‘New Eden’ on a series mission
Sci-fi web cartoon ‘New Eden’ on a mission for a series…
New Eden follows the adventures of bickering odd couple Murray and Hamilton, two starship crewmen marooned and fighting for their lives on a primordial world after their starship crash lands on the wrong planet!
A labour of love for independent creative duo Brett Snelgrove and Freek van Haagen, the New Eden pilot is inspired by their love of off kilter comedy and a childhood of watching of science-fiction cartoons.
New Eden’s Dutch animator and co-creator Freek describes New Eden as “what would happen if two nobodies from the Starship Enterprise got themselves marooned on an alien planet all because one of them pressed the wrong button while the other was off taking a leak.”
London-based Australian and fellow co-creator Brett says “we’ve got ten episodes scripted, budgeted and ready to go.”
The pilot and a series of shorts have been online for a few months now and have been picking up pace with fans from around the world, if you haven’t yet seen them, check a few out at the bottom of the page or head over to the New Eden youtube to see them all.
Freek says “we wanted to come up with a way to reward our fans for their support but knew we couldn’t produce more episodes. That’s when we hit upon the idea of the animated shorts and the Facebook game.”
Brett says “we’ve got some other cool ideas in the works as well and over the next couple of months we’ll be working our butts off to win over as many people as possible.”
Freek adds “fan support is the number one thing that will help us attract a sponsor. So if people want to see a New Eden series then all they need to do is watch, like and share the pilot.”
Fans can connect with New Eden on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and watch the pilot on the New Eden website as well as YouTube and Vimeo.
Check out the New Eden Pilot and Shorts below…
