Heavy Cat Studios New Services!
Jan 22nd
Mechanical Illustrations Featured!
Jan 15th
Heavy Cat Studios two newest game projects feature their newest mechanical and technology designs.
Heavy Cat Studios Expands!
Nov 20th
With its workload expanding to all-time highs, Heavy Cat Studios has expanded its acclaimed animation and illustration line to eleven artists led by four new producers responsible for game illustration, concept design, animation and audio production. In addition, the studio has launched a sound team consisting of nine voice actors including two sound engineers.
Heavy Cat Studios is now prepared to produce end-to-end broadcast-quality animation, casual web-based game graphics, music and sound, mobile app design, voices and sprite animation, in addition to its own entertainment portfolio including the upcoming LadyStar™ Battlefire Audiocast, the LadyStar™ Animated Series and the re-launch of its comic, arcade and game properties.
Visit our Studio Illustration and Animation Gallery to see some of the incredible work of our professional illustration and animation team, and read about the capabilities of our artists and voice actors.
If you or your company has a game, animation, mobile app or web project, please e-mail us today! We would enjoy discussing your project with you!
Heavy Cat Studios Game Lineup Announced!
Aug 5th
Heavy Cat Multimedia recently announced their Studio Game Lineup for 2011.
Headlining the slate is the third game in the popular LadyStar™ series, called LadyStar Jessica Hoshi Superfighter Punch! a magical fighting platform game, Fat Guys on Tricycles with Bazookas, a platform shooter and the unique tower defense game Medieval Galleons, the sequel to O’Malley’s Mudcats.
LadyStar: The Dreamspeaker Receives Critical Acclaim!
Jun 11th
LadyStar™ The Dreamspeaker, W. Scott’s first volume in the Ajan Warriors Series has received numerous positive reviews since its release in February, 2011. The novel-length story follows the adventures of Jessica Hoshi and her friends who discover magical jewelry that can turn into powerful weapons and their journey to the enchanted realm of Aventar to do battle with the evil Cryptics.
Missy’s Reads and Reviews says “Chock full of adventure, vivid imagery and fantastic characters,” while Seaside Book Nook says they “I couldn’t put it down,” and Read to Read GA writes “The descriptions are so vivid you start to believe you’re in the book.”
Ten chapters of LadyStar™ The Dreamspeaker are available free to read on Ajan Champions Web Fiction, and the Kindle ebook is available now!
LadyStar Treasures of Ajanel Launches
May 25th
Heavy Cat Studios, Palace in the Sky Publishing and Fat Panda Games present the newest game featuring the characters from LadyStar™ Introducing LadyStar: Treasures of Ajanel.
Hidden among the pages of the popular LadyStar: Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors webcomic are valuable and rare treasures from the realm of Aventar. Can you find them all? There are even Ajan Treasures like Dawnsong and Nightfall might be discoverable!
LadyStar: Treasures of Ajanel also appears on premium Flash Game Arcades like Flash Games Nexus and Thor Gaming.
Welcome to the Heavy Cat Web
Feb 10th
Heavy Cat Multimedia Ltd. is a creative group specializing in interactive design, color illustration, linear animation, original fiction, concept development, script doctoring and speculative research. We operate over a dozen popular web properties and we have had a continuous web presence since 1996.
Heavy Cat Multimedia has been at the forefront of entertainment innovation as developer and publisher of one of the first commercial persistent browser-based games (PBBG) (LadyStar™: Reflections in a Dream zStory™ Adventure) and one of the first complete works of original fiction published exclusively on a blog (LadyStar: The Dreamspeaker Webnovel).
Quality Illustration and Animation
Heavy Cat Studios was established in 2008 to develop character designs and top-quality illustrations for the company’s creative projects. Since then, our featured webcomics LadyStar: Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors and LadyStar: Fury of the Venom Legion have generated over one million pageviews.
Our team of professional artists has also developed the illustrations, user interfaces and presentation designs for seven commercial games on the Adobe® Flash® platform. Together, our premiere Flash web-based games have been played over two million times and generated hundreds of thousands of new readers for our webcomics and players for our other games.
Our animators have brought broadcast-quality cel-shaded linear animation to our list of commercial facilities, enabling our studio to build pre-roll advertising, animatics, concept presentations and game sprites for some of the most popular comic and game destinations on the web.
If it’s a creative illustration, Heavy Cat Studios gets it on paper or on the screen, on time and on budget.
Better Technology for Better Fiction
Speculative fiction incorporates the fantasy adventure, science fiction and horror genres. These genres have only become more prominent in popular culture, and audiences are increasingly demanding well-written and authentically developed worlds to explore and experience.
When authors and developers need technology for their fictional worlds, they require the services of a consultancy with both experience and audience success. Does your game world need a fictional civilization? Do your interstellar pirates need weapons and power-armor? Does your undersea comic need fantastic creatures? We will both invent and illustrate your concept. We make your imagined inventions real.
Strategic Design
Heavy Cat Multimedia was among the first companies to ask “what if we used a web browser as a game interface?”
The answer to that question promoted the invention of Game Markup Language, an XML schema for describing adventure game environments, Dynamic Systems Engineering, an abstracted object-oriented protocol for mathematically modeling strategy game components, and the Tranquility™ Browser Game Engine, which still powers our browser-based game designs.