Shahryar Niazi

Personal Life
Shahryar Niazi is an author and an animator. Lives in Canada, Ontario.

Main Work
Shahryar Niazi writes books and animates.

Filmography
List of Animation Series of Shahryar Niazi's. Note: Shahryar Niazi is not a role really in this (in most of the films), he's an animator or voice over.

Undernage.Net Productions
Shahryar's second main work is animation, game design. Undernage.Net Productions is an animation company that consists of strange castle series, etc. On December 8, 2013; Shahryar heard complaints of people saying that Under Nage is Under Age. He announced that the animation productions title will be changed.

Strange Castle Series
Shahryar Niazi started animating the series since he was 12 in 2009 and ended the series in 2012. "It's a fine series to watch now!" Shahryar admitted. He started making Strange Castle Series for fun, he named it Strange Castle because Caslte Series from Stickpage.com. But it hardly got 100 views in total of all of the episodes in total. When Shahryar was about to release SC7 (Strange Castle 7), he said that if it becomes a success, he will make back-to-back-to-back spin offs for the series. But later on SC7 was released and he decided not to plan SC8, 9 and 10 if SC7 becomes a success, because he said that he is now 15 and a bit too old for using GoAnimate which is for kids. In Late 2012, he said that he really liked his 12 year old series, so decided to upload Strange Castle Series onto youtube.com on his website account which is UndernageNet YouTube account. He got a little positive reception of likes on his episodes of SC on youtube.com. He liked the reception, he then stated "That there will be no more prequels or sequels, no more editing, no more remakes and no more of anything about SC!" But later on around Mid 2013, he finished off the last episodes 8, 9 and 10 of Strange Castle considering his series to be completed.

Little Success
He got a few likes on YouTube of his episodes because he just uploaded it recently. But later on removed Strange Castle off of YouTube, its still available to watch on Undernage.Net Productions website and GoAnimate.com (for all episodes).

Underworld Series
Around late 2009 he planned a series called Underworld which was going to be stick figure animated. He wanted to be like Oscar Johansson (the number's 1 best animated red hot stick figure series: Castle), because he wanted his dream to become true. Around 2010, he started planning how many episodes there will be and the storyline. Underworld 1 was planned to be released in Late 2010. After the release of it, it totally got bad reception, because Shahryar didn't follow Oscar Johansson's animating techniques. He decided to make Underworld 0 (Prologue), 1 and 2 into a script. Then he would make Underworld 3A into an animation. He wasn't good at sorting out animations and episodes together. Later on he said that Underworld has been delayed and will be released mid-late 2011. Underworld 3A Progress (5%) animation was released on TRuploader.com by a user called "xc" which is Shahryar. It was fine, he continued making the animation, but he decided to follow the tutorials of Oscar's animating techniques and take his time.

Cancellation
After that, he gave up and cancelled the series around Early 2012.

Possible Revive of the Series
He said around Mid-Late 2012 that Underworld Series (all episodes) "might" come back some time soon in the future, after he is done his books: "One thing at a time needs to be finished which will take some time, maybe a couple of years or even five years or possibly a decade."

Town of the Dead
Town of the Dead was announced to be a pivot animated stick figure series. A zombie apocalypse based around a few teenagers, named Drake, Mike, etc. As of now, only 4 episodes have been released.

Cancellation
The series has been canceled due to the new upcoming project: Sharpshooter. Season 2 was a possibility, originally titled City of the Dead.

Possible Continuation
Shahryar said its a possibility for the series to be continued. Also there have been concerns of five-six seasons of Town of the Dead coming. Concerns on future seasons; Town of the Dead, City of the Dead, Country of the Dead, Continent of the Dead, Dead World. Also there was rumors of a prequel season titled: Village of the Dead telling how the virus started. Having a total of 6 seasons. Very unlikely to happen in the future.

Sharpshooter Movie
He stated that he wanted to make a feature length movie of Underworld the Animated Stick Figure Series, but that hasn't been confirmed yet as of now. Also there were rumors of Underworld the Movie hitting theatres in May 2015, but later on that rumor was gone on Undernage.Net Productions original website which is undernage.webstarts.com and the current website is undernage.net. According to Shahryar's Undernage.Net Productions MySpace News Posts, it confirms that there will be an Underworld movie which is going to come after 2015 which is the bad news. Most likely its going to come around 2018. On March 8, 2013, Shahryar stated that Underworld will not be called Underworld. It will not have the storyline of going underground and all of that. It will be totally different, but Shahryar confirmed that the same characters will come. On October 1, 2013, it was announced that "the Underworld movie" is going to be called Sharpshooter, ready for a 2018 release date and it was confirmed that the Underworld characters won't be included. It's even on Internet Movie Database. It was also announced that Sharpshooter Movie will be Direct-to-DVD on online stores like amazon, etc. Also its been announced to be 45-75 minutes long. On December 8, 2013; After watching "The Forgotten Legion" (stickpage animation recently released), Shahryar's reaction was; "WOW! The animation was great, splendid. It didn't look too advanced like Castle. The faces of the characters were simple and the backgrounds were between simple and complex. I can do those kind of backgrounds. It just takes time. If I can do complex backgrounds then my Sharpshooter will be fully like Castle, but I like the Forgotten Legion, it was very very very hard working animation. I think my Sharpshooter movie will go well with this style. The Forgotten Legion was just like Castle but Joe Zombie style (for the faces)."

Before writing the Curse Chronicles
In 2007-2008 he wrote a novel that was 100 pages, and he still has a draft of it. He wanted to publish it, but he didn't have good enough words in the book and grammar, he was only 10-11 when he wrote the book. In 2011 (when Shahryar Niazi became 14), he stated that he wants to do a rewrite of that book and make it into a trilogy which is going to be the book trilogy that is coming in the future (not 2999 Trilogy started working on, October 2012), which means another book series trilogy, he's saying that he has to do one thing at a time which can take more than a few years or maybe he will release book 1 of that trilogy and book 1 of the other trilogy at the same time).

The Curse Chronicles Series
A boy named David Daren Dravid must stop three curses before a monster called the Scaven rises and destroys the world.
 * Book 1: Curse of the Red Leprechaun (December 6, 2011)
 * Book 2: Curse of the Savage Mammoth (December 30, 2011)
 * Book 3: Curse of the Fire Phoenix (May 31, 2012)
 * The Complete Series: 1st Anniversary Edition (November 1, 2012)

2999 Trilogy:
A new sci-fi thriller, action series trilogy. Takes place in the year 2999.
 * 2999 (May 16, 2013)
 * 2999: Ancestor & Descendant (Fall 2014)
 * 2999: Consternation (Summer 2015)

Future

 * Untitled 85,000 Word Single Book (TBA)

Untitled Trilogy Series
Going to be a rewrite of Shahryar Niazi's very first novel (wrote when he was 10).
 * Book 1 (beyond 2016)
 * Book 2 (TBA)
 * Book 3 (TBA)

See Also / Sources / Information / External Links

 * www.thecursechronicles.net (The Curse Chronicles Book Series Website)
 * www.undernage.net (Official Website of Underworld the Animated Stick Figure Series)
 * www.shahryarniazi.com (Official Website of Shahryar Niazi himself)
 * www.ca.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Shahryar/Niazi (Shahryar Niazi's Profile)
 * (Shahryar Niazi on IMDb)