About this site and its creator...

For so, so many years, I have been a great fan of the two art forms of animation and videogames, this site is, in part, a celebration of them both (although I enjoy live action films and TV as well, just not as much). I started drawing in 1996 as a recreational hobby, which made it more than something I did at my school art lessons, I have improved a tad since then, finishing a design course and taking another course in animation, but I am always willing to learn something new.

Around 1999, I was introduced to the internet via the college library and was enthralled, so much potential information, so little time. Now, over ten years later, I started this modest little site, my own thread on the web, so to speak.

Currently I am one of the editors of keyframe, a resource for animation; my reviews of animated films, etc, can also be found there. In terms of videogames, I started with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, then got a Sega Master System and a Megadrive - or Genesis if you must - before moving to Nintendo and Sony hardware. Apart from retro consoles, I own a Nintendo Wii, a DS and the Playstation3.

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In the instance of this site, I was trying to come up with an appropriate name for my bat character, and the word stalactite came to mind. Stalactites are the deposition of minerals hanging like a fang from a cave's ceiling, since bats also hang from the roof of caves, I found it to match the bat. I added the "r" to the first part of the word to create a space-like quality to it and ditched the last group of letters. I since found out that others had used the spelling starlac, for other things, though by that time I had been using it as a moniker for several years.

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This art and review site has been created out of the love that its creator has for the mediums of entertainment, in particular animation and videogames; that said all and any reviews posted on this site shall be the honest opinion of the writer. The still images and video footage used in any review page's written and/or video review from the various films, TV shows, videogames, etc are acknowledged to be owned by their respective companies and are used on this site under the terms of "Fair Dealing" of the United Kingdom's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Chapter III - section 30, subsection 1 - under the terms of criticism and/or review as follows:

"Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of criticism or review, of that or another work or of a performance of a work, does not infringe any copyright in the work provided that it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement."

All original artwork, characters, texts, site graphics, logos and comics are copyright © 2009- Carl Padgham and are not to be used elsewhere without permission.

The images, etc, of films, television productions, videogames, etc, are the copyright and/or trademarks of their retrospective owner/s. starlac is in no way endorsed, approved, authorised, sponsored or otherwise associated with any of these companies or their subsidiaries.