Logline
The escapades of Frank, last heir of Findelholtz castle, struggling to make a buck and raise his activist young adult daughter in the middle of a bewitched forest with the help of a poltergeist and an overzealous kobold housekeeper.
Videos
Teaser
Trailer
Pilot Scene
The Team
Kilian Muster
CREATOR • WRITER • DIRECTOR
VOICE OF: Frank, Humbug, Woodsinger, Johann, Noir
Greg Wong
CO- WRITER • SCRIPT EDITOR
Greg has been writing and co-writing several shorts. Among others Come In, Fodder, Reminders, Coffee and Poetry, Chance, and The Intergalactic Pawnshop from Out There.
He has also co-directed, co-produced and written the short film Courgette.
Ginger Sue
VOICE OF:Procella Drizzlepot
Ginger is originally from Houston, TX. Ginger worked for three years in entertainment at Walt Disney World as a character performer from late 2007 to 2010, performing in productions like Dream Along with Mickey, Fantasmic!, Block Party Bash, Dreams Come True Parade, and Star Wars Weekends Hyperspace Hoopla.
Her video game credits include Lily, Medea, and Human Faye in Devil May Cry, Nia and Trudy in My Time at Sandrock, and Elena in Doomsday.
Ginger was part of the multi-award winning podcast “Earth Eclipsed” that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Shogo Miyakita
VOICE OF: Rudwin, Mossbeard, Ecki
British-born voice over artist. Since 2019 he has worked on a wide variety of projects from commercials to corporate narration, ADR to audio drama, eLearning to explainers, and ad campaigns to video games.
Nasim Benelkour
CREATOR • WRITER • DIRECTOR
VOICE OF: Leopold Hoffart
Nasim Benelkour is an African American, Puerto Rican, Moroccan, Voice Actor based in Dallas, Texas. Nasim has worked in animation, video games, anime, commercials, and more.
Development Blog
Vlog: Shadywoods – The Making Of
I'll be taking several scenes from the pilot and explain how I animated them. There might be spoilers. But then again you won't be able to see the pilot for another year or so...
Vlog: My Updated Character Rig
After almost a year the Shadywoods pilot is finally complete! While I cannot show you the full pilot, I'll be talking about what I changed in my standard Moho character rig...
Shadywoods Status October 2024
Done, done and done! Kinda. Well, the pilot is complete, I'm currently doing a final review with my script editor Greg Wong and other people, and after a few small tweaks (or...
Shadywoods Status August 2024
About 9 1/2 minutes of the 22-minute pilot are in the can, but things are now accelerating since most assets I need are ready and I can churn out full scenes much faster than...
Shadywoods Status July 2024
About 7 minutes of the 22-minute pilot are in the can, but currently I'm stuck again in background creation hell. I still have about 15 more backgrounds to complete, and 5...
Oldie But Goldie: Squash & Stretch
Squash & stretch is as old as animation itself and I’ll show you how you can use it to free your puppet animation from the rigid shackles of a bone structure (or at least...