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
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
New Technique is Turning Heads
Head turns in animation aren’t such a big deal, unless you want to combine them with head tilts. Then you’re in a world of pain, unless you use my new way of doing head...
I Screw Up on a Daily Basis
These failures shouldn’t go to waste, so let’s from them. Here are my 'favorite' screw-ups while using Moho Pro for animation… Yeah, Didn’t Think Of That…...
The hardest scene is done!
I just completed a fairly complex action scene for the pilot of Shadywoods and thought I'd summarize some of my findings, pains and struggles in a YouTube video episode…...
Shadywoods Status May 2024
For one of my rigs I just captured the whole process, to share on YouTube. I ended up with 9.5 hours (!) of footage. And then I made so many stupid mistakes that I had to cut...
Shadywoods Status April 2024
I finally entered my two-week holiday (during Japanese "golden week") and found time to rig most of my characters. And it's a lot of work. On a good day I can probably fully...
Shadywoods Status March 2024
As I mentioned in my last post I recorded the Shadywoods narration, I turned that, some intro and outro music and sound effects into something akin to a ‘radio play’. Judging...