The tape arrived of my TV interview for the show EVOLVER. Put it to one side for ages before finally working up the bravery to watch it...

And its not at all bad! Somehow they've managed to make me look halfway decent, like I knew what i was talking about! What are the chances of that happening?!?!?

Sit back and wait for it to be shown now. I know its on in the far east first, so that should be a laugh. Then Uk , then US.

So I await more mad email... get it sent!!!

Don’t want to go into too much detail, theres gotta be some surprises, right? But at some point in this godforsaken war, Chicken George is seen carrying this:







What does it say? What does it mean? Why would he do that? Who cares?

Finished the opening sequence of SICK PUPPY:MOON... and very BIG it is too. Unlike BEER which was all in one room, we start in space, cross the Antarctic, flashback to VIETMARS and surprise, surprise... blow up a large building. But that ending...that ending....

Those oh so nice chaps from GAMER.TV came round to my house... like you do. An interview... a real telly interview with me!?!?!? Ha! I'd like to say I was brilliant, and gave hugely entertaining answers. But that would be lying. I was pretty crap to be honest. Still, plenty of footage and behind the scenes 'making of' shenigans were had. And I'll let y'all know when its gonna be on!

Best thing is, the show is syndicated to the US and Japan, so SICK PUPPY's world domination begins here! MOOOHOOHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaa ha!

People have raised the fact that the format seems a bit limiting - especially for an ongoing series.

Surely the story of an angry dog with a big gun might get a bit… repetitive. Well, yes… and no. Surely the tale of a man who turned green and smashed things up every time he got angry is limiting?

But The Incredible Hulk ran for years. Or look at every James Bond film - now theres a formula. And they keep doing it. It practically writes itself.

Anyway, one of the nice things about the character is his flexibility. Sick Puppy works in multiple genres: Action(obviously), comedy, science fiction, horror, westerns… hell, even musicals (just an idea I've been mulling over)

PUP FICTION: FRIENDLY FIRE completed.

Same as before, set entirely in the bar with the reappearance of one of our martian friends in a drinking cameo. Probably the most complex of these shorts (purely as it has the most characters) with an explosive ending!

Gee Dave, that IS a surprise.

Theres another website www.studioartfx.com Ive also been following for years. Another one man band, like the RUSTBOY guy, except this guy has actually finished a few productions. Its in the manga/anime style not like Sick Puppy, but looks really good.

Again he’s been in the cycle of ‘planning the next one’ for what seems like an eternity, but Im holding out that he’ll create a masterpiece…

And here it is in place, gearing up to unleash fiery death – im happy with that.

PUP FICTION: SWEARBOX is finished. Another 3 minute moment of madness. Kind of making up for the lack of bad language in other episodes, this one wallows in it!

PUP FICTION: DIME is complete. Elegant in its simplicity it features only Sick Puppy and a new character Chicken George. Yes.. he IS a chicken. Set in a familiar looking bar interior, George only came in for a beer - buy where is the usual owner... and just why is there an antisocial pup behind the bar...?

Building a martian war machine now… Ive always wanted to do that.

Sick Shorts aka Pup Fiction is well underway now, with the second episode 'Friendly fire' just completed.

This is another 2/3 minute short set in the SEAL CLUB bar and grill (as are they all) featuring the return of fan faves The Martians and Mr Fishhead (okay he never actually had a name - he was just the unfortunate shark behind the bar iin BEER) New character Red Bear also makes an appearance.

I have yet to do opening and closing credits, but they will only be short and will tie all the episodes together. I can also pad and trim accordingly to make all the eps the same length... very sneaky!

Have built some jet powered mopeds!

I have received a multitude of emails asking for more SICK PUPPY... When're the next episodes on? Well, sorry folks but thats the only one Ive done.

Its okay though coz I'm getting restless again. Ive scripted out two of the episodes listed in 'episodes' and started modelling work on ICE.

But then I got thinking... do I really want to spend months and months on one story? Do I, do I really?

Though Im sure I could do it faster than BEER, I have decided to instead do a number of quick SICK PUPPY FIXES. Very short shorts featuring all that makes SICK PUPPY great: the guns, the one liners, the attitude.

And get them done in record time.

Have just discovered SciFi are showing the HEADF##K series again, meaning everyone who keeps asking me where they can see it/ buy it/ download it can set their VCRs to Saturday November 16th 2006(provisionally)

On the development front, I have built some of the sets for SICK PUPPY: ICE along with some test renders. Will post these in the weeks to come.
Also, I mentioned previously that I was thinking of creating a few extra short shorts to break up the monotony of working on one 10 minute story.

Fanfare of trumpets! I have just finished the first episode of my new miniseries PUP FICTION. Each ep will be about 2mins long set in the world o fthe pup.
This first ep 'DIME' took about 1 week not including sound fx or editing - i still have to do a title sequence that they can all use... but its a start.

A friend of mine has suggested that it might be cool for the soldiers to ride jet powered mopeds…. And I just cant shake the idea…. That’s the last time I’ll listen to him.

Using loads of motion capture for this sequence – running, falling, getting shot, throwing grenades its all there…


Am trying to keep the camera moving to give it a sense of urgency – it seems to be working

Leaping straight into the deep end and starting halfway thru the story.

It’s a long flashback sequence set on VietMars in the war between the US and the Martians. So lots of opportunities to BLOW STUFF UP, basically.

Script is kind of a mess, but the shape of it is there. Don’t need to hammer out dialogue just yet, though its always better to get this stuff locked down as soon as possible.

Okay – got it, and its also a quite cynical piece of marketing… I’m doing a Xmas special. Sort of based around the traditional Scrooge story coz its always been one of my favourites. Start it in Pavlovs bar (might as well use the sets again) flashback to the horror that is VietMars, and flash forward to the not so distant future at the end.

I think it just might work

Theres a few things Id like to try with this anim. Ive got loads of story ideas all fighting for attention, just need to settle on one framework that’ll let me adapt them into one bigger story…



And coz its Sick Puppy, it has to start and end in a bar, doesn’t it? Yup.

So…Here we go:

Everyone says theres never enough time to make an animated masterpiece – stuff gets in the way, or you get bored. Fair enough. It does.. its called LIFE.

So this is what Im gonna do, this is THE BIG IDEA:

Render one shot every day. For a year.

No limits or specs on the length or type of shot, just that I get one shot in the can, every day.

365 shots in 12 months. So, if every single shot was, say 5 seconds long, that would be a half hour show! I’d be happy with that.