UPDATE 20/05/16

As you can see, pre-production has begun on my next film (working title: The Hamleigh Escalation or Fear Itself) after many many months of uncertain development involving 3 different stories no less. After some brief ideas from one of my comrades - Frank Norman I have been able to come up with the latest flick.

To be honest, I feel story wise this may be the best movie I've ever written. I'm usually not one for drawing from my own life for inspiration but the themes of anxiety and how it can make monsters out of us if we feed it are prominent and in my opinion make it a very worth while story.

Currently writing the script but as of yet haven't much clue when to expect it to be released.

In comic news the long announced Shortlad Rebooted has been dropped for a new full length comic book reboot. My new comic imprint - Pugly Studios will premier next Monday on Tumblr. Aiming for a page to be released every Monday and Friday at least for Issue #1 you can check that out here: http://theadventuresofshortlad.tumblr.com/

ANIMATED SHORTLAD TEST

One day I randomly stumbled upon a video by Happy Harry which was very helpful in explaining basically how to work a good flash animation. So I through together an improvised animation featuring Shortlad fighting some sort of large snake just for fun. I think it turned out pretty swell and maybe some day if I put enough commitment into learning animation there may be a new and improved Short Lad: The Animated Series.

NEW SHORTLAD COMIC WEBSITE!!

I have recently been searching for a more fitting home for Shortlad than a simple Facebook page, and after quite a while of searching, I've discovered a website hoster whom I feel would best archive Shortlad.

So from now on you can experience Shortlad's adventures on:
http://theadventuresofshortlad.webcomic.ws/

Updates will be irregular but I will try and keep them often. I'm excited about this and the website also has a feature for me to produce more pages in the future, so look forward to an eventual character page, links, possibly a motion comic and a whole lot more.

GETTING A FOOT IN THE DOOR - A Short Film about a foot

Not bad for a film entirely conceived, shot and edited all within about an hour and a half. It's meant to be a parody/or a homage to those various art films which really don't feature much going on. I think it turned out very good and open to interpretation...again, not bad for a 'bored film'



oh also I have a new scanner app which means when I upload more shortlad they won't look like utter shit!

Shortlad Neo

Season 3 is where I began to take this story more seriously. After a brief couple months hiatus I finally began work on 'Shortlad Neo'. With this I wanted to take inspiration from the 1980's 'The Transformers: The Movie' in the shock factor. With familiar characters being killed off and a large part of the story being centered around the people who would otherwise be side characters. This season also marks the start of main villains continuing from previous seasons. It is perhaps one of; if not my favourite season. I particularly am happy with the final episode cliffhanger and for all you confused - Shortlad Junior is now just Shortlad. (Think the 'He Lives In You' song from 'The Lion King' musical.....only more so)

Episode 1: The Short Fill-In
Episode 2: The Short Spy
Episode 3: The Short Crash
Episode 4: The Short Brawl
Episode 5: The Short Tragedy
Episode 6: The Short Passing
Episode 7: The Short Resurrection
Episode 8: The Short But Lucky Survivors
Episode 9: The Short Off-Screen Action
Episode 10: The Short Final Fight
Episode 11: The Short Final Fight Part 2
Episode 12: The Short Final Fight Part 3
Episode 13: The Short Cliffhanger
Special: The Origin of Zillgrus

Shortlad Neo Episode Batch Release

I have begun releasing Season 3 on the net. The first 5 episodes are currently online on the Facebook page.

Episode 1: The Short Fill-In

After 16 years of fighting back Zeno's evil forces, a stronger evil begins to make its move...

Episode 2: The Short Spy

As Shortlad checks whether the shuttle containing key to his HQ's weapons is ready, he doesn't realize he is being watched from afar.

Episode 3: The Short Crash

As a massacre unfolds in the shuttle, Shortlad Jr. travels back to the Metrobase.

Episode 4: The Short Brawl

Seeing the amount of bloodshed in the city, Shortlad decides that today must be Zeno's final battle.

Episode 5: The Short Tragedy

The battle between warriors becomes violent.

The New Adventures of Shortlad

Season 2! oh yes I remember this! I wrote this entire season (excluding the specials) in the span of only one week due to the completely unexpected positive reception of Season 1. This is why many aspects of the story this season are rather rushed. The 13 minimum episode count has been reduced to a mere 7 episodes. In fact in episode 7 Biscuitboy was to have a more thought out appearance instead of suddenly showing up out of nowhere as Zeno's henchmen for 1 episode. Due to the clearly rushed nature of the season, plans for a follow-up 'Movie-Sized' issue to The Short Wars were shelved and eventually abandoned. However a majority of the planned ideas found their way into Season 3. Despite all these shortcomings Season 2 features the debut of many characters who would become key figures in the overall Shortlad storyline, including: Larry, Tribe Leader, Bugsey (at this time called Rabbey) and the current longest running villain: Zeno.

Episodes:
Episode 1: The Short Reunion
Episode 2: The Short Flashback
Episode 3: The Short Stowaway
Episode 4: The Short Master of the House
Episode 5: The Short Fight
Episode 6: The Short Tribe
Episode 7: The Short Wars
P.S.A. Special: Don't Do Drugs
X-Mas Special: The Biscuit That Stole Christmas

The Adventures of Shortlad

Here it is! Season One now completely online! well minus the Season Two teaser. But here it is, the very first batch of my longest running creative endeavor and probably my most well received. Originally started as something to stave off boredom in English and Maths lessons it eventually grew into a whole franchise. I noticed one of my friends Alex Dixey (Alovision on YouTube) was writing a doodle-comic-strip called Kettleboy. His original strips were very Spongebob-esque, very episodic and very small scale problems. I was inspired by these however soon after I realized I could craft an epic out of this format. Hence, why Shortlad soon became an Interdimensional hero.

I also quickly saw the opportunity for a crossover between our two allowing me to use a Kettleboy from an alternate universe in this story line first appearing in Episode XI. The villains in this season had also previously first appeared in a movie I had made - 'Zoido: Destroyer of Worlds' this is why the bio-weapon that Frogzoid is trying to create is called Zoido Mark II. I will upload this movie once I find a way to regain that footage. Fun-fact: In the movie Frogzoid was originally a Burger King or McDonalds toy used to promote the 2006 movie 'Flushed Away'. Also the first two issues have been redrawn from their original versions.

Episodes:

Episode I: Coming of the Short

Episode II: The Short Problem

Episode III: Cookies and Short Milk

Episode IV: Short Jobs

Episode V: The Short Return

Episode VI: The Short Return Part 2

Episode VII: The Short Return Part 3

Episode VIII: The Short Interdimensional Encounter

Episode IX: The Short Crossover

Episode X: The Short Calm Before the Storm

Episode XI: A Short Epic Climax

Episode XII: A Short Epic Climax Part 2

Episode XIII: The Short Epilogue

P.S.A Special: Traffic Safety