David Archuleta

Shaggy here,

So midday Tuesday of this week we thought up an animation of American Idol's, David Archuleta. We're going to be rushing to get it done by Friday, but all should go well. The best part about this animation is I'm out of town Friday so I dont have to deal with putting it together!

Basically, it was inspired off of the vulture in Bugs Bunny. Seacrest is going to ask David some fairly basic questions and David is going to get all bashful. What an adorable kid he is :)

LaBamba, once again did some great bodies for the characters. The way we are setting them up is creating most of the art in Adobe Illustrator and importing it into flash. Thats the typical way we do things here. All Davids blinks, mouths, arms, and poses are drawn out first and illustrated. Then they are set up in flash for animation.

Fun with Audio!

How do you guys come up with all these crazy, wacky, and hilarious ideas YOU ask? Well today is your lucky day, because I will give you guys a sneak peek into our exciting, spectacular creative process!

Every single day Lg peeps come up with a seed of an idea. This seeds gets tossed around for a bit, and then BAM! A new Lg idea is born!

Monkey (guy who whips us), came one morning with an audio thingy that makes audio clips sound like a robot. Kinda like Steven Hawking-ish. So this amazing technology got tossed around for a bit. As it Filtered throughout all of our brains, creative juices and magic spewing from our pores, something triggered in Monkey's brain and he pooped this out! Here's his pitch:

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ROBOTS CAN'T ACT

We take extremely dramatic or funny movie scenes and recreate them
with the robot voices. The animation would be almost none other than
illustrations of robots in the character's costumes with their mouths
blinking when they talk. Example: Pulp Fiction

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Genius huh! So we slapped it in the butt, said "Congratulations Monkey, its a great idea!", he cried a little,... and sent it off to be created for your viewing pleasure! Wooo! Ron Paul 2008!

Here's some screen shots of the art done by none other than Joezee, and come to think of it, animated by him too! Go Joezee!

Robots make me giggle.

Britney Spears

So Britney did what seemed to be a half sedated performance at the VMAs a couple days ago. Of course that means we here at Liquid Generation have to cover it ASAP! For some reason Britney has always given us a hard time to draw and this week was no exception :( Anyway, here are some attempts I did...

(this is the one we decided on)



Thats all I'm willing to post because they get worse and worse from here on :)

Bikini Wax Sabotage

So here is an animation I'm working on for an upcoming Liquid Generation Sabotage. It's pretty fun because it involves a little more traditional animation than we usually do here because of time constraints. In case you didn't notice, the physics on this beach in most cases is fairly normal, except when applied to women's breasts, then it's more like she's walking on the moon ;)

If anyone knows of a free and simple program to convert flash files into a screen saver, let me know in the comments and Ill post a screen saver of this animation.