Brains!

ZOMBIE LIAM!!! RUN!!!

Chewy is Naked!

You never really think of this, but except for the bandoleer, Chewbacca is 100% naked. You think Chewy and Han ever had an uncomfortable moment where Chewy's lil' wookie just popped out and tucked it back in then Han just pretended to not notice?

No.5 IS ALIVE!

Decided to take a work break for a few hours and threw this together. It's a work in progress of "Short Circuit" main character, "Johnny 5" just to mess with Corel Painter 11 again.

"No.5 is ALIVE" (wip) Corel Painter 11

Rivet Monkey CDS-014

What?! Another blog post so soon?! I know...This design came to me earlier today (Or I should say yesterday) while I was putting my son to sleep for the night. I like this design for a construction robot mainly because I like the idea of a little monkey robot running up and down girders riveting them into place. Also the bandoleer of rivets made up to be his tail is fun for me. I wish I had the time to animate it, honestly.

"Rivet Monkey CDS-014" Flash CS5 2011

Strong Arm CDS-002

Too long since I put up something new. Sorry about that. The usual reason...work and life.

I'm in those few days I take to recoup from the last deadline and I wanted to make another Robot blueprint much like the last one.

I went a little further with this design and I'll make this the new design direction. Its more condensed and looks more like an actual blueprint.

Other things: I've opened up an online art store for my prints. You can visit it HERE. Its a little scarce at the moment. If you buy some of my art, that will feed my son for a week :D

I'll be putting this up as a print for sale soon.

"Strong Arm CDS-002" Flash CS5 2011

Time Warp Trio

Time Warp Trio - Storyboards Ep. 117 - sc. 14 from Liam Robinson on Vimeo.

I was able to find some old boards and this is the best quality I could get out of Flash CS5 Exporting. Its fine until the end when a giant chunk of it leaves artifacts into the rest of the video.

The episode was about the tribal contest of the Rapa Nui tribes on Easter Island where tribal representatives would climb down cliffs, swim in shark infested waters to a neighboring island to pick up an egg and then swim back and climb back up the same cliffs. The winner's tribe elder would be the new leader. Thank god for Democracy, huh? Although, if it came down to it, Barack Obama, even with the smokers lung, would probably still beat John McCain in that sort of competition.

Time Warp Trio - Storyboards Ep. 117 - sc. 14

2010 Animation Reel

Liam Robinson Animation Reel 2010 from Liam Robinson on Vimeo.

When I started this I had almost completed my reel during a 2 week vacation from work and then on the last two days of my vacation my computer just went and died. THANKFULLY, the apple store techs (after a week, lost work time and some negotiations) were able to save everything from my old computer and placed it onto a brand spanking new computer worth $3000 for absolutely free. Although, the new computer came with a few hiccups and I found out the hard way that Flash CS4 and Mac OS Snow Leopard don't play well together (which caused me to get backed up on work, again). But after that migraine and work coming down on me, I was able to finish the reel. Since then, I've been trying to upload my 2010 animation reel onto my blog, but for some reason it would get stuck in the uploading cycle. So I gave up and tried the round about way of doing it...I created a Vimeo account and uploaded it there which uploaded it without any problems, from there I just embedded the video.

So enjoy!

I created this with the use of iMovie. I credited the music to Anamanaguchi, a techno band which specializes in 8bit sounds.

I know its a little Wordgirl heavy, but really, that's all I've been working on for the most part of my career. Since Flash has not fixed its quicktime conversion, I'm not able to get any good quality out of my old Time Warp Trio work, I know there is some good storyboards amongst that stuff at the very least. Too bad, I'll have to work around that issue some how.