We’ve got another spicy-flavored animated project in the pipe from prolific animation guru Jorge R. Gutiérrez! It was previously announced that he was working on his first production entirely for adults, a feature film called La Venganza Rodríguez. But it’s not the only such thing he’s thinking about…
He’s now posted a pilot for his proposed new adult animated series, El Guapo vs. the Narco Vampires, on YouTube. The first three minutes are fully animated, while the rest appears in animatic form — but the voices, music and sound effects have all been finished, and it’s a fully watchable cartoon. And it’s quite good!
The proposed new series is inspired by Gutiérrez’ upbringing in Tijuana, Mexico, a locale he describes as chaotic and wild. That’s certainly the world central character El Guapo lives in…a luchador who betrays his brother José during a championship match after selling his soul to a powerful narco-vampire cartel. But both Guapo and José die violently, and Guapo winds up in Hell, where he is granted one last chance to redeem himself. He returns to the living world on a mission to protect his brother’s family from harm, but the evil vampires still have their teeth in him, so to speak.
El Guapo vs. the Narco Vampires was written by Gutierrez and his frequent collaborators Doug and Candie Langdale. It stars the voices of Gutierrez, Sandra Equihua, Grey DeLisle, John Dimaggio, Carlos Alazraqui, Eric Bauza, Hugo Morales, Esther Tejano and Tim Yoon. Yoon also serves as producer, while Equihua puls double duty as the project’s creative consultant and character designer (along with Guiterrez and Diego Ramirez). Storyboards were scratched out by Gus Casio and Eddie Triguerros, under the watch of art director Roman Laney.
You can watch the entire El Guapo vs. the Narco Vampires pilot on YouTube now, but be forewarned once the full animation stops and the animatic stills begin, it’s pretty NSFW. Put the kids to bed before the sex and violence start!
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