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unused 20 sec storyboard i did for class, like yeah i didn’t need to make this, and im just a little upset about that but you know what we don’t NEED to do anything, we could just roll over and die, anytime. i would start telling you what this is but cinema should show not tell so i won’t

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lineup of my most developed/main characters for robot city, done for introductory purposes with related dialogue under the cut 

A selection of local inhabitants from a distant place and time, a place full of nothing but machines, an immaculate robotic society without flaw or imperfection. No one’s life can be a waste when one is made with a purpose for them, guaranteed, every bolt screwed into place, every peg where it belongs, every nail hammered in, automated perfection on every level. and then, theres them

Despite it all, there they are, because that is simply put; not how life works, (doesn’t matter if you’re carbon or silicon based!) and there’s many others, all living far below in the underbelly of their world and city. The dark winding ruins winding that lie beneath, both buildings and inhabitants left to decay, where the malfunctioning, the unlucky, and the factory rejects try to make the most of their conscious thinking existence for however long they can.

Take Volta for example, she’s gotten her memory chips erased and stolen so many times she can’t remember anything beyond a few years ago, and on top of that lost her original left arm from the elbow down. Shame she was a lefty, although her new left arm works just as good, but its just not the kind of thing you can really wear out in civilized society. So Volta like to spend a lot of time in uncivilized society, like Murphy’s couch, that’s her favourite uncivilized society, especially when Murphy’s not home and she can smoke pot on it by hot boxing her entire, somewhat empty, head cavity. Sometimes when Murphy’s home too, and sitting on the couch with her, he’d have to be pressed to admit it but he hardly exists on any moral high ground. 

He’s however a little wary about letting his creation/life’s work/child near Volta, her “unusually excessive exhaust” as its called in polite company, and not to mention yet; all her “associates” that often come around. Wipp, who was built by Murphy and has been living with him since the day they were switched on, is Murphy’s pride, joy, maintenance nightmare, and highly capable multipurpose tool (four arms is very useful for that.) Wipp loves their dad but also kinda thinks hes a bit of a bitch, especially when he drags them out from under the floorboards cause they’ve been on the internet for 18 hours straight down there.

Most robots can’t build another robot and have robo-kids and be robo-parents without help and parts directly from the giant, closely guarded factories, but that’s where you could call Murphy special. An former engineer of said factories that claims to have been discharged, Murphy took three whole years to build Wipp, which is impressive considering he didn’t have half the parts he needed and had to construct most of them from scratch. Despite Wipp’s originality, they are very passable as factory quality - until they get scanned and the miniaturized nuclear reactor in their stomach is noticed, he never did quite figured out how he himself was powered. 

Especially when he was currently using more of his engineering skills as doctoring skills, the two go hand in hand when you’re a robot. Research however was always put on hold when he ended up securing another piece that got loose in Volta’s head, or fixing up another one of HER friends, at least that’s what he liked to call Enney, Tophat, and.... Richard. 

Truth is if he hadn’t at least accepted some sort of status of “friendship” with them, he wouldn’t have reattached one or both of Enney’s hand’s at least seven times for him by now because they kept flying off when he was talking with them too excessively (having a limp wrist joint is no fun.) Or perhaps helping Tophat keep up her quite frankly excessive standard of polish on her - well, everything, and he considered himself an dedicated polisher, but as he was holding Tophat’s thigh plate in his lap after she had given it back to him because “oh just buff it a little bit more please? i want it a little shinier” he was a bit taken aback. He didn’t have the emotional processing unit to tell if her if he did anymore, the paint would chip and people would be able to see the uh, well things she didn’t want them to see, he was sure.

That was a whole lot better though than what he had ended up doing for Richard once, which was the act of practically draining out all his insides of at least a decades worth of... filth, and bad decisions. He had ended up in that position because Enney had begged him to do SOMETHING, because apparently, Rich had french fries rotting inside him somewhere, they somehow must have missed the incinerator when he ate them initially, and it was smelling up the entire apartment that the two shared with potato smell “Richard says he doesn’t smell it but i know he’s lying just do WHATEVER you have to we’re both so fucking sick of french fry smell.”  There were quite a few things he HAD to do to achieve that, yes, and it took half the night, and he didn’t even finish before Richard finally moved up from his incessant complaining and threats towards both Enney and Murphy and kneed Murphy in the chest when he hit some part of him he shouldn’t have with the drill. 

