About

Welcome!

Heavy Cat Studios is the animation division of Heavy Cat Multimedia. We build the games, comics, audiocasts, e-books, animated webisodes, characters and stories audiences enjoy.

With an unmatched and highly talented team of 28 industry professionals, including artists, actors, developers and writers, Heavy Cat Studios is uniquely qualified to deliver top quality creative products and support to the growing online entertainment market.

Here are just a few of the ways Heavy Cat Studios can make your business look and sound better.

GAMES

“I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.”
– Shigeru Miyamoto

No product we make combines our studio’s talents quite like interactive games. Heavy Cat Studios has developed or co-developed ten titles with a combined two million plays. Our newest mobile and Flash game projects are an exciting combination of storytelling, colorful characters and top production values.

We can contribute the same professionalism and quality to your game project, whether it is designing a single monster or developing a completely new look and feel for your game. Let’s see what we can build together! Heavy Cat Studios game services include:

Piecework Graphics: Need a building? Pet? Treasure? Dragon? We can deliver
Re-Skins: Take your engine, add our graphics and sound. Increase sponsorships and gameplays
Logo and Menus: Add character and color and increase your game’s appeal
Voices and Dialogue: Increase dramatic intensity with an enhanced soundtrack
Interactivity: Give your players a new set of challenges
Design Consultation: Put our 13 years of industry experience to work

DESIGN

“If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.”
– Chuck Jones

With so many years of experience, one thing we know is that characters are evergreen. They are always appealing and they give your project an identity that no other single feature can.

We create characters here. We can give your project a unique personality. We can create:

Mascots: Characters to represent your game, site or product
Avatars: In-game characters to represent players and their opponents
Heroes: Main characters to advance your plots and stories
Personalities: Spokes-characters to promote your ideas
Featured Creatures: We’ve got more monsters than Halloween. Boo.

STORY

“With words alone, I have an unlimited special effects budget.”
– W. Scott

Overlooked in almost every medium of entertainment is the overwhelming value of a good story. At Heavy Cat Studios we start every project with story. Good stories are fun, and if we’re not having fun, then our audiences aren’t either. We can put words to your project and add tremendous value to your presentation.

What kind of a story do you want to tell? How can we help? Heavy Cat Studios can create:

Promotional Copy: Tell the world what makes your product unique
Backstory and Quests: Don’t just tell game players what to do, tell them why
Descriptive Copy: A good game description is the key to new players and fans
Instructions: Nothing adds value to a game like well-written clear instructions
Technical Design: If you want quality, you need a clear plan. We can help
Scripts: Bring your story to the action with a professional writer

ANIMATION

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”
– Dr. Seuss

Have you ever wondered what it is about animation that audiences respond to so powerfully? Everyone has a favorite cartoon. Everyone knows what it is like to see characters move and speak and dance, whether in film, games, television or on the web.

Here at Heavy Cat Studios, we take animation very seriously, because animation is always a show. And nothing attracts an audience like a good show. We can build:

Animated Banners: Flash or GIF format. Our banners get attention.
Flash Pre-Loaders: First impressions count. Make sure yours is the best
Sprite Sheets: We can put pro animators to work on your games and characters
Cut Scenes and Trailers: No matter what your project is, nothing sells like a compelling animated trailer

At Heavy Cat Studios, we have the strength, the talent and the capacity to take your project to the next level. E-mail us today. There’s nothing we enjoy more than a new idea.

Let’s talk.

Creative Team

Humbug

Senior Designer and Commander of the Robot Armies

Designer of some 300 complete published webcomic pages and dozens of creatures, characters and concepts, Humbug has established a distinguished body of work. With a distinctive technique combining traditional “comic book” characters and anime style, “Bug” brings a polished, clear and appealing presentation to a variety of genres.

Humbug is the driving force behind the LadyStar™ webcomic series, and is also responsible for a great many of the warrior, villain, creature and weapon designs. She is also the artist and creator of both the popular Tales of Pylea and Tales of Pylea: Crux webcomics.

Animetor

Senior Artist, Animation Lead and Panda Fleet Ace Pilot

“If it’s handmade, cute and fluffy, chances are I’ve already fawned over and owned it.”

