Against all odds*, I managed to get my shit together and post that Lucy spinoff animatic I talked about last week! 

The backstory to this animatic is . . . a little complicated! This is the opening sequence to a script I wrote a few years ago, primarily as a writing sample, although it also serves as a pilot for a theoretical AU spinoff series about Queen Lucy (set in an alternate-reality Golden Age of Piracy, because I am just that sick of drawing 1880s fashion). The reason I boarded it now--or rather, mid-to-late last year--is that I wanted a new portfolio sample that was a little more ambitious and feature-y, hence the prominent use of decidedly un-TV-budget-friendly camera moves and big crowd shots. The setting is based on the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, by the way!

I haven't got any specific plans to do more with the story at the moment, but if people like it, who knows! If you're feeling generous, it would be lovely if you could leave a like or a comment over on Youtube--I'm sure the algorithm has no idea what to do with it otherwise, as I haven't shown signs of life there in over 13 (!!!) years.

*the odds are bed bugs (ew ew ew ew ew). I didn't even know they had bed bugs in LA! I lucked out and was able to get an exterminator in super fast, but all the peripheral cleaning and laundering I had to do completely upended my week, and I am only now, on Sunday morning, returning to some kind of equilibrium here