"Jimmy & the Android"

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Hi folks! So here's a final poster-page compilation of all the characters I came up with for the week Mon 7th- Fri 11th Nov of my Sketch-ercise sessions. The theme I decided to go with was Sci-Fi/ Horror [in the format of animated series or feature animation].

Here's the rough story premise:
The O'Neal's are a middle-class Irish-American family based in the city of San Francisco; existing in the mid 20th century period where space exploration, technological advancement, communist paranoia & national security ideals [particularly against the Soviet Union] were front page news.

However, in the midst of all this uncertainty & mistrust, many commercial organisations see the area of technological advancement as a potential not just for national defence, but also an opportunity to improve daily life for the average american family.

Shortly after WWII & the capture recruitment of the genius Nazi German rocket scientists [Operation Paperclip]; as well as serving the US military in the growing arms race, a select few of these men, including the great Wernher Von Braun are removed to work on a new project titled, The ADL [Artificial Domestic Labourer] Program... Leading the team, Von Braun is ordered to engineer & develop a new & totally synthetic home helper... A non-gender, command driven domestic assistant to fulfil all household duties without need of food, rest or sleep.

A few short years later & ADL 0.1 [factory name] was created with full scale distribution & installation into homes across the US within the first year... The O'Neal's are by no means an exception as they too opt in & have one installed... VIKTOR.

As if daily life at that time wasn't already full of anxiety & suspense, things for the O'Neal's from here on get a little more uncertainly... eerie.


CHECK OUT THE CHARACTER PROFILES TO FIND OUT MORE OF THE STORY:
Viktor
Jimmy
Kayleigh
Betty
Reece

And that's it folks, let me know what you guys think of the concept & if you or your kids would [or if you'd let your kids] watch this as an animated series or feature... who knows ; )

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***All work featured here, illustrated or written [unless otherwise stated] is under the copyright & ownership of 
Maxwell. A. Oginni. All rights resereved 2011***


-M-

Speed paint #36

This evening's Sketch-ercise... This week's theme? Horror- Sci-Fi [chosen by the masses]. Introducing... VIKTOR

CHARACTER PROFILE:
Viktor [self-named] is an android owned by the O'Neal family... one in a series of ADL [Artificial Domestic Labourer] models designed by genius rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun & his team of engineers as non-gender, command driven domestic helpers. However, Viktor is... different... Unbeknownst to most, due to some sort of dubious "operator error" during his construction, he is a psychopath! Deceptive & extremely crafty, he has managed to charm his way into the hearts of most of the family members [especially Reece- the father] except Jimmy who knows his dark truth... Viktor secretly plots to kill all members of the O'Neal family.

At the end of a day, once powered down, Viktor is kept/ stays in a small broom cupbord under the stairs, hardly big enough to fit two people & crammed with cleaning products, tools, rags etc. Jimmy once ventured in there only to find the cupbord actually had a hidden extension Viktor had secretly made over a period of time, which on a gradual decline led you downwards, ducking under pipes & live wires shooting sparks and finally into a dimly lit den... It was there Jimmy discovered Viktor's sinister nature & intent towards his family. The entire den was plastered with various scraps of paper detailing the various comings & goings of each family member; from Reece's work schedule, the times he reads his paper, the meals Betty would cook during the week, the time it took to prepare them, to Kayleigh's favourite foods, her personality traits & even nap times... there was even a few post-it notes on Jimmy; everything from his known allergies to the few friends he had.

Viktor suspected Jimmy knew, so always kept a close eye on him. At the same time, he also knew how much of a part of the family he had been accepted as & often played on that fact, taunting Jimmy knowing no one would believe him if he told.

I described him as an 'Android Hannibal Lecter' during my Sketch-ercise session with the guys... excluding the cannibalism.

REFERENCE IMAGES:

There was an ambiguity in this illustration of a character Chaplin played that struck a chord with me regarding a dysfunctional/ possibly homicidal robot.



















***All work featured here, illustrated or written [unless otherwise stated] is under the copyright & ownership of 
Maxwell. A. Oginni. All rights resereved 2011***

-M-