I made a lil loop for Loop de Loop’s “Chicken” theme!
Featuring Nyx from Roz Wells and the Vortex
Nyx making use of the full moon 🌕
Experimenting with some potential Atlantean incidentals
Here's a few poses & expressions of that Atlantean dude. His name's Atlas.
Here’s a lil vignette from CCJHS. What’s going on? Use your imagination!
And who’s this Atlantean dude handing out flyers? He seems pretty popular.
Nyx summons an entity from beyond in her crystal ball
Who's this Atlantean dude? And what's going down at CCJHS?
Here’s the color version!
This is Nyx, a character from Roz Wells + The Vortex that I’ve been keeping secret until now.
I wanted to make sure to really focus on Roz, Dee and Uma early on, because they’re really the core of the show (and the band).
She’s an Atlantean, and I haven’t really shown you any Atlantean characters yet. They’re from an ancient pre-Egyptian civilization that developed magically where we developed technologically. They eventually abused that magic (dark magic, specifically) to the point that it destroyed their civilization in a cataclysm, but survivors spread out across the earth and lived in secret until the government spilled the beans on them, the grays and the sasquatch.
Now they’re back out in the open living among us, but they don’t do much serious magic these days. Just piddly crystal charms and love-and-light stuff - safe and harmless! But Nyx’s family, descended from dark wizards, secretly held on to some of the old books, the forbidden books, full of dangerous ancient spells...
She fancies herself really dark and moody and deep, so she likes to break out the books and conjure up magical solutions to her (or the band’s) problems. She really has no idea what she’s doing, though, so it always backfires horribly.
She’s pretty good on the keyboards, though, so while she’s at first a bit of a groupie/tag-along type, she does eventually play with the band on occasion.
Random trivia: The reddish metal used in the headbands and other jewelry of the Atlanteans in Crystal Canyon is orichalcum.
I’m bored, so here’s the final piece of pitch art from my recent Roz Wells + The Vortex series pitch.
As promised, I’ll explain a bit more about the premise:
The show takes place in Crystal Canyon, a southwest desert town filled with epic red rock formations (think Sedona, AZ). Much like the real Sedona, AZ, this one is populated with eccentric hippies and new-age types who moved out there to take advantage of a natural “energy vortex” in the land. This is essentially modern day earth, but in a “post-disclosure” world. A very well worded internet petition convinced the government to spill the beans on everything - there were grays living in subterranean hives before humans ever showed up, and sasquatch were living in secluded forest communities. Plus, Atlantis was real, and blue haired, crystal-loving survivors were still living in scattered corners of the world.
Now all that stuff is old news - no one cares nor is shocked about it - and a good chunk of those grays, sasquatch and Atlanteans have moved to Crystal Canyon where the local hippy weirdos won’t judge them.
Roz, the human kid protagonist, is just on the cusp of adolescence and is feeling that universal need to rebel against the status quo. It turns out it’s really difficult to do that in a place as weird and accepting as Crystal Canyon. She forms a band with fellow outcasts Dee (a sasquatch who’s more junk-food loving hedonist than peaceful nature person) and Umma (a defective gray clone, more individualistic than her hive-minded peers, unable to sync up to her fellow grays’ telepathic network) in order to shake things up in town.
They attend Crystal Canyon Junior High, which has a non-competetive yoga squad in place of a football team at the height of its social hierarchy. It features such odd teachers as an Atlantean science teacher whose explanation for everything is crystals, and a gray history teacher who insists students memorize millions of years worth of gray history.
That’s probably more than enough information for now. If you read all of that, congratulations! Reblog this baby if you’d wanna watch this!
I’ve been pitching this show around town lately, and usually I keep this stuff completely secret until I either sell it or don’t, but this is 2015 - what’s the point of secrecy?
The networks will either buy it or they won’t, so why hide it in a dank, dark hole where no one even knows it exists while I wait around for a call back?
What do you people think? Like? No like? Would you want to watch?
If I get 100 notes I’ll post another gif from the pitch artwork!