Cardboard Cyborg

This year for Halloween I wanted to see if I could make a costume for exactly $0.  Turns out, I can.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you cardboard cyborg.  Truly a marvel of modern science.

I'll see if I can get some better photos posted soon to show off the details.

I love Halloween.  Does it show?

Inktober Concluded

Yup, it is about over.  But I saved a couple of my favorites for the end.  I really like the dishwasher robot.  I want one of my own.  And even robots are more fun in space.

Now I need to finish building my Halloween costume.  It also involves robots.  And cardboard.

Inktober Continued

A bunch more robot coloring pages.

Inktober

Yup, it's Inktober, a holiday season only observed by illustrators and the ink people who live at the bottoms of dry wells.

In honor of the season I'm posting a bunch of free coloring pages on one of my favorite subjects: robots.

Go ahead and print them out for your kids (or yourself.)  Enjoy.

Robot Name Tags

It's that time of year again and my wife is setting up her 5th grade classroom.  My contribution every year is the student name tags on the outside of the door.  This year's theme: robots.

They make pretty good coloring pages and they're all yours folks if you want 'em.  Enjoy.

A Bit of Rough Animation

I made this bit of rough animation today in Flash:

Robot with signs (rough animation) from Will Strong on Vimeo.

As it turns out animating is a ton of fun, especially if you do a simple 2-D robot that doesn't require any knowledge of mass or form. I know that there are timing issues that need to be taken care of (and it compressed funny too.) But I'm rather pleased with this.

Oh, by the way, this will be the intro movie for my new website which is currently under construction.

A New Blog Banner

Now 100% less generic.

(Update: I hated the banner I posted yesterday, so it's gone forever. The new new banner is up. I think it's a keeper.)

Rust Study Number Two*

*bonus adorable-toy-robot inside

Recent Happenings

It's been a fun week. Last night Tiffany (my beautiful wife) and I attended the 6th-grade cotillon (dance.) It's a fun little formal get together for the kids and we went because Tiffany is one of the 6th-grade teachers. After the dance we went to Macaroni Grill which is always fun because they cover the tables with white paper. And then they give me crayons. What's a guy to do? This is what I did.

Yup, a slime monster fighting a rocket robot with sword hands. We left it at the restaurant for the bus boy to take home and put it on his wall.