TRUE CREATIVITY comes from holding completely unrelated thoughts togther in our minds long enough to form very unique ideas.
-Old school (1980's) Japanese Anime
-Puerto Rican sugar cane farm workers (Macheteros/Jibaros)
-layering some social political message behind it.
-modern futuristic abstracts with vintage realism
I will explain more later
Here is a video for context
vintage 1930s-40s footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0_TvFgI-Qw
To put some visual perspective of the robot, here is footage of the "Dangaioh" from 1987. One of my all time favorites robot "Mecha" designs. Terrible story and dialog but the artwork was 20 years ahead of it's time.