Line #7 Creator/PaulRobertson


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3	'''Paul Robertson''' (born 1979) is an Australian animator known for his complex pixelized, video game-inspired art style. He did indeed start as an artist and animator for several video game companies, while still making quite a few surreal animations and short films to be used as music videos or showed at animation festivals.
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5	He became a well-known name among the gaming community after working as the art director for ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorldTheGame'', and then outside the community for providing the animations of two characters from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Rumble [=McSkirmish=] and Giffany (notice a pattern here?). Since then, his unique style has been spotted in several places including the retro-flavored games by Creator/TributeGames, the CouchGag from the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E14MyFareLady My Fare Lady]]" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and several promos appearing on Creator/AdultSwim.
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7	'''Potential seizure warning''': Shifting colourful lights are often present within his animated artwork.
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9	Not to be confused with [[Film/FightClub Robert Paulson]], or Creator/RobPaulsen, or Paul Robeson[[note]]Great, now ''I'm'' confused.[[/note]]
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11	!!Works by him with pages on Website/TVTropes:
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13	* WebAnimation/KingsOfPowerFourBillionPercent
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15	!!Tropes found in his body of work:
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17	* AllianceOfAlternates: His "[[https://youtu.be/9pNmqrLRisY?si=CgCM7t1Uz7jtgYGf Jerryfest]]" has several alternate [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Jerry Smiths]] attending the titular event at a theme park.
18	* AnimatedMusicVideo: He made a few of these:
19	** "Do the Whirlwind" by Music/ArchitectureInHelsinki.
20	** "White Flag" by Delta Heavy.
21	* {{Animesque}}: His works are influenced by anime aesthetic and tropes, the older ones even more so. Also, blatantly parodied with ''Gravity Falls''' Giffany, who comes from a supposedly haunted Japanese DatingSim.
22	* AntiClimax: His animations have the tendency to either have a flashy finale or just end abruptly with no real resolution.
23	* AuthorAppeal: Puppies, kittens, curvy and bouncy girls, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick weird monsters and mutants]], {{gorn}}, and psychedelic imagery.
24	* BirdPeople: "Bird Jerry" lays an egg at Jerryfest. Bird versions of [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Summer and Morty]] hatch out of it and Bird Jerry regurgitates food for them.
25	* BodyHorror: His animation skills sometimes are used to portray some truly grotesque transformations.
26	* ChestBurster: His "Dogs" short parodies the TropeNamer with a dog bursting out of a guy's chest.
27	* ContinuityNod: Sometimes characters from earlier works re-appear years later in unrelated works. The most interesting example is probably the Violence Kings from ''Kings of Power'' who became bosses in ''VideoGame/MercenaryKings''.
28	* CuteSlimeMook: ''Franchise/DragonQuest'' style Slimes appear in his art occasionally.
29	%%* CoolVersusAwesome
30	* DeadlyGame: "Slime and Girls Gameshow" has a woman cutting herself open with a dagger, spraying blood and intestines everywhere and one of the contestants has part of her head missing, exposing her brain.
31	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: ''Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006'' is all in black & white.
32	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: One of his very first short films, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdDldH9IHco Hyper Parsnip Bitches]]'' (2001), is the only one to have the characters fully voiced. The mock-Japanese and mock-Scottish accents he gave them become grating fast, though, so he wisely decided to just let the images speak for themselves for all his subsequent works.
33	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006''. It's an animation made to look a side-scrolling beat-em-up where the players have to fight against a pirate baby, and it was made in 2006.
34	* FlyingCar: The Jerries attend Jerryfest in flying versions of his Ford Squire Wagon.
35	* {{Gorn}}: Several of his animations feature characters getting splattered, sliced, beheaded, ripped apart and so on.
36	** The worst offender is probably the final part of ''Kings of Power'', where the gorn even gets weaponized.
37	** ''Elvis & Dimmi'' depicts the massacre of an innocent goblin village by the hands of the titular elf and dwarf in "lovely" detail.
38	* {{Kaiju}}: The protagonist of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3vr6u9yjJY Super Dino Boys]] is one of these.
39	* LighterAndSofter: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBi3Do9ATQA The Magic Touch]]'' contains no objectionable elements and has a very relaxed, chill-out atmosphere.
40	* MindScrew: It's hard to say what some of his animations mean, if anything. But they sure are [[RuleOfCool incredibly cool]].
41	* NestedMouths: His "Cats" short had a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] with a cat coming out of its mouth instead of another mouth.
42	* ReferenceOverdosed: Almost all of his works are loaded with references and cameos by popular culture characters, especially from games, anime and cartoons.
43	* RolePlayingGameVerse: The setting of the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR74nU1TsHw Elvis & Dimmi]]'' animation.
44	* SerialEscalation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51y9JIpzZbU This Adult Swim promo]], a Franchise/{{Pokemon}}-esque battle between WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty involving two Mr. Meeseeks. It starts with punches and broken bottles, and then...
45	* StringyHairedGhostGirl: A sexier version pops out of a TV, doing a peace sign in "[[https://www.instagram.com/p/CW8_1ImhGRL/?igsh=azNicmd2azVwMTZn Ham's Galley]]".
46	* VomitIndiscretionShot: "Slime and Girls Gameshow" has a woman doing a huge spray of vomit with slimes in it.

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