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 Valhalla with their cat Pip Pop and hens flo and Esmie, realise that 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. Sunny kidnaps Pip Pop. Includes 3 original songs.
3.Gifford
Flo is contaminated with space web and lays Gifford the spiderhen. They have to leave Gifford on an asteroid when their spaceship Ariselle is overrun with her babies.
4. Our Lady of the Stars
Ahab gets an injury treated at a "hospital ship" but its an organ trafficking business in disguise. Sunny arrives and helps Gert to free Ahab.
5. The Snowing Man
Sunny invites the guys to a music festival on the Arrokoth asteroid where the prize is a hyperdrive. When the asteroid starts to disintegrate they use the hyperdrive to escape and end up on an asteroid ship created by Gifford, who is now Emperor Gifford. They discover the origins of the goo. Sunny takes too much and becomes a podcaster while temporarily disfigured. The guys head off to the Oort Cloud to seek a new home.
The Prospectors Episode 1 Pip Pop's Find Trailer
Picturebooks
Pip Pop's Find has also been published as a picture book.