Author Archives: Erik

Best Places to Hide for Stealing Babies

Bettina and I are having a conversation on the best places for a babystealing robot to hide in a park. She has provided me a rough background layout, and I’ve marked out a few good spots ... Read more
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Kuntzler moves in to his lab.

Kuntzler is a scientist, and obviously he needs a proper laboratory to do his science stuff with. Bettina Throckmorton finished building it, contributing all three glorious HD-quality background ... Read more
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Sorta like a Holodeck.

  Sebastian Caceres sent me finished backgrounds for one scene. I put them in a simulated U-shape so you can see what they might look like if you were standing inside of the See-Stage. Click ... Read more
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My New Friends that I Made Up

Last night, about 1am, I finished the character concept art. When I was a kid, I had this awesome puzzle with all the Warner Brothers characters in it–even the really obscure ones. In the ... Read more
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A Cast of Twenty-One

Today, I’m just doing concept art for the 21 animated characters in Machine Horror House. Yesterday, I made a detailed list of parts for each character (e.g. body, arms, legs, etc.) with ... Read more
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Insane Asylum

Just got my first background illustration for Machine Horror House from Sebastian Caceres, a talented artist working in Argentina. This background is the setting for a cheerful robot with two ... Read more
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Robot Singing, Dancing, Acting

I wrote a song about robots and taught two people how to sing it today. Now that was ridiculous. When you write a song, no matter how dumb and piddly, you are the authority on how that song ... Read more
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Voiceover Party

On Tuesday, I’m heading down to Portland to record the script for Machine Horror House with Marc Rose of MJR SounDesign and his band of handpicked actors. I’ve written and recorded a ... Read more
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Jojobot Cook-off

I looked at my schedule for Machine Horror House and all the things left to do. Time to get some more help! Although, I really wanted to work on the characters myself, I also have to write ... Read more
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I Can’t Go Off the Grid

At the old day job, I was getting so damn sick of putting information into Excel spreadsheets. It was like every problem or concept needed to be dumped into rows and columns before people would ... Read more
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