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A dude and his robot
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Hey boys and girls, this is my latest animation film.
I’m planning on making a series of them – and considering angry computer game nerds are a prime part of target audience, I figured I’d share it with you.
I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas for dialogues between Bob and Rob. The current episode won’t change, but the next ones will.
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/17756622 (best quality)
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN0IfCrnDcQ
It’s inspired by Calvin and Hobbs, and the next episodes will probably be more dialogue based, similar to that comic.
Toorah,
Torden
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I like you`re style.
Everybody should watch it full screen, or else its hard to read the text!
Quoted from octochris
what on earth did i just watch
I can relate to this comment.
It looked nice though.
Wow, the presentation is wonderful. Very polished. I’m not really a fan of shape/motion tweened animation styles, but the (static) artstyle itself is very rich and enjoyable. Very cool.
I’m looking forward to how more “substantial” conversation in the cartoon will work, if the “nintendo-mumbling” will be enough to convey the message or joke effectively.
Obvious conversational matter is about humans vs robots, life vs death, perishableness vs eternity, emotion vs rationality, intelligence vs stupidity. Idk, somehow I got an idea in my head where they both take the Turing test and they both fail it. Loads of potential jokes there.
Maybe their “mainframe computer” sometimes talks, and he’s actually the “supersmart” guy, but it’s made clear to the audience that he stopped caring about these 2 dudes a long time ago, so he only speaks up when absolutely neccesary. He just watches, and cringes.
One visual thing I’d change, once the amount of dialogue increases, is to make the text stand out more from the environment. It’s very cool in the way that it fits into the artstyle, but that also makes it hard to read or even notice sometimes. Just a practical thing.
There’s much potential in the concept! Looking forward to see the next episode :)
enjoyed it
Did you illustrate all of that yourself? It looks great, love the style.
skeej is right about the dialogue – it’s really hard to spot sometimes, and isn’t onscreen for very long, making it hard to keep up with at times.
Is that an audience in the foreground? Maybe add some of that fake-audience laughter and a little ‘giggling’ animation here and there.
This looks like a wayyyyyyyyy better version of Salad Fingers :)
Should speak their voices in .. would be more fun I guess?
I also had a trouble of what Chris said I was confused the whole way through.
Didn’t actually laugh either :x but gl in the future!
You could also see this cartoon as a potentially tragi-comedic yet cynical version of the old story of Pinocchio (I guess that’s even what you were aiming for?). So Bob creates Rob in the hopes of being able to teach Rob stuff about life, care for him, etc.
But Rob isn’t interested in this. He’s the “Bender” type robot; arrogant and cynical. He doesn’t care about the world. He knows everything anyway, with his multi-multi-multi-core parralel processing capabilities and near inifite datastorage. But in reality he knows jack shit (because of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems), and realises that only through Bob, his proxy to the “human” world, he can grasp and understand the reality that he’s been concieved in.
Wait, where’s the joke in that? Well you can always put in some fart and poop jokes here and there… no big deal :D
reminded me of this somehow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6oyVvLDO8w
Thanks, bros. There was a small boggle with the youtube version, it’s fixed now.
Looks like the text is a recurring problem. Will be improved for the next one.
Skeej: I agree, proper stop motion animation looks better. But with the time I have at hands, it wouldn’t be realistic to make much content with it.
Edit: Looks like you posted something while I replied. I consider Rob to be a child, but with the knowledge of an adult. He’s discovering the world and human nature for the first time and thus will have a different way of perceiving what he sees. Even still the gödel’s theory should be a good reference.
I found some info on Turing test. It might be interesting for an episoe, yeah.
Special K: Yeah, all except from the Music + some of the sounds are made by me. The foreground is not an audience, it’s random junk :p
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