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What is Seiphur?

Seiphur is the name of my passion project—an animated mystery series set in a dystopian world. It follows Safira, a broke ballerina, who along with two other street performers is forced to team up with an eccentric vigilante thief. Their ever-shifting schemes spiral out of control, leading them to uncover secrets about their own pasts and the terrifying truth behind Seiphur, humanity's last refuge.

Story

Safira is about to give up on her dream of becoming a professional ballerina. Alone, misfit, and broke, she limits herself to performing on the streets of Seiphur, where few stop to watch and even fewer leave a coin. But one day, due to a bureaucratic error, her sad routine is disrupted: Gigante, an eccentric cat trainer, arrives with a permit for the exact same spot.After being met with Safira's usual bad temper, Gigante claims the situation is nothing more than the Ministry sending him to her aid, as he has the perfect solution to fix her life. With nothing left to lose (or even the strength to argue), Safira ends up accepting the madman's pitch, only to soon discover she has become the assistant to a thief posing as a vigilante. With a moral flexibility only surpassed by the size of his ego, Gigante puts Safira in humiliating and dangerous situations, in schemes that, while quite profitable, have nothing to do with her talent for dance.Two more misfits show up with duplicate permits. First Nina, an anti-social young cellist whose native language is violence; followed by Lírio, a kind succulent plant seller, pathologically incapable of worry. Gigante seems, once again, to ignore the obvious error and welcomes them as if they were sent by the Ministry to complete the gang, promptly including them in his plans. Aided by intel from Olli, a talented bartender who records everything that reaches his ears, together they embark on adventures where mysterious disappearances and all-too-convenient coincidences end up transforming Gigante's outlandish schemes into genuine cases around Seiphur's corrupt and powerful elite.Branded as targets and fleeing the brutal forces of the Sacred Stability, Safira, Gigante, Nina, and Lírio seek the truth about that unequal and lethargic society. Along the way, they collide with their own traumas, which intertwine in a plot that not only challenges the status quo of a despotic world but also dangerously questions the very founding of Seiphur, the last refuge for humanity.

What's Seiphur current status?

I have written the script for the pilot episode, a very rough outline for one season, and all the concepts and exercises that you can see on my social media. Since I work on developing Seiphur only during breaks from my professional work, the process, although fun, has been slow. If you'd like to help speed it up, you can do so through my Ko-fi or my Patreon.My goal in the near future is to take the Seiphur pilot to crowdfunding. With that in mind, I recently started planning a minute-and-a-half trailer where I will be able to collaborate with many artists I admire.

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