I was sitting down to work on my next piece. And I wanted it to be BIG. So big, in fact, that I could already see the title card for the animated feature in my mind…
WILDFYRE
But what … was … Wildfyre???
Was it a place?
Was it a person?
No.
As I pictured the opening sequence, I saw something big come crashing over the horizon … with whitecaps breaking against its bow as the music of a thousand men men rhythmically chanting rang out.
Yes.
Wildfyre was a ship!
A massive ship – with a huge, stone mast and massive sails that carried a crew of crusaders back to their people in glorious victory. They were hunters, and they had just finished up a successful harvest that would keep their tribe hearty for another year.
But there was a catch … as there always is.
Because these proud hunters scoured the land for exotic animals, and unbeknownst to them the animals that they took were the last of their kind.
They were about to find out the consequences of their pillaging in a very unsavory way.