Pike's Lagoon

Pike's Lagoon is an animated web-series created by Jacob Lenard. It premiered on February 15, 2018. The final episode was released on September 24, 2019.

On November 19, 2019, Lenard said in a now deleted tweet that the series may as well be over, as he doesn't have plans to bring it back anytime soon. However he has since toyed around with the idea of doing more in the future.

Many of the characters continue to make appearances in Loose Ends, with Sammy, Dez, Rodney Snobb and Derby becoming major characters for the series as well as Pike, Frilligan, Limbo, Sea Pumpkin and various others making cameos.

Synopsis
The series revolves around the antics of Pike, a friendly teenage sea monster and her other eccentric, aquatic acquaintances.

Development
Early on in the development of Pike's Lagoon, the series was originally meant to be about Frilligan. In Pike's place was Pementa, a character from Lenard's previous series, Mugman. Lenard decided Pementa was a "lame" character, turned her into a fish and Pike was born. Even earlier drawings reveal that Frilligan was also just Mugman turned into a fish, as he originally had Mugman's color scheme.

The character of Sea Pumpkin was originally a purple urchin, but this design was quickly scrapped because Lenard thought it looked awful. He would then evolve into a species of sea pumpkins and then later just one Sea Pumpkin. Early development depicts sea pumpkins as a collective hivemind of creatures, but later depictions just portray Sea Pumpkin alone. In January 2019, an official model sheet for Sea Pumpkin reveals that "Sea Pumpkin" is his real name and that his species is Frogfish.

In July 2018, an official character bible was created. It contains the updated character designs and personalities.

Production
Pike's Lagoon is animated in Adobe Flash, with many character animations, backgrounds and props being reusable symbols, making each cartoon very easy to make in a short period of time. So far, the shortest amount of time a Pike's Lagoon episode was produced in was "Sea Pumpkin's Salad Search" which was both written and animated in the span of five days. Lenard's other secret to producing episodes in as little time as possible is having a general disregard to how tight or clean an episode looks.