Jim McCawley Darney

**Jim McCawley Darney** or the only known portion of his real name **"Man"** (born March 8, 2008) is a Malaysian assistant producer, assistant writer and part-time voice actor best known for his work on *Koherean Avenue* on Sintopia.

## Career

*Man* begins his career in 2022, after being chosen by Blanding Cassatt as one of the voice actor for *Intertropolis & Routeville*, playing unnamed one-off characters.

### ***Koherean Avenue***

Before Blanding Cassatt was even launched, Jim as a child love to fill his dad books empty pages with fake comic palette, short-lived movie franchise ideas and fanart. He started to plan on creating a cartoon in late-2018, after seeing his potential in the industry. He starts up with a concept called *The Four Tiger Brothers* but felt that it's way too similar to Cartoon Network's *We Bare Bears*, so he decided to change it a little bit to *The Four Brothers*, established episode names, a short comic and a few character drawings. Unfortunately, this still wasn't enough to be considered original by him. He trashed all of his efforts to make another concept, originally named "AL.O.N", shortened to just "AL" later, about a boy named *Al's* school life. Jim has an idea to remake AL into a more "neighbourhood-like *version of it, inspired from Nickelodeon's* The Loud House*. He didn't know where to pass the idea on, as he wasn't sure if he's old and experienced enough to lead a crew of a cartoon.*

In July 2022, Jordan Cassatt peeks at some of Jim's drawings while he was in recording session. Jordan decided to get Jim to he and Kimberly Blanding's office to talk about opportunity of greenlighting Jim's concept. Jim explained to them that this cartoon is about three families, one is a middle-class, four children family who lives in a 2-floor house, one is an upper-middle class, two children family who lives in 1-floored house, and the other one is a family of a 15 children who lives in a large 4-5 floores house, and was set in a fictional neighborhood based on his studies on Jordan's hometown.

They start the production on November 1, 2022 assisted by staffs with potential who recently hired and barely above Age Of Consent, such as Helimiard McSheppard, Louis McCree and Sharon Colbert, with the short pilot being showcased in 2023 Sintopia Shorts Showcase. It inevitably become a huge success, getting over 1.01 million viewers in two minutes of airing.

Jordan decided to give Jim an instant show greenlights, and put Junas Hotchens's *Normandy* aside in order to push *Koherean Avenue*'s potential.

The debut 30-minutes episode aired in April 27, 2023, despite getting mixed receptions from critics, managed to put 1.59 million viewers, 10% more than the *Intertropolis & Routeville*'s new episode airing before.

It continues to air, until Jim decided to end it to not let it falls to seasonal rot and because of Jim's departure from animation industry, 10 years after in May 27, 2033.

### ***The Short Case***

In 2024, Jim Dawney and Sam Bruno were watching some of the short from Sintopia that never got greenlit. They both realized that some of them are good, but didn't get a chance because many of them were aired during the school time or late-night, the time where kids and teens usually aren't on their TVs. They decided to talk with Jordan Cassatt about making a specific time for shorts to be aired. Louis comes in the room and suggests them for a show. They all later start working for the show. The next year, the show has been completed, but there is no character that seem suitable for the show. Jim was walking around the building for inspiration, before coming across a trashbag filled with drawing of scrapped characters. It was made by Junas Hotchens, during the delay of *Normandy*. Jim asked if he can take some of the drawings for a show, and gives Junas credits as a creator for the reward. Junas then says "*Take all you want and use it for good, this is just too much of waste*." Later, *The Short Case* team only chose only two characters out of the 45, Jocelyn Anne and Cahill Leroy. It takes them 7 months to make the first season before it was aired. It succeed and has made a lot of shows for 2030s Sintopia.

## Reception

He received mixed reception from fellow staffs, mostly because of his sentences while speaking, yelling in formal talks out of habit. He's probably one of the worst staff for Sintopia by attitude, but other than that, he usually tried his best not to be rude. But he did have positives. He would mostly try to talk with people around, mostly struggles to do it in his early years, but eventually would become sociable time by time.