Murphy had no doubt it was a largely involuntary jolt on Richard’s part, but the smug look on his face after he’d realized what he’d done made Murphy finish up right then and there, he’d gotten most of it, and decided to hastily direct him, Enney, and on top of that Volta out of his house after he realized while he wasn’t watching Richard taught Wipp ANOTHER swear, it was a made up swear, but it was definitely a swear. 

Good ol’ Murph was done for the night, and it just so happened Volta’s second favourite couch on earth was located at Enney and Richard’s apartment, and the two roomates were always happy to have her. Even if the space she took up put strain on their already contrasting roommate-relationship, held between Enney, an anal-retentive mechanical man well and truly addicted to smoking (good thing he’s a robot, otherwise that’d be morbid) and Richard, who is best described as trying his best, despite how it looks. The two of them are best at having issues and not talking to each other about them, but still talking to each other, just not about that.

In fact Volta decided her REAL second favourite couch on earth was Tophat’s just a little later that night for reasons pertaining to that just a little, even though she didn’t have a couch, she had a rug, but boy Volta loved that rug. Tophat does not love Volta leaking on her rug while she slept, but lets it happen anyway, even when Volta accidentally called her voice “piercing” and she had to pretend it totally wasn’t getting to her. Even while over dramatically tearing up into a handkerchief, listening to Volta’s hurried apologies and compliments related to how beautiful her voice chip’s sounds were, actually, her favourite was “sing-songy.” 

Perfection was a faux goal, so they will have to settle for existence.

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12/12 and the final set of graphite drawings from last fall, the theme that started existing after about half of the project was finished was;

“The idealistic future of the past, the non existent bright fictional future that was prevalent in so many people’s minds in the mid twentieth century.” 

or at least thats what i think i said when i presented these and got a grade over a month ago !

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quick animation of volta or mostly just her eyes, tbh i really just wanted an excuse to play around with a lot of things i had never done before in the program

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9/12 of this set of drawings, there IS a theme but once again don’t take these too seriously they just kinda, happened (for a grade) graphite on paper/colored paper

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a bunch of hand doodles and some figure drawings done from imagination, i suppose, thats one thing to call them. these where actually done a month or two ago i just hadn’t gotten around to uploading them 

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iiiitts just a bunch of rich n enney drawings i needed to get out of my system. richard’s so mopey in the last pic cause enney ate the last snicker doodles and left none for him

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6/12 and the second batch of graphite drawings on (mostly) colored paper ive posted of this set i did for class

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a quick drawing of wipp and a reference of what murphy looks like without his labcoat on 

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short animation of a hand making a “come hither” motion to test my abilities, because i wanted to, and i don;t owe anyone including myself an explanation. 17 frames, animated on twos, making 34 in total played at 24fps

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a layout/exploration of murphy’s house, perspectives presented in the order you’d be most likely to see them. he actually owns the place and doesn’t rent it ! if you, couldn’t, tell from the many many intentional holes made in the ceilings

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three graphite drawings, (3/12) if ive guessed correctly. my teacher this semester wasn’t gonna tell me to draw anything in specific, just that i had to pick a theme, so i was like, well, uh, here i go, i guess ill, just draw a hybrid theme of “whatever” and “technology”. and so far i have been yelled at ZERO times for ANY one of these !!!1!!! !1!! GO ME !!1!1 !!!!

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featuring: tophat without her tophat. but nah i doodled these because the base of  tophat’s body is supposed to be, a big spherical gyroscope ? that probably keeps her balanced, and i hadn’t previously drawn out that concept or showcased it 

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quick line up of all my main robot city ocs for height reference - gosh i fucking LOVE silhouettes 

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a tour of one of my oc’s apartment, mostly just done for ref and exploration purposes, as i haven’t drawn many backgrounds not in grey scale. this is tophat’s room - although she lives with a couple of other roommates in the same business & shares a communal area with them - this room is the most TOPHAT

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Volta in some of her not so proud moments