Blob Eats Bear

Hey folks! Its been a while. But I found a new job and I'm very excited about all the things I'm doing. It's keeping me fairly busy and along with owning a new home, I'm even busier. Things are looking up and really good.

So I'm animating more on my free time and I've uploaded this latest piece which is essentially just a test animation to figure out the animation involved in a blob or gelatinous creature.

"Blob Eating Test Animation" Flash CS5 10/2011

BEAR STARE!!!!

Again, I don't have to explain myself to you. Just enjoy and don't question it. :)

Over Dramatic

My son was playing with his ball popper toy and it tipped over...this was his reaction.

GHOST

I could explain...but you wouldn't understand.

Peace on Eternia!

If you need an explanation for this...I got none. Its funny...isn't that enough? One interesting little tidbit. Flash didn't want me to finish this so it kept crashing every time I made progress on Skeletor, there. Had to save every 5 minutes.

"Peace on Eternia" Flash CS5 7/16/2011

More designs

Getting in as much as I can before I need to start up with work again.

Gator

Gator design with a German helmet. Why not?

Forest GIant

Working on my portfolio which is rather lacking in environmental illustrations. Hopefully more to come!

"Forest Giant" Corel Painter 11 6/29/11

Marowak

No particular explanation. Just trying to get in touch with my inner geek.

"Marowak" June 2012, Flash CS5

You and the Capt'n can make it happ'n!

CAPTAIN HUGGYFACE!!!! One of my favorite characters on the show I work on in a more realistic manner. Just experimenting with Corel Painter 11 again.

"Captain Huggyface" 6/17/11
Corel Painter 11

A Stroke of Genius

Did a really quick logo design for Kevin Pereira who asked fans to design a "standing penis" in the fashion of Mr. Peanut for a logo for "A Stoke of Genius". Hopefully mine gets chosen...probably not, but its fun to come up with such a logo. If it gets picked up I'll un-censor it.

Elgyem

"Elgyem" Corel Painter 11 & Adobe Flash CS5.

Haunter

Yeah another Pokemon inspired painting...WHAT OF IT!?! It's my blog and I can do what I want with it!

"Haunter" Corel Painter 11 5/2011

Oompa Loompas are Evil

What can I say? They disfigure and possibly kill children. Then celebrate their actions with a jaunty tune. NO!! They're sick! And the topic of today's Phobia-stration. Oompa Loompas. The disgusting little orange child killers in Roald Dalh's "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory" who inhabit the drug induced HR nightmare known as "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory". They freaked me out as a kid. Not because they were played by little people, it was the orange skin and the revel they displayed when a child is hurt or put in serious danger. I usually like Roald Dahl, in fact, I use to read his books as a child and, true, Oompa Loompas aren't anything new when it came to threatening children...but these little guys were the scariest and creepiest.

"Oompa Loompas are Evil" Flash CS5 5/2011

Galvantula

I know I said I'd do a Phobia piece on Oompa Loompas...But I really had an itch to do another Pokemon inspired painting. This is of the same game as the "Reuniclus" piece. This one is called "Galvantula" an electric spider. I also wanted to get at least one more piece done before I went back to work on my next deadline.

"Galvantula" Corel Painter 11 5/2011

FEED ME, SEYMOUR!!!

I was stuck deciding what to paint next and my friend Marissa IM'd me and suggested "Mutant Spring Flowers". The mutant part stuck in me and then I let that rattle around in the old cabasa and I found the "Little Shop of Horrors" plant in my mind. This thing scared the living crap out of me when I was a kid and it gave me a small complex about plants. I thought it was a great subject.

THANKS MARISSA!

Next phobia subject: Oompa Loompas.

"Feed Me!" Corel Painter 11 5/2011

Reuniclus

Nerdy? Yes. Do I care? No. Childish? Hardly.

During the few hours I have during the night, I play the "Pokemon: White" Nintendo DS game, the latest in the Pokemon franchise. There are a lot of weird and cool looking creature designs in this turn based creature RPG. A lot of people think of it as childish and not worth the time for adults. But the strategy, number game, and overall theme of the game reaches a far greater audience of gamer than an 8 year old. In fact, colleges across the nation have tournaments conducted and organized by the students.

But enough with me trying to over-explain why a 30 year old man plays this game. This piece is inspired by one of the games' monsters, "Reuniclus". Its design is based after microscopic cells in mitosis.

"Reuniclus" Corel Painter 11, 4/2011

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.