Shortizine

Shortizine (pronounced short-ih-zeen) is a series of projects featuring various short skits involving Antcruz, as well as characters from mutuals and unrelated media, mainly inspired by the asdfmovie series by TomSka and Randomynessers series by scratchU8. There are four installments in the series thus far; Shortizine, which was released in 2015, Shortizine 2 and 3, both of which being released in 2016, and Shortizine 4, which was released in 2020. A fifth installment in the series is planned and will be created using Kdenlive, the same program used to make Artist Review and other videos, rather than Scratch.

Shortizine
Shortizine (also known as Shortizine 1 and officially known on Scratch as "Shortizine *2 YEARS!*") the first installment in the Shortizine series, was released on August 13, 2015, and was made in commemoration of the second anniversary of my Scratch account. It is notably the first time my voice has ever been heard in anything I have ever made (excluding Five Nights at Ants V1, which is now lost to history.) It is also notably one of the first and only instances where Antcruz has ever been fully animated in some capacity.

Link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/72774674/

Shortizine 2
The second installment in the Shortizine series was released on July 6, 2016. Rather than being made in commemoration for an event, the reason this project was made was “because I was bored,” as shown in the notes and credits section, where it is the only thing said. It is also shown in the project itself, where many of the skits are just looping GIFs or moving sprites with music or a sound effect playing over it, or jokes with little to no punchline. Copsee also notably makes appearances in two of the skits.

Link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/115444630/

Shortizine 3
Shortizine 3 is the third installment in the Shortizine series and is the second to be released in 2016; November 11, 2016, to be specific. To date, it is the only Shortizine to not feature any appearance from Antcruz or any OC at all, excluding “Grempy Head,” a bad attempt at a meme that was seen prominently throughout 2016 and 2017. This installment also notably features a Sega Genesis remix of The Flintstones/“7 Grand Dad” theme as its opening theme, which was made by longtime mutual Pipko411, who you might know as @nescartridges nowadays.

Link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/130260232/

Shortizine 4
Shortizine 4 is the most recent installment in the Shortizine series, released on May 16, 2020, and marks the longest break in between installments. It was heavily delayed, originally being planned to release in 2017; Two different versions were created in said year, but were scrapped. Shortizine 4 would then be formally announced in 2018, and was announced to be not only “the biggest Shortizine yet,” but also be a collaboration between mutuals who could create and submit their own skits. While a good amount of submissions were sent in, this version of Shortizine 4 would also go unfinished (although the remainder of the project that did go finished, including most of the submissions, would be released following the announcement of the 2020 version.) Finally, in early 2020, the most recent iteration of Shortizine 4 was announced and was released later on in the same year; it is more scaled-down compared to the 2018 version and more so follows the original formula of the first three Shortizines, but with more modern humor, as it was released 4 years after the previous installment; it also features a heavier reliance on FMV. Shortizine 4 is also notable for recycling an old skit made in 2019 that was not originally intended for the project in which Antcruz walks into his room, only to hear the sounds of Michael Jackson moaning. Since Shortizine 4 was released on Scratch, where inappropriate humor is not allowed, the moaning sounds were replaced with an overly compressed version of the music video to Train’s “Hey Soul Sister.”

Link (2018, unfinished): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/213708655/

Link (2020, finished): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356962345/