UPDATE: :facepalm: Eh, so unfortunately, “Lil Guildies” has turned out to be a Guild April Fool’s prank, but hey, the trailer that Greg Aronowitz and his team put together was well worth it the amusement! The credits for this great trailer are listed at the bottom of this article.
At this point, you might as well start preparing for Felicia Day’s dominance of the geek world with the latest player in “The Guild” spin-offs. In addition to the three-part comic “The Guild” has done with Dark Horse, Day has just announced an animated television series called “Lil Guildies”.
Day is a stickler for creative control of her products and seems to retain this on this project as well, saying:
“I love working on the web because I don’t have to compromise creatively. I thought a mainstream kids show for TV would be a disaster in that regard but they kept saying that they loved my sensibility and they really wanted me to do whatever I felt was true to the tone of the web series.”
Trailer for “Lil Guildies”
Members of “The Guild” team had their hands in this new animated show. Greg Aronowitz, who was both the prop master for “Do You Want to Date My Avatar?” and co-creator of The Guild Christmas products bonus features, came up with the character design for “Lil Guildies”. Paul and Storm (Professional Singing Persons), composed the theme song for the show. Wanna sing along? Day has released the lyrics below the trailer!
As for the solution for Bladezz’ youth in translation to this series, Day addresses this curious depiction of the young Bladezz as an embryo:
“I never thought for a second that they’d actually approve Embryonic Bladezz but when they did I felt like they passed the creativity litmus test. And I guess cartoons are a lot more progressive now than they were when I was growing up.”
Lyrics to “Lil Guildies” Theme Song
Everyone come along (log on)
Lil’ Guildies are questin’ again
Singin’ a happy song (come on)
Join the party with Codex and friends
Tink and Clara come a runnin’ on the double again
Zaboo’s sneakin’ up to get a cuddle again
Embryonic Bladezz is makin’ trouble again
And Vork has a monkey, a wah ha ho
Lil Guildies are on the case
Makin’ music and solving crime
And also they’re in outer space
Friends of yours and mine
It’s time for Lil’ Guildies time!
Felicia Day is currently filming a modern take on the Little Red Riding Hood tale for SyFy, called “Red”.
You can check Felicia Day’s blog HERE
Visit Greg’s blog HERE
and visit Paul and Storm’s site HERE
UPDATED: Credits for trailer:
Director/Character Design – Greg Aronowitz
Theme Song – Paul and Storm
Lead Animator – Kevin Ivers
FX Animator – Nick Carmichael
Animator – Daniel Kwan
3D Title Animation – Kris Cadle
Editor – Brad Allen Wilde
Voice Over – Jeff Lewis
Concept by:
Greg Aronowitz
Sean Becker
Felicia Day
Storm DiConstanzo
Kim Evey
Brian Kameoka
Paul Saborin
[Source] TubeFilter, WatchTheGuild
