The Lotto (2017)

What would happen if the Grim Reaper found a Lotto Ticket? This animated 'pixilation' short follows just such an event as the classically inspired Grim Reaper sets out on the daily rounds of soul collecting and comes into the possession of a winning lottery ticket from his latest victim. However today is the day something unique happens to the nightmarish character which brings a new twist to an old tale. The Lotto film was inspired at 30,000 feet while listening to the soundtrack of M. Night Shyamalan's 2004 film, The Village. The Academy Award winning musical score by James Newton Howard evoked vivid visuals in the clouds outside the aircraft window and I wrote them down as fast as my pen could write. Over ten years later and three complete musical compositions, fifteen shoot locations and almost a full year of animated testing, the film has been completed.