SHAW!

I was turning the tables on my Mentor Scott Shaw! and telling him that he should do a web comic about his life and he drew this picture.

Big in Japan

I have been laid up the last few weeks with a bad case of sciatica, but thanks to lots of acupuncture from Katherine Irby, I have been able to slowly get back to work. Part of that work is fulling a month old order for Caveman Robot Dolls for Newtone Records in Japan. Just for fun I made a special badly translated Japanese Translation of Caveman Robot, which roughly translates back to english as Caveman The Robot.
-Jason Robert Bell

From the Vaults

I am digging around today, trying to find an old word document, that has some important Caveman Robot ideas in it ( Big time ideas!) And I came across this gem from years ago, Joe Infurnari and I were trying to cook up some concept art, when we first started talking about getting a Caveman Robot animated project going, and this was one of the piece he ended up making. We were both messing around with 3-D programs at our dayjobs.
Here we see a battle in the snowy yeti-haunted wastelands, between Caveman Robot and his sometimes ally/foe Dr.Zarathustra, DDS.

Learning Blender

I realized that I needed usable and dynamic 3-D figures for the animation figures that I can do 360 turnarounds of for some of the sequences, which means learning Blender and creating what I need with it. It is slow going, but every time I sit down and try I figure something out. Hopefully it will be fruitful.
I am not a big fan of full CGI pieces, but I do think it is a useful tool, that will help make the final piece have a life of it's own.

Loser Pete Blocks Uncle Ned's TV (rough)

As Zarathustra waxing poetics about Caveman Robot on Monumenta's Airwaves. Pete blocks the view of his Uncle Ned.

Still feeling out the expressionist/photo collage/ drawing atop video, but I think the final product will embraced that "state of becoming".

Loser Pete's living room

working on backgrounds, basically creating them from photo-collage of my actual apartment, oh the glamourous life of an artist.
Notice the vintage "Visit Beautiful Monumenta" poster on the lower right.

Chimps!

Working on Chimps for the Animation, Ape Lincoln's ragtag army of chimps, pulled out of their mundane lives here on earth, via Ape's amazing simian charisma. The chimps become a mindless force of nature attacking the city, and taking the hapless Loser Pete captive. Many are from the Zoo, but others come from The circus, various medical testing labs, and the space program.