The Prospectors
Cat Dads in Outer Space. A sci-fi adventure of alternative families, exploration and adapting to whatever life throws at you.
Animation created with CelAction2D and Adobe. Some violence so aimed at older teens and adults (14+ age group).
Episode 1 Pip Pop's Find will premiere at SQIFF in 2025.
Episode Guide (contains spoilers)
1. Pip Pop's Find
Old prospector couple Ahab and Gert, living on their mining base asteroid, realise that their cat Pip Pop's youthfulness is related to goo coming from a crack in the wall of their store room. The goo rejuvenates them, but when they share it with supply ship friend Seumas, and he is captured by space cannibal Sunny Bean, things quickly get scary.
2. Queen of the Kuiper Belt
Ahab and Gert have to compete in a C&W competition in Clyde City on Pluto to get money to refuel. Things get more complicated when Sunny Bean turns up.
3.Gifford
Flo is contaminated with space web and lays Gifford the Spiderhen.
4. Our Lady of the Stars
Ahab gets an injury treated at a hospital ship but when Sunny arrives she tells Gert the truth about the place..
5. The Snowing Man
Sunny invites the guys to a music festival on the Arrokoth asteroid where the prize is a hyperdrive. They meet Gifford again and discover the origin of the goo.
The Prospectors Episode 1 Pip Pop's Find Trailer
Picturebooks
Pip Pop's Find has also been published as a picture book.