Kill-O-Byte 01

Concept art from "Salavged" part of an international short film I am working on, i.e. my friend Ted Lister got a job in England at Moving Pictures Company (MPC). Congrats Ted!

Salvaged Concept BG

Concept art for the short film Salvaged that I am working on with my friend Ted.

This is about half way done and took me about 45 minutes. Working on this made me want to start drawing some canyons with the stepped rock formations. It was a good exercise and gets me thinking more about concept and about the look and feel of the environment, even when I do things that I consider to be failures it helps me. I always forget you learn more from failure then success.
I have already started adding details and it is looking better, though I would share it at a mid point. Expect to see a more polished version some time next week.

Salvaged Orthos

A while ago, I posted that I was working on a short film with my good friend Ted Lister. This short is about two robots who have lived with each other too long, and one has grown quite tired of the other. He tries to get rid of him and finds that it isn't the bliss that he thought it would be until it's too late.
This week Ted and I finalized the designs for the characters!
BIG RED
He is the big man in charge when it comes to searching planets with his partner. He stores and scans organic and mineral samples. He is designed to be a problem solver; his AI expands and becomes more complex as he deals with problems. When he doesn't run into problems he gets bored and lethargic.

I'm going to try to model this guy. So far my learning curve seems pretty steep, I need to look for some tutorials to help me out a little. I lost all my thought processes for modeling, hopefully something clicks and I can do him justice.

LITTLE JOHN
He is designed to search for mineral and organic samples and bring them back to Big Red. He is excited to do his job and does it with fervor. He may have simple program, but he always does his job with gusto.
KILL-O-BYTE
This robot is built to kill. His crash landing on Big Red and Little John's planet spells trouble.

Ted has started to model Kill-O-Byte and is doing an excellent job; I'm so stoked to work with it.

Dino-Bot

In the forums at Animation Mentor they have a sketch book section and they have a weekly theme for sketches, which I thought sounded like fun. I want to share more of my art at Animation Mentor to get myself out there, and I'm hoping to do one every week.
This weeks theme was Dino Robot.

I didn't quite get to finish this one but this what I got done in an hour.

Big and Little in the Desert

Working on an animated short about exploring robots on a desolate planet with my friend Ted. No working title yet.

Concept art.