What is Lothar, King of Metal?

The Goal

Lothar, King of Metal is a stop motion animation series being produced by a team of two artists who do every step of the production process, from writing to editing.

The primary goal of our project is to produce a series of short episodes that cronicle the trials of Lothar, King of Metal in his struggle to bring Heay Metal Music back to it's dominant position in the galaxy.

Our secondary goal is to use extremley low budget equipment to achieve our primary goal. the limitations of our equipment force us to come up with creative way to achieve our production goals, and gives Lothar, King of Metal a distinctive look and feel. Our entire budget for the project is < $1000.00 The philosophy, do more with less.

Realy, the goal is to have fun, make some cool art to share and learn somthing from the experience.

Sartain fools with the Slavegirls in an early piece of test footage

Models, Characters and Sets

Our sets are built in the bedroom of Stoned Ghoste, we have very limited space

The models, characters, and sets are all hand made using a variety of art supplies and toys.

First picture ever taken of TVbot

Hardware

For the geeks like us out there below is a list of equipment we use to produce LKOM.

Episode 1

• Sony Cybershot DSC P52 @1.3 MegaPixles
• AIPTEK IS-DV
• Laptop 1.3Ghz Celeron 512MB RAM
• Desktop 2.3Ghz Athalon 64 512MB RAM
• (2) 300 GB external USB 2.0 HDs

Software

• Cyberlink Power Director 5.0
• Video Blender
• Ray Dream 3D 1.0
• SwishMax
• Audacity
• Windows Paint

Episode 2

• We upgraded to a Cannon Rebel XT 8MP camera
• We added a 120 GB WD passport Hard Drive
• We now have almost 800 GB of storage space between the three drives and two computers

The Slavegirls are sexy!

Inspiration / Influences

• Rankin/Bass Holiday Specials (Tadahito Mochinaga 1964-1970)
• Stingray (Gerry Anderson 1963)
• The Little Prince (Will Vinton 1979)
• Unico (Osamu Tezuka1979-1983)
• The Adventures of Tintin (Hergé 1929-1986)