E2 / Short Bus Experiments
This is the workshop, not the stage. Making finished songs and films at a really high level is hard, and it takes a lot of tries. So every try lives here: Sally singing, Sally jumping, first walks and first flights, film scenes while they are still rough, and the newest clips our community posts in the Discord. Nothing here has to be perfect. It just has to be the next step.
The Short Bus trailer
Twenty seconds that explain the whole idea: a little bus, a kinder school, and kids with bigger dreams. Start here, then wander the workshop below.
Sally sings
The songs are the hardest part, so the singing experiments come first. Rooftop sessions, piano tries, and the kids taking their turns.
Sally sings and jumps
Sally sings her song out over the city at sunset, and right at the big moment, she jumps. This is the experiment the whole page exists for. The full song is She Is Strong, on Sally's song page.
Haddie singing
Haddie, one of the Short Bus kids, takes her turn with a song. Short, sweet, and completely hers.
Sally at the piano
Sally at the piano with her songbook open. Where a lot of these songs start: one kid, one piano, one more try.
Plume's song
Plume the bird gets a song of her own. Fifteen seconds of pure experiment.
Sally jumps, flies and walks
Before Sally could star in anything, she had to learn to move. These are the movement experiments: the jumps, the first flight, and the walking clips, in order.
Sally flying
Three seconds of Sally in the air. The jump experiments started here.
Meet Sally
The first hello. Sally introduces herself, and the whole Short Bus world starts with this wave.
Sally walks, part 1
Teaching Sally to walk through her world, one short clip at a time.
Sally walks, part 2
The walk gets steadier. Same street, better steps.
Sally walks, part 3
Part three of the walking experiments. She is getting somewhere now.
Sally's story
The longer one: Sally's story so far, in about forty seconds. The closest thing the experiments have to a trailer for her.
Film experiments: Plume and Doodle
Our films get built ten seconds at a time. Here is Sally meeting Plume in five parts, Plume's paper world, and the first look at the next film, Sally meets Doodle, straight from the Discord.
Sally meets Doodle, first look
Doodle the little robot, drawing in his sketchbook. Dave shared this in the Discord as the early version of our next film, where Sally meets Doodle.
Sally meets Plume, part 1
A girl, a bird, a first meeting. The Plume film, built ten seconds at a time.
Sally meets Plume, part 2
The meeting continues. Part two of five.
Sally meets Plume, part 3
Part three. The friendship is starting to land.
Sally meets Plume, part 4
Part four of the Plume experiments.
Sally meets Plume, part 5
Part five, the latest of the Plume clips we have.
Sally draws Plume
Before Plume could fly, Sally drew her. The paper version comes first, like everything here.
Plume paper world
Plume in a world made of paper. A whole different look, tried just to see if it works. It works.
Plume line alive
A single drawn line becomes Plume. The simplest experiment on this page, and one of the best.
Fresh from the Discord
The newest experiments, posted by our community in the E2 Discord this week and gathered here so they do not scroll away. New Short Bus characters, kitchen scenes, a song series, and one very brave line.
Meet Tex
Tex, the country singer with a guitar almost as big as he is and a dream just as big. A brand new Short Bus character, introduced in the Discord this week.
Gloria's kitchen: the hot pan
Gloria runs the Short Bus kitchen, and Haddie is scrubbing that hot pan. Kitchen chaos, character style.
The kitchen trio, full action
The better take, in markymarkyy's words: the kitchen trio in full action. Haddie tosses it, Gloria catches, and the accordion keeps time.
Campfire: a girl and her dog
A quiet one. A Short Bus kid, her dog, a campfire and a tent as the light goes down.
One Brave Line
A 27 second E2 micro trailer: a world built in small moments, and one brave line. Made for the YouBoob video bounty.
Puddleloom, episode 4
Episode four of markymarkyy's Puddleloom song series, entered in the E2 song competition. A young man, a blue bus, and a town getting ready to celebrate.
Chadwick Blaze intro
Chadwick Blaze, Short Bus kid and resident daredevil, introduces himself in five seconds flat.
The rest of the bus
When an experiment grows up, it moves out of the workshop and onto its own page. Here is where the finished pieces live.
The Short Bus
The school itself: the little bus, Dream Class, Kindness 101, and the whole world these experiments are building toward.
Visit the Short Bus ↗Sally Sings: She Is Strong
The rooftop experiment, grown into a full song page with the whole story and all the lyrics.
Hear the song ↗All E2 videos
Every video on E2 in one long collection, including the ones gathered here.
Watch everything ↗The songs on SoundCloud
The Dlaney catalog: the demos and songs these video experiments grow out of.
Listen on SoundCloud ↗Got an experiment of your own?
Post it in the E2 Discord. If it is a Short Bus experiment, a Sally song, a jump, a scene, a new character, it belongs in the workshop, and we will bring it here.
Join the DiscordE2 / Short Bus Experiments is a living page. As new clips land in the Discord and old experiments grow into finished songs and films, this page grows with them.