The school year is winding down and so I am winding back up to production on Robot Pirates.  Lately I’ve come to really appreciate the advantages of a good production management tool.  At work we use Assembla which is great for large projects and large teams, but for my personal projects I wanted something a bit smaller and simpler. A friend of mine who is working on an animated short of his [...]

A sketch of a tall ship on the sea.

A sketch of a robot sailor with a whaling spear.

The following is an excerpt from the Journal of Samuel Lassell. C.1740.176 The nets had become entangled in the reef again, keeping me out on the swells far later than I would have wished. The grave black of night closed in around me as I cut the last of the ruined cords free and gathered the tattered remains back into the boat. I did my best to clear the nets [...]

Here is a logo design I’ve been messing with.  I’m not 100% satisfied yet, but it is a good start I think.

This animated gif was created as a teaser image to promote Robot Pirates on my webcomic site: RobotBeach.com and is the first official bit of art created for the site. I have had this image of a lone galleon rocking in the seas with a red beacon flashing on its main mast in my head for a few years now and it was very therapeutic to finally get it out [...]