BlogBloghttp://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2012-04-17T00:32:29ZSquarespacePicture time: Now in full color!http://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2011/7/20/picture-time-now-in-full-color.htmlOCHOrobo2011-07-20T12:25:35Z2011-07-20T12:25:35ZI finally got around to coloring the picture I posted a few weeks ago. I haven't had much practice coloring in photoshop so this is my attempt at it. I don't totally hate it, but I'm not in love with it either. I still need a lot of practice.

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]]>New look!http://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2011/7/12/new-look.htmlOCHOrobo2011-07-12T12:53:37Z2011-07-12T12:53:37ZI made fancy new logo and backgound for the site. Now I'm going to go play some SNES. Let me know what you think before I get back.

]]>Picture time!http://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2011/6/27/picture-time.htmlOCHOrobo2011-06-27T12:04:11Z2011-06-27T12:04:11ZI haven't been drawing enough lately so i've decided im going to try and post a new drawing at least once a week. This is one I started drawing last week. I came into work early today to finish coloring it but I left that file at home. So expect to see this colored at some point this week.


]]>My Brother My Brother and Me. An animated show for the Modern era.http://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2011/6/20/my-brother-my-brother-and-me-an-animated-show-for-the-modern.htmlOCHOrobo2011-06-20T14:03:37Z2011-06-20T14:03:37ZMy Brother My Brother and Me: Rinse and Repeat

My Brother My Brother and Me is an advice show where they take your questions and turn them into wisdom. If you like this I urge you to check out the rest of their shows. This is my favorite podcast on all of the internet and it should be yours as well. I hope you enjoy the animation I’ve made for them. Welcome to the family.

New Podcast every Monday at MBMBaM.com.

Send your questions to mbmbam@maximumfun.org or @MBMBaM on twitter.

Also be sure to follow the Brothers on twitter

@JustinMcElroy

@travismcelroy

@griffinmcelroy

 

And if aren't already you should be following me too on twitter

@SeanMD

 

Intro Voice over: Bob Ball (@BobBallVO on twitter)

Intro Music: (It's a) Departure by John Roderick/The Long Winters

Outro Music: Play Your Part (Pt. 2) by Girl Talk

]]>Pixelatedhttp://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2010/4/8/pixelated.htmlOCHOrobo2010-04-08T14:38:54Z2010-04-08T14:38:54ZQuick update. Here is something I did this morning. A pixelated version of my character Toro that i eventually want to put into a game. The little guy from this post for those who don't remember.

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]]>If something can go wrong it will.http://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2010/4/5/if-something-can-go-wrong-it-will.htmlOCHOrobo2010-04-05T13:04:04Z2010-04-05T13:04:04ZAs  I've said before I've been working on a new animation. In a previous post you can see one of the backgrounds I've completed for it. Unfortunately all of that work is gone. I had been working on it at the studio I work at when I had any free time at the end of the day, and I have not been home to work on the project on my desktop. So there is a couple weeks worth of work that wasn't backed up. When I get home to plug in my external hard drive to begin the back up process I heard a noise coming from the drive and I knew right then that I was never going to see that data ever again. I ended up losing the backgrounds I worked on, some character designs, reference photos, as well as the script.

Its sad I know, but I'd rather it have happened now earlier in the process than later. Luckily for me though I've re written the script a couple of times now so I pretty much know every line of it. I've got rough character design stuff in a sketchbook of mine so its just a matter of cleaning them up and getting them on the computer again. As far as the background goes I still have a scaled down jpeg image to use as a reference, but I'm still going to have to re-create the image so i have a hi-res version for the final film. This kind of stuff is such a headache, but I should have seen it coming. That hard drive was old as dirt and I should have been backing things up on it either on someone else's computer or online. Oh well, what's done is done. So later today I'm going to head down to best buy and get a replacement hard drive. Maybe I should get two so I have a back up for my back up?

Learn from my mistakes. BACK UP YOUR DATA!

You can thank me later.

 

EDIT: Just realized that I lost my my storyboards as well. I thought they were all in a sketchbook, but they were all digital.

]]>Animation Sneak Peakhttp://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2010/2/28/animation-sneak-peak.htmlOCHOrobo2010-03-01T01:42:32Z2010-03-01T01:42:32ZI've been working on getting my next animation project off the ground for quite some time now. Up until about a week ago all I had done was drawn some concept art, character designs, write a script, re-write the script, and then re-write it again. This is the first peice of completed art that is going to be a back drop in the final film. Keep checking back for more updates.

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I'll probably be on the look out for some voice actors pretty soon so if you know anyone who would be interested, yourself included, feel free to email me at OCHOrobo@gmail.com

]]>PROJECT CATTLE.http://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2010/1/8/project-cattle.htmlOCHOrobo2010-01-08T22:36:51Z2010-01-08T22:36:51ZI've been thinking about making a 2d side scrolling game lately. I've got an idea for the story, characters, and some gameplay elements. Who knows if this is going to go anywhere but here is some stuff i've done today for the project.

And yes i know the character in the tests doesnt have a face. This is what he is eventally going to look like. Although im not 100% sure about the colors i want to use.

He's sort of a bull monkey cat thing wearing a luchador mask.

 

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]]>Facebook challenge #3 What happened to the others?http://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2009/10/13/facebook-challenge-3-what-happened-to-the-others.htmlOCHOrobo2009-10-13T04:07:21Z2009-10-13T04:07:21ZIts late and I have to be up early tomorrow to get ready to go to Canada so I'll make this quick. Since next week I am going to be attending the Ottawa Animation festival in Canada I am not going to be able to do the challenge for next week. Since I will not be here to do a challenge I have decided to let you guys pick the topic for next week. Just leave a suggestion here or in the facebook group and when I get back to the good ol' US of A I'll pick a topic from one of the ones you guys suggested.

Anyway back to buisness. This week the picture was based on a single line from any song... and the winner is: "We're in the building where they make us grow, and I'm frightened by the liquid engineers, like you"

and the picture: What happened to the others?
Click for full viewSee you in a week!

 

]]>Facebook challenge 2: Whoa...http://www.ochorobo.com/blog/2009/10/4/facebook-challenge-2-whoa.htmlOCHOrobo2009-10-04T23:51:06Z2009-10-04T23:51:06ZHere is this weeks Picture. For those of you who didnt participate, the rules were as follows, someone posts a place and then someone else posts a person or thing. I only picked one place, and one thing and came up with this. I call it...

Whoa...

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The winning place was the moon, and person was Keanu Reeves.

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