Race: Hyperactive Human of Malaya
Class: Fanatic Collector of Ultra Cute and Irresistibly Adorable Fuzzies
Armor: Wall of Plushies
Speed: Ping-Pong ball
Attack Power: Doubts of Sanity MkII
Primary Attack: Screech in #E
Primary Defense: Canon in #D
Weapon: Electric guitar paired with zero guitar knowledge
Magic Spell: Army of Cute, I Summon thee!
Animal Companion: George the lion and a solar-powered Pandariot
Special Ability: Spacing out while looking absolutely serious about serious business; Having memory of a goldfish

“I loved watching animations ever since a child, and studied hard to achieve my dreams. Up to now I have had valuable experience working with some companies dealing in comics and animation. I enjoy drawing in manga/anime style the most, and created a few comics of my own. My favourite things are plushies, Fantasy & Sci-fi novels and A&W’s root beer.”

Animetor is the artist and creator of Magician’s Quest and Shinigami Odin.

Emily

Associate Producer, Senior Artist and Skillet Melee Instructor

“AUGH!”

Race: Delusions of Faerydom
Class: Short Tempered Redhead cliche
Armor: +5 Quadskates of Scarpering
Speed: Faster than the other Jammer
Attack Power: Bark is worse than her Bite (but her bite is pretty bad)
Primary Attack: Shoe to the face!
Primary Defense: Yelling at you to quit bothering her
Weapon: Cast Iron Frying Pan
Magic Spell: Brady’s Incendiary Skillet
Animal Companion: Geoff the conscience butterfly
Special Ability: Organising the hell out of everything

Emily is a professional painter, illustrator and art tutor, and lives in her attic studio in sunny England. Her main interests are mythology, story telling …and faeries. Mostly faeries actually. Emily’s artwork and webcomics can be found at Footloose.

Laura Fedora

Associate Producer, Writer and Voice Actor

“My mind wanders so much, it needs a passport.”

Race: Polishski
Class: Aquarius Artist
Armor: +6 Jaunty Fedora
Speed: molasses in an igloo
Attack Power: 2 rolls of d12
Primary Attack: the ZOMG Sword Slam
Primary Defense: the Ridonculous Non Sequitur
Weapon: Garnet Sai Blade
Magic Spell: Garnet Hat Trick
Animal Companion: Kit T. Cat
Special Ability: easily amused

For about the first ten years of her life, Laura only read fairy tales, folk tales, and myths, giving her a great imagination and a severe case of delusion. With the studio, she helps produce all the LadyStar™ audio content and provides the voice for Talitha Hayashi. Within the studio, she also does writing commissions, mainly descriptions for online games.

She has a degree in writing and two published ebooks with hopes to publish more. Outside of the studio, she likes reading, acting on stage, playing video games, playing with puppets, and voice acting. A resume of completed voice work can be found at laurafedora.webs.com. She also works as a freelance editor and as a circ desk and youth services librarian.

Cathrine

Assistant Artist, Environments

“There is magic everywhere and if you can’t see it, I will show you”

Race: Exiled Swedish Raccoon Extraordinaire
Class: Creativity fanatic
Armor: +8 Blinding smile
Speed: Mach 5
Attack Power: Stomping
Primary Attack: High pitch laughter and hissing
Primary Defense: Fluffy tail dance confusion
Weapon: Black pen of Fire
Magic Spell: Rounding everyone up one big fuzzy ball of fun!
Animal Companion: Edgar the pet dragon and an army of mini fantasy critters
Special Ability: Patience, patience and more patience

Cathrine has always been quite obsessed. Obsessed with creating fantasy artworks, paper crafting, creating fantasy artworks, fantasy worlds and stories, creating fantasy artworks, baking and creating fantasy artworks. Did I mention fantasy artworks? She has a degree in teaching but soon after graduating she realized that what she really wanted to do was to focus at doing art, and these days she works as a digital artist freelancer.

She is completely self taught in the digital side of art and has in recent years had several fantasy artworks published in art-magazines and in an art book. Her future plans involve world domination, visiting other planets and doing artworks for fantasy films and epic games. If she is not sitting by her computer creating images you’ll most likely find her out walking in the forest or picking fossils at the nearest beach. Cathrine is an assistant artist for Heavy Cat Studios and enjoys this role immensely. Doing a bit of everything but really loving the creation of scenes and concept art, she finds her creativity being right at home here!

KarenK

Voice Actor

“Form follows thought.”

Race: Humanoid autonomous robot
Class: Peacemaker
Armor: Titanium alloy cladding
Speed: Of sound
Attack Power: Subtle yet inexorable
Primary Attack: The Agonizingly Detailed Analysis
Primary Defense: The Deflected Compliment
Weapon: Sharp pointy intellect. If that doesn’t work, hitting really hard.
Magic Spell: Omnipresent Origami of Obfuscation
Animal Companion: Polydactyl black cat
Special Ability: Dancing the mazurka

Karen worked as an environmental consultant, a seismic analyst, a science writer, and an academic editor before deciding to run away and join the performing-arts circus. While she has acted for years, she is a relative newcomer to voice work. One of Heavy Cat Studios’ voice artists, she particularly enjoys her role as Reina, Vicereine of Kulnas.

When not behind a mic, on a stage, or in front of a camera, she can be found hiking, reading, watching anime, seeing live theater, listening to old school punk, or eating food she can’t pronounce in restaurants where she doesn’t speak the language. A former competitive Irish stepdancer, she also enjoys performing and teaching folk and vintage dance. Karen lives in Southern California with her husband Robert, her cat Nuala, and her incurable addiction to PJ Harvey.

Visit karenkahler.nowcasting.com for a summary of Karen’s acting experience and karenkahler.voice123.com for more information about her voice work.

Luneder

Assistant Artist

“When hell freezes over and heaven burns down, then I might do it.”

Race: Orc
Class: Photoshop Warrior
Armor: +6 Epic Painter Gauntlets
Speed: +5 improved deadline haste
Attack Power: +10 pawning
Primary Attack: head bashing
Primary Defense: Human Shield
Weapon: Sword of a Thousand Truths in the right hand, and Sword of a Thousand Lies in the other
Magic Spell: Conjure Beer
Animal Companion: Rocket Propelled Griffon (warning Rockets not included)
Special Ability: Drinking a 24 pack of Pepsi in one sitting

Luneder has been freelancing in art for a couple of years now doing character and monsters designs along with some other fantasy genre projects. He have been working on a degree in Graphic Design for a few years now and expects to have it sometime next year. When it comes to art, he is always looking for new endeavors into kinds of art he has never worked on before, greatest way to combat inexperience is with experience. He works relatively fast and likes communication to get as close as possible for ideal art.

Most of his experience lies in illustration and concept work whether it be making visual representations of the character, or that monster you have been wanting in your game for a while. There is usually something that everyone has imagined up at some time, it is his job to show you that something.

Dan Man

Sound Engineer and Voice Actor

“Why be subtle when you can be awesome?”

Race: Banana
Class: Snarky loudmouth
Armor: +7 hoodie of +7ness
Speed: +8 right before deadlines
Attack Power: Good enough for government work
Primary Attack: BOOT TO THE HEAD
Primary Defense: Witty remarks
Weapon: The Sacrilegious Spork
Magic Spell: Plaid Power
Vehicle: Laser-powered Longboard
Special Ability: Ballroom dance

The Dan Man is a chemistry graduate student by day and a voice actor by night. He has always harbored a fascination and respect for acting, but never actively pursued it until his junior year in college. He has recently entered the world of voice acting, which allows him to continue acting around his busy academic schedule. Although he has already landed a number of roles, he is always looking for new parts to play, to push his skills to their limits and expand his acting repertoire.

Dan Man is both an audio editor and actor, voicing multiple characters in the LadyStar Battlefire Action Audiocast.

Cat

Executive Producer, Writer and Rocket Train Engineer

“I’ll never get over Macho Grande.”

Race: The Belmont Stakes
Class: I has it
Armor: +7 Tailored Tuxedo of Style
Speed: c
Attack Power: Several
Primary Attack: Raised Eyebrow
Primary Defense: Crane Technique
Weapon: Fusion Charged Bowler Hat
Magic Spell: Conjure Party Banquet
Animal Companion: Dragons. Lots of Dragons.
Vehicle: Submersible Speedboat
Special Ability: Five-star Stir Fry

Cat writes original scripts, designs and stories for Heavy Cat Studios productions, including the LadyStar™ Battlefire Action Audiocast and Original Animated Series, HCS Original Games including Strike Fleet Athena and O’Malley’s Mudcats, and Heavy Cat Multimedia’s library of characters including Crispy the Dragon, Commander Acey, The Zombie Plumbers and Railgranny.