Fun with New Toys

I got a new toy for 50% off! Corel Painter 11. It was on sale and I've always wanted it, so BAMF, I got it. I'm still trying to work out the kinks and I need to find time to actually really play with it, but I'm hoping this will be a good substitute for not having my own studio space.

"Lady Smoke" Painter 11 - 2010

Sorry this has been my only post in a REALLY long time...but we just had our first born child, Brendan James Robinson, 8 weeks ago and I've been rather busy juggling work and fatherhood. So finding time to do my own artwork is rather difficult these days.

Drill-Bot

Working on some images for Emerald City Comic Con 2012. I thought this robot blueprint would make a good series to sell prints. I was thinking of a whole series of service/manual labor robots. Still working the kinks out.

"Drill-Bot" June 2010 Flash CS4

3D final preview

Here's a quick preview of my 3D class final. The model isn't perfect, but that is secondary to the animation. This is still a work in progress. The idea is a lizard-like creature is trying to catch a fly (not yet in the scene) and has some trouble doing so.

Spare some change?

2 weeks ago, I was pushing an all nighter, my wife contracted an awful stomach flu, so I was up the night after trying to help her feel better, and because of work and 3D classes, I was sportin' a rockin' beard. The morning of my wife's illness she was meant to volunteer at a local school, but she couldn't cancel because she didn't have anyone's cell phone number...I offered to run out there and talk to her co-worker there. I hadn't slept more than an hour or two in 2 days and I was fully bearded. When I get there, Misha's co-worker, Teresa, recognized me (thankfully) but the principal of the school apparently believed I was a homeless man about to attack her...or a brown bear up on his hind legs and wearing jeans. So he ran out and pulled Teresa away before I could fully explain Misha's condition. This is a depiction of my state, and I don't really blame that principal too much. If I saw a guy like that hanging outside my school, I'd be concerned. But its damn embarrassing to be mistaken for a hobo abductor.
Additionally, I fell violently ill along with Misha. I couldn't eat for three days and all I did was expel from both ends of my body (TMI...sometimes at the same time). I vomited so violently, that my stomach muscles ached for days, it hurt to laugh and sneeze. Most awful first night of illness...the rest of the time, my head was swimming and I couldn't sit up without getting dizzy.

Pixelated

Just dipping my toes into pixel art...its really intriguing. I might start a series working like this.

Pixel Churchill (Flash CS4 - May 2010)

Conducting Gloves

I've figured some things out recently in my 3D animation class (such as picking up and attaching objects) and I was able to complete this animation within 6 hours today from scratch. From modeling the gloves through to animating them. I still have some work to do on them...the fingers are still a little stiff, imo. I'll have to fix that next week. Anyways...this is one of my favorite projects to date along with the swing and peg-leg walk from earlier posts. Enjoy!

Here's the same video but from the opposite camera angle.

Walk it off

Sorry...I got bogged down with work and baby stuff. I'll be even more busy in the next few months as I'm working on a bid for some freelance that will take me into September. Hopefully it won't interfere too much with the birth of my baby boy in August.

I was working on this inbetween deadlines, but haven't got too much done. Its meant to bolster my animation reel with some more walk cycles, but its not finished.