This is owned by Cyanide & Happiness, but I drew and animated everything here! This is an animatic, not the final animation, but if you're interested in how it turned out, click here to watch Land Ho on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2daBleAafY

This one was a breeze. I happened to luck out in temp music finding some track from Sinbad that included a lot of beats that I was able to sync the action to. Steve Lehman, C&H's brilliant music composer, crafted something that went just as well and all original.

The Caribou Queen is an inside joke from my brother Chris and I as children, when we heard the song "Caribbean Queen" by Billy Ocean, we heard it as "Caribou Queen" and upon learning that a Caribou is a reindeer, the song became hilarious to us.

When I auditioned with a test animatic to Cyanide & Happiness, it involved a ship that I also named the Caribou Queen, but that audition is kept under wraps from an NDA- so this was a more public nod to the joke.

I was also listening to a lot of funk as I worked, so slipping in Rick James for sexy temp music was a no-brainer to me. I love these Mermaids, I had a lot of fun posing out their acting, and the guy eating out a starfish is one of my favorite things I've ever done.

Mike Salcedo edited this animatic a little bit for the final shot with the Mermaids in disbelief in the foreground of this beach orgy unfolding before them.

Directed by Mike Salcedo
Screenplay by Kris Wilson
Story by Dave McElfatrick, Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Ryan Hudson, and Joel Watson

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