy" was given a budget of $1,000,000 when it first started out