The Legendary Quest of Zott the Warrior

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Project History

“Zott the Warrior” first existed as an elementary school comic book drawn with pen & colored pencil on folded printer paper. When created, the characters and scenarios were merely conflations of various video game and cartoon plots and characters I was into at the time, and told the story of a “sword guy” named Zott who went on adventures with his friends.

Over a decade later, my brother Henry and I revisited the idea partway through university, fully reimagining the idea as an original animated series. During this time, and over the next roughly 7 years, the project underwent multiple lifecycles of development and countless rewrites, all the while struggling to maintain traction or momentum.

In 2021, Marty approached some of his most trusted friends and collaborators (Charles Velasquez-Witosky for producing, Edward Loupe for writing, and William Glover for music composition) to help bring a new perspective to what the project could be, and over the next 5 years, the creative vision sharpened, the crew grew, and the storytelling medium itself was re-examined and experimented with until landing on something that played to everyone’s strengths.

Today, “The Legendary Quest of Zott the Warrior” blends the unique visual language of comics and sequential panel layouts with the magic of animation and music, all packaged in a lightly interactive click-through experience. It aims to render a world of vivid, colorful characters, full of ambition and optimism, while not compromising on the harsher truths of growing up in a big, scary, oftentimes indifferent world. Like Max and Ella’s legendary quest, this project’s tumultuous adventure is ultimately what brings us to you today!